Bob Fulton
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Robert "Bob" Fulton AM
(born 1 December 1947 in Warrington
, England) is an Australian rugby league football identity. Fulton played, coached, selected for and has commentated on the game with great success at the highest levels and has been named amongst Australia's greatest rugby league players of the 20th century.
As a player Fulton won three premierships with the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles
in the 1970s, the last as captain. He represented for the Australian national side on forty-seven occasions, seven times as captain. He had a long coaching career at the first grade level, taking Manly to premiership victory in 1987 and 1996. He coached the Australian national team to forty Tests and World Cup
games. He was a New South Wales State
selector and a national selector. He is currently a radio commentator with 2GB
. In 1985 he was selected as one of the initial four post-war "Immortals
" of the Australian game and in 2008 he was named in Australia's team of the century.
in 1965 and went on to represent for Country Seconds. He was spotted and signed to the Manly Sea Eagles by club secretary Ken Arthurson
and started his NSWRFL first grade career in 1966 aged eighteen. He was prodigiously talented and as a centre or five-eighth Fulton made an immediate impact. He earned State representatiave honours in 1967 and the following year became the youngest ever captain in Grand Final
history when he led Manly in the 1968 decider against Souths
.
Fulton made 219 appearances for the Manly club between 1966 and 1976. He scored 520 points (129 tries
, 10 goals
and 56 field goals) – the club's record try tally until Steve Menzies went one better in 2006. Fulton won premierships with Manly in 1972 (also the League's top try-scorer this season), 1973 and 1976. In the 1973 bloodbath against Cronulla
he single-handedly took control of the game scoring two tries to take the side to victory.
At the end of the 1976 season Fulton caused a sensation in Sydney rugby league circles when he left Manly and signed a 3 year deal with the Eastern Suburbs
club.
. In his first season there Fulton was a member of the side that won the pre-season cup and was the club's leading try scorer. In 1978 he was a member of the Easts side that defeated St George in the mid-week cup final. In 1979 Fulton was appointed captain-coach at the Roosters. A chronic knee injury saw him retire after just eight games that year.
Fulton made his international debut in the 1968 World Cup
squad and played in the final at five-eighth in Australia's victory over France. Thereafter for the next eleven seasons he was a consistent national representative.
He toured New Zealand in 1971, was on the 1973 and 1978 Kangaroo Tour
s, played in home Ashes
series against Great Britain in 1970 and 1974 and the home series against New Zealand in 1972 and 1978. He participated in Australian squads at four World cups – 1968, 1970, 1972 and 1975 and was the World Cup Man of the Series in 1970.
He was honoured with the Australian captaincy in the 2nd and 3rd Tests of the 1978 series against New Zealand and in all five Tests of the 1978 Kangaroo Tour. He captained his country to a total of 4 wins and 3 losses.
On both of his Kangaroo Tours Fulton was the leading try scorer – with 20 tries from 5 Tests and 9 tour matches in 1973 and 9 tries from 5 Tests and 10 tour matches in 1978.
All told he appeared in 16 representative matches for New South Wales
. He represented Australia in 20 Test matches, 15 World Cup matches and 22 minor internationals whilst on tour.
He fierce competitiveness would also become evident during his decade long tenure as coach of the national side and in his expressed loyalty to the ARL
during the Super League war
.
concept when it first began and called it the "non-event of the century". At the end of his first season as coach he had taken Easts to the 1980 Grand Final where they were beaten by Canterbury
. He went on to coach the Roosters for two more seasons.
He returned to Manly as coach in 1983 and in that same year took them to a Grand Final against Parramatta
where the club was unsuccessful for the second year running. In 1987 he guided the Paul Vautin
captained Sea-Eagles side to a premiership victory in the last Grand Final played at the Sydney Cricket Ground
becoming in the process the first Manly son to win premierships both as captain and as coach. Following the grand final victory he travelled with Manly to England for the 1987 World Club Challenge
against their champions, Wigan
.
From 1989 Fulton took on the job as coach of the Australian national side. He guided the side in 39 Tests between 1989 and 1998 to 32 victories , 1 draw and 6 losses.
He presided over the national team during its transition to dominance when the Australian side clearly had players fitter and more skilled than those of Great Britain, France and New Zealand. Yet at times these contests were surprisingly close as Fulton-coached sides often snatched victory from the jaws of defeat in exciting final match series deciders. In three consecutive Ashes
series (1990, 1992 and 1994) as well as the 1991 trans-Tasman series. Australia was stretched to a deciding Third Test.
Ironically so instinctive himself as a player, Fulton coached his sides to a low risk, structured and tightly controlled style of play. In this regard he was ahead of his time and ultimately he achieved a great measure of success. However on occasion his teams may have lacked the flair or imagination to take a game by the scruff of the neck and win it with a flash of brilliance.
In 1993 Fulton returned to Manly as coach and he guided the club the three successive Grand Finals from 1995. Fulton won his second premiership as a coach in 1996 when in their 50th season the Sea-Eagles beat St George 20–8 in a grinding but emphatic win.
Fulton played a prime role along with NSW State coach Phil Gould
in signing players to stabilise the ARL
competition. Fulton as it happened, was also a longstanding and loyal friend of Kerry Packer
who wholeheartedly backed the ARL and his own commercial interests and rights to broadcast the traditional game.
and Australian sides.
on Radio 2GB
with Ray Hadley
, Steve Roach, Darryl Brohman
and Andrew Moore.
Bob Fulton enjoys a running battle with Darryl Brohman. Fulton doesn't like the fact that Brohman took legal action against Les Boyd. Fulton played in an era where, "what happened on the field, stayed on the field". During the mid-1980s though, the game of Rugby League was in transition, media attention was on the rise and the game needed to be cleaned up.
as one of the initial four post-war "Immortals
" of the Australian game alongside Churchill
, Raper
and Gasnier
. In 1994 Fulton was inducted as a Member of the Order of Australia
"for service to rugby league football" and in 2000 he received the Australian Sports Medal
. In 2002 he was inducted into the Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame
.
In February 2008, Fulton was named in the list of Australia's 100 Greatest Players (1908–2007) which was commissioned by the NRL
and ARL
to celebrate the code's centenary year in Australia. Fulton went on to be named as an interchange player in Australian rugby league's Team of the Century
. Announced on 17 April 2008, the team is the panel's majority choice for each of the thirteen starting positions and four interchange players. Respected rugby league commentator Roy Masters, believe he was left off the starting team due to his versatility, making it difficult to put him in just in one position.
In 2008 New South Wales announced their rugby league team of the century also, naming Fulton at five-eighth.
He was made a life member of the Sydney Cricket Ground
and a plaque in the Walk of Honour there commemorates his career. He is a Member of the Order of Australia
(AM).
Order of Australia
The Order of Australia is an order of chivalry established on 14 February 1975 by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, "for the purpose of according recognition to Australian citizens and other persons for achievement or for meritorious service"...
(born 1 December 1947 in Warrington
Warrington
Warrington is a town, borough and unitary authority area of Cheshire, England. It stands on the banks of the River Mersey, which is tidal to the west of the weir at Howley. It lies 16 miles east of Liverpool, 19 miles west of Manchester and 8 miles south of St Helens...
, England) is an Australian rugby league football identity. Fulton played, coached, selected for and has commentated on the game with great success at the highest levels and has been named amongst Australia's greatest rugby league players of the 20th century.
As a player Fulton won three premierships with the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles
Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles
The Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles are an Australian professional rugby league club based on the Northern Beaches of Sydney. They compete in the National Rugby League's Telstra Premiership, the premier rugby league competition of Australasia...
in the 1970s, the last as captain. He represented for the Australian national side on forty-seven occasions, seven times as captain. He had a long coaching career at the first grade level, taking Manly to premiership victory in 1987 and 1996. He coached the Australian national team to forty Tests and World Cup
Rugby League World Cup
The Rugby League World Cup is an international rugby league competition contested by members of the Rugby League International Federation . It has been held nearly once every 4 years on average since its inaugural tournament in France in 1954...
games. He was a New South Wales State
New South Wales Rugby League team
The New South Wales rugby league team has represented the Australian state of New South Wales in rugby league football since the sport's beginnings there in 1907. Administered by the New South Wales Rugby League, the team competes in the annual State of Origin series against arch-rivals, the...
selector and a national selector. He is currently a radio commentator with 2GB
2GB
2GB is a commercial radio station in Sydney, Australia broadcasting on 873 kHz, AM. It is one of Australia's most popular talk-back radio stations, and is the number one station in Sydney.-History:The station commenced broadcasting in August 1926...
. In 1985 he was selected as one of the initial four post-war "Immortals
The Immortals (rugby league)
A major Australian rugby league magazine Rugby League Week in 1981 selected an exclusive group of players dubbed "The Immortals". The group consisted of Clive Churchill, Bob Fulton, Reg Gasnier, and Johnny Raper...
" of the Australian game and in 2008 he was named in Australia's team of the century.
Manly
Fulton moved to Australia when he was four years old and at seventeen years of age made his senior football debut with Wests IllawarraWestern Suburbs Red Devils
The Western Suburbs Red Devils are an Australian rugby league football team based in Figtree. The club are a part of Country Rugby League and compete in the Illawarra Rugby League premiership. The club play out of Figtree Oval, Figtree. Wests wear red and blue jerseys and have won 14 premierships...
in 1965 and went on to represent for Country Seconds. He was spotted and signed to the Manly Sea Eagles by club secretary Ken Arthurson
Ken Arthurson
Kenneth Richard "Arko" Arthurson AM is an Australian rugby league football identity. Affectionately known as "The Godfather of Manly", he played, coached and was later an administrator at the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles club of the New South Wales Rugby League premiership...
and started his NSWRFL first grade career in 1966 aged eighteen. He was prodigiously talented and as a centre or five-eighth Fulton made an immediate impact. He earned State representatiave honours in 1967 and the following year became the youngest ever captain in Grand Final
Grand Final
Grand Final is a predominantly Australian sport term used to describe a match that decides a league champion.It originated in Victoria and South Australia and has become specifically significant Australian culture...
history when he led Manly in the 1968 decider against Souths
South Sydney Rabbitohs
The South Sydney Rabbitohs are an Australian professional rugby league football team based in Redfern, a suburb of South-central Sydney, New South Wales. They participate in the National Rugby League premiership and are one of nine existing teams from the state capital...
.
Fulton made 219 appearances for the Manly club between 1966 and 1976. He scored 520 points (129 tries
Try
A try is the major way of scoring points in rugby league and rugby union football. A try is scored by grounding the ball in the opposition's in-goal area...
, 10 goals
Field goal (rugby)
A drop goal, also referred to as a dropped goal or field goal, is a method of scoring points in rugby union and rugby league. A drop goal cannot be scored in open play by punting the ball, and instead must be scored by drop kicking the ball over the crossbar and between the uprights. After the...
and 56 field goals) – the club's record try tally until Steve Menzies went one better in 2006. Fulton won premierships with Manly in 1972 (also the League's top try-scorer this season), 1973 and 1976. In the 1973 bloodbath against Cronulla
Cronulla Sharks
The Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks are Australian professional Rugby league team based in Cronulla, in the Sutherland Shire, Southern Sydney, New South Wales...
he single-handedly took control of the game scoring two tries to take the side to victory.
At the end of the 1976 season Fulton caused a sensation in Sydney rugby league circles when he left Manly and signed a 3 year deal with the Eastern Suburbs
Sydney Roosters
The Sydney Roosters are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney. The club competes in the National Rugby League and is one of the oldest and most successful clubs in Australian rugby league history, having won twelve New South Wales Rugby League...
club.
Eastern Suburbs
Fulton played 56 matches for the Eastern Suburbs club, mainly at five-eighthPositions
Positions is a book by French philosopher Jacques Derrida, published in 1972. It consist of a collection of interviews. Derrida talks about his earlier works and their relationships. He said that his 1962 essay, Edmund Husserl's Origin of Geometry: An Introduction, already contained many elements...
. In his first season there Fulton was a member of the side that won the pre-season cup and was the club's leading try scorer. In 1978 he was a member of the Easts side that defeated St George in the mid-week cup final. In 1979 Fulton was appointed captain-coach at the Roosters. A chronic knee injury saw him retire after just eight games that year.
Representative career
Rugby League World Cup
The Rugby League World Cup is an international rugby league competition contested by members of the Rugby League International Federation . It has been held nearly once every 4 years on average since its inaugural tournament in France in 1954...
squad and played in the final at five-eighth in Australia's victory over France. Thereafter for the next eleven seasons he was a consistent national representative.
He toured New Zealand in 1971, was on the 1973 and 1978 Kangaroo Tour
Kangaroo Tour
Kangaroo Tour is the name given to Australian national rugby league team tours of Great Britain and France. The first Kangaroo Tour was in 1908. Traditionally, Kangaroo Tours took place every four years and involved a three-Test Ashes series against Great Britain and a number of tour matches...
s, played in home Ashes
Rugby League Ashes
The Ashes is the name given to the trophy awarded to the winner of a best-of-three series of rugby league football test series between Great Britain and Australia...
series against Great Britain in 1970 and 1974 and the home series against New Zealand in 1972 and 1978. He participated in Australian squads at four World cups – 1968, 1970, 1972 and 1975 and was the World Cup Man of the Series in 1970.
He was honoured with the Australian captaincy in the 2nd and 3rd Tests of the 1978 series against New Zealand and in all five Tests of the 1978 Kangaroo Tour. He captained his country to a total of 4 wins and 3 losses.
On both of his Kangaroo Tours Fulton was the leading try scorer – with 20 tries from 5 Tests and 9 tour matches in 1973 and 9 tries from 5 Tests and 10 tour matches in 1978.
All told he appeared in 16 representative matches for New South Wales
New South Wales Rugby League team
The New South Wales rugby league team has represented the Australian state of New South Wales in rugby league football since the sport's beginnings there in 1907. Administered by the New South Wales Rugby League, the team competes in the annual State of Origin series against arch-rivals, the...
. He represented Australia in 20 Test matches, 15 World Cup matches and 22 minor internationals whilst on tour.
The man and his playing style
His blinding acceleration, strength and reading of the play got him through gaps that others couldn't even imagine. A fiercely determined competitor, he would often resort to his own ingenuity and gamesmanship to turn a match – invariably it was successful. He was a keen and accurate exponent of the fieldgoal in the era when they were worth two points.He fierce competitiveness would also become evident during his decade long tenure as coach of the national side and in his expressed loyalty to the ARL
Australian Rugby League
The Australian Rugby League is the governing body for the sport of rugby league in Australia. It is made up of state bodies, including the New South Wales Rugby League and the Queensland Rugby League...
during the Super League war
Super League war
The Super League war is the common name given to the corporate dispute that was fought in and out of court during the mid-1990s between the Rupert Murdoch and News Corporation-backed Super League and the Kerry Packer and Optus Vision-backed Australian Rugby League organisations over broadcasting...
.
Coaching career
After retiring as a player at Easts Fulton became coach of the Roosters. His was one of the few clubs opposed to the State of OriginRugby League State of Origin
State of Origin is an annual best of three series of rugby league football matches contested by the Maroons and the Blues, who represent the Australian states of Queensland and New South Wales respectively...
concept when it first began and called it the "non-event of the century". At the end of his first season as coach he had taken Easts to the 1980 Grand Final where they were beaten by Canterbury
Canterbury Bulldogs
The Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in Belmore, a suburb in the Canterbury-Bankstown region of Sydney. They compete in the National Rugby League premiership, as well as New South Wales Rugby League junior competitions...
. He went on to coach the Roosters for two more seasons.
He returned to Manly as coach in 1983 and in that same year took them to a Grand Final against Parramatta
Parramatta Eels
The Parramatta Eels are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the Sydney suburb of Parramatta. The Parramatta District Rugby League Football Club was formed in 1947, with their First Grade side playing their first season in the New South Wales Rugby Football League...
where the club was unsuccessful for the second year running. In 1987 he guided the Paul Vautin
Paul Vautin
Paul Vautin , is an Australian sports television personality and former rugby league footballer and coach. He currently hosts the NRL Footy Show and provides commentary for the Nine Network's coverage of rugby league matches...
captained Sea-Eagles side to a premiership victory in the last Grand Final played at the Sydney Cricket Ground
Sydney Cricket Ground
The Sydney Cricket Ground is a sports stadium in Sydney in Australia. It is used for Australian football, Test cricket, One Day International cricket, some rugby league and rugby union matches and is the home ground for the New South Wales Blues cricket team and the Sydney Swans of the Australian...
becoming in the process the first Manly son to win premierships both as captain and as coach. Following the grand final victory he travelled with Manly to England for the 1987 World Club Challenge
1987 World Club Challenge
The 1987 World Club Challenge was only the second game of its kind to be played between Britain's and Australia's respective domestic rugby league champions...
against their champions, Wigan
Wigan Warriors
Wigan Warriors is an English rugby league club based in Wigan, Greater Manchester. The club's first team squad competes in the engage Super League and the team are the current Challenge Cup holders as of the 27th August 2011....
.
From 1989 Fulton took on the job as coach of the Australian national side. He guided the side in 39 Tests between 1989 and 1998 to 32 victories , 1 draw and 6 losses.
He presided over the national team during its transition to dominance when the Australian side clearly had players fitter and more skilled than those of Great Britain, France and New Zealand. Yet at times these contests were surprisingly close as Fulton-coached sides often snatched victory from the jaws of defeat in exciting final match series deciders. In three consecutive Ashes
Rugby League Ashes
The Ashes is the name given to the trophy awarded to the winner of a best-of-three series of rugby league football test series between Great Britain and Australia...
series (1990, 1992 and 1994) as well as the 1991 trans-Tasman series. Australia was stretched to a deciding Third Test.
Ironically so instinctive himself as a player, Fulton coached his sides to a low risk, structured and tightly controlled style of play. In this regard he was ahead of his time and ultimately he achieved a great measure of success. However on occasion his teams may have lacked the flair or imagination to take a game by the scruff of the neck and win it with a flash of brilliance.
In 1993 Fulton returned to Manly as coach and he guided the club the three successive Grand Finals from 1995. Fulton won his second premiership as a coach in 1996 when in their 50th season the Sea-Eagles beat St George 20–8 in a grinding but emphatic win.
Super League war
As national coach during the Super League warSuper League war
The Super League war is the common name given to the corporate dispute that was fought in and out of court during the mid-1990s between the Rupert Murdoch and News Corporation-backed Super League and the Kerry Packer and Optus Vision-backed Australian Rugby League organisations over broadcasting...
Fulton played a prime role along with NSW State coach Phil Gould
Phil Gould
Phil Gould is an Australian rugby league broadcaster, journalist, administrator and former player and coach. Since the 1990s he has had a prominent role in Channel 9's coverage of rugby league, as a commentator on their match-day coverage, and appears on The Sunday Footy Show and The Sunday Roast...
in signing players to stabilise the ARL
Australian Rugby League
The Australian Rugby League is the governing body for the sport of rugby league in Australia. It is made up of state bodies, including the New South Wales Rugby League and the Queensland Rugby League...
competition. Fulton as it happened, was also a longstanding and loyal friend of Kerry Packer
Kerry Packer
Kerry Francis Bullmore Packer, AC was an Australian media tycoon. The son of Sir Frank Packer and Gretel Bullmore, the Packer family company owned controlling interest in both the Nine television network and leading Australian publishing company Australian Consolidated Press, which were later...
who wholeheartedly backed the ARL and his own commercial interests and rights to broadcast the traditional game.
Selector
Since 1999, Fulton has been a selector of the New South WalesNew South Wales Rugby League team
The New South Wales rugby league team has represented the Australian state of New South Wales in rugby league football since the sport's beginnings there in 1907. Administered by the New South Wales Rugby League, the team competes in the annual State of Origin series against arch-rivals, the...
and Australian sides.
Commentator
As of 2007 Fulton is a member of the Continuous Call TeamContinuous Call Team
The Continuous Call Team is an Australian radio sports program, covering the news and live games of the National Rugby League. It is produced and broadcast by 2GB Sydney, and is relayed to stations in New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia and Papua New Guinea.The team have...
on Radio 2GB
2GB
2GB is a commercial radio station in Sydney, Australia broadcasting on 873 kHz, AM. It is one of Australia's most popular talk-back radio stations, and is the number one station in Sydney.-History:The station commenced broadcasting in August 1926...
with Ray Hadley
Ray Hadley
Raymond Morris Hadley OAM is an Australian talkback radio broadcaster. He presents 2GB Sydney's morning show, and leads the Continuous Call Team, a rugby league-based talkback radio panel program.-Early Life:...
, Steve Roach, Darryl Brohman
Darryl Brohman
Darryl Brohman is an Australian former rugby league footballer, commentator and media personality. Brohman is best known for his time playing for the Penrith Panthers and the Queensland rugby league team...
and Andrew Moore.
Bob Fulton enjoys a running battle with Darryl Brohman. Fulton doesn't like the fact that Brohman took legal action against Les Boyd. Fulton played in an era where, "what happened on the field, stayed on the field". During the mid-1980s though, the game of Rugby League was in transition, media attention was on the rise and the game needed to be cleaned up.
Accolades
In 1985 he was selected by the respected publication Rugby League WeekRugby League Week
Rugby League Week is the second highest selling Australian rugby league magazine, behind major competitor Big League...
as one of the initial four post-war "Immortals
The Immortals (rugby league)
A major Australian rugby league magazine Rugby League Week in 1981 selected an exclusive group of players dubbed "The Immortals". The group consisted of Clive Churchill, Bob Fulton, Reg Gasnier, and Johnny Raper...
" of the Australian game alongside Churchill
Clive Churchill
Clive Bernard Churchill AM was an Australian rugby league footballer and coach of the mid-20th century. An Australian international and New South Wales and Queensland interstate representative fullback, he played the majority of his club football with and later coached the South Sydney Rabbitohs...
, Raper
Johnny Raper
John Raper, MBE is an Australian former rugby league footballer and coach. He was a lock forward for the Australia national team. He had a record 33 test caps between 1959 and 1968 and played in 6 World Cup games between 1960 to 1968...
and Gasnier
Reg Gasnier
Reg Gasnier AM is an Australian former rugby league footballer and coach, regarded as one of the 20th century's finest players. He played in the centres for the St. George Dragons from 1959 to 1967...
. In 1994 Fulton was inducted as a Member of the Order of Australia
Order of Australia
The Order of Australia is an order of chivalry established on 14 February 1975 by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, "for the purpose of according recognition to Australian citizens and other persons for achievement or for meritorious service"...
"for service to rugby league football" and in 2000 he received the Australian Sports Medal
Australian Sports Medal
The Australian Sports Medal was an award given during 2000 to recognise achievements in Australian sport.Recipients of the award included competitors, coaches, sports scientists, office holders, and people who maintained sporting facilities and services. Over 18,000 Medals were...
. In 2002 he was inducted into the Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame
Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame
The Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame honors players who have shown exceptional skill at rugby league, all-time great coaches and referees, and other major contributors to the game who are Australian...
.
In February 2008, Fulton was named in the list of Australia's 100 Greatest Players (1908–2007) which was commissioned by the NRL
National Rugby League
The National Rugby League is the top league of professional rugby league football clubs in Australasia. The NRL's main competition, called the Telstra Premiership , is contested by sixteen teams, fifteen of which are based in Australia with one based in New Zealand...
and ARL
Australian Rugby League
The Australian Rugby League is the governing body for the sport of rugby league in Australia. It is made up of state bodies, including the New South Wales Rugby League and the Queensland Rugby League...
to celebrate the code's centenary year in Australia. Fulton went on to be named as an interchange player in Australian rugby league's Team of the Century
Australian Rugby League's Team of the Century
In late 2007, the Australian Rugby League and National Rugby League commissioned a college of 130 experts to select the 100 best rugby league players in the game's 100-year history in Australia...
. Announced on 17 April 2008, the team is the panel's majority choice for each of the thirteen starting positions and four interchange players. Respected rugby league commentator Roy Masters, believe he was left off the starting team due to his versatility, making it difficult to put him in just in one position.
In 2008 New South Wales announced their rugby league team of the century also, naming Fulton at five-eighth.
He was made a life member of the Sydney Cricket Ground
Sydney Cricket Ground
The Sydney Cricket Ground is a sports stadium in Sydney in Australia. It is used for Australian football, Test cricket, One Day International cricket, some rugby league and rugby union matches and is the home ground for the New South Wales Blues cricket team and the Sydney Swans of the Australian...
and a plaque in the Walk of Honour there commemorates his career. He is a Member of the Order of Australia
Order of Australia
The Order of Australia is an order of chivalry established on 14 February 1975 by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, "for the purpose of according recognition to Australian citizens and other persons for achievement or for meritorious service"...
(AM).
Sources
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(2004) Captaining the Kangaroos, New Holland, Sydney - Andrews, Malcolm (2006) The ABC of Rugby League Austn Broadcasting Corpn, Sydney
- Hadfield, Dave (23 October 1992) "Fulton plays honorary consul" The Independent (UK)