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The 1982 Kangaroo tour was the fifteenth Kangaroo tour where the Australian national rugby league team played a number of matches against British and French rugby league teams, in addition to the Test matches. The Australia national rugby league team have generally since 1908 barring wartime, toured Great Britain every four years often capping the tour with matches and Tests in France. This regular touring side (and in recent years all Australian representative sides) are known as the Kangaroos. The 1982 Kangaroos, coached by Frank Stanton dominated, winning both Test series against Great Britain (three Tests) and France (two Tests); winning every match of the tour and earning the nickname The Invincibles. This was the first Kangaroo undefeated touring side winning twenty-two matches played and scoring 1,005 points with 120 against at an average of 45.6 points per game while conceding only 5.4 points per game. The twenty-eight player squad was captained by Max Krilich, with Wally Lewis his deputy. The next Kangaroo Tour was staged in 1986. ==Touring party== The team was coached by the tough and single-minded Balmain Tigers coach Frank Stanton who demanded great discipline and focus from his sides and who was making his third tour and his second consecutive as coach after also coaching the successful 1978 Kangaroo tour. Manly-Warringah's Max Krilich was making his second Kangaroo tour and was named captain and carried out his duties coolly and with great application.〔Heads, Lester p309〕 Queensland captain Wally Lewis was named as tour vice-captain. Interviewed by Whiticker in 2004 Krilich said about the talented squad; ''"The players in that squad were yet to reach their full potential. We were criticised as a weak side, but nobody knew how great a player Wayne Pearce was going to be on the tour. Wally Lewis was still in his early 20s and many of the Queenslanders were in the early stages of their careers"''. He also spoke of Stanton (who was his Manly-Warringah club coach when he had won the 1976 and 1978 NSWRFL premierships, the second of which Krilich was captain of the Sea Eagles): ''"Frank was a mentally tough coach who totally believed in what he told his players. Great credit must go to Stanton who played down the accomplishment and kept our heads straight."'' 〔Whiticker p319〕 While the pair did not enjoy an easy relationship, mostly due to Stanton not being impressed with his attitude to training or habits on tour which actually caused him to put on weight, Wally Lewis also found respect for Stanton he had not previously experienced after making his test debut under him against France in 1981. After missing selection for the first Test in Hull in favour of Parramatta's 1982 premiership winning Brett Kenny, Stanton challenged Lewis to get back into shape and win his way back into the Test team, something he achieved with selection on the bench for the second Test in Wigan and the third Test in Leeds. Six players from the 1982 NSWRL premiership winning Parramatta Eels were selected in the squad, a new Kangaroo tour record for the club with all six players playing in at least one test each on the tour. Manly, the team they defeated in the inaugural Winfield Cup Grand Final, had seven players selected. One Manly player considered unlucky not to tour was their Queensland back rower Paul Vautin who had made his test debut earlier in the year against New Zealand and was one of Manly's best in their run to the Grand Final. His non-selection came as a shock to many and rumours started that he had missed out due to NSW vs Qld selection politics (ironically Vautin would be back into the test team for the first test against NZ in 1983). 1982 Brisbane premiers Wynnum-Manly had two players selected (Gene Miles and Rod Morris), while the team they defeated in the BRL Grand Final Souths Magpies were represented by Mal Meninga. Tour managers were the Newtown administrator Frank Farrington and Queenslander, T Drysdale. ''Open Rugby'' magazine claimed the Australians had brought "a new dimension of excitement and adventure" to the game and former England great Alex Murphy, who called each test for the BBC alongside Ray French, called then "men from another planet."〔 This was the first Kangaroo tour since the introduction of State of Origin and it allowed Queensland to counter New South Wales' long dominance in representative selection with a record-equalling eleven Queenslanders selected for the tour. This was a considerable increase on the Queensland representation in the 1978 Kangaroos when only three players were selected. Interestingly, two of those players, Kerry Boustead and Rod Morris, were also members of the 1982 Kangaroos. Despite it being a record number the selection of only 11 Queenslanders in the 28 man touring squad was controversial. A far more professional Queensland had won the 1982 State of Origin series despite being comparatively under prepared due to the NSWRFL refusing to release their Queensland players for pre-series training. Under pressure from strong Queensland defense N.S.W. had failed to complete 27 sets of six in the third and deciding match. In form second rower Paul Vautin was a notable omission. This seeming N.S.W. bias was also reflected in the test selections with Wally Lewis being left out of the first Ashes test, and placed on the interchange bench for the second and third. It is difficult to argue that this selection was motivated by anything but bias given Lewis' man of the match performance in the pressure filled deciding match of the 1982 State of Origin series. His benching in the third test was even more questionable after his outstanding performance in the second test. Other questionable selections included the favoring of Steve Rogers over Gene Miles. The giant Miles coming off the back of a dominant premiership winning BRL season, and the seemingly aging and slowing Rogers having a lack luster NSWRFL season. The N.S.W. front row all but clean swept test selection, Rohan Hancock's selection against P.N.G. being the lone Queensland test cap on tour. This despite the Queensland pack dominating for much of the State of Origin series that year. Future Kangaroos captain Mal Meninga, making the first of his record four consecutive Kangaroo Tours, was the leading point scorer on tour with 166 from 10 tries and 68 goals, including 48 points in the three Tests against Great Britain (2 tries, 21 goals), and 17 points in the two Tests against France (1 try, 7 goals). John Ribot was the leading try scorer on tour with 25 from just 14 games, including a try in the 3rd test against Great Britain. Ribot added 20 goals to his points tally to join Meninga as the only players on tour to score over 100 points. |- bgcolor="#CCCCFF" | Player | Club | Position(s) | Tests | Matches | Tries | Goals | F/Goals | Points |- |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Chris Anderson | Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs | | 0 | 12 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 24 |- |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Kerry Boustead | Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles | | 6 | 13 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 27 |- |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Les Boyd | Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles | | 3 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 |- |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Greg Brentnall | Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs | | 6 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 |- |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Ray Brown | Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles | | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |- |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Greg Conescu | Norths Devils (Qld) | | 0 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 |- |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Steve Ella | Parramatta Eels | | 0 | 13 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 65 |- |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Eric Grothe | Parramatta Eels | | 4 | 14 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 65 |- |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Rohan Hancock | Toowoomba Wattles (Qld) | | 1 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |- |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Brett Kenny | Parramatta Eels | | 6 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 18 |- |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Max Krilich (c) | Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles | | 6 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |- |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Wally Lewis (vc) | Fortitude Valley Diehards (Qld) | | 3 | 14 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 27 |- |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Paul McCabe | Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles | | 3 | 13 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 21 |- |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Don McKinnon | North Sydney Bears | | 0 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 11 |- |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Mal Meninga | Souths Logan Magpies (Qld) | | 6 | 14 | 10 | 68 | 0 | 166 |- |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Gene Miles | Wynnum-Manly Seagulls (Qld) | | 0 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |- |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Rod Morris | Wynnum-Manly Seagulls (Qld) | | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |- |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Steve Mortimer | Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs | | 0 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 20 |- |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | John Muggleton | Parramatta Eels | | 1 | 14 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 27 |- |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Mark Murray | Fortitude Valley Diehards (Qld) | | 0 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 14 |- |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Wayne Pearce | Balmain Tigers | | 5 | 13 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 15 |- |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Ray Price | Parramatta Eels | | 3 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 |- |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | John Ribot | Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles | | 2 | 14 | 25 | 20 | 0 | 115 |- |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Rod Reddy | St George Dragons | | 4 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 |- |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Steve Rogers | Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks | | 5 | 16 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 44 |- |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Ian Schubert | Eastern Suburbs Roosters | | 0 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 |- |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Peter Sterling | Parramatta Eels | | 5 | 12 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 24 |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Craig Young | St George Dragons | | 4 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |- 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1982 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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