Anthony Massey Gelling (born 1 February 1946) is an Australian former

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international. Raised in

West Wyalong West Wyalong is the main town of the Bland Shire in the northern Riverina region of western New South Wales, Australia. In the 2021 Census, West Wyalong's population was 3,037. Located west of Sydney as well as being above sea level, it i ...

, Gelling was a loose forward who was capped twice for the

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. He had a tough initiation to representative football when as a 20 year old he was in the New South Wales Country side which played the visiting 1966 British Lions, before making his state debut two years later. His Wallabies caps came on the 1972 tour of New Zealand and Fiji, debuting in the 1st

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in Wellington as a number eight. He gained his second cap as a flanker against Fiji in Suva. He was Australia's captain, coach and manager for the inaugural

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in 1977. Gelling is an uncle of rugby players Graydon,

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and

Scott Staniforth Scott Nicholas Gelling Staniforth (born 12 December 1977 in West Wyalong) is an Australian rugby union footballer who represented Australia at two Rugby World Cups, the successful 1999 campaign and again in 2007. Career Returning to Austral ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gelling, Tony 1946 births Living people Australian rugby union players Australia international rugby union players Rugby union players from New South Wales Rugby union number eights Rugby union flankers People from the Riverina New South Wales rugby union team players 20th-century Australian sportsmen

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