John 'Harve' Harvey

Playing Career

Vital Statistics

Full Name
John Michael Harvey
Nickname(s)
Harve
Born
Tuesday, 19th April, 1955
Current Age
68 years and 345 days
Place Of Birth
Manly, New South Wales, Australia

Biography

Fiery Manly prop played in the club's 13-10 win over P’matta in 1976 and both the grand final draw and replay with Cronulla in 1978. Harvey drew controversy during his career, first for his high arm-action when making a shoulder charge, and then when he declined to tour with 1978 Kangaroos due to family reasons. (Harvey had been a non-playing reserve against NZ that year but would only divulge his reasons for not touring to League boss, Kevin Humphreys). After a period with Easts, he captain-coached the Seagulls club in the Group 18 competition to premiership victory in 1983 and 1987. Harvey's playing career finished after captaining Wee Waa to victory in the Group 4 premiership in 1992 (at age 37) and two years later, was thrust into the role of coach of the G’Coast club following the resignation of Wally Lewis. With limited talent at the club, Harvey did enough to avoid the dreaded wooden spoon for the fourth consecutive year but was later replaced by Phil Economidis.
- ALAN WHITICKER

Playing Career Statistics

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Competitions

Competition   App T G   GK % FG Pts W L D Win %  
NRL 135 9 -   - 28 82 47 6 60.74% List
NRL Finals 17 1 -   - 3 7 8 2 41.18% List
City vs Country Firsts 1 - -   - - 1 0 0 100.00% List
Interstate Matches 1 - -   - - 1 0 0 100.00% List


Representative

Australia - By Team

Team Years App T G   GK % FG Pts W L D Win %  
NSW Firsts 1981 1 - -   - - 1 0 0 100.00% List
NSW City Firsts 1981 1 - -   - - 1 0 0 100.00% List
Overall1981 2 0 0   0 - 2 0 0 100.00% List


Club Career

NRL/NSWRL - By Year

Team Season App T G   GK % FG Pts W L D Win %  
Manly NSWRFL 1975 8 - -   - - 3 5 0 37.50% List
Manly NSWRFL 1976 17 1 -   - 3 14 3 0 82.35% List
Manly NSWRFL 1977 14 - -   - - 9 5 0 64.29% List
Manly NSWRFL 1978 22 1 -   - 3 14 6 2 63.64% List
Eastern Suburbs NSWRFL 1979 9 1 -   - 3 3 5 1 33.33% List
Eastern Suburbs NSWRFL 1980 19 2 -   - 6 12 5 2 63.16% List
Eastern Suburbs NSWRFL 1981 21 2 -   - 6 15 6 0 71.43% List
Eastern Suburbs NSWRFL 1982 12 1 -   - 3 4 7 1 33.33% List
Manly NSWRL 1984 13 1 -   - 4 8 5 0 61.54% List

NRL/NSWRL - By Team

Team Years App T G   GK % FG Pts W L D Win %  
Manly 1975-78, 1984 74 3 -   - 10 48 24 2 64.86% List
Eastern Suburbs 1979-82 61 6 -   - 18 34 23 4 55.74% List
Overall1975-1984 135 9 0   0 28 82 47 6 60.74% List

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Contributions: Paul Carter, Andrew Ferguson, Rugby League Tables, Shawn Dollin, Greg Fiveash, Alan Katzmann, AJ Lucantonio

Sources: Match Video, Newspapers