Randwick DRUFC
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| Full name | Randwick District Rugby Union Football Club | |
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| Nickname(s) | Galloping Greens, Wicks | |
| Founded | 1882 | |
| Location | Coogee, Sydney, Australia | |
| Ground | Coogee Oval (Capacity: 5,000) | |
| Coach | Stephen Hoiles | |
| Captain | Nick Wilkinson | |
| League | Shute Shield | |
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| Official website | ||
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Randwick District Rugby Union Football Club, also known as the Galloping Greens,[1] is an Australian rugby union club based in Randwick City Council, a Local Government Area in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney. The team competes in the Sydney premier grade rugby union competition. The club was formed in 1882.[2]
It has won 32 first grade premierships and six Australian club championships.[as of?] It is one of the traditional powerhouses of the Shute Shield competition, winning 14 titles from 1978 to 1996. Randwick's colours are myrtle green and the club's home ground is Coogee Oval.
In the 1980s the club produced many Australia national rugby union team members ("Wallabies"), including the Ella brothers. Its history has seen many of Australia's best players represent the club, including George Gregan, Rocky Elsom and David Campese. In all, 93 Randwick players have pulled on a Wallaby jersey, and nine have become national team captain.
Titles
[edit | edit source]- Premiership Titles: (29) 1930, 1934, 1938, 1940, 1948, 1959, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2023
- Australian Club Champions: (6) 1982, 1983, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1997
- Melrose Sevens: (1) 1990
International representatives
[edit | edit source]- Australia Herb Barker
- Australia Kurtley Beale
- Australia John Brass
- Australia David Campese
- Australia Ken Catchpole
- Australia Roy Cawsey
- Australia Mark Chisholm
- Australia Gary Ella
- Australia Glen Ella
- Australia Mark Ella
- Australia Rocky Elsom
- Australia Ted Fahey
- Australia Russell Fairfax
- Australia Owen Finegan
- Australia John Flett
- Australia Adam Freier
- Australia George Gregan
- Australia Phil Hawthorne
- Australia Stephen Hoiles
- Australia Peter Johnson
- Australia Phil Kearns
- Australia David Knox
- Australia Chris Latham
- Australia Ewen McKenzie
- Australia Bruce Malouf
- Australia Wally Meagher
- Australia Drew Mitchell
- Samoa Fosi Pala'amo
- Australia Simon Poidevin
- Australia Tony Daly
- Australia Jeff Sayle
- Australia Nick Shehadie
- Australia Gordon Stone
- Australia Dick Tooth
- Australia Cyril Towers
- Australia Morgan Freeman
- Australia Josh Valentine
- Australia Lloyd Walker
- Australia Warwick Waugh
- Australia Chris Whitaker
- Australia Col Windon
- Australia Matt Giteau
- Australia Ken Wright
- Australia Richard Thornett
- Australia Nick Cummins
- Australia Michael Cleary
- Australia Mac Ramsay
Representative coaches
[edit | edit source]- Australia Michael Cheika – Stade Français Paris head coach ('10–'12); Leinster coach ('05–'10); Petrarca Padova Coach ('99/'00); NSW Waratahs Coach ('13–'15); Australia Coach ('14–'19); Argentina Coach ('22–'present)
- Australia Bob Dwyer – former coach of Australia, NSW, the Leicester Tigers and Bristol
- Australia Gary Ella – Former NSW Assistant Coach; Former Australia A head coach; Former Leinster Coach
- Australia Glen Ella – Incumbent Fijian coach ('09- ); former Fijian Technical Advisor ('08–'09); Former Canadian Assistant Coach 2007, Australian Sevens Head Coach ('94–'95, '97, '99–'00, '05–'07), Australian Assistant coach ('94–'95, '00–'03), ACT Brumbies Technical Adviser ('98–'00) and England Assistant coach ('16- )
- Australia Owen Finegan – Incumbent Lineout Co-ordinator with the ACT Brumbies ('08-)
- Australia Alan Gaffney – Incumbent Ireland Backs Coach, Leinster Assistant Coach & part-time Saracens consultant; Former Director of Rugby at Saracens ('06/'07 – '07/'08); former Munster ('02/'03–'04/'05) and Leinster ('00/'01 – '01/'02) Head Coach; former NSW (1997–99) and Australia ('05) Assistant Coach
- Australia Eddie Jones – Coach of Suntory Sungoliath ('96 & '09-12); former Australian ('01–'05), ACT Brumbies ('98–'01), and Queensland Reds ('07) head coach; Springboks Technical Advisor 2007; former Director of Rugby at Saracens ('08–'09); Japan ('12–'15) head coach; England ('15–'21); Australia ('23–'present)
- Australia Ian Kennedy – former NSW and Australian U21 coach
- Australia David Knox – Former assistant Coach for Leinster ('05–'08), the ACT Brumbies ('96–'98), Petrarca Padova ('99/'00), and South Sydney in the National Rugby League ('03)
- Australia Tim Lane – Incumbent Georgian head coach ('08–'10); former Italian head coach; Australian Assistant coach ('98–'99); Springboks assistant coach ('01–'03); former head coach of Clermont Auvergne ('00–'01); the Johannesburg Cats ('03-?); Ricoh Black Rams ; CA Brive; and Toulon ('07-?)
- Australia Todd Louden – Head Coach of Ricoh Black Rams; Former attacking coach for NSW ('08) and the Bulls ('07); Randwick ('06); NSW Coach of the Year 2006
- Australia Ewen McKenzie – Head Coach of Australia ('13–'14); Queensland Reds coach ('09- 13); former Stade Français Paris head coach ('08–'09), NSW head coach ('04–'08) & Australian Assistant coach
- Jayson Brewer – Assistant Coach Fiji National Team (‘16-‘17) & ARU High Performance Coach, Sydney Rays National Rugby Championship – Forwards Coach, ('17), Randwick 1st Grade Defence and Senior Coach (2013-2016) Australian Barbarians Coach (2016)
Other personnel
[edit | edit source]- Statistician: Ray Jennings
- Historian & Archivist: Bob Outterside