Playing Career
Vital Statistics
- Full Name
- Denis John Pittard
- Born
- Saturday, 8th December, 1945
- Current Age
- 78 years and 312 days
- Place Of Birth
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Honours & Awards
Based only on data available in the RLP database. This information should be used as a guide only.
- World Cup
- 1970
- Interstate Series
- 1969, 1970, 1972
- NSWRFL Premiership (NRL)
- 1968, 1970, 1971
- Preseason Cup
- 1969, 1972, 1975
- Rothmans Medal
- 1969, 1971
Biography
Fine attacking five-eighth started his career with Wests before moving to Souths in 1968. Pittard, known as 'The Sneak' amongst team-mates, displaced Test pivot Jimmy Lisle in Souths' first grade team. Pittard was a darting, incisive attacking player who, with partner Bob Grant, formed the best halfback combination in the game at that time. Pittard won premierships with the club in 1968 and 1970-71 and became the first player to win two Rothmans Medals (1969 & 1971) – a measure of his standing in the great Souths teams of that era. He played for NSW in 1969 and also toured NZ with the Australian side that year. Pittard was selected in the 1970 World Cup squad but Bob Fulton played five-eighth in the final and Pittard did not represent Australia again. He later saw out his career with P’matta following a mass exodus from the financially savaged Souths club and captained the Eels to win the 1975 pre-season competition.
- 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 | Comp Wins | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
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| World Cup | 1 | 3 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 0 | 33.33% | List | ||||
| Tour Matches | Sydney Firsts | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | |||
| Tour Matches | Australia | - | 6 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 83.33% | List | |||
| Test Series | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 50.00% | List | ||||
| Interstate Series | 3 | 5 | 4 | - | - | 12 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
| City vs Country Firsts | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
| NSWRFL Premiership (NRL) | 3 | 198 | 81 | 28 | - | 299 | 121 | 73 | 4 | 61.11% | List | ||||
| NSWRFL Finals | - | 12 | 2 | - | - | 6 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 66.67% | List | ||||
| Preseason Cup | 3 | 39 | 11 | - | - | 33 | 30 | 7 | 2 | 76.92% | List | ||||
| Midweek Cup | - | 5 | 3 | 8 | - | 25 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 80.00% | List | ||||
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Test Matches - By Team | |||||||||||||||
| Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| Australia | 1969-70 | 6 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 50.00% | List | ||||
World Cup Matches - By Team | |||||||||||||||
| Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| Australia | 1969-1970 | 3 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 0 | 33.33% | List | ||||
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Australia - By Team | |||||||||||||||
| Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| Sydney Firsts | 1966 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | ||||
| NSW City Seconds | 1966, 1970 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 0 | 50.00% | List | ||||
| NSW City Firsts | 1966, 1972 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
| NSW Firsts | 1969-70, 1972 | 5 | 4 | - | - | 12 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
| Overall | 1966-1972 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 80.00% | List | ||||
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NSWRFL Premiership (NRL) - By Year | |||||||||||||||
| Team | Season | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| Western Suburbs | NSWRFL 1965 | 9 | 3 | - | - | 9 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 33.33% | List | ||||
| Western Suburbs | NSWRFL 1966 | 16 | 2 | - | - | 6 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 50.00% | List | ||||
| Western Suburbs | NSWRFL 1967 | 19 | 9 | - | - | 27 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 52.63% | List | ||||
| South Sydney | NSWRFL 1968 | 14 | 6 | - | - | 18 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 85.71% | List | ||||
| South Sydney | NSWRFL 1969 | 21 | 12 | - | - | 36 | 17 | 4 | 0 | 80.95% | List | ||||
| South Sydney | NSWRFL 1970 | 23 | 5 | - | - | 15 | 18 | 4 | 1 | 78.26% | List | ||||
| South Sydney | NSWRFL 1971 | 21 | 11 | - | - | 33 | 16 | 5 | 0 | 76.19% | List | ||||
| South Sydney | NSWRFL 1972 | 21 | 12 | - | - | 36 | 14 | 7 | 0 | 66.67% | List | ||||
| South Sydney | NSWRFL 1973 | 21 | 10 | - | - | 30 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 52.38% | List | ||||
| Parramatta | NSWRFL 1974 | 18 | 4 | 1 | - | 14 | 4 | 14 | 0 | 22.22% | List | ||||
| Parramatta | NSWRFL 1975 | 15 | 7 | 27 | - | 75 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 53.33% | List | ||||
NSWRFL Premiership (NRL) - By Team | |||||||||||||||
| Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
| Western Suburbs | 1965-67 | 44 | 14 | - | - | 42 | 21 | 21 | 2 | 47.73% | List | ||||
| South Sydney | 1968-73 | 121 | 56 | - | - | 168 | 88 | 31 | 2 | 72.73% | List | ||||
| Parramatta | 1974-75 | 33 | 11 | 28 | - | 89 | 12 | 21 | 0 | 36.36% | List | ||||
| Overall | 1965-1975 | 198 | 81 | 28 | 0 | 299 | 121 | 73 | 4 | 61.11% | List | ||||
Contributions:
Greg Fiveash, Shawn Dollin, Andrew Ferguson, Paul Carter, Rugby League Tables, Max Turner, Wests Archives, Alan Katzmann, Tony McCarron, Bill Bates, AJ Lucantonio
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