| Personal information | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Born | 7 September 1959 Australia |
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| Playing information | ||||||
| Height | 179 cm (5 ft 10 in) | |||||
| Weight | 81 kg (12 st 11 lb) | |||||
| Position | Five-eighth, Centre | |||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1980–81 | Parramatta Eels | 19 | 4 | 18 | 4 | 52 |
| 1982–83 | South Sydney | 50 | 10 | 148 | 12 | 340 |
| 1984–85 | Manly-Warringah | 39 | 7 | 61 | 1 | 151 |
| 1986–89 | Eastern Suburbs | 73 | 11 | 71 | 13 | 199 |
| Total | 181 | 32 | 298 | 30 | 742 | |
| Representative | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1982 | New South Wales | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| Source: NRL Stats, RLP | ||||||
Tony Melrose is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1980s and 90s. He played in the NSWRL Premiership for Parramatta, South Sydney, Manly-Warringah and Eastern Suburbs in the New South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL) competition. He primarily played in the centres or at five-eighth.
Melrose began his footballing career playing rugby union. He was captain of the Australian Schoolboys, played for Parramatta Two Blues and represented in six tests for the Wallabies as a five-eighth before switching to rugby league in 1980 at the age of twenty.
Melrose was selected to represent New South Wales as a winger for game II of the 1982 State of Origin series, scoring two goals from three attempts.[1]
After retiring from league, Melrose eventually returned to union in 1992, playing with Gordon RFC.