Graham Eadie has been named amongst Australia's finest of the 20th century.
10 Facts About Graham Eadie
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Graham Eadie won four premierships with them and his 1,917 points in first grade and 2,070 points in all grades were both records at the time of his retirement.
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Graham Eadie won World Cups with Australia and collected awards such as the Rothmans Medal and Lance Todd Trophy.
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Graham Eadie was graded by Manly-Warringah in 1971 and showed immediate promise in the lower grades that season.
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Graham Eadie was selected to the Australian team for the 1973 Kangaroo tour and, after an injury to Kangaroos Captain-coach Graeme Langlands, took over as Test fullback for the final two Ashes tests against Great Britain, marking his debut at Headingley in Leeds by kicking 5 goals in windy conditions.
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In 1974, Graham Eadie won the Rothmans Medal as Sydney rugby league's best-and-fairest player, and at the end of the controversial 1978 finals series he produced one of the finest performances ever by a fullback in the Grand Final replay, "where he single-handedly destroyed Cronulla-Sutherland by scoring a try, setting up two others for Russell Gartner and kicking three goals and a field goal".
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Graham Eadie then went on to play in the inaugural State of Origin game at fullback for New South Wales in 1980, though he would miss the mid-season tour to New Zealand with the Australian team that year.
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Graham Eadie coached the Mullumbimby Giants in the Northern Rivers Regional Rugby League competition for the 2012 season.
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In 1990, Graham Eadie was selected at fullback when the club recognised its greatest ever players until that time.
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Graham Eadie's son, Brook Eadie, won a President's Cup premiership with the South Queensland Crushers in 1996, but plans for a top grade career were thwarted by the demise of that club due to the Super League war.