Club Football
The first tour game by an interstate club was in 1964 when Sydney's Manly Sea Eagles traveled to Perth. The first tour match by a club affiliated with the Queensland Rugby League was in 1986 when the Tweed Heads Seagulls played a match against a combined 'Perth City' team. Further interstate club matches occurred in 1989 with visits from Canterbury Bulldogs and Canberra Raiders.
Following the demise of the Western Reds professional rugby league was lost to WA. The next match occurred in 1999 when the Western Suburbs Magpies hosted the Melbourne Storm in an NRL premiership match. Further premiership matches followed in 2005 when Cronulla Sharks hosted the New Zealand Warriors.
Trial matches have also been played, with South Sydney Rabbitohs hosting Canterbury Bulldogs in the 2005 pre-season.
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Famous quotes containing the words club and/or football:
“Women ... are completely alone, though they were born and bred upon this soil, as if they belonged to another class in creation.”
—“Jennie June” Croly 1829–1901, U.S. founder of the woman’s club movement, journalist, author, editor. F, Demorest’s Illustrated Monthly Mirror of Fashions, pp. 363-4 (December 1870)
“In this dream that dogs me I am part
Of a silent crowd walking under a wall,
Leaving a football match, perhaps, or a pit,
All moving the same way.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)