Career Stats & Summary
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.
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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| 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 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | |||
| Tour Matches | Australia | 1 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | |||
| Test Series | 1 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | ||||
| The Ashes | 1 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | ||||
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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 | |||
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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 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | |||
| Overall | 1962-1971 | 25 | 6 | 23 | 0 | 64 | 4 | 21 | 0 | 16.00% | List | |||
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Your Say
Don Laird says: 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. (03/07/2011)
Adam says: Yeh ray! thats awesome! (04/02/2012)
Raymond laird says: He had a passion for football and lived it (16/06/2015)
Roger says: 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. (27/07/2015)
Peter says: I had the privilege of playing under turtle for Souths in Nambour in 1972. Great footballer,great bloke. (09/01/2018)
Anonymous says: 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 (02/02/2019)
Des Allen says: ray coached me and taught me so much anout the game. A great coach and even a better man (05/02/2019)
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