Tony Paskins

"Tony Paskins" (Australia) was a rugby league footballer who played in the New South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL) and English Rugby League (ERL) competition as well as playing rugby union for the Randwick club in Sydney.

Paskin was recruited from Sydney’s Randwick Rugby union club by English rugby league club Workington Town where he won a Challenge Cup, defeating Featherston Rovers in the final. He was a representative of ‘Other Nationalities’ against English national sides.

A goal kicking centre, Paskin returned to Australia, along with fellow Aussie and Workington Town team mate Rupert Mudge in 1955. Paskin was named captain of Eastern Suburbs side, playing 54 matches for the club in the years (1955-58). After leaving Easts he enjoyed success with the local Oberon side in rural New South Wales. In 1961 he was named as the captain of the NSW country representative team and the following year captain the NSW representative side Against the touring Great Britain Lions. Paskin returned to the NSWRL in 1963 where he spent a season as joint captain and coach of theManly Sea Eagles club.

Paskin coached the Eastern Suburbs club in the 1973 season.

References

* cite book | last=Whiticker, Alan and Hudson, Glen |title=The Encyclopedia of Rugby League Players |year=2007
publisher="Gary Allen Pty Ltd" |location=Wetherill Park, New South Wales |isbn=9781877082931 |pages=609