Paul Langmack

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Paul Langmack
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Personal information
Born (1965-05-10) 10 May 1965 (age 59)
Australia
Playing information
Height183 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight94 kg (14 st 11 lb) [1]
Position Lock, Second-row, Five-eighth
Club
YearsTeamPldTGFGP
1983–90 Canterbury Bulldogs 1742500100
1984–85 Halifax
1991–98 Western Suburbs 137180072
1999 Sydney City 30000
Total3144300172
Representative
YearsTeamPldTGFGP
1987 City Origin 10000
1987–88 New South Wales 40000
Coaching information
Club
YearsTeamGmsWDLW%
2003–04 South Sydney 35512914
Source: [2] [3]

Paul Langmack (born 10 May 1965) is an Australian former rugby league coach and representative and premiership-winning player. Langmack won three premierships with the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs in the mid-eighties. [2] He later joined the Western Suburbs Magpies to become just the fifth player to play 100 games with two different teams. [4]

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Playing career

While attending Patrician Brothers' College, Fairfield, Langmack captained the Australian Schoolboys team in 1982. [5]

Langmack won three premierships as a member of the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs in 1984, 1985 and 1988, and later played for and captained Western Suburbs. In 1987, he became the youngest player in history to register 100 top-grade games at the age of 22 years 26 days. Langmack was named Rugby League Week 's player of the year in 1992. In 1999 former teammate Phil Gould brought Langmack to the Sydney City club, he played one final season – a season that didn't reach any great heights, only appearing in three first grade matches.

Coaching career

In 2002 he was a contender to replace Terry Lamb as the coach of the Wests Tigers and was reportedly the preferred candidate of senior players, including Terry Hill and Darren Senter. After the signing of Tim Sheens to the position, Langmack became assistant coach to Craig Coleman at the South Sydney Rabbitohs.

After Coleman was dramatically sacked immediately prior to the 2003 season, Langmack was installed as coach, but was unable to avoid the wooden spoon, winning just three games. After an unsuccessful start to the 2004 season, he was sacked and replaced by assistant Arthur Kitinas. Langmack's last season in charge of Souths was also marred by claims that Langmack was a racist by Souths player Owen Craigie. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ Clarkson, Alan; 'League's Man Mountains: Bigger, Faster and Meaner than Ever Before'; The Sun-Herald ; 19 April 1992, pp. 58-59
  2. 1 2 "Paul Langmack Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org". Rugby League Project. 31 December 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
  3. ↑ "Paul Langmack Coach Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org". Rugby League Project. 31 December 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
  4. ↑ David Middleton, ed. (2013). 2013 Official Rugby League Annual. Alexandria NSW: National Rugby League. p. 199.{{cite magazine}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. ↑ "SportingPulse Homepage for Australian Secondary Schools Rugby League". SportingPulse. Retrieved 10 October 2008.
  6. ↑ "Souths sack Langmack". 2 June 2004.
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