Greg Barwick is an Australian former professional

rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rugby or league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring 68 metres (75 yards) wide and 112 ...

footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s.

Playing career

A noted fullback and kicker, Barwick played for the

Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs The Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in Belmore, a suburb in the Canterbury-Bankstown region of Sydney. They compete in the NRL Telstra Premiership, as well as competitions facili ...

between 1988 and 1989 but did not play in the premiership winning grand final side of 1988,

Penrith Panthers The Penrith Panthers are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the western Sydney suburb of Penrith that competes in the NRL. The team is based west of the centre of Sydney, at the foot of the Blue Mountains. Penri ...

between 1990 and 1991,

North Sydney Bears The North Sydney Bears is an Australian rugby league football club based in North Sydney, New South Wales. The club competes in the New South Wales Cup, having exited the National Rugby League following the 1999 NRL season after 90 years in the ...

between 1992 and 1993 &

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known as the "Sydney Tigers" at the time in 1995 in the

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Winfield Cup The Winfield Cup was an Australian rugby league trophy awarded to the winner of the New South Wales Rugby League premiership (NSWRL) Grand Final from 1982 to 1994, and then to the winner of the newly-founded Australian Rugby League (ARL) Grand Fin ...

and the

London Broncos The London Broncos are a professional rugby league club in London, England. The club competes in the RFL Championship. It was a member of Super League from its inaugural season in 1996 until the end of the 2014 season, when they were relegat ...

in the

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. A

Milperra Milperra, a suburb of local government area City of Canterbury-Bankstown, is located 24 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district in the state of New South Wales, Australia, and is a part of the South Western Sydney region. Hi ...

Colts junior, Barwick made his first grade debut for Canterbury-Bankstown in Round 11 1988 against Newcastle. Barwick played in the major semi final that year against Cronulla but was not selected to play in the 1988 grand final victory over Balmain. Barwick was fullback for Penrith in their successful

1991 NSWRL premiership The 1991 NSWRL season was the eighty-fourth season of professional rugby league football in Australia. This year the New South Wales Rugby League experimented with a draft system for the first time. Sixteen clubs competed for the J J Giltina ...

. Following the

grand final Primarily in Australian sports, a grand final (sometimes colloquially abbreviated to "grannie") is a game that decides a sports league's premiership (or championship) winning team, i.e. the conclusive game of a finals (or play-off) series. Sy ...

victory he travelled with the Panthers to England for the

1991 World Club Challenge The 1991 World Club Challenge (marketed as the Foster's World Club Challenge due to sponsorship from the brewer) was contested by 1990–91 RFL Championship winners, Wigan and 1991 NSWRL season The 1991 NSWRL season was the eighty-fourth s ...

which was lost to

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. In 1992, Barwick signed with North Sydney and was regular starter for the side in the 1992 and 1993 seasons but a series of injuries and the emergence of

Matt Seers Matt Seers (born 28 June 1974) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s. He played for the North Sydney Bears, Wests Tigers and Wakefield Trinity Wildcats, as a or . Club career Seers play ...

left Barwick on the outer at North Sydney and played the entire 1994 season in reserve grade. In 1995, Barwick joined Balmain who had renamed themselves the "Sydney Tigers" and moved their home games to

Parramatta Stadium Parramatta Stadium was a sports stadium in Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia, 23 kilometres west of Sydney's central business district. The stadium was the home ground of several western Sydney-based sports teams, at the time of closure ...

at the beginning of the

Super League war The Super League war was a commercial competition between the Australian Rugby League (ARL) and the Australian Super League to establish pre-eminence in professional rugby league competition in Australia and New Zealand in the mid-1990s. Super ...

. Barwick spent 1996–97 at the

in the Super League before retiring.

References

External links

Bulldogs profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Barwick, Greg 1968 births Living people Australian rugby league players Balmain Tigers players Penrith Panthers players Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs players North Sydney Bears players London Broncos players Rugby league fullbacks Rugby league players from Sydney