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{{BLP sources|date=April 2017}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2011}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2011}}
{{Use Australian English|date=September 2011}}
{{Use Australian English|date=September 2011}}
{{Infobox rugby league biography
{{Infobox rugby league biography
| name = Peter Tunks
| name = Peter Tunks
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| image = Peter Tunks.jpg
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1958|8|30|df=y}}
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1958|8|30|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Sydney, New South Wales]], Australia
| birth_place = [[Sydney]], [[New South Wales]], [[Australia]]
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| club1 = [[South Sydney Rabbitohs|South Sydney]]
| club1 = [[South Sydney Rabbitohs|South Sydney]]
| year1start = 1977
| year1start = 1977
| year1end = 83
| year1end = 83
| appearances1 = 98
| appearances1 = 98
| tries1 = 31
| tries1 = 27
| goals1 = 0
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| points1 = 86
| points1 = 86
| club2 = [[Canterbury Bulldogs]]
| club2 = [[Canterbury Bulldogs]]
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| year2start = 1984
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| year2end = 89
| appearances2 = 125
| appearances2 = 119
| tries2 = 17
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| points2 = 60
| points2 = 60
| club3 = [[Leeds Rhinos|Leeds]]
| club3 = [[Leeds Rhinos|Leeds]]
| year3start = 1987
| year3start = 1987
| year3end = 88
| year3end = 88
| appearances3 = 25
| appearances3 = 25
| tries3 = 7
| tries3 = 7
| goals3 = 0
| goals3 = 0
| fieldgoals3 = 0
| fieldgoals3 = 0
| points3 = 8
| points3 = 8
| club4 = [[Penrith Panthers]]
| club4 = [[Penrith Panthers]]
| year4start = 1990
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| points4 = 0
| club5 = [[Sheffield Eagles]]
| club5 = [[Sheffield Eagles]]
| year5start = 1990
| year5start = 1990
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| year5end = 91
| appearances = 16
| appearances = 16
| goals5 = 0
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| points5 = 4
|teamA = [[New South Wales rugby league team|New South Wales]]
|teamA = [[New South Wales rugby league team|New South Wales]]
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|teamB = [[New South Wales City rugby league team|NSW City Origin]]
|teamB = [[New South Wales City rugby league team|NSW City Origin]]
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|yearBend = 89
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|teamC = [[Australia national rugby league team|Australia]]
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|coachyear1start = 1993
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| new = yes
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| retired = yes
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| source = <ref>[http://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/players/peter-tunks/summary.html Rugby League Project playing]</ref><ref>[http://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/coaches/peter-tunks/summary.html Rugby League Project coaching]</ref>
| source = <ref>[http://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/players/peter-tunks/summary.html Rugby League Project playing]</ref><ref>[http://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/coaches/peter-tunks/summary.html Rugby League Project coaching]</ref>
| updated = 20 April 2017
| updated = 20 April 2017
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Tunks is a product of [[Marcellin College Randwick]]. Regarded as one of the best rugby league players to come out of this school, Tunks also represented NSW at rugby union as a schoolboy in 1976.
Tunks is a product of [[Marcellin College Randwick]]. Regarded as one of the best rugby league players to come out of this school, Tunks also represented NSW at rugby union as a schoolboy in 1976.


Graded with Souths in 1977, Tunks made his début that year as a front row forward at eighteen years of age. Tunks narrowly missed selection for the [[1978 Kangaroo tour]] when he was voted one of the top rookies of the year. In the off season Tunks contracted glandular fever, hepatitis and a kidney disease and missed part of the 1979 season.
Graded with Souths in 1977, Tunks made his debut that year as a front row forward at eighteen years of age. Tunks narrowly missed selection for the [[1978 Kangaroo tour]] when he was voted one of the top rookies of the year. In the off season Tunks contracted glandular fever, hepatitis and a kidney disease and missed part of the 1979 season.


Tunks made his State of Origin début in 1981, the same year he led South Sydney to victory in the Panasonic Cup, scoring the winning try. In 1982 Tunks was told he would be touring with the Kangaroos but was not taken due to off field indiscretions.
Tunks made his State of Origin début in 1981, the same year he led South Sydney to victory in the Panasonic Cup, scoring the winning try. In 1982 Tunks was told he would be touring with the Kangaroos but was not taken due to off field indiscretions.

Revision as of 11:47, 7 March 2019

Peter Tunks
Personal information
Born (1958-08-30) 30 August 1958 (age 66)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Playing information
Height192 cm (6 ft 4 in)
Weight108 kg (17 st 0 lb)
PositionProp, Second-row, Lock
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1977–83 South Sydney 98 27 0 0 86
1984–89 Canterbury Bulldogs 119 17 0 0 60
1987–88 Leeds 25 7 0 0 8
1990 Penrith Panthers 12 0 0 0 0
1990–91 Sheffield Eagles 0 0 4
Total 254 51 0 0 158
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1984–87 New South Wales 9 1 0 0 4
1985–89 NSW City Origin 5 0 0 0 0
1985–87 Australia 10 0 0 0 0
Coaching information
Club
Years Team Gms W D L W%
1993 Oldham
Source: [1][2]

Peter Tunks (born 30 August 1958 in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer for the South Sydney Rabbitohs, Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, Penrith Panthers, New South Wales, and the Australian national side. After that he played with a number of clubs in England.

Tunks finished in the top eight at the Rothmans Medal six times in his career, and was also voted the best prop in world rugby league twice in the 80s.

Tunks is a product of Marcellin College Randwick. Regarded as one of the best rugby league players to come out of this school, Tunks also represented NSW at rugby union as a schoolboy in 1976.

Graded with Souths in 1977, Tunks made his debut that year as a front row forward at eighteen years of age. Tunks narrowly missed selection for the 1978 Kangaroo tour when he was voted one of the top rookies of the year. In the off season Tunks contracted glandular fever, hepatitis and a kidney disease and missed part of the 1979 season.

Tunks made his State of Origin début in 1981, the same year he led South Sydney to victory in the Panasonic Cup, scoring the winning try. In 1982 Tunks was told he would be touring with the Kangaroos but was not taken due to off field indiscretions.

In 1984 Tunks left Souths and went to the Bulldogs where Warren Ryan built a team around Tunks and Peter Kelly as prop forwards to create a style of play known as “Wozzaball”, with the team nicknamed “The Enforcers” due to the power of their defence, which at the end of the 1984 season conceded just a solitary penalty goal in almost four complete games. With both the Rabbitohs and Bulldogs, Tunks would frequently run wide of the ruck, so that his try tally was unusually large for a front row forward.

Tunks played in four grand finals in five seasons for the Bulldogs, winning three. He toured New Zealand in 1985 with the Kangaroos and was voted player of the tour ahead of Wally Lewis, Mal Meninga, Peter Sterling and others. In 1986, Tunks refused to tour with the Kangaroos and he also refused to make himself available for the 1988 World Cup Final against New Zealand the week after he captained the Bulldogs to the premiership.

Tunks played ten State of Origin games but was selected in sixteen – missing some games due to injury. Tunks played Origin in 1985 when NSW won it for the first time and then played all 3 games in 1986 when NSW won the series 3–nil for the first time in Origin history.

Tunks played left-prop, i.e. number 8, in Leeds' 14-15 defeat by St. Helens in the 1987–88 John Player Special Trophy Final during the 1987–88 season at Central Park, Wigan on Saturday 9 January 1988.

In 1990, Tunks followed Phil Gould to Penrith but caught glandular fever and retired halfway through the season. He went to England where he had a successful coaching stint for three seasons with Oldham was then appointed Chief Executive at Wakefield Trinity and then Managing Director at Hull FC.

Career

References

  1. ^ Rugby League Project playing
  2. ^ Rugby League Project coaching

Sources

  • Encyclopedia of Rugby League Players, Canterbury-Bankstown edition by Alan Whiticker & Glen Hudson
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