Brett Le Man
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Career
While attending Cooparoo High School, Le Man played for the Australian Schoolboys team in 1979.The curly-haired back-rower played in the Brisbane Rugby League (BRL) for the Easts Tigers
Easts Tigers
The Eastern Suburbs Tigers are a rugby league club based at Langlands Park, which is in the suburb of Coorparoo in Brisbane, Australia. They competed in the Brisbane Rugby League from 1934 to 1996. From 1996 they have competed in the Queensland Cup. Their jersey is traditionally an all gold jersey...
and Brisbane Brothers, winning a first-grade premiership with both clubs (Easts 1983, Brothers 1987). Le Man went on to play for the Brisbane Broncos
Brisbane Broncos
The Brisbane Broncos are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the city of Brisbane, the capital of the state of Queensland. Founded in 1988, the Broncos play in Australasia's elite competition, the National Rugby League premiership. They have won six premierships and two...
between 1988 and 1991, notching up 38 games and scoring 9 tries. He scored the Broncos' first ever try in a premiership match. It was against Manly and he scored from the scraps of a Craig Grauf
Craig Grauf
-Career:Grauf, a talented halfback or five-eighth, started his first grade career in the Brisbane competition in 1986 for the Norths Devils when coach Greg Oliphant decided to give the then 18-year-old a shock call-up. Not only was he promoted to the top-grade, but he also became the BRL's youngest...
bomb.