Australian RL coach and former rugby league footballer
John Dorahy
Personal information
Full name
John Kevin Dorahy
Born
(1954-08-28) 28 August 1954 (age 69) Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
Playing information
Height
183 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight
83 kg (13 st 1 lb)
Position
Fullback, Centre
Club
Years
Team
Pld
T
G
FG
P
1971–73
Wests (Illawarra)
1973
Leigh
1974–79
Western Suburbs
102
29
228
2
545
1980–81
Manly-Warringah
26
6
19
1
57
1982–85
Illawarra Steelers
74
14
204
5
463
1983–87
Hull Kingston Rovers
91
37
218
4
588
1987–89
North Sydney
37
6
102
3
231
1989–90
Halifax
23
2
8
0
24
Total
353
94
779
15
1908
Representative
Years
Team
Pld
T
G
FG
P
1972–88
Country Origin
3
2
7
0
20
1978
Australia
2
1
0
0
3
1979
New South Wales
2
0
6
0
12
Coaching information
Club
Years
Team
Gms
W
D
L
W%
1989–90
Halifax
1993–94
Wigan
43
35
0
8
81
1996–97
Warrington
30
15
0
15
50
Total
73
50
0
23
68
Source: [1][2][3][4]
Relatives
Dane Dorahy (son)
John Kevin Dorahy (born 28 August 1954), also known by the nickname of "Joe Cool", is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer and coach. He played in the Australian New South Wales Rugby League premiership and also represented for NSW Country, New South Wales Origin and Australia. Dorahy later played and coached in the English Championship, and coached in the Super League. He began his playing career at fullback and in later years moved into the centres. As coach of Wigan, he is one of a select few to have a guided his club to the league championship and Challenge Cup 'double'.
^Rugby League Project Coaches
^RLP
^NRL Stats [permanent dead link]
^Gary Lester, ed. (1983). The Sun Book of Rugby League - 1983. Sydney, New South Wales: John Fairfax Marketing. p. 44. ISBN 0-909558-83-3.
John Kevin Dorahy (born 28 August 1954), also known by the nickname of "Joe Cool", is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer and coach...
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many of the local leagues clubs. Their first captain was star fullback JohnDorahy, and first coach Allan Fitzgibbon. Unfortunately, the recession hit hard...
players as fullback JohnDorahy, half Tommy Raudonikis, five-eighth Graeme O'Grady, Gavin Miller, Ron Giteau, Les Boyd, prop John Donnelly and five-eighth...
dedicated the win at Old Trafford to the recently deceased former Leeds player John Holmes. He played for England in the 2009 Four Nations tournament. Sinfield...
3 million. By March 1994 Wigan's wage bill topped £2 million a year. JohnDorahy became coach for the 1993 season. Despite supervising Wigan through to...
town's coat of arms. To mark this change Warrington produced a new logo. JohnDorahy took over as coach and the new era started optimistically. Their first...
Archived from the original on 21 October 2017. Retrieved 21 October 2017. "JohnDorahy elected deputy lord mayor". Illawarra Mercury. 10 September 2012. Archived...
Park in Wigan by French referee Julian Rascagneres for kicking Lions Hooker John Dalgreen. In fairness to Rascagneres, he had called a penalty against Boyd...
(1982–84) Reg Bowden (1984–86) Tony Barrow (1986–88) Brian Johnson (1988–96) JohnDorahy (1996–97) Darryl Van de Velde (1997–2001) Steve Anderson (2001–02) David...
Dick 1980 Mal Aspey 1981 Len Casey 1982 Mick Burke 1983 Tony Myler 1984 JohnDorahy 1985 Harry Pinner 1986 Les Boyd 1987 Joe Lydon 1988 David Hulme 1989...
Colin Clarke/Alan McInnes (1984–86) Graham Lowe (1986–89) John Monie (1989–93; 1997–99) JohnDorahy (1993–94) Graeme West (1994–97) Eric Hughes (1997) Andy...
Telegraph Media Group Limited. 23 March 2005. Retrieved 30 June 2010. Whalley, John (23 November 2004). "Captain Farrell voted world's best player". The Telegraph...
Alan Hardisty (1989) JohnDorahy (1989–90) Peter Roe (1990–91) Roger Millward (1991–92) Mal Reilly (1993–94) Steve Simms (1994–96) John Pendlebury (1997–98)...
2017 Bruce McKenzie (Independent) − Port Stephens, announced 9 August 2017 John Davis (Independent) − Orange, announced 10 August 2017; not directly-elected...
Dick 1980 Mal Aspey 1981 Len Casey 1982 Mick Burke 1983 Tony Myler 1984 JohnDorahy 1985 Harry Pinner 1986 Les Boyd 1987 Joe Lydon 1988 David Hulme 1989...
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