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<blockquote data-quote="The Jones Boy" data-source="post: 756896" data-attributes="member: 70721"><p>The great Mordt: As a player, he may be best known for scoring 3 tries against the All Blacks in the famous "flour bomb" Test at Eden Park in Auckland, New Zealand on 12 September 1981. South Africa lost the game 25–22. Ray Mordt played a total of 18 tests (plus 7 tour games[2]) for the Springboks, scoring 12 tries for a total of 48 points.</p><p>Mordt played Currie Cup rugby for Zimbabwe, Transvaal and Northern Transvaal and scored 35 career tries. As a coach Mordt has won the Currie Cup in 1994, coaching Transvaal.</p><p></p><p>During his rugby union playing career Mordt was nominated for the SA Rugby Young Player of the Year in 1978 and SA Rugby Player of the Year in 1981, 1983 and 1984.</p><p></p><p>Rugby league: Mordt was given a hard time by the rugby establishment in the Republic because he went on to a successful professional career in league, he was strong enough to cut it so good on him.</p><p>I can remember the All Black full back Joe Karam was vilified by the press in NZ when he made the change to League and left the AB's and went to League for a whopping $20,000 NZ dollars.</p><p>Haha sounds ridiculous now but back then it would have bought a house outright in NZ. </p><p>"Karam switched codes in 1975, signing a three-year deal with the Glenora Bears in the Auckland Rugby League competition $20,000 a year. Karam was horrified that players on the UK tour of 1971 got a pound a day as their living allowance while rugby officials "were flying around the world drinking champagne like it was going out of fashion". For players of "modest employment" slogging it out on the field for their country it meant that "their wife and children were starving back home".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Jones Boy, post: 756896, member: 70721"] The great Mordt: As a player, he may be best known for scoring 3 tries against the All Blacks in the famous "flour bomb" Test at Eden Park in Auckland, New Zealand on 12 September 1981. South Africa lost the game 25–22. Ray Mordt played a total of 18 tests (plus 7 tour games[2]) for the Springboks, scoring 12 tries for a total of 48 points. Mordt played Currie Cup rugby for Zimbabwe, Transvaal and Northern Transvaal and scored 35 career tries. As a coach Mordt has won the Currie Cup in 1994, coaching Transvaal. During his rugby union playing career Mordt was nominated for the SA Rugby Young Player of the Year in 1978 and SA Rugby Player of the Year in 1981, 1983 and 1984. Rugby league: Mordt was given a hard time by the rugby establishment in the Republic because he went on to a successful professional career in league, he was strong enough to cut it so good on him. I can remember the All Black full back Joe Karam was vilified by the press in NZ when he made the change to League and left the AB's and went to League for a whopping $20,000 NZ dollars. Haha sounds ridiculous now but back then it would have bought a house outright in NZ. "Karam switched codes in 1975, signing a three-year deal with the Glenora Bears in the Auckland Rugby League competition $20,000 a year. Karam was horrified that players on the UK tour of 1971 got a pound a day as their living allowance while rugby officials "were flying around the world drinking champagne like it was going out of fashion". For players of "modest employment" slogging it out on the field for their country it meant that "their wife and children were starving back home". [/QUOTE]
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