Graham Eadie

Quick Facts

Full Name	Graham Eadie
Occupation	Rugby League Player
Date Of Birth	Nov 25, 1953(1953-11-25)
Age	71
Country	Australia
Birth City	Lidcombe
Horoscope	Scorpio

Graham Eadie Biography

Graham Eadie is one of the most popular and richest Rugby League Player who was born on November 25, 1953 in Lidcombe, Australia. Graham “Wombat” Eadie (born 25 November 1953) was an Australian former player of the Australian rugby league that played during the 70s as well as the 1980s. He was named one of the best players from Australia in the 20th century. An New South Wales State of Origin and Australian international representative fullback He played in Australia during the Manly-Warringah dominance of the NSWRFL competition in the 1970s. He was awarded four premierships by them , and his 1,917 point in the first grade, and 2,070 points across the entire grade set record-breaking at the moment when he retired. Eadie has also represented England for Halifax with Halifax, and was the winner of the Challenge Cup Final of 1987 together with Halifax. He also was a winner of World Cups with Australia and received awards like the Rothmans Medal and Lance Todd Trophy.

The year 1974 was the time that Eadie received in 1974 the Rothmans Medal as Sydney rugby league’s fairest and best player. At the conclusion of the controversial finals series in 1978, Eadie put on one of the best performances by a fullback during the Grand Final replay, “where he single-handedly destroyed Cronulla-Sutherland by scoring a try, setting up two others for Russell Gartner and kicking three goals and a field goal”. A year earlier his precise goal-kicking under pressure was the reason he won Manly at the time of the 1976 Grand Final where they scored just one goal to Parramatta’s two. Eadie’s dominance at the 1977 and ’78 Grand Finals was recognised thirty years later when he was awarded a pair to him retroactive Clive Churchill Medals for Man of the Match in those matches.

The Open Rugby inaugural World XIII was revealed in June 1978, it was; Graham Eadie, John Atkinson, Steve Rogers, Jean-Marc Bourret[1], Green Vigo, Roger Millward, Steve Nash, Jim Mills, Keith Elwell, Steve Pitchford, Terry Randall, George Nicholls and Greg Pierce.

Following the 1978 Grand Final, Eadie was selected to his second Kangaroo Tour. The coach of the 1978 Kangaroos was Eadie’s Manly coach Frank Stanton, while the captain was his former long time Sea Eagles teammate Bob Fulton, who was at the time playing for Eastern Suburbs. Eadie played fullback in all 5 test matches on the tour with Australia defeating Great Britain 2–1 to win The Ashes, but surprisingly lost the test series to France 2–0. He also played in the non-test international against Wales at the St. Helen’s Rugby Ground in Swansea with Australia winning 8–3.

Eadie was chosen as a member of make the Australian squad for 1973’s Kangaroo tour. After injury suffered by Kangaroos captain-coach Graeme Langlands, took over as the Test fullback for the two final Ashes matches in the series against Great Britain, marking his debut at Headingley in Leeds by scoring five goals in a windy environment. Even though Langlands returned to the fullback position in the Test position after 1974 Eadie was able to become the regular fullback for Australia from 1975 until his retirement from the professional league after the controversial 1981 State of Origin match. Despite being a world-record points scorer at Manly, Eadie was never an outstanding point scorer at the State or Test level because Country Firsts and later Parramatta Centre Michael Cronin was generally the top choice for kickers in the teams representing Australia.

Graham Eadie Net Worth

Graham Eadie is one of the richest Rugby League Player from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Graham Eadie 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Eadie was graded by Manly Warringah in 1971, and immediately showed promise in the lower grades of that season. In the following year, with the resignation of long-serving Manly fullback Bob Batty, he established himself as the team’s primary grade fullback. His powerful running style had already proven to be an immediate threat to Manly’s foes. Although not a huge height at just 180 cm (5’10”) Eadie’s sturdy build of 95kg (15 stone) allowed him to run with a lot of speed and force that once in motion, very few opponents were able to stop him once he crossed the backline. In addition, Eadie was an accurate line kicker , who was extremely safe when kicking the ball high during an era where”bombs” were in vogue “bomb” was gaining the spotlight.

While he was used as a goal kicker during some games back in 1972, it was the year 1973 when Eadie became Manly’s top point-scoring player. He scored 14 goals in a game against Penrith and over the next three seasons, he was the top scoring player in the competition and he scored a record high at 242 points (14 attempts and 100 goals) in 1975. It was an unbeatable record for the club that could not be reached till New Zealand dual international fullback Matthew Ridge scored 257 points (11 attempts as well as 106 goals and one field goal) in 1995.

In 1977, Eadie was Australia’s first choice fullback for the 1977 World Cup and played in Australia’s 13–12 win over Great Britain in the World Cup Final at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

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After retirement Eadie occasionally wrote articles for such magazines as Rugby League Week and attempted to carve a career as a coach. His first attempt with Halifax was short-lived, and in 1991 he returned to Australia as coach of the Gold Coast reserve grade side.

Facts & Trivia

Graham Ranked on the list of most popular Rugby League Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. Graham Eadie celebrates birthday on November 25 of every year.

In February 2008, Eadie was named at #25 in the list of Australia’s 100 Greatest Players (1908–2007) which was commissioned by the NRL and ARL to celebrate the code’s centenary year in Australia.