Grant Rix

Grant Rix

Personal information
Nickname	The Fox
Born	(1965-02-09) 9 February 1965
Playing information
Club
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
?	Fortitude Valley	?				?
?	Halifax	?				?
1988–1990	Brisbane	17				8
	Total		0	0	0
Representative
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
1986	Queensland	1				0

Grant Rix (born (1965-02-09) 9 February 1965) is an Australian former rugby league player. During his career he played in the Brisbane Rugby League premiership for Fortitude Valley Diehards, the New South Wales Rugby League premiership with the Brisbane Broncos and in England with Halifax RLFC.He had huge potential and was seen to be the successor to Wally Lewis until he was struck with successive knee operations and was forced to retire aged 24years.

Career

Selected Australian Schoolboys 1982 & 1983. Selected Queensland v New Zealand 1984 (18years 254 days old). He toured Papua New Guinea with the President's XIII Australian side in 1985. He was selected for Queensland for State of Origin III in 1986 (49th player to be selected for Queenland).Played Brisbane Broncos 1988-1990. Member of the Brisbane Broncos coaching staff 1991-1993. He coach Brisbane Norths Devils 1994-1995.

Challenge Cup final appearances

Grant Rix played Centre, i.e. number 4, in Halifax RLFC’s 19-18 victory over St. Helens in the 1987 Challenge Cup final at Wembley Stadium on Saturday 2 May 1987 in front of 94,273 people.

External links

• Grant Rix at the Former Origin Greats website.
• Queensland representatives at qrl.com.au
• Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org

v t e Halifax RLFC squad – 1987 Challenge Cup Final winners 1 Graham Eadie 2 Scott Wilson 3 Colin Whitfield 4 Grant Rix 5 Wilf George 6 Chris Anderson (Capt./Coach) 7 Gary Stephens 8 Ben Beevers 9 Seamus McCallion 10 Keith Neller 11 Paul Dixon 12 Mick Scott 13 John Pendlebury 14 Brian Juliff 15 Neil James

Persondata
Name	Rix, Grant
Alternative names
Short description	Australian rugby league player
Date of birth	9 February 1965
Place of birth
Date of death
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