Playing Career
Honours & Awards
Based only on data available in the RLP database. This information should be used as a guide only.
- Endeavour Cup
- 1970
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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| Club Career - Australia | Comp Wins | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NSWRFL Premiership (NRL) | - | 98 | 10 | - | - | 30 | 39 | 55 | 4 | 39.80% | List | ||||
| Preseason Cup | - | 29 | 4 | - | - | 12 | 12 | 15 | 2 | 41.38% | List | ||||
| Endeavour Cup | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
| Overall | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | |||||
| First Class | 127 | 14 | - | - | 42 | 51 | 70 | 6 | 40.16% | List | |||||
Australia - By Team | |||||||||||||||
| Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| NSW Country Seconds | 1961 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.00% | List | ||||
| NSW City Seconds | 1962 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
| Overall | 1961-1962 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 1 | 0 | 1 | 50.00% | List | ||||
NSWRFL Premiership (NRL) - By Year | |||||||||||||||
| Team | Season | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| Newtown | NSWRFL 1962 | 18 | 4 | - | - | 12 | 13 | 5 | 0 | 72.22% | List | ||||
| Newtown | NSWRFL 1964 | 15 | - | - | - | - | 7 | 8 | 0 | 46.67% | List | ||||
| Newtown | NSWRFL 1965 | 13 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 46.15% | List | ||||
| Newtown | NSWRFL 1966 | 4 | - | - | - | - | 3 | 1 | 0 | 75.00% | List | ||||
| Newtown | NSWRFL 1967 | 13 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 30.77% | List | ||||
| Newtown | NSWRFL 1968 | 15 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 1 | 14 | 0 | 6.67% | List | ||||
| Newtown | NSWRFL 1969 | 12 | - | - | - | - | 3 | 8 | 1 | 25.00% | List | ||||
| Newtown | NSWRFL 1970 | 8 | 3 | - | - | 9 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 25.00% | List | ||||
NSWRFL Premiership (NRL) - By Team | |||||||||||||||
| Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| Newtown | 1962, 1964-70 | 98 | 10 | - | - | 30 | 39 | 55 | 4 | 39.80% | List | ||||
Contributions:
Paul Carter, Rugby League Tables, Greg Fiveash, Max Turner, Andrew Ferguson, Tony McCarron, Alan Katzmann, Shawn Dollin, Wests Archives, Tim Costello
Sources:
Newspapers
Your Say
22 Feb 2011 9:57am
Another one of my all time favourite players-distinctive in his white headgear gave great service to the Blues in an era when there were were a lot of great 2nd rowers. Should have got rep honours somewhere along the line.
10 Feb 2016 9:19pm
an old schoolmate at Nowra. Tough and very dedicated to the game
1 Dec 2019 1:33pm
Is there a photo of John Oakley please
17 Sep 2020 12:06am
A great uncle to me, and a great man still alive in NSW, would love to see one of his games from the 60s
15 Sep 2023 1:06am
Hi, Sadly John Oakley has passed away, I’m his nephew Matt Symons born from Johns sister Patricia. I loved going to his games when I was just a kid, specially the games against Balmain where Johns brother Peter Oakley played and Manly cause that’s where I grow up, Uncle John Oakley inspired me all my life.
27 Sep 2025 2:23pm
Was just looking up John to see if he was still with us, so sad to see of his passing. Met John when I worked up at Grafton he owned the post office hotel i was there for about 4 months, really was nice man. I believe his wife was Robbin and had a son and daughter .
15 Mar 2026 5:54pm
Played junior football with John in Nowra 1958
A good man !!!!
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