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.
Western Suburbs Magpies, an Australian rugby league football club based in Sydney's Western Suburbs
Faulkner is a long-time supporter of Cronulla and the original promo clip for "What's My Scene?" included shots of band members in Wests and Cronulla jumpers.
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Having been wooden spooners in NSWRFL season 1955, Wests embarked on a massive spending spree to recruit internationals Harry Wells, Kel O'Shea, Arthur Summons, Dick Poole, Darcy Henry and Ian Moir over a five-year period.
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The developing Western Suburbs side which would become such a force at the beginning of the 1960s, was already building around the class of internationals Keith "Yappy" Holman, Harry "Dealer" Wells, Kel "Twigs" O'Shea along with their hard men Neville "Boxhead" Charlton, Mark Patch and fiery 19-year-old Peter Dimond.
The following year Walters was sent off for punching Western Suburbs Magpies forward Graeme Wynn in a club match, and his resulting two-week suspension opened the way for brother Steve to come into both the Queensland and Australian teams.
Jeff Moores, rugby league footballer of the 1920s and '30s for Western Suburbs Magpies, Leeds, and York