Robert Fulton (1 December 1947 – 23 May 2021
), also nicknamed "Bozo", was an Australian
rugby league
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footballer, coach and later commentator.
Fulton played, coached, selected for and commentated on the game with great success at the highest levels and has been named amongst Australia's greatest rugby league players of the 20th century.
As a player, Fulton won three premierships with the
Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles
The Manly Warringah Sea Eagles are an Australian professional rugby league club based in Sydney's Northern Beaches. They compete in the National Rugby League (NRL). The Manly club debuted in the 1947 New South Wales Rugby Football League sea ...
in the 1970s, the last as captain. He represented the
Australia national team thirty-five times, seven as captain. He had a long coaching career at the first grade level, taking Manly to premiership victories in 1987 and 1996. He coached the Australia national team in thirty-nine Tests. He was a
New South Wales State selector and a national selector. He was a radio commentator with
2GB at the time of his death in 2021, aged 73.
In 1981, he was selected as one of the initial four post-war "
Immortals" of the Australian game and, in 2008, he was named in Australia's team of the century.
Background
Fulton was born in
Stockton Heath, a civil parish of
Warrington
Warrington () is an industrial town in the Borough of Warrington, borough of the same name in Cheshire, England. The town sits on the banks of the River Mersey and was Historic counties of England, historically part of Lancashire. It is east o ...
, in the English county of
Cheshire
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. He moved to Australia with his family when he was four years old.
Playing career
At 18 years of age, Fulton made his senior football debut in the
Illawarra Rugby League
The Illawarra Rugby League is a rugby league competition in Wollongong, NSW. It is one of the oldest rugby league competitions in Australia, founded in 1911 with five clubs (Dapto, Helensburgh, Mount Keira, Unanderra and Wollongong). The area p ...
with
Western Suburbs in 1965 and went on to represent Country Seconds.
Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles
Fulton was signed to Sydney's
Manly-Warringah by club secretary
Ken Arthurson after being spotted by John Hobbs (Manly talent scout) and started his
NSWRFL
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first grade career in 1966 aged 19. As a or Fulton made an immediate impact. He earned State representative honours in 1967 and the following year became the youngest ever captain in
Grand Final
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history when he led Manly in the 1968 decider against
Souths.
Fulton made 219 appearances for the
Manly club between 1966 and 1976. He scored 520 points (129
tries, 10
goals and 56 field goals) – the club's record try tally until
Steve Menzies went one better in 2006. Fulton won premierships with Manly in
1972
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(also the League's top try-scorer this season),
1973
Events January
* January 1 – The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark 1973 enlargement of the European Communities, enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union.
* January 14 - The 16-0 19 ...
and
1976
Events January
* January 2 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force.
* January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea.
* January 18 – Full diplomatic ...
. In the 1973 bloodbath against
Cronulla he took control of the game scoring two tries to take the side to victory.
At the end of the 1976 season Fulton caused a sensation in Sydney rugby league circles when he left Manly and signed a 3-year deal with the
Eastern Suburbs club. He left Manly holding the club record for most tries.
Warrington Wolves
Following the
1969 NSWRFL season, Fulton accepted an offer to play a season with
Warrington
Warrington () is an industrial town in the Borough of Warrington, borough of the same name in Cheshire, England. The town sits on the banks of the River Mersey and was Historic counties of England, historically part of Lancashire. It is east o ...
, near where he was born, in the
1969–70 English season. Fulton played 16 games for Warrington, scoring 16 tries and kicking 1 field goal before returning to Manly for the
1970 season.
Eastern Suburbs Roosters
Fulton played 56 matches for the Eastern Suburbs club, mainly at . In his first season there Fulton was a member of the side that won the pre-season cup and was the club's leading try scorer. In 1978 he was a member of the Easts side that defeated
St George
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in the mid-week cup final. In 1979, Fulton was appointed captain-coach at the Roosters. A chronic knee injury saw him retire after just eight games that year.
Representative career
Fulton made his international début for
Australia
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in the
1968
Events January–February
* January 1968, January – The I'm Backing Britain, I'm Backing Britain campaign starts spontaneously.
* January 5 – Prague Spring: Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Cze ...
Rugby League World Cup
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The tournament has be ...
and played in the
final
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*Final examination or finals, a test given at the end of a course of study or training
*Final (competition), the last or championship round of a sporting competition, match, game, or other contest which d ...
at the
Sydney Cricket Ground
The Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) is a sports stadium in the Moore Park, New South Wales, Moore Park suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is used for Test cricket, Test, One Day International and Twenty20 cricket, as well as, Australi ...
. Playing as a , Fulton won his first of three World Cups when Australia defeated
France
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20–2.
In 1967, two NSW City v NSW Country fixtures were held to formline Kangaroo selections at season's end. The main game in May outlined the majority of the NSW players penned for the squad, whilst the second game in September was played to give fringe NSW players a chance for final selection. Fulton was selected at only 19 years of age to captain/coach the September City side that lost to Country 16-12. Whilst he was disappointed at missing out on the
1967 Kangaroo Squad as second string to Tony Branson from the Nowra Warriors, he did play for the next eleven seasons as a consistent national representative.
He toured New Zealand in 1971, was on the
1973
Events January
* January 1 – The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark 1973 enlargement of the European Communities, enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union.
* January 14 - The 16-0 19 ...
and
1978
Events January
* January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213.
* January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd ...
Kangaroo Tours, played in home
Ashes series against Great Britain in 1970 and 1974 and the home series against New Zealand in 1972 and 1978. He participated in Australian squads at four World cups – 1968,
1970
Events
January
* January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC.
* January 5 – The 7.1 1970 Tonghai earthquake, Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli ...
(including Australia's 12–7
World Cup final win over
Great Britain
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at
Headingley
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),
1972
Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, ...
(including Australia's 10–all draw with Great Britain in the
World Cup final in
Lyon
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,
France
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, though the Lions would win the tournament as they had finished on top of the ladder) and
1975
It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe.
Events
January
* January 1 – Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...
(won by Australia). He was named as the World Cup Man of the Series in 1970. The same knee injury that eventually forced his retirement as a player in 1979 kept him from Australia's winning
1977 Rugby League World Cup squad.
He was the Australian captain in the 2nd and 3rd Tests of the 1978 series against New Zealand and in all five Tests of the
1978 Kangaroo Tour, though that included the 2–0 series loss to France at the end of the tour, the last time Australia would lose a series or tournament until the
2005 Rugby League Tri-Nations
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. Fulton captained his country to a total of 4 wins and 3 losses.
On both of his Kangaroo Tours Fulton was the leading try scorer – with 20 tries from 5 Tests and 9 tour matches in 1973 and 9 tries from 5 Tests and 10 tour matches in 1978.
All told he appeared in 16 representative matches for
New South Wales
New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a States and territories of Australia, state on the Eastern states of Australia, east coast of :Australia. It borders Queensland to the north, Victoria (state), Victoria to the south, and South ...
. He represented Australia in 20 Test matches, 15 World Cup matches and 22 minor internationals whilst on tour.
Post playing
Coaching career
After retiring as a player at Easts, Fulton became coach of the Roosters. His was one of the few clubs opposed to the
State of Origin concept when it first began and he called it the "non-event of the century". At the end of his first season as coach, he took Easts to the
1980 Grand Final where they were beaten by the
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs
The Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs are an Australian professional rugby league club based in Belmore, a suburb in the Canterbury-Bankstown region of Sydney. They compete in the NRL Telstra Premiership, as well as competitions facilitated by ...
. He went on to coach the Roosters for two more seasons.
He returned to Manly as coach in
1983
1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call.
Events January
* January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning of the ...
and in that same year took them to a Grand Final against the
Parramatta Eels
The Parramatta Eels are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the Sydney suburb of Parramatta that competes in the National Rugby League (NRL).
The Parramatta District Rugby League Football Club was formed in 1947, and ...
where the club was unsuccessful for the second year running. In
1987
Events January
* January 1 – Bolivia reintroduces the Boliviano currency.
* January 2 – Chadian–Libyan conflict – Battle of Fada: The Military of Chad, Chadian army destroys a Libyan armoured brigade.
* January 3 – Afghan leader ...
, he guided the
Paul Vautin-captained Sea Eagles side to a premiership victory over the
Canberra Raiders
The Canberra Raiders are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the national capital city of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. They have competed in Australasia's elite rugby league competition, the National Rugb ...
in the last Grand Final played at the
Sydney Cricket Ground
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, becoming in the process the first person at Manly to win premierships both as captain and as coach. Following the grand final victory, he travelled with Manly to England for the
1987 World Club Challenge against their champions,
Wigan
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, though Manly-Warringah were beaten in a tryless game 8–2.
In 1989, Fulton succeeded
Don Furner as coach of the
Australian national side. He guided the team in 39 Tests between 1989 and 1998 to 32 victories, one draw and six losses,
including the successful
1990
Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...
and
1994
The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations.
In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...
Kangaroo tours, as well as winning both the
1992
1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations.
Events January
* January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General.
* January 6
** The Republ ...
and
1995
1995 was designated as:
* United Nations Year for Tolerance
* World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War
This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...
World Cup finals.
In three consecutive three-Test
Ashes series (
1990
Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...
,
1992
1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations.
Events January
* January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General.
* January 6
** The Republ ...
and
1994
The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations.
In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...
) as well as the
1991 Trans-Tasman Test series, the Australians were taken to a deciding Test and emerged victorious.
In
1993
The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as:
* International Year for the World's Indigenous People
The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its ...
Fulton returned to Manly as coach and he guided the club to three successive Grand Finals from
1995
1995 was designated as:
* United Nations Year for Tolerance
* World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War
This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...
. Fulton won his second and last premiership as a coach in
1996
1996 was designated as:
* International Year for the Eradication of Poverty
Events January
* January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
when in their 50th season the Manly-Warringah club defeated St George 20–8 in a win at the
Sydney Football Stadium. One grand final loss in 1997 can be attributed to his selection of his son Scott, who was never at this level or even close to it.
Fulton was an agenda driven vindictive human, as evidenced by dropping players from the Australian team if they turned down his approaches to play for his club side Manly. Ben Elias was NSW player of the year and was dropped from the Australian team as he refused to join Manly.
When Fulton left coaching Manly his sons were terminated..When he came back as coaching director he gave jobs to his 2 sons and a daughter. The club fell into farce and when he resigned the Club soon terminated the nepotistic appointments of his 3 children
Super League war
As national coach during the
Super League war
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Sup ...
Fulton played a prime role along with NSW State coach
Phil Gould in signing players to stabilise the
ARL competition. Fulton was a longstanding and loyal friend of
Kerry Packer
Kerry Francis Bullmore Packer (17 December 1937 – 26 December 2005) was an Australian media tycoon, and was considered one of Australia's most powerful media proprietors of the twentieth century. The Packer family company owned a controlling ...
who wholeheartedly backed the ARL and his own commercial interests and rights to broadcast the traditional game.
Selector
From 1999, Fulton was a selector of the
New South Wales
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and Australian sides.
Commentator
From 1997, Fulton was a member of the
Continuous Call Team, first on radio
2UE
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History 1920s 2EU
Electrical Utilities applied to the P ...
, and later on
2GB with
Ray Hadley,
Erin Molan
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Mola ...
,
Darryl Brohman,
Mark Levy,
David Morrow and
Mark Riddell .
National service
Fulton was conscripted into the Army in 1968 and allotted to artillery. He was effectively exempted from active service by being posted to the School of Artillery in Manly NSW as a Physical Training Instructor (PTI), enabling him to pursue his professional football career while fulfilling his national service obligation. He also spent time on HMAS Sydney taking the troops through PT during the voyage to South Vietnam.
Accolades
In 1981, he was selected by the publication ''
Rugby League Week
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'' as one of the initial four post-war "
Immortals" of the Australian game alongside
Churchill,
Raper and
Gasnier. Fulton was also inducted into the
Sport Australia Hall of Fame
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in 1985.
In 1994 Fulton was inducted as a Member of the
Order of Australia
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"for service to rugby league football" and in 2000 he received the
Australian Sports Medal
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. In 2002 he was inducted into the
Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame
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.
In February 2008, Fulton was named in the list of Australia's
''100 Greatest Players'' (1908–2007) which was commissioned by the
NRL
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and
ARL to celebrate the code's centenary year in Australia. Fulton went on to be named as an interchange player in Australian rugby league's ''
Team of the Century''. Announced on 17 April 2008, the team is the panel's majority choice for each of the thirteen starting positions and four interchange players. Respected rugby league commentator
Roy Masters, believes he was left off the starting team due to his versatility, making it difficult to put him in just in one position.
In 2008 New South Wales announced their rugby league team of the century also, naming Fulton as a .
He was made a life member of the
Sydney Cricket Ground
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and a plaque in the Walk of Honour there commemorates his career. He was a member of the
Order of Australia
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(AM).
Fulton is one of only two people to have gone on four
Kangaroo Tours. Fulton toured as a player in
1973
Events January
* January 1 – The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark 1973 enlargement of the European Communities, enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union.
* January 14 - The 16-0 19 ...
and
1978
Events January
* January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213.
* January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd ...
and as team coach in
1990
Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...
and
1994
The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations.
In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...
. The other is
Mal Meninga
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who made four tours as a player on the unbeaten
1982
Events
January
* January 1 – In Malaysia and Singapore, clocks are adjusted to the same time zone, UTC+8 (GMT+8.00).
* January 13 – Air Florida Flight 90 crashes shortly after takeoff into the 14th Street Bridge in Washington, D.C. ...
and
1986 tours and as the team captain under Fulton's coaching in both 1990 and 1994. He is also the only person to have captained and coached Kangaroos touring teams on separate tours.
Personal life and death
Fulton was married to Anne until his death. The couple had two sons and a daughter –
Scott,
Brett and Kristie Fulton. Both sons also played first grade for Manly.
Fulton, aged 73, died of cancer on 23 May 2021 at
St Vincent's Hospital in
Darlinghurst, Sydney. A state funeral was offered by premier of New South Wales
Gladys Berejiklian
Gladys Berejiklian (; born 22 September 1970) is an Australian businesswoman and former politician who served as the 45th premier of New South Wales and the leader of the New South Wales division of the Liberal Party from 2017 to 2021. Berejikl ...
.
[https://www.nsw.gov.au/media-releases/state-funeral-for-robert-bob-fulton-am NSW Government. 31 May 2021. Retrieved 14 July 2021.]
He was laid to rest at St Mary's Cathedral in Sydney on 4 June 2021, with hundreds of Australian sporting and media personalities in attendance.
References
Sources
*
Whiticker, Alan (2004) ''Captaining the Kangaroos'', New Holland, Sydney
* Andrews, Malcolm (2006) ''The ABC of Rugby League'' Austn Broadcasting Corpn, Sydney
*Hadfield, Dave (23 October 1992
"Fulton plays honorary consul"''The Independent'' (UK)
External links
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