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5 unusual facts about Balmain Tigers


Connecticut Wildcats

The Connecticut Wildcats have a team partnership with the Wests Tigers of Australia's National Rugby League (AMNRL), and with its two feeder teams, the Western Suburbs Magpies and Balmain Tigers.

Darren Clark

Clark took a break from the track in 1991, playing a season in the Australian Rugby League for the Balmain Tigers, scoring 11 tries, and also competed in the World Sevens Tournament.

Jacquelin Magnay

She was prompted to take action when radio commentator and Balmain Tigers coach Alan Jones told her to stop behaving like a temperamental schoolgirl.

Rebecca Rippon

In 2007, she played club water polo in Greece for Vouliagmeni Nautical Club and for the Balmain Tigers in the National Water Polo League.

Sydney Tigers

Balmain Tigers, a National Rugby League team known as the Sydney Tigers during the 1995 and 1996 seasons


Noa Nadruku

By the end of the year Nadruku had scored a club record 22 tries in just twenty games - being the first player to score more than one try per game in a full season since Larry Corowa had scored 24 tries in 22 games for Balmain in 1978.

Rugby league in South Australia

Big time rugby league came to South Australia on 28 June 1991 when the St George Dragons defeated the Balmain Tigers in front of 28,884 fans at the Adelaide Oval for their Round 14 match of the 1991 NSWRL season.


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