Playing Career
Vital Statistics
- Born
- Friday, 3rd April, 1914
- Died
- Wednesday, 21st June, 1989 (Aged 75 years and 79 days)
- Place Of Birth
- Mayfield, New South Wales, Australia
Biography
A brilliant centre in his day, Ron Bailey was the first C’bury player to both represent and captain Australia. Originally from Newcastle, and a Newtown player before the war, he was unlucky not to tour with the 1937-38 Kangaroos. Bailey spent the 1939-40 season playing for Huddersfield and on his return to Australia, played for Waratah-Mayfield in the Newcastle competition. In 1941 he took over as captain-coach of C’bury and led the club to its second premiership title in defeating St George in the 1942 grand final, 11-9. 1946 was undoubtedly Bailey's greatest year; captaining NSW, gaining selection in the First Test against Great Britain before taking over from Joe Jorgenson as Test captain in the Second Test in Brisbane. The Lions won the match in Brisbane 16-5 but Bailey withdrew from the Third Test team – after again being named captain - because of an ankle injury and Australia ultimately lost the Ashes series. Following C’bury’s loss in the premiership final against Balmain that year Bailey returned to West Maitland as captain-coach.
- 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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| City vs Country Firsts | 5 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 4 | 0 | 20.00% | List | ||||
| Tour Matches | Newcastle Firsts (AU) | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | |||
| NSWRFL Premiership (NRL) | 89 | 33 | - | - | 99 | 40 | 46 | 3 | 44.94% | List | ||||
| City Cup | 11 | 5 | - | - | 15 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 81.82% | List | ||||
| NSWRFL Finals | 5 | 2 | - | - | 6 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 40.00% | List | ||||
| Interstate Matches | 3 | 2 | - | - | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
| Tour Matches | New South Wales Firsts | 2 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0.00% | List | |||
| Tour Matches | Australia | 2 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.00% | List | |||
| Test Series | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.00% | List | ||||
| The Ashes | 2 | 1 | - | - | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.00% | List | ||||
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Test Matches - By Team | ||||||||||||||
| Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | |||
| Australia | 1946 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.00% | List | |||
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Australia - By Team | ||||||||||||||
| Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | |||
| Newcastle (AU) | 1935-36 | 3 | 2 | - | - | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | |||
| NSW Country Seconds | 1935 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | |||
| Possibles (AU) | 1936 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | |||
| NSW Country Firsts | 1936 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | |||
| NSW City Firsts | 1937, 1942, 1946 | 4 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 3 | 0 | 25.00% | List | |||
| Rest of NSW Seconds | 1942 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | |||
| NSW Firsts | 1945-46 | 6 | 3 | - | - | 9 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 66.67% | List | |||
| Overall | 1935-1946 | 17 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 58.82% | List | |||
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NSWRFL Premiership (NRL) - By Year | ||||||||||||||
| Team | Season | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | |||
| Newtown | NSWRFL 1937 | 8 | 3 | - | - | 9 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 50.00% | List | |||
| Canterbury | NSWRFL 1941 | 15 | 7 | - | - | 21 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 60.00% | List | |||
| Canterbury | NSWRFL 1942 | 17 | 5 | - | - | 15 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 70.59% | List | |||
| Canterbury | NSWRFL 1943 | 13 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 3 | 10 | 0 | 23.08% | List | |||
| Canterbury | NSWRFL 1944 | 12 | 6 | - | - | 18 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 25.00% | List | |||
| Canterbury | NSWRFL 1945 | 13 | 6 | - | - | 18 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 30.77% | List | |||
| Canterbury | NSWRFL 1946 | 11 | 5 | - | - | 15 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 45.45% | List | |||
NSWRFL Premiership (NRL) - By Team | ||||||||||||||
| Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | |||
| Newtown | 1937 | 8 | 3 | - | - | 9 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 50.00% | List | |||
| Canterbury | 1941-46 | 81 | 30 | - | - | 90 | 36 | 42 | 3 | 44.44% | List | |||
| Overall | 1937-1946 | 89 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 99 | 40 | 46 | 3 | 44.94% | List | |||
Contributions:
Shawn Dollin, Andrew Ferguson, Greg Fiveash, Rugby League Tables, Alan Katzmann, Paul Carter
Sources:
2006 Official Rugby League Annual
Your Say
05/07/2022
Named in Newcastle district side in team of century
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