Terry Regan (rugby league)

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Terry Regan
Personal information
Full nameTerry Regan
Born (1957-05-21) 21 May 1957 (age 66)
Griffith, New South Wales, Australia
Playing information
Position Prop, Second-row
Club
YearsTeamPldTGFGP
Cessnock
1982 Balmain Tigers 1940012
1983–84 Eastern Suburbs 311004
1985–87 Canberra Raiders 3240016
1987–88 Hull FC 251004
Total107100036
Representative
YearsTeamPldTGFGP
1981 Country NSW 10000
Source: [1]

Terry Regan (born 21 May 1958) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s. He was New South Wales Country Rugby League Player of the Year in 1981. [2] Regan was a forward with a reputation as a hard-playing, head-on tackler. He also played in England with Hull FC (Heritage № 826).

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Playing career

Regan began his rugby league career playing for Cessnock under coach Garry Johns. In 1981, Regan was named Country Rugby League Player of the Year [3] and was selected to represent Country in the annual City-Country clash. Although playing on the losing side, Regan's efforts in that match gained the attention of the Balmain Tigers in the New South Wales Rugby League competition, the premier competition of the time. He was given a contract for the 1982 season where he played nineteen games in first-grade but also won a reserve-grade grand-final title.

Regan was offered a contract with Eastern Suburbs for the following season. In his two seasons at Easts, Regan was sent from the field on three occasions for tackling infringements.

In 1985, Regan moved to the Canberra Raiders where he was a member of the club's first semi-finals and then the first grand-final appearance in 1987. Regan played in the last twenty minutes of the grand-final, a game lost to Manly-Warringah 18–8, In 1986 Terry took up Boxing losing on points over 3 rounds to Steve Marolt. [4]

Post-playing

Regan previously coached Hillston in the Group 17 competition. He now assists his wife who trains race-horses on the New South Wales Central Coast.

Footnotes

  1. "Terry Regan – Career Stats & Summary – Rugby League Project". Rugby League Project.
  2. "Player of the Year". Country Rugby League. Archived from the original on 13 May 2008. Retrieved 7 May 2008.
  3. Country Rugby League Player of the Year at crlnsw.com.au
  4. "Meet Terry Regan, the real-life inspiration for Matty Johns' alter ego Reg Reagan". The Daily Telegraph. Sydney.

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