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Article: Rugby League: Fulton at the fulcrum
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 2, 1994
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IT IS no great encouragement to Great Britain's rugby league
team to say that the Kangaroo tour party, who play their opening
match against Cumbria at Workington this afternoon, is built in the
image of its coach.
Bob Fulton, despite being born in England, is the epitome of the
driven Australian professional and as such has played a pivotal
role in making their game what it is today. When the recently
departed Britain coach Malcolm Reilly went to Australia to play for
Manly in 1970, he was immediately struck by something in the
approach and attitude of the sandy-haired stand-off sharing the
same changing room that he had never seen in a player before.
The intensity and the obsessive ...