He continued to excel as a footballer and had trials with Blackburn Rovers and Preston North End before switching to rugby league with Barrow in 1943, making his first-team debut against St Helens in April that year.
During the 1976 NSWRFL season, Brass played as a centre three-quarter back for Eastern Suburbs in their unofficial 1976 World Club Challenge match against British champions St. Helens in Sydney.
The record attendance was 2,107 against St. Helens on 6 November 1983, by which time the club was bankrupt and the reins were taken over by Jim Thompson, the chairman of the soccer club.
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The Bulls were not able to defend their Challenge Cup title as they fell 13-6 to St Helens RLFC in a match which was played under terrible weather as rain swept Twickenham Stadium.
Before the 2013 Season Jamahl followed Nathan Brown to St Helens RLFC as an Assistant coach where he will work alongside Keiron Cunningham.
McCracken was playing his football in Port Macquarie on the NSW mid-north coast when he was spotted by Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs Chief Executive Peter Moore who persuaded the young Centre to join The Bulldogs in 1991 and stayed with the club until 1995, although he also spent the 1992/93 English season with St. Helens.
In that first season with the Junior Academy he scored 13 tries in 20 appearances as they headed for Grand Final glory, where he scored the opening try in the Rhinos 26-16 win over St Helens and earned himself a place in the England U17 squad to play the AIS.
After a Challenge Cup tie against St Helens, his play on the wing was compared by BBC commentator Ray French to Saints' South African wing of the 1960s, Tom van Vollenhoven.
The team consisted of six players from league leaders Wigan Warriors, three from league runners-up Warrington Wolves, two from Catalans Dragons and one each from St Helens RLFC and Super League XVI winners Leeds Rhinos.
Joey Hayes (born 1976), rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s for Great Britain, St. Helens RLFC, Salford, and Oldham Roughyeds