Ray Branighan

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Ray Branighan
Personal information
Born	(1947-12-05) 5 December 1947 Sydney, New South Wales
Playing information
Position	Centre, Wing, Fullback
Club
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
1968–71	South Sydney	57	26	31	0	140
1972–78	Manly-Warringah	114	30	52	0	194
	Total	171	56	83	0	334
Representative
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
1970–75	City Firsts	4	0	6	0	12
1970–74	New South Wales	7	0	5	0	10
1970–75	Australia	17	4	10	0	32
Source: RLP Yesterday's Hero

Ray Branighan (born 5 December, 1947 in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian former rugby league player, a star winger and Centre of the 1970s for the South Sydney Rabbitohs, the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles, as well as the New South Wales state and Australian national representative sides.

Souths club career

Branighan played 57 games with South Sydney between 1968 and 1971. He played in the 1970 and 1971 victorious Rabbitohs Grand Finals scoring tries in both.

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.

Manly club career

He was one of a number of 1971 Rabbitohs poached by wealthier clubs in 1972 and along with team mate John O'Neill he moved to Manly. He played 114 games for Manly between 1972 and 1978. He played in the victorious 1972 and 1973 Grand Finals for Manly (partnering Bob Fulton in the centres in both, and kicking 6 goals from 7 attempts in the 19-14 win over Easts in 1972). Branighan was a reserve back for Manly in their 16-0 win over Cronulla in the 1978 Grand Final replay (Manly had also defeated Cronulla 10-7 in 1973).

Representative career

Branighan represented for Australia in eight Test matches and appeared five times for New South Wales.

Ray played alongside his brother Arthur Branighan for South Sydney from 1968 to 1970, and his nephew Luke Branighan played with the St George Dragons in 2004.

Footnotes

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

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 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 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles squad – 1972 NSWRFL Premiers (1st Title)

1 Graham Eadie 2 Ken Irvine 3 Ray Branighan 4 Bob Fulton 5 Max Brown 6 Ian Martin 7 Dennis Ward 8 Bill Hamilton 9 Fred Jones (c) 10 John O'Neill 11 Allan Thomson 12 Terry Randall 13 Malcolm Reilly Coach: Ron Willey

v t e Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles squad – 1973 NSWRFL Premiers (2nd Title)

1 Graham Eadie 2 Ken Irvine 3 Ray Branighan 4 Bob Fulton 5 Max Brown 6 Ian Martin 7 John Mayes 8 Bill Hamilton 9 Fred Jones (c) 10 John O'Neill 11 Peter Peters 12 Terry Randall 13 Mal Reilly 14 John Bucknall Coach: Ron Willey

v t e Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles squad – 1978 NSWRFL Premiers (4th Title)

1 Graham Eadie 2 Tom Mooney 3 Stephen Knight 4 Russel Gartner 5 Simon Booth 6 Alan Thompson 7 Steve Martin 8 Ian Thomson 9 Max Krilich (c) 10 John Harvey 11 Bruce Walker 12 Terry Randall 13 Ian Martin 14 Ray Branighan 15 Wayne Springall Coach: Frank Stanton

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

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

Persondata
Name	Branighan, Ray
Alternative names
Short description	Australian rugby league player
Date of birth
Place of birth	Australia
Date of death
Place of death

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