Playing Career
Vital Statistics
- Full Name
- Robert John Keyes
- Born
- Sunday, 19th November, 1939
- Died
- Thursday, 8th September, 2022 (Aged 82 years and 293 days)
Honours & Awards
Based only on data available in the RLP database. This information should be used as a guide only.
- Interstate Series
- 1964
- City vs Country Firsts
- 1964, 1966
Biography
Easts' junior signed with Newtown in 1961. Keyes started his career on the wing but formed a fine centre partnership with Brian Moore during the 1960s. He played in the centres for NSW in 1964 and was a reserve in the 1966 interstate series. Later captaining the Bluebags, Keys took the club to a win in the reserve grade premiership in 1970 before playing the final years of his career as captain-coach of Ryde-Eastwood.
- ALAN WHITICKER
Playing 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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| Tour Matches | Sydney Firsts | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | |||
| Representative Career - Australia | Comp Wins | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Interstate Series | 1 | 3 | - | - | - | - | 3 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
| City vs Country Firsts | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
| Club Career - Australia | Comp Wins | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| NSWRFL Premiership (NRL) | - | 166 | 37 | - | 1 | 113 | 65 | 95 | 6 | 39.16% | List | ||||
| NSWRFL Finals | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0.00% | List | ||||
| Preseason Cup | - | 35 | 8 | - | - | 24 | 15 | 18 | 2 | 42.86% | List | ||||
| Overall | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | |||||
| First Class | 207 | 45 | - | 1 | 137 | 86 | 116 | 8 | 41.55% | List | |||||
Australia - By Team | |||||||||||||||
| Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| Sydney Firsts | 1964 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
| NSW Firsts | 1964 | 3 | - | - | - | - | 3 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
| NSW City Firsts | 1964, 1966 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
| NSW City Seconds | 1967 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | ||||
| Overall | 1964-1967 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 6 | 1 | 0 | 85.71% | List | ||||
NSWRFL Premiership (NRL) - By Year | |||||||||||||||
| Team | Season | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| Eastern Suburbs | NSWRFL 1960 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0.00% | List | ||||
| Eastern Suburbs | NSWRFL 1961 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0.00% | List | ||||
| Newtown | NSWRFL 1962 | 20 | 2 | - | - | 6 | 13 | 7 | 0 | 65.00% | List | ||||
| Newtown | NSWRFL 1963 | 14 | 4 | - | - | 12 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 50.00% | List | ||||
| Newtown | NSWRFL 1964 | 17 | 7 | - | - | 21 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 52.94% | List | ||||
| Newtown | NSWRFL 1965 | 17 | 4 | - | - | 12 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 41.18% | List | ||||
| Newtown | NSWRFL 1966 | 20 | 5 | - | - | 15 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 55.00% | List | ||||
| Newtown | NSWRFL 1967 | 21 | 6 | - | - | 18 | 7 | 13 | 1 | 33.33% | List | ||||
| Newtown | NSWRFL 1968 | 19 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 2 | 16 | 1 | 10.53% | List | ||||
| Newtown | NSWRFL 1969 | 21 | 6 | - | - | 18 | 5 | 15 | 1 | 23.81% | List | ||||
| Newtown | NSWRFL 1970 | 13 | 2 | - | 1 | 8 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 30.77% | List | ||||
NSWRFL Premiership (NRL) - By Team | |||||||||||||||
| Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| Eastern Suburbs | 1960-61 | 4 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0.00% | List | ||||
| Newtown | 1962-70 | 162 | 37 | - | 1 | 113 | 65 | 91 | 6 | 40.12% | List | ||||
| Overall | 1960-1970 | 166 | 37 | 0 | 1 | 113 | 65 | 95 | 6 | 39.16% | List | ||||
Contributions:
Greg Fiveash, Paul Carter, Rugby League Tables, Andrew Ferguson, Shawn Dollin, Alan Katzmann, Max Turner, Tony McCarron, Tim Costello
Your Say
3 May 2012 12:25pm
An underrated player in his time, continually overlooked for higher honours. But he produced consistent, effective performances in the centre for Newtown right through the 1960s.
30 Jun 2015 11:58am
Avery professional first grade centre who gave great service to the Newtown Club.
1 Oct 2015 3:00pm
. Week in week out he gave his all to the Blues. Deserved higher honours
2 Nov 2015 12:53pm
One of the best centres among a lot good centres around that time deserved better representative honours.
4 May 2020 7:14pm
Bob was part of the famous Moore & Keyes centre partnership.
4 Feb 2023 1:13am
Born December 18, 1942. Not November 19, 1939.
24 Mar 2023 2:02am
Wrong birth date.
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