Playing Career
Vital Statistics
- Nickname(s)
- Pale Whale
- Born
- Wednesday, 15th December, 1943
- Current Age
- 80 years and 126 days
- Place Of Birth
- Crosskeys, Caerphilly, Wales
Biography
Former Great Britain Test prop, an aggressive force on the football field, played in C’bury's 1967 grand final loss to Souths. Hicks actually played the 1970 pre-season competition with Norths but his contract was ruled to be invalid and he returned to C’bury. He finally made it to Norths in 1971, captain-coaching the club following the departure of high-profile English coach Roy Francis. Hicks later captain-coached Bowral after leaving Sydney in 1973.
- ALAN WHITICKER
Playing Career Statistics
All statistics shown in this section are based only on data available in the RLP database, and are not necessarily a complete and/or 100% accurate representation of a player's career. This information should be used as a guide only. If you see a question mark (?), it denotes that the figure is not available.
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Competitions | ||||||||||||||
| Competition | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
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| Tour Matches | Great Britain | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | |||
| Test Series | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
| NRL | 98 | 17 | - | 1 | 53 | 51 | 44 | 3 | 52.04% | List | ||||
| Craven Mild Cup | 23 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 12 | 11 | 0 | 52.17% | List | ||||
| NRL Finals | 4 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | 0 | 50.00% | List | ||||
| Endeavour Cup | 2 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0.00% | List | ||||
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Test Matches - By Team | ||||||||||||||
| Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | |||
| Great Britain | 1965 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | |||
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NRL/NSWRL - By Year | ||||||||||||||
| Team | Season | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | |||
| Canterbury | NSWRFL 1966 | 13 | 2 | - | - | 6 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.85% | List | |||
| Canterbury | NSWRFL 1967 | 23 | 5 | - | 1 | 17 | 15 | 7 | 1 | 65.22% | List | |||
| Canterbury | NSWRFL 1968 | 11 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.45% | List | |||
| Canterbury | NSWRFL 1969 | 17 | 5 | - | - | 15 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 52.94% | List | |||
| Canterbury | NSWRFL 1970 | 15 | 3 | - | - | 9 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 53.33% | List | |||
| North Sydney | NSWRFL 1971 | 6 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 3 | 1 | 33.33% | List | |||
| North Sydney | NSWRFL 1972 | 13 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 38.46% | List | |||
NRL/NSWRL - By Team | ||||||||||||||
| Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | |||
| Canterbury | 1966-70 | 79 | 16 | - | 1 | 50 | 44 | 34 | 1 | 55.70% | List | |||
| North Sydney | 1971-72 | 19 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 7 | 10 | 2 | 36.84% | List | |||
| Overall | 1966-1972 | 98 | 17 | 0 | 1 | 53 | 51 | 44 | 3 | 52.04% | List | |||
Contributions:
Greg Fiveash, Andrew Ferguson, Rugby League Tables, Paul Carter, Max Turner, Shawn Dollin, Alan Katzmann
Your Say
14/12/2011
Coached the Junee Diesels in Group 9 during the 1995 season.
10/05/2012
The uber-burly Hicks was affectionately known as the "Pale Whale" during his stints with Canterbury and Nth Sydney.
25/04/2015
After finishing with North Sydney, he went back to England with his family and played with Hull,commentators saying he was playing the best football of his career.Returning to Captain coach Bowral in the late seventies.
19/05/2015
Dad went back to England and played for hull while running many pubs in Yorkshire with his wife and family, went to bow real in 1977
17/08/2015
Went back to England after the Bears and played fo Hull.
17/12/2020
I believe he was Captain-coach of Orange CYMS in Group 10 NSW in 1973 as I played League with his son Paul in 1973
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