Russel Gartner
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Russel Gartner is an Australian former rugby league footballer of the 1970s and 80s. He came from a family with a strong rugby league background with his father Jim and uncle Clive playing for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, and his cousin Daniel Gartner playing for Manly-Warringah and representing Australia. A tall three-quarter, Russel started playing first grade in the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership in 1975 with the Manly-Warringah club. The following year he was part of the Sea Eagles' premiership-winning side. In 1977 Gartner was the League's top try-scorer and at the end of the season played for Australia in the 1977 World Cup. In the final against a strong Great Britain side he scored a spectacular 65-metre solo try which was a catalyst to Australia's eventual victory[1].
At the end of the 1981 season, Gartner transferred to the Eastern Suburbs club where he played for two years before moving to Balmain. He played in the Tigers' losing 1988 Grand Final side and was a non-playing reserve in their dramatic extra time loss to the Canberra Raiders in the following year's decider.
References
- ^ "Russel Gartner". www.silvertails.net. Retrieved 2008-10-11.