Les Boyd
Australian rugby league footballer
Les Boyd (born 17 November 1956) is an Australian former rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s. He played representative football for the Australian national side in international matches as well as the New South Wales side in the State of Origin. Boyd played club football in both Australia and England and his usual position was in the second-row.
Biography
Boyd was born in Nyngan, New South Wales on 17 November 1956, and attended Nyngan High School. Whilst there he played for the Australian Schoolboys team in 1972 under his future Western Suburbs coach Roy Masters.
Professional playing career
From 1976 to 1984 Boyd played in the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership for the Western Suburbs Magpies, then the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles. His first season at Western Suburbs saw him play in a first grade team that went relatively unchanged for the next 4 years and establish themselves as a powerhouse of the competition. Boyd was an important part of the 1977 side which claimed the midweek knockout competition then followed that up the next year as minor premiers of 1978. Wests were controversially defeated in the semi final against Manly, who would go on to win the premiership while Boyd would leave Wests to join Manly two years later.
He was selected to go on the 1978 Kangaroo tour and his hard running saw him emerge as one of the star forwards on the tour, culminating with him forcing his way into the test team for the final two Ashes tests against Great Britain.
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