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Originally Posted by korg20000bc

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I was lucky enough to have seen nearly all of his games for Cronulla.
Rogers and Fulton were unbeatable for the kangaroos

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

I was lucky enough to have seen nearly all of his games for Cronulla.
Rogers and Fulton were unbeatable for the kangaroos

Pedro, he was a gentleman. In the truest sense of the word. Bob

Talking about Bob Fulton, when he & some mates did National Service, it was the best team Combined Services had. From wiki. ;


National Service

Fulton was conscripted into the Army in 1968 and allotted to artillery. He was effectively exempted from active service by being posted to Sydney-based 5RAR, which had recently returned from Vietnam, thereby enabling him to pursue his professional football career while technically fulfilling his national service obligation.


A short history of ASRU.



Australian Services Rugby Union - Early Years

On the 25th July 1829, some six years after William Webb Ellis's epoch making feat, the Sydney Monitor recorded that: "The soldiers of the Sydney Barracks amused themselves with a game of football." That was the advent of Rugby Union in the forefather of the Australian Defence Force (ADF).

Speculation exists that rugby was first played by the military as a diversion from other erstwhile and less healthy pastimes. Services teams emerged during the World Wars, perhaps none more so than the 1st AIF team which, in 1919, won 12 of its 16 encounters, including wins over the NSW, Queensland and Australian teams. Representative rugby union in the ADF did not take on any great significance until the 1950s. Throughout the 1950s, Combined Services played a number of touring teams, including the Fijians in 1950 and the All Blacks in 1951. However, it was not until 1963 that a formal Australian Services Rugby Union came into being.

Gradually progress was made, and in 1968 ASRU was honoured with a match against the touring All Blacks team. In this particular match, one Lance Bombardier Bob Fulton took the field for ASRU…only two days after he played for the Kangaroos in the Rugby League World Cup Final! This match was a true indication that ASRU had come of age as a representative Union.
Throughout the late 1960s and 1970s, National Service had a great impact on Services Rugby, ending in 1972 with victories against strong Sydney and Queensland sides. 1980 saw ASRU’s strongest side since 1972, and was the inaugural year of what is now an annual event – the Australian Services Rugby Championship, which is contested between Navy, Army and Air Force. The 1980 ASRU team recorded an 18-7 victory over an ACT side in which a young fellow named David Campese made his senior debut.

During the 1980s, ASRU met with mixed fortunes and could not repeat their achievements of 1972 and 1980. The turning point came in 1992, when what was arguably the best side ASRU had fielded in 20 years, recorded a 21-9 win over the Sydney representative team. Following that win, ASRU ventured to the USA and swept all before them.
Highlights across the past 20 years include making the final of the 1993 Southern States Carnival, the exceptional 1994 tour of the UK, which saw ASRU defeat Royal Navy, British Army, and Royal Air Force, and lose a very close encounter with UK Combined Services, winning the Healthway International Cup in Perth in 1995, victories over NSW Country in 1994 and 1997, victory at the Arafura Games in 1999, and making the final of the inaugural International Defence Rugby Competition in 2011.

An important development in recent years has been the emergence of an ASRU Women's team. Annually, the ASRU Women’s team competes in the Australian Rugby Union Women’s National Championship and has had players selected in the Australian Wallaroos team. Kate Porter is ASRU’s most capped Wallaroos player. In 2010, Kate and Caroline Vakalahi competed at the IRB Women’s Rugby World Cup as members of the Wallaroos team. The ASRU Women’s team highest and proudest achievement to date was their grand slam tour of the UK in 2012. On that tour, they were victorious against Royal Navy, British Army, Royal Air Force, and UK Combined Services.

Rugby continues to enjoy patronage as the prestige sport within the ADF. Service men and women have reached the highest levels of representative rugby, including all states and Australia. At the modern provincial level, the ADF's highest profile serving player was Captain Murray Harley who was a member of the founding ACT Brumbies team in the mid 1990s.


Former Army Sapper, Jim Williams is the most recent Australian Wallaby representative. A former Chairman of ASRU, Brigadier Bob Brown, was also a Wallaby.

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

I was lucky enough to have seen nearly all of his games for Cronulla.
Rogers and Fulton were unbeatable for the kangaroos

Good ol' Sludge!

Cronulla SUTHERLAND, as most seem to forget. My old stomping ground.