My name is John C. Moriarty. I live in Cronulla, Australia. I created my first Wikipedia article in April 2016 and have been contributing to Rugby League articles on a consistent basis ever since.
online newspaper articles, where available. Coverage of women's international matches prior to the mid 2010's was inconsistent
library copies of Rugby League Week and Big League
Reached out and began consultation with
the New Zealand Rugby League
the Life with Lionessess project
2020 to 2022
NSW men's lower tier competitions
Compiled list of NSW Cup (Reserve Grade) grand finals: scores, runners-up, referee, winning captains & coaches, with links to match reports where available online.
Compiled list of Ron Massey Cup (Tier 3) grand finals: scores, runners-up, winning coaches, referee.
Compiled list of Sydney Shield (Tier 4) grand finals: scores, runners-up, referee, winning captains & coaches, with links to match reports where available online.
Compiled playing records of multiple lower tier clubs:
Created pages for the Great Britain tours to Australia and New Zealand in 1950 and 1954.
Addition of the touring squad table (player's name, age, club, matches, tries, points) to Australian team tour pages to New Zealand in 1953, 1961, 1965 and 1969.
Addition of the touring squad table to pages covering the Kangaroos tours to Great Britain and France in 1959-60, 1963-64 and 1967-68.
Use of
Trove digitised Rugby League News (1920-1973), various newspapers (to 1954), Canberra Times (to 1995).
library copies of E.E. Christensen's Official Rugby League Year Book
books on the history of Rugby League in various regions: Ipswich, Mackay, Maryborough, North Queensland.
library copies of match programs from Brisbane, Newcastle and Rockhampton.
Feature
Identified, where possible, the given names of players that represented country and regional teams against the visitors to Australia. The primary source — Christenen's Year Book — lists only an initial and surname.
2020 to 2021
Competitions in NSW Country and Regional areas
For Group 21 (Upper Hunter Valley) completed a table of grand finalists. Identification of most winning coaches, 1930 to 1954 and 1969 to present. Added a table listing winners of the preceding Rugby Union competition (1897-1919).
For Group 4 (Tamworth and neighbouring towns) expanded table of grand finalists, adding matches 1912-1999. Identification of most winning coaches, 1948 to 1954 and 1969 to present.
For Northern Rivers RRL added links to media reports of grand finals, 2005 to present. Added Ladies League tag grand finals.
For Group 2 (North Coast) filled in missing match scores and added links to media reports of grand finals, 2008 to present. Added minor premiers 1985-2011.
For Group 6 (Southern Highlands) added grand finals 1914-1945 with links to newspaper articles, 1914-1954, 2014 to present. Filled in missing scores and coaches in some years.
For Group 16 (Far South Coast and Southern Monaro) researched grand finalists prior to 2010, including prior to amalgamations in the early 1970s and local competitions prior to the mid-1950s.
For Canberra Rugby League added links to media reports of grand finals, 1932-1995, and 2005 to present.
For Illawarra Rugby League filled in missing runners-up and scores, added links to media reports of grand finals, 1911-54 (via Trove), some references 1955-1999 (via mircofilm) and 2912 to present (via websites). Added table listing Women's Open Premiership grand finals.
Added a Previous Teams section — a short summary of former clubs with their years of their existence.
Added a Teams in other competitions section — a quick account of clubs' ventures into Newcastle and Sydney competitions.
Current teams - Wanted to neatly and succinctly give readers an overview of the history of the clubs, so added a table showing seasons played and the number of First Grade premierships won.
My interests include travel, rugby league, Roman aqueducts, reading, perusing art galleries, cricket, castles, bushwalking, attending music festivals and gigs.
The subject of my first articles is the early history of Rugby League in Brisbane, Queensland. I chose this topic as there was scant detail available online, and there was an opportunity to make use of the National Library of Australia's Trove website, to access newspaper articles from the time. In the 1990's I helped research the history of my long-time cricket club, Narara-Wyoming. This involved scrolling through micro-film copies of the newspapers, so a lot of time was spent looking for articles. The search function with Trove is excellent, so one can get directly to an article.
The oldest surviving record of my cricket club is from 1898, which accounts for the latter part of my username. The first part is simply my name reversed, and also my nickname.
