11 Facts About Trevor Cogger

Trevor Cogger was born on 30 January 1961 and is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s.

Trevor Cogger played 160 first grade games in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership with the Magpies, the fifth most capped player for the club.

Trevor Cogger's call up was successful leading the team to a shock win.

Trevor Cogger was heralded as the "Meat Pie Hero" in the Sydney Sun newspaper the following day.

Trevor Cogger took X-rays and found that I had fractured my neck a couple of months earlier in England without even realising it.

Trevor Cogger played his 200th game for the club in the last game of 1987.

Also the last game for coach Steve Ghosn, Trevor Cogger played at fullback and scored a try in the victory over Balmain.

In 1992, Trevor Cogger played in the Wests reserve-grade team that played semi-final football.

Trevor Cogger was made a life member of the Western Suburbs club, and later was honoured as five-eighth in the club's Team of the Eighties and was inducted into the Magpies' Hall of Fame.

Trevor Cogger is a life member of the Berala Bears club.

Trevor Cogger remains actively involved in the game in both coaching juniors at Toukley, and playing oztag; including representing at a national level for the over-45s, in the same side as former team-mate Allan Fallah.