Coaching Career
Vital Statistics
- Born
- Monday, 7th October, 1946
- Current Age
- 77 years and 349 days
- Place Of Birth
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Honours & Awards
Based only on data available in the RLP database. This information should be used as a guide only.
- World Cup
- 1975
- Interstate Series
- 1970
- NSWRFL Premiership (NRL)
- 1974, 1975
- Preseason Cup
- 1974
- Midweek Cup
- 1975
- World Club Challenge
- 1976
Biography
Regarded as one of the most successful converts from the amateur code during the modern era John Brass was a classy centre renown for his great handling skills and brick-wall defence. A Randwick centre with 12 RU Tests to his credit, Brass switched codes on a record $30,000 contract to play with Easts in 1969. The following year he captained both his club and state before becoming a dual international when he played in all three Tests against the Ashes-winning Great Britain side. Brass declined to tour with Australia's victorious World Cup squad in 1970 due to business and family reasons but was a mainstay of the Roosters' great sides of the 1970s. Although missing the 1972 grand final loss to Manly because of injury, Brass played in both 1974-75 grand final successes with Easts. An accomplished inside centre and prolific goal-kicker, he scored 213pts during the 1974 season. After making himself available for rep duty in 1975, he captained Australia to victory against the Kiwis in a World Series match before touring Great Britain for the latter half of the short-lived competition. After leaving Sydney in 1976, Brass represented Country while captain-coach of the Tweed Heads ‘Seagulls’ in 1977-78. In 1998 Brass was appointed as a News Ltd representative on the NRL Board.
- ALAN WHITICKER
Coaching Career Statistics
All statistics shown in this section are based only on data available in the RLP database, and are not necessarily a complete and/or 100% accurate representation of a player's career. This information should be used as a guide only. If you see a question mark (?), it denotes that the figure is not available.
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Competition | Games | W | L | D | Win % | |||||||||
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Tour Matches | North Coast | - | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | ||||||
Midweek Cup | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 50.00% | List | |||||||
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Australia - By Team | ||||||||||||||
Team | Years | Games | W | L | D | Win % | ||||||||
North Coast | 1978 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 33.33% | List |
Contributions:
Shawn Dollin, Andrew Ferguson, Greg Fiveash, Rugby League Tables, Paul Carter, Max Turner, Alan Katzmann, Bill Bates, AJ Lucantonio
Your Say
22/08/2013
John was a great player he was a player that I looked up to when I was only 14 he was an insperation.
He played the game hard but very fair, great career John thanks for the memories. Peter
30/03/2020
My hero best inside centre ever roosters supporter forever Brad
20/04/2021
Great player even greater person
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