Playing Career
Vital Statistics
- Born
- Thursday, 8th September, 1949
- Current Age
- 74 years and 223 days
- Place Of Birth
- Atherton, Queensland, Australia
Biography
Bandiera came to Newtown from Innisfail in North Queensland and was graded as a five-eighth/centre. He later developed into a hard-working back-rower but signing with Easts, he unfortunately broke his collarbone after twenty minutes of the 1972 grand final against Manly. Following his retirement as a player, he went into club administration. As football manager of the G’Coast Seagulls in 1992-93, he came into conflict with coach Wally Lewis. Bandiera left the club at the end of that season, shortly before Lewis resigned.
- 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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| Craven Mild Cup | 20 | 3 | - | - | 9 | 13 | 7 | 0 | 65.00% | List | ||||
| NRL | 81 | 12 | - | - | 36 | 49 | 28 | 4 | 60.49% | List | ||||
| Endeavour Cup | 1 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | ||||
| NRL Finals | 5 | - | - | - | - | 3 | 2 | 0 | 60.00% | List | ||||
| National Panasonic Cup | 7 | - | - | - | - | 6 | 1 | 0 | 85.71% | List | ||||
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Australia - By Team | ||||||||||||||
| Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | |||
| NSW City Seconds | 1976 | 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 % | |||
| Newtown | NSWRFL 1970 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | |||
| Newtown | NSWRFL 1971 | 17 | 2 | - | - | 6 | 6 | 10 | 1 | 35.29% | List | |||
| Eastern Suburbs | NSWRFL 1972 | 7 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 57.14% | List | |||
| Eastern Suburbs | NSWRFL 1974 | 20 | 6 | - | - | 18 | 16 | 4 | 0 | 80.00% | List | |||
| Eastern Suburbs | NSWRFL 1975 | 9 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | |||
| Balmain | NSWRFL 1976 | 16 | 2 | - | - | 6 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 43.75% | List | |||
| Balmain | NSWRFL 1977 | 11 | - | - | - | - | 7 | 3 | 1 | 63.64% | List | |||
NRL/NSWRL - By Team | ||||||||||||||
| Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | |||
| Newtown | 1970-71 | 18 | 2 | - | - | 6 | 6 | 11 | 1 | 33.33% | List | |||
| Eastern Suburbs | 1972, 1974-75 | 36 | 8 | - | - | 24 | 29 | 6 | 1 | 80.56% | List | |||
| Balmain | 1976-77 | 27 | 2 | - | - | 6 | 14 | 11 | 2 | 51.85% | List | |||
| Overall | 1970-1977 | 81 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 49 | 28 | 4 | 60.49% | List | |||
Contributions:
Greg Fiveash, Rugby League Tables, Andrew Ferguson, Alan Katzmann, Shawn Dollin, Paul Carter, AJ Lucantonio
Your Say
08/06/2012
Where is Greg Bandiera now? I played a season with him at Old Boys in Murwillumbah in 1980.
He was a tremendous coach and an inspirational onfield leader. I would love to meet him again one day.
He changed the way I played.
I've heard that he's now involved in Men Of League.
I've been a member there for many years.
Perhaps I could contact him through them.
Regards, Gary
28/07/2018
Working at kirra hotel Queensland
17/09/2019
A very solid player in a star studded Roosters line up. Tremendous defender and always good for some hard yards. Was an import at Easts but was good enough to be considered as one of the Clubs 13 imports in 1975, and in those days you just about had to be an international to do that at Easts.
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