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| Full name | Kenneth Bourke | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 13 November 1958 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Wing | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Ken Bourke (born 23 May 1957) is a former professional rugby league footballer who played first-grade for the Western Suburbs Magpies. [2] Ken is a successful NRL SuperCoach player, his team Kenneth's Maggies finished inside the top 1000 in 2023.
The Ashes series, similar to the cricket series of the same name, was a best-of-three series of test matches between the British and Australian national rugby league football teams. It had been contested 39 times from 1908 until 2003 largely with hosting rights alternating between the two countries. Since 1973, Australia has won a record thirteen consecutive Ashes series.
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Kenneth John Irvine, also nicknamed "Mongo", was an Australian professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. He holds the standing Australian record for the most tries in a first-grade career – 212. No other player has yet managed 200 tries in their Australian club career, with the closest to Irvine's tally being Melbourne Storm player Billy Slater, who scored 190. He is also the 2nd all-time top try-scorer for the Australian national team with 33, two behind Darren Lockyer's 35. Irvine's great speed is legendary and he is regarded as Australia's greatest ever winger, being named in 2008 in the list of Australian rugby league's 100 greatest players, as well as being an automatic selection for the Australian Rugby League's "Team of the Century".
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