Count the cash...
Sydney Morning Herald, Tuesday November 22 1994
Image: Simon Wilkinson/SWpix
By STEVE MASCORD
THE AUSTRALIAN Rugby League will take home a booty of more than $2.8 million from the British leg of the Kangaroo tour.
Rugby Football League chief executive Maurice Lindsay said total Test crowds of 139,892 meant the tour made $8 million, to be split between the Leagues.
“And if I get my way, our share will go into junior development,” he said.
“The tour has been a great success and the Australians will go home with quite a lot of money.”
The Kangaroos’ 535 points in Britain make them the most prolific side since 1952 and give them the highest points-per-game average ever.
Winger Rod Wishart’s 130 points is just five short of the mark set by fellow Illawarra product Graeme Langlands 30 years ago, although the legendary Dave Brown scored 285 points in 1933.
• Great Britain lock Phil Clarke will announce his intentions for next season within the next two weeks.
“I’ve got to speak to a few people. At this stage I honestly don’t know what I’m doing,” he said.
Clarke has been strongly linked to a full-time contract at Eastern Suburbs - an eventuality Lindsay said would make him “heartily sick”.
Lindsay said that any British player who joined an Australian club full-time would not be selected for national duty, but he is under increasing pressure to change his mind.