Ricky Walford

  • Playing Career

Playing Career

Vital Statistics

Born
Sunday, 8th December, 1963
Current Age
60 years and 361 days

Honours & Awards

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State of Origin
1990
Midweek Cup
1988
Charity Shield - AUS
1987
Ken Stephen Medal
1989

Known Family Links

Nephew
Nathan Merritt
Reece Robinson
Father
Eric Robinson
Nephew
Travis Robinson

Biography

Walgett winger, a former Australian Schoolboy rep in 1981, played with Easts and Norths before enjoying a long career with the Dragons. Walford was the season's leading point-scorer in 1989 (146pts - 13t, 47g) and made his debut for Country Origin that year. He was selected for one State of Origin match in 1990 but further rep honours did not eventuate (Walford was one of four senior players on the Aboriginal tour of Tonga for the Pacific Cup competition in 1990). In 1992 he overcame a poor defensive game in the semi-final to be one of St George's best players in the win over I’warra in the final. Walford was a try-scorer in the club’s 28-8 grand final loss to Brisbane and following St George's 14-6 defeat by the Broncos in 1993, he went on to top 100 tries and 200 first grade games before his retirement in 1996.
- ALAN WHITICKER

Playing Career Statistics

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Competitions
Competition   Comp Wins App T G   GK % FG Pts W L D Win %  
State of Origin 1 1 - -   - - 1 0 0 100.00% List
City vs Country - 3 2 5   - 18 1 2 0 33.33% List
NSWRFL/NSWRL/ARL Premiership (NRL) - 233 116 253   - 966 126 99 8 54.08% List
NSWRFL/NSWRL/ARL Finals - 8 4 -   - 16 5 3 0 62.50% List
Midweek Cup 1 10 7 10   - 48 8 2 0 80.00% List
Challenge Cup AU - 10 1 13   - 30 5 4 1 50.00% List


Representative

Australia - By Team

Team Years   App T G   GK % FG Pts W L D Win %  
NSW Country 1989-90   2 2 5   - 18 0 2 0 0.00% List
NSW 1990   1 - -   - - 1 0 0 100.00% List
NSW City Firsts 1991   1 - -   - - 1 0 0 100.00% List
Overall1989-1991   4 2 5   0 18 2 2 0 50.00% List


Club Career

NSWRFL/NSWRL/ARL Premiership (NRL) - By Year

Team Season   App T G   GK % FG Pts W L D Win %  
Eastern Suburbs 1982 Winfield Cup   7 4 3   - 18 5 2 0 71.43% List
Eastern Suburbs NSWRFL 1983 Winfield Cup   6 - -   - - 4 2 0 66.67% List
North Sydney NSWRL 1984 Winfield Cup   12 8 21   - 74 3 8 1 25.00% List
St George NSWRL 1985 Winfield Cup   2 - 1   - 2 1 1 0 50.00% List
St George NSWRL 1986 Winfield Cup   18 9 12 / 15 80.00% - 60 10 7 1 55.56% List
St George NSWRL 1987 Winfield Cup   14 6 11 / 16 68.75% - 46 8 4 2 57.14% List
St George NSWRL 1988 Winfield Cup   22 15 52 / 89 58.43% - 164 9 13 0 40.91% List
St George NSWRL 1989 Winfield Cup   21 13 47 / 75 62.67% - 146 9 12 0 42.86% List
St George NSWRL 1990 Winfield Cup   17 14 38 / 59 64.41% - 132 7 10 0 41.18% List
St George NSWRL 1991 Winfield Cup   21 9 55 / 93 59.14% - 146 11 7 3 52.38% List
St George NSWRL 1992 Winfield Cup   24 13 11 / 20 55.00% - 74 17 7 0 70.83% List
St George NSWRL 1993 Winfield Cup   20 15 -   - 60 16 4 0 80.00% List
St George NSWRL 1994 Winfield Cup   21 2 -   - 8 9 12 0 42.86% List
St George ARL 1995 Winfield Cup   10 3 2 / 3 66.67% - 16 5 5 0 50.00% List
St George ARL 1996 Optus Cup   18 5 0 / 1 0.00% - 20 12 5 1 66.67% List

NSWRFL/NSWRL/ARL Premiership (NRL) - By Team

Team Years   App T G   GK % FG Pts W L D Win %  
Eastern Suburbs 1982-83   13 4 3   - 18 9 4 0 69.23% List
North Sydney 1984   12 8 21   - 74 3 8 1 25.00% List
St George 1985-96   208 104 229   - 874 114 87 7 54.81% List
Overall1982-1996   233 116 253   0 966 126 99 8 54.08% List

Your Say

  • dk
    09/03/2011

    After viewing footage of the Chooseday Night Football game on Fox Sports, it is clear that Walford was a fourth man on the bench for the St George Dragons against the Western Reds in round 1 1995.

  • Chris Atkinson
    19/01/2012

    You have made a couple of errors on this page.

    1) You stated Ricky Walford made 11 1st grade appearences for North Sydney in the 1984 season. He in fact only made 10 1st grade appearences for North Sydney that year
    2) You stated that Ricky Walford played 206 1st grade games for St George. He in fact played 207 1st grade games for St George
    3) You stated Ricky Walford scored 18 points in 1st grade during his time at Eastern Suburbs he actually scored 24 (4 tries 6 goals all scored in 1982)
    4) You stated Ricky Walford's final point scoring tally in 1st grade came to 966 points through 116 tries and 253 goals where in fact Ricky Walford scored 972 points in 1st grade from 116 tries and 256 goals

  • Sam
    13/09/2012

    He would of played all 3 games for nsw in 1990 but he broke his toe kicking for goal, after game 1

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Sources: David Middleton's Rugby League Yearbook (1987-88 to present), Match Video