Roger Gould

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Roger Gould Biography

Roger Gould (born 4 April 1957) is a former rugby union football player, having played fullback for both the Australian Wallabies and the Queensland Reds. He first played for Queensland in 1978 and for Australia in 1980. His last match for Australia was in the 1987 World Cup. Gould’s career was limited by injury.

Surely one of the greatest punt-kickers in all of rugby history, thundering Roger Gould’s only weakness is an alarming proneness to injury. On successive tours of New Zealand and Argentina, he played only one and a half games. Fortunately Gould came through the 1984 British Isles tour with nothing worse than a broken nose. The Wallabies involved him in a vast amount of play, and he responded to be a Test hero. The Queenslander’s ability to make his spiraling kicks hand in the air until the men arrive on the catcher was a feature of the tour. And when Michael Lynagh lost his kicking touch, Gould responded with five goals from seven straight-on toe-kick attempts to help sink Wales.

There is not a player, in my opinion, since 1984 who approximates Mark Ella. The one player in my team – there are two – Lynagh did a phenomenal amount for us. But Roger Gould was also a freak. Mark was the creative freak in a way. Roger was the defensive (freak). For example, you are leading 10-9 in the Test and they’ve got the ball. We can organise ourselves to make the defence stand up, but what if they start roofing back? Who do you want there? Gould. Equally, you are down 10-9 and we’ve got a bit of football. Of all the players in the history of the game, who do you want? Ella.

In 2009 Gould was elected to the Queensland Sport Hall of Fame and added to the Queensland team of the century.

Former Australian dual-international Michael O’Connor in The Best of Both Worlds wrote of Gould that, ‘The fact is, Roger Gould is the best fullback I’ve ever played with. He would take the bomb ninety-nine times out of one hundred and he wouldn’t just take it, he would hurt people while he was doing it. Usually, you feel confident about creaming a fullback taking a high ball, but if you tried it with Roger, you would end up with six studs in your face. He was so strong and aggressive. He put his foot up and he just couldn’t be moved.’

Former Australian flanker Simon Poidevin in For Love Not Money wrote of Gould that, ‘I say emphatically here and now that Gould is the best fullback I’ve ever played with or against, and I’d never leave him out of any side for which he was available. As a fullback, he was without peer.’

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