Gosford Rugby League: The Eye of the Storm magazine - April 2019 (vol 32)

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Issue No. 32: April 2019

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Vol 32: April, 2019

Well here we go again … FOOTY’S BACK! What a careless off-season it’s been for GK. To lose the odd coin down the back of the couch, or to momentarily forget where you’ve left the car keys, that’s simply being human. But to misplace an entire Division One rugby league team … that’s damn near certifiable!

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The Central Coast Roosters SG Ball Cup team have wowed Sydney and are leading the States premier under 18s competition heading toward the semi finals. It’s interesting to note that both the sides coach, Adam McEwen, and captain, Ryan Jones, are Gosford juniors.

Adam ‘Biceps’ McEwen

Our Gosford Graduates list just keeps growing.

Inductee number 25 is a cheeky inclusion.

Teenager Doug Cameron (pictured left) snuck into town during the Autumn of 1952 to play two, maybe three trial games for Gosford before returning south to take the League world by storm. See the full story on page 6.

© 2019 Opinions expressed in this publication are derived solely from the scattered & random thoughts of the author; none of which are necessarily shared by the GKS club … nor anyone else on the planet really.

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‘DOM’ INANT

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Peterson The Man Who Coaches The Coaches

Any competitive game is basically a hunting game. You have teams who are figuring out how to hunt properly. Then you think, to hunt properly you need to put the ball down over your opponents line as many times as you possibly can. So you organize yourself into a hierarchy to facilitate that. And that’s not the whole story. You tell your kids – it doesn’t matter whether you win or lose, it matters how you play the game. And the kids are all freaked out about that. They say, ‘what do you mean, were supposed to try and win?’.

If you’re in a competition, your not trying to win a game, your trying to win the premiership. To win the premiership you have to win a whole bunch of games. The rules to win a whole bunch of games aren't the same as to win one game. You could go flat out as the prima-donna and bend the rules and cut corners and exhaust everyone and win the game … and then lose the next three, because that’s a stupid medium to long term strategy. Or you could be like the superstar and hog the ball all the time and never give your team-mates a chance to develop, but then you get injured and your team is out. So that’s a stupid strategy too.

So you think, what I have to do to win the premiership is to organize the team so that the best players lead, but everybody gets developed. And that you play the medium to long term game in a fair and decent way.

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Head Coach Peterson The Man Who Coaches The Coaches

Learn how to handle failure.

Learn how to handle victory.

Work to expand your range of skills so you’ll be better when you play the next game.

The goal isn’t to win.

The goal is to become excellent and to be invited to play.

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Graduates

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…from Gosford to the Big Time

Three season’ season’s ago, The Eye kicked off the Graduates project with the stated aim of uncovering all those who have progressed from playing with Gosford onto the First Grade competition in Sydney. Our latest inductee is a brilliant Aboriginal halfback from the 1950s.

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- Our Sydney 1st Graders Charlie Staunton (Norths 1923) Herbert Arthur “Finny” Morris (Canterbury 1940,41,43,44) Lester Hough (Norths 1940) Walter ‘Finny’ Worrad (Norths 1940) Edward ‘Ted’ McHugh (St George 1942-44) Alan Staunton (St George 1952-54) Barry Willis (Balmain 1953-54, 1956) Ron Thornton (Canterbury 1955-61) Col ‘Bubbles’ Purcell (Easts 1957) Doug Cameron (Easts 1958) Bev Smith (Balmain 1959) Ron Hansen (Newtown 1960 – 65) John Floyd (Norths 1965) Rod Urquhart (Cronulla 1970–71, Souths 1973–74) Max Wilkie (Norths 1981-83) Daryl Turner (Wests 1984) Paul Kent (Parramatta 1989) Adam McEwen (Souths 1995-97) Grant McWhirter (Souths 1995-96) Anthony Brann (Balmain 1996, Hunter 1997, Canberra 1998-2000) John Carlaw (Hunter 1997, Melbourne 1998, Balmain 1999, Wests Tigers 2000-01, NZ Warriors 2002-03, St George-Illawarra 2004) Wes Tillott (Norths 1999, Souths 2004) Matt Orford (Northern Eagles 2000, Melbourne 2001- 05, Manly 2006-09, Canberra 2011) Rhys Pritchard (Sydney Roosters 2011) Matthew Ikuvalu (Sydney Roosters 2018)

Above: Doug Cameron burst onto the rugby league scene playing for the Young Cherry Pickers in 1954. He represented Country Firsts against City and starred for Riverina against the touring British team that winter despite it being his first season of senior footy. Originally a Chippendale lad and a South Sydney junior, Cameron played all his junior football for the Fernleigh club. He was also a talented amateur boxer and during the early 1950s was a regular sparring partner for Jimmy Carruthers out of Billy McConnell’s Gym. What is not commonly known however is that as a 17-year-old, Doug Cameron headed up to Grahame Park to play a number of preseason trial games for Gosford in 1952.

“Cameron at halfback for Gosford did superb work behind the scrum. He was always dangerous when in possession and his defence was excellent..”

Gosford vs. Newtown Waratah (Gosford Times 8-4-1952).

Despite impressing all who saw him play, sadly for Gosford the brilliant scrum half decided to return home to Sydney before the competition rounds had kicked off. He would represent Souths in the Presidents Cup competition the following year. Two weeks of national service thwarted his plans of trialing with Souths in 1954 and he subsequently accepted a 3 year offer to play for Young in the Maher Cup competition. By 1958 he had returned to Sydney after agreeing to terms with Eastern Suburbs and he ultimately played 18 First Grade games for the Roosters.

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