Ray Laird

  • Playing Career

Playing Career

Vital Statistics

Full Name
Raymond Laird
Nickname(s)
Turtle
Born
Sunday, 27th July, 1941
Died
Saturday, 2nd February, 2019 (Aged 77 years and 190 days)

Known Family Links

Brother
Graham Laird

Biography

Queensland fullback had a brief stay with St George in 1962 (reserve grade premiers) before returning to his home state. Laird first played for Queensland as a 22-year-old in 1963 against NSW and South Africa and was to be a frequent state rep during the 1960s. He was called into Australia's Second Test side that lost to Great Britain in 1970 following an injury to Graeme Langlands. Laird was over-looked for the deciding Test that year when selectors opted for goal-kicking Easts fullback Allan McKean.
- 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.

To view a list of corresponding matches, click on the List button.

Competitions
Competition   App T G   GK % FG Pts W L D Win %  
Tour Matches Toowoomba 2 - -   - - 0 2 0 0.00% List
Tour Matches Queensland Firsts 3 3 7   - 23 1 2 0 33.33% List
Tour Matches South Queensland Firsts 1 1 -   - 3 1 0 0 100.00% List
Interstate Matches 18 2 16   - 38 1 17 0 5.56% List
Tour Matches Central Queensland 3 - -   - - 2 1 0 66.67% List
Test Series 1 - 0   - - 0 1 0 0.00% List
The Ashes 1 - 0   - - 0 1 0 0.00% List
Tour Matches Australia 1 - 0   - - 0 1 0 0.00% List


International

Test Matches - By Team

Team Years App T G   GK % FG Pts W L D Win %  
Australia 1970 1 - -   - - 0 1 0 0.00% List


Representative

Australia - By Team

Team Years App T G   GK % FG Pts W L D Win %  
Toowoomba 1962-63 2 - -   - - 0 2 0 0.00% List
QLD Firsts 1963, 1965-66, 1969-71 21 5 23   - 61 2 19 0 9.52% List
South QLD Firsts 1963 1 1 -   - 3 1 0 0 100.00% List
Central QLD 1964, 1966, 1970 3 - -   - - 2 1 0 66.67% List
Overall1962-1971 27 6 23   0 64 5 22 0 18.52% List

Your Say

  • Don Laird
    03/07/2011

    Don't recall Dad playing for St George, proud as punch when he made the Team of Century for North Queensland, Sunshine Coast and Toowoomba.

  • Adam
    04/02/2012

    Yeh ray! thats awesome!

  • Raymond laird
    16/06/2015

    He had a passion for football and lived it

  • Roger
    27/07/2015

    Lovely bloke.Great player.I rented a house from him in Rocky in 1972.Went into the spare room and in his cupboard was his Qld and Aust blazer.

  • Peter
    09/01/2018

    I had the privilege of playing under turtle for Souths in Nambour in 1972. Great footballer,great bloke.

  • isaac stevens
    20/12/2018

    he is my great aunties husband(betty laird) former stevens, he represented in many football things and won multiple events, we are proud to call him family

  • Anonymous
    02/02/2019

    It was a pleasure to play with and against the great Ray Laird, he changed and resurrected the Sunshine Coast/ Wide Bay league competition 1970-75. He was a true league man, tough and great leader. Benny Pike

  • Des Allen
    05/02/2019

    ray coached me and taught me so much anout the game. A great coach and even a better man

  • john edwards
    10/11/2021

    The Aussie

  • Kevin Kirby
    14/05/2022

    Played against Ray for Gympie v Sunshine Coast 1971, a great skillful fullback.

    • Want to have your say about this player? Add a comment.

Contributions: Greg Fiveash, Andrew Ferguson, Shawn Dollin, Paul Carter