Rod Reddy

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Rod Reddy
Personal information
Full name Rodney Reddy
Nickname Rockhampton Rocket
Born (1954-03-01) 1 March 1954
Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
Playing information
Position Second-row, Lock
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1972–83 St. George Dragons 204 65 1 0 198
1984–85 Illawarra Steelers 33 1 0 0 4
1987–89 Barrow
Total 237 66 1 0 202
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1973–80 New South Wales 13 3 0 0 9
1980 Queensland 1 0 0 0 0
1977–82 Australia 16 7 0 0 21
Coaching information
Club
Years Team Gms W D L W%
1997–98 Adelaide Rams 26 7 1 18 27
Rod "Rocket" Reddy (born 1 March 1954 in Rockhampton, Queensland) is an Australian former rugby league footballer and coach. He played for the St. George Dragons between 1972 and 1983 and the Illawarra Steelers between 1984 and 1985.[1] He also represented Queensland in the State of Origin and Australia.

Biography

As a player, Rod Reddy is remembered as one of the St.George Dragon's most famous players from the 1970s. He was a member of premiership winning teams in 1977 and 1979. He ended his playing career at the Illawarra Steelers in 1985. Rod Reddy took on a player-coach role at Barrow in 1987. Barrow earned promotion to Division One but that campaign saw Barrow manage only one league win and suffer a club record 90-0 defeat at Leeds. Reddy was sacked and Denis Jackson took over as a caretaker coach for the rest of 1989/90

After a successful coaching stint with Cumbria, Reddy took on the reserve grade coaching duties position Brian Smith at St George. He was appointed Smith’s successor as coach in 1996 but embraced the Super League concept and walked out on his former club before a match was played. After sitting out the 1996 season while Super League successfully lodged its appeal, Reddy was the inaugural coach of the Adelaide Rams in 1997’s Super League season.

After a poor start to the 1998 season, Reddy and his coaching staff were sacked by the Rams’ administration, and the club folded at the end of the year. He has since linked with Parramatta as assistant coach to Brian Smith.

He is the father of current Sydney United football goalkeeper Liam Reddy, Adelaide Thunderbirds netball goalkeeper Bianca Reddy and Wests Tigers rugby league back Joel Reddy.

References

  1. ↑ Lester, Gary, ed. (1984). Rugby League: Action '85. Sydney: Fairfax Publishing. p. 30. ISBN 0-909558-83-3. 

External links

Inaugural Adelaide Rams side
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