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- ↑ "A history of heartbreak: Cronulla Sharks' tale of woe in NRL finals". The Sydney Morning Herald.
- ↑ Campton, Nick; ’The last NRL players from the Bears, Magpies and Jets: Rugby league’s final survivors’; The Daily Telegraph , 16 October 2015