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Anthony Massey Gelling (born 1 February 1946) is an Australian former rugby union international. Raised in West Wyalong, Gelling was a loose forward who was capped twice for the Australia national rugby union team, Wallabies. 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 tour to Australia and New Zealand, 1966 British Lions, before making his state debut two years later. His Wallabies caps came on the 1972 Australia rugby union tour of New Zealand and Fiji, 1972 tour of New Zealand and Fiji, debuting in the 1st Bledisloe Cup 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 Hong Kong Sevens in 1977. Gelling is an uncle of rugby players Graydon Staniforth, Graydon, Nigel Staniforth, Nigel and Scott Staniforth.


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*List of Australia national rugby union players


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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