Birth name | Geoffrey Colin Richardson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 17 April 1949 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Taree, New South Wales | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Position | Five-eighth | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Geoffrey Colin Richardson (born 17 April 1949) is an Australian former national representative rugby league and rugby union player – a dual-code international. He played union at fly-half and league at five-eighth.
His club rugby was played with the Army Club, Townsville before moving to Brisbane in 1972 and the Teachers club from where he continued to be selected to the Wallabies. His Test debut was against the Springboks in Sydney in July 1971. He represented in nine Tests from 1971 to 1973 and captained Australia in one minor match in 1971. [1]
New South Wales teams
Queensland teams
Switching to the professional code in 1974 Richardson played his club football in the Brisbane Rugby League premiership with the Western Suburbs club. He gained representative honours for Queensland and Australia in the first and second Test of 1974 against the visiting Great Britain side. His international rugby league debut against Great Britain in Brisbane in June 1974 saw him become Australia's 37th dual code rugby international following Steve Knight and preceding Ray Price. After Australia's 16–11 loss in the second Test Richardson was replaced in the third by Tim Pickup. He did not regain Test selection.
Richardson played at five-eighth in back-to-back Brisbane Rugby League grand final victories in 1975 and 1976.
Queensland teams
• BRL 'A' Grade Premiers
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