Bob McCarthy

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Captain of the Australia national rugby league football team
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Captain of the Australia national rugby league football team

Bob McCarthy (born in Sydney, Australia) was a rugby league player for the South Sydney Rabbitohs, Canterbury Bulldogs, New South Wales and for the Australian national side.

Bob is one of the greatest second rowers to ever play Rugby League, he is most known for an intercept try he scored for South Sydney in the 1967 Grand Final.

He played 211 first grade games for Souths (1963-1975, 1978) scoring 100 tries, an amazing feat for a forward. He played in three grand final victories (1967, 1970 and 1971) and in two losing grand finals (1965 and 1969).

These days Bob is a selector for the NSW State of Origin and also Australian teams.

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