Paul Sait

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Paul Sait was an Australian rugby league footballer and coach. A versatile Centre or running forward of the 1970s for the South Sydney Rabbitohs. He made 7 Test appearances for the Australian national representative side and represented in 9 World Cup matches in two World Cups and in 10 Kangaroo tour matches.

Club career

He featured in the talented South Sydney sides of the early seventies. He played in the 1969 Grand Final loss to Balmain and then in the Premiership victories of 1970 and 1971.

He played 221 club games for South Sydney between 1969 and 1979 with 163 of those games in 1st Grade. He scored 44 tries for the club.

In 2004 he was named by Souths in their South Sydney Dream Team,^[1] consisting of 17 players and a coach representing the club from 1908 through to 2004.

Representative career

He debuted for Australia in the centres in the 1970 World Cup in Britain though the remainder of his representative career was played at second-row forward. His first Test appearance was on the 1971 tour of New Zealand. He played in the 1972 World Cup in France and toured Great Britain with the Kangaroos in 1973 playing in four Tests and nine tour matches. He played lock on the 1973 tour of England and France including all the tests.

Coaching

Sait went on to coach at Souths in the 1980s.

Sources

Andrews, Malcolm (2006) The ABC of Rugby League, Austn Broadcasting Corpn, Sydney

Footnotes

↑ South Sydney Dream Team from the official South Sydney website.

Australia squad – 1975 Rugby League World Championship winners (4th title)

v t e Australia squad – 1970 Rugby League World Cup final winners (3rd title)

1 Eric Simms 2 Lionel Williamson 3 John Cootes 4 Paul Sait 5 Mark Harris 6 Bob Fulton 7 Billy Smith 8 John O'Neill 9 Ron Turner 10 Bob O'Reilly 11 Bob McCarthy 12 Ron Costello 13 Ron Coote (c) 14 Ray Branighan 15 Elwyn Walters Coach: Harry Bath

v t e South Sydney Rabbitohs squad – 1971 NSWRFL Premiers (20th Title)

1 Eric Simms 2 Keith Edwards 3 Paul Sait 4 Bob Honan 5 Ray Branighan 6 Denis Pittard 7 Bob Grant 8 John Sattler 9 George Piggins 10 John O'Neill 11 Bob McCarthy 12 Gary Stevens 13 Ron Coote Coach: Clive Churchill

v t e South Sydney Rabbitohs squad – 1970 NSWRFL Premiers (19th Title)

1 Eric Simms 2 Michael Cleary 3 Paul Sait 4 Arthur Branighan 5 Ray Branighan 6 Denis Pittard 7 Bob Grant 8 John Sattler 9 Elwyn Walters 10 John O'Neill 11 Bob McCarthy 12 Gary Stevens 13 Ron Coote 14 Bob Honan Coach: Clive Churchill

v t e South Sydney squad - 1968 NSWRFL Premiers (18th title)

1. Eric Simms 2. Michael Cleary 3. Bob Honan 4. Arthur Branighan 5. Brian James 6. Denis Pittard 7. Bob Grant 8. Jim Morgan 9. Elwyn Walters 10. John O'Neill 11. John Sattler 12. Bob Moses 13. Ron Coote 14. Paul Sait Coach: Clive Churchill

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