Jim Porter (born 1949) is an Australian former

rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as rugby league in English-speaking countries and rugby 13/XIII in non-Anglophone Europe, is a contact sport, full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular Rugby league playin ...

footballer who played in the 1970s. An Australia national representative er, he played his club football in the

New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership The New South Wales Rugby League premiership was the first rugby league football club competition established in Australia and contributor to today's National Rugby League. Run by the New South Wales Rugby League (initially named the New Sout ...

with the Eastern Suburbs club (with whom he won the 1974 premiership) and

Parramatta Parramatta (; ) is a suburb (Australia), suburb and major commercial centre in Greater Western Sydney. Parramatta is located approximately west of the Sydney central business district, Sydney CBD, on the banks of the Parramatta River. It is co ...

. With the Australian team he won the 1975 World Cup, and he also made an appearance for NSW City in 1974.

Playing career

Porter started playing first grade in the NSWRFL for Easts in 1970. He played with them in the loss to

Manly-Warringah 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 seaso ...

in the 1972 Grand Final. Porter played in the successful Roosters side in the 1974 NSWRFL season's Grand Final however, before moving to Parramatta the following season. In 1975 he played for the Australian side which won the World Cup on points standing at the end of the tournament. The following year he scored a try in Parramatta's loss to Manly in the 1976 Grand Final. Then in 1977 Porter played in the drawn grand final against

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as well as the re-match, which was also his last first grade game in the NSWRFL.

References

External links

Player Profile - Jim Porter
at yesterdayshero.com.au

at stats.rleague.com

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