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| Full name | Robert Wanbon | |||||
| Nickname | Bobby | |||||
| Born | November 16, 1943 Port Talbot, Wales |
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| Playing information | ||||||
| Rugby union | ||||||
| Position | Number eight | |||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| ≤29/01/1968–29/01/1968 | Aberavon RFC | |||||
| Representative | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1968–1968 | Wales | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Rugby league | ||||||
| Position | Prop, Second-row | |||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 29/01/1968–30/08/1971 | St. Helens | |||||
| 30/08/1971–≥1975 | Warrington | |||||
| Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Representative | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1968–1975 | Wales | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Source: rugbyleagueproject.org englandrl.co.uk | ||||||
Robert "Bobby" Wanbon is a Welsh former dual-code international rugby union and professional rugby league footballer of the 1960s and '70s who at representative level has played rugby union (RU) for Wales and at club level for Aberavon RFC, playing at Number eight, and at representative level has played rugby league (RL) for Wales, and at club level for St. Helens, and Warrington, playing at Prop, or Second-row, i.e. number 8 or 10, or, 11 or 12.[1]
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Bobby Wanbon won a cap for Wales (RU) while at Aberavon in 1968 against England on the 20th January 1968, scoring a try.
He was one of four Aberavon RFC players in the Welsh team that day, the others were Billy Mainwaring, Maxwell Lloyd Wiltshire, and Paul James Wheeler.
He won caps for Wales (RL) while at Warrington in the 1975 Rugby League World Cup against England, Australia, and New Zealand.[2]
Bobby Wanbon signed for St. Helens (RL) from Aberavon (RU) nine-days after appearing for Wales (RU) against England (RU), for £4500 (based on increases in average earnings, this would be approximately £114,000 in 2009).[3]
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