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{{Short description|Australia international rugby league footballer and coach (1947–2021)}}
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'''Robert Fulton''' {{post-nominals|country=AUS|size=100%|AM}} (1 December 1947 – 23 May 2021<ref name=death>{{cite web|date=24 May 2021|title=RIP, Bob Fulton: Legendary Immortal dies, aged 73
|url=https://www.nrl.com/news/2021/05/23/rip-bob-fulton-legendary-immortal-dies-aged-73/amp/|publisher=National Rugby League|access-date=24 May 2021}}</ref>), also nicknamed "'''Bozo'''",<ref>Walter, Brad (30 April 2008) [http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/news/country-pick-bozo-changa/2008/04/29/1209234862121.html "Country pick Bozo, Changa"] ''[[Brisbane Times]]''</ref> was an Australian international [[rugby league]] footballer, coach and later commentator.<ref name="Statistics at yesterdayshero.com.au"/><ref name="Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org"/> Fulton played, coached, selected for and has commentated on the game with great success at the highest levels and has been named amongst Australia's greatest rugby league players of the 20th century.<ref name="Controversy reigns as NRL releases top 100 players">{{cite web |url= http://www.livenews.com.au/Articles/2008/02/22/Controversy_reigns_as_NRL_releases_top_100_players |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080225164807/http://www.livenews.com.au/Articles/2008/02/22/Controversy_reigns_as_NRL_releases_top_100_players |url-status= dead |archive-date= 2008-02-25 |title= Controversy reigns as NRL releases top 100 players |publisher= livenews.com.au |author= Peter Cassidy |date= 2008-02-22 |access-date=1 January 2018}}</ref> As a player Fulton won three premierships with the [[Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles]] in the 1970s, the last as captain. He represented the [[Australia national rugby league team|Australian national side]] on thirty-five occasions, seven times as captain. He had a long coaching career at the first grade level, taking Manly to premiership victory in 1987 and 1996. He coached the Australian national team in thirty-nine Tests. He was a [[New South Wales Rugby League team|New South Wales State]] selector and a national selector. He was a radio commentator with [[2GB]] at the time of his death in 2021, aged 73. In 1981, he was selected as one of the initial four post-war "[[The Immortals (rugby league)|Immortals]]" of the Australian game and, in 2008, he was named in Australia's team of the century.

==Background==
Fulton was born in [[Stockton Heath]], a civil parish of [[Warrington]], in the English county of [[Cheshire]]. He moved to Australia with his family when he was four years old.

==Playing career==
At 18 years of age, Fulton made his senior football debut in the [[Illawarra Rugby League]] with [[Western Suburbs Red Devils|Western Suburbs]] in 1965 and went on to represent Country Seconds.

===Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles===
Fulton was signed to Sydney's [[Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles|Manly-Warringah]] by club secretary [[Ken Arthurson]] after being spotted by John Hobbs (Manly talent scout) and started his [[NSWRFL]] first grade career in 1966 aged 19.{{Citation needed|date=June 2016}} As a {{rlp|ce}} or {{rlp|fe}} Fulton made an immediate impact. He earned State representative honours in 1967 and the following year became the youngest ever captain in [[Grand final|Grand Final]] history when he led Manly in the 1968 decider against [[South Sydney Rabbitohs|Souths]].

Fulton made 219 appearances for the [[Manly Sea Eagles|Manly]] club between 1966 and 1976. He scored 520 points (129 [[Try (rugby)|tries]], 10 [[Field goal (rugby)|goals]] and 56 field goals) – the club's record try tally until [[Steve Menzies]] went one better in 2006. Fulton won premierships with Manly in [[NSWRFL season 1972|1972]] (also the League's top try-scorer this season), [[NSWRFL season 1973|1973]] and [[NSWRFL season 1976|1976]]. In the 1973 bloodbath against [[Cronulla Sharks|Cronulla]] he single-handedly took control of the game scoring two tries to take the side to victory.

At the end of the 1976 season Fulton caused a sensation in Sydney rugby league circles when he left Manly and signed a 3-year deal with the [[Sydney Roosters|Eastern Suburbs]] club. He left Manly holding the club record for most tries.<ref name="Club records">{{cite web|url=http://www.seaeagles.com.au/club-records|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120818114958/http://www.seaeagles.com.au/club-records|url-status=dead|archive-date=18 August 2012|title=Club records|publisher=seaeagles.com.au|date=18 August 2012|access-date=1 January 2013}}</ref>

===Warrington Wolves===
Following the [[1969 NSWRFL season]], Fulton accepted an offer to play a season with his 'home town' club [[Warrington Wolves|Warrington]] in the [[1969–70 Northern Rugby Football League season|1969–70 English season]]. Fulton played 16 games for Warrington, scoring 16 tries and kicking 1 field goal before returning to Australia and Manly for the 100% won that year[[1970 NSWRFL season|1970 season]].

===Eastern Suburbs Roosters===
Fulton played 56 matches for the Eastern Suburbs club, mainly at {{rlp|fe}}. In his first season there Fulton was a member of the side that won the pre-season cup and was the club's leading try scorer. In 1978 he was a member of the Easts side that defeated [[St George Dragons|St George]] in the mid-week cup final. In 1979, Fulton was appointed captain-coach at the Roosters. {{Citation needed|date=June 2016}} A chronic knee injury saw him retire after just eight games that year.

===Representative career===
Fulton made his international début for [[Australian Kangaroos|Australia]] in the [[1968 Rugby League World Cup|1968]] [[Rugby League World Cup]] and played in the [[1968 Rugby League World Cup final|World Cup final]] at the [[Sydney Cricket Ground]]. Playing as a {{rlp|fe}}, Fulton won his first of three World Cups when Australia defeated [[France national rugby league team|France]] 20–2.<ref name="1968 Rugby League World Cup final">{{cite web|url=http://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/matches/world-cup-1968/final/australia-vs-france.html|title=1968 Rugby League World Cup final|publisher=Rugby League Project|date=31 December 2017|access-date=1 January 2018}}</ref> In 1967, two NSW City v NSW Country fixtures were held to formline Kangaroo selections at seasons end. The main game in May outlined the majority of the NSW players penned for the squad, whilst the second game in September was played to give fringe NSW players a chance for final selection. Fulton had the distinction at only 19 years of age to Captain/Coach the September City side that lost to Country 16 -12. Whilst he was disappointed at missing out on the [[1967–68 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France|1967 Kangaroo Squad]] as 2nd string {{rlp|fe}} to Tony Branson from the Nowra Warriors, he did play for the next eleven seasons as a consistent national representative.

He toured New Zealand in 1971, was on the [[1973 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France|1973]] and [[1978 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France|1978]] [[Kangaroo Tour]]s, played in home [[Rugby League Ashes|Ashes]] series against Great Britain in 1970 and 1974 and the home series against New Zealand in 1972 and 1978. He participated in Australian squads at four World cups – 1968, [[1970 Rugby League World Cup|1970]] (including Australia's 12–7 [[1970 Rugby League World Cup final|World Cup final]] win over [[Great Britain Lions|Great Britain]] at [[Headingley Rugby Stadium|Headingley]]), [[1972 Rugby League World Cup|1972]] (including Australia's 10–all draw with Great Britain in the [[1972 Rugby League World Cup final|World Cup final]] in [[Lyon]], [[France]], though the Lions would win the tournament as they had finished on top of the ladder) and [[1975 Rugby League World Cup|1975]] (won by Australia). He was named as the World Cup Man of the Series in 1970. The same knee injury that would eventually force his retirement as a player in 1979 would keep him from Australia's winning [[1977 Rugby League World Cup]] squad.

He was honoured with the Australian captaincy in the 2nd and 3rd Tests of the 1978 series against New Zealand and in all five Tests of the [[1978 Kangaroo Tour]], though that included the 2–0 series loss to France at the end of the tour, the last time Australia would lose a series or tournament until the [[2005 Rugby League Tri-Nations]]. Fulton captained his country to a total of 4 wins and 3 losses.

On both of his Kangaroo Tours Fulton was the leading try scorer – with 20 tries from 5 Tests and 9 tour matches in 1973 and 9 tries from 5 Tests and 10 tour matches in 1978.

All told he appeared in 16 representative matches for [[New South Wales Rugby League team|New South Wales]]. He represented Australia in 20 Test matches, 15 World Cup matches and 22 minor internationals whilst on tour.

==Post playing==

===Coaching career===
After retiring as a player at Easts, Fulton became coach of the Roosters. His was one of the few clubs opposed to the [[rugby League State of Origin|State of Origin]] concept when it first began and he called it the "non-event of the century".<ref>{{cite book
| last = Gallaway
| first = Jack
| title = Origin: Rugby League's greatest contest 1980–2002
| publisher = [[University of Queensland]] Press
| year = 2003
| location = Australia
| pages = xi
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=3nDbsx3Hk7QC
| isbn = 978-0-7022-3383-8}}</ref> At the end of his first season as coach, he took Easts to the [[1980 NSWRFL season#Grand Final|1980 Grand Final]] where they were beaten by the [[Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs]]. He went on to coach the Roosters for two more seasons.

He returned to Manly as coach in [[1983 NSWRFL season|1983]] and in that same year took them to a Grand Final against the [[Parramatta Eels]] where the club was unsuccessful for the second year running. In [[1987 NSWRL season|1987]], he guided the [[Paul Vautin]]-captained Sea Eagles side to a premiership victory over the [[Canberra Raiders]] in the last Grand Final played at the [[Sydney Cricket Ground]], becoming in the process the first person at Manly to win premierships both as captain and as coach. Following the grand final victory, he travelled with Manly to England for the [[1987 World Club Challenge]] against their champions, [[Wigan Warriors|Wigan]], though Manly-Warringah were beaten in a tryless game 8–2.

In 1989, Fulton succeeded [[Don Furner]] as coach of the [[Australian Kangaroos|Australian national side]]. He guided the team in 39 Tests between 1989 and 1998 to 32 victories, one draw and six losses,<ref name="Bub Fulton – Australian coaching record">{{cite web|url=http://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/matches/Custom/NDctLS0tLS0tLS0tNjA0Ny0tLS0tLS0tLS0t|title=Bub Fulton – Australian coaching record|publisher=Rugby League Project|date=31 December 2017|access-date=1 January 2018}}</ref> including the successful [[1990 Kangaroo tour|1990]] and [[1994 Kangaroo tour|1994]] Kangaroo tours, as well as winning both the [[1989 – 1992 Rugby League World Cup|1992]] and [[1995 Rugby League World Cup|1995]] [[Rugby League World Cup|World Cup finals]].

In three consecutive three-Test [[Rugby League Ashes|Ashes]] series ([[1990 Rugby league Ashes series|1990]], [[1992 Rugby league Ashes series|1992]] and [[1994 Rugby league Ashes series|1994]]) as well as the [[1991 Trans-Tasman Test series]], the Australians were taken to a deciding Test and emerged victorious.

In [[1993 NSWRL season|1993]] Fulton returned to Manly as coach and he guided the club to three successive Grand Finals from [[1995 ARL season|1995]]. Fulton won his second and last premiership as a coach in [[1996 ARL season#Grand Final|1996]] when in their 50th season the Manly-Warringah club defeated St George 20–8 in a win at the [[Sydney Football Stadium (1988)|Sydney Football Stadium]].

===Super League war===
As national coach during the [[Super League war]] Fulton played a prime role along with NSW State coach [[Phil Gould (rugby league)|Phil Gould]] in signing players to stabilise the [[Australian Rugby League|ARL]] competition. Fulton was a longstanding and loyal friend of [[Kerry Packer]] who wholeheartedly backed the ARL and his own commercial interests and rights to broadcast the traditional game.

===Selector===
From 1999, Fulton was a selector of the [[New South Wales Rugby League team|New South Wales]] and Australian sides.<ref>{{cite news|author=Roy Masters|newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]|title=Blues' retro logic ideal challenge for Gaz|url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/league/blues-retro-logic-ideal-challenge-for-gaz/2006/07/04/1151778938936.html|access-date=5 May 2009|date=5 July 2006}}</ref>

===Commentator===
From 1997, Fulton was a member of the [[Continuous Call Team]], first on radio [[2UE]], and later on [[2GB]] with [[Ray Hadley]], [[Erin Molan]], [[Darryl Brohman]], [[Mark Levy (sportscaster)|Mark Levy]], [[David Morrow (sportscaster)|David Morrow]] and [[Mark Riddell]] .

===National service===
Fulton was conscripted into the Army in 1968 and allotted to artillery. He was effectively exempted from active service by being posted to the School of Artillery in Manly NSW as a Physical Training Instructor (PTI), enabling him to pursue his professional football career while fulfilling his national service obligation. He also spent time on HMAS Sydney taking the troops through PT during the voyage to South Vietnam.

==Accolades==
In 1981, he was selected by the publication ''[[Rugby League Week]]'' as one of the initial four post-war "[[The Immortals (rugby league)|Immortals]]" of the Australian game alongside [[Clive Churchill|Churchill]], [[Johnny Raper|Raper]] and [[Reg Gasnier|Gasnier]]. Fulton was also inducted into the [[Sport Australia Hall of Fame]] in 1985.<ref name="Bob Fulton AM">{{cite web|url=https://sahof.org.au/hall-of-fame-member/bob-fulton/|title=Bob Fulton|publisher=Sport Australia Hall of Fame|date=21 September 2013|access-date=25 September 2020}}</ref> In 1994 Fulton was inducted as a Member of the [[Order of Australia]] "for service to rugby league football" and in 2000 he received the [[Australian Sports Medal]]. In 2002 he was inducted into the [[Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame]].

In February 2008, Fulton was named in the list of Australia's [[List of Australian rugby league's 100 greatest players|''100 Greatest Players'']] (1908–2007) which was commissioned by the [[National Rugby League|NRL]] and [[Australian Rugby League|ARL]] to celebrate the code's centenary year in Australia.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=[[National Rugby League|NRL]] & [[Australian Rugby League|ARL]]|title=Centenary of Rugby League – The Players|url=http://www.centenaryofrugbyleague.com.au/site/the-players.aspx?cat=3&list=true|access-date=23 February 2008|date=23 February 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080226180521/http://www.centenaryofrugbyleague.com.au/site/the-players.aspx?cat=3&list=true|archive-date=26 February 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Peter Cassidy|publisher=Macquarie National News|title=Controversy reigns as NRL releases top 100 players|url=http://www.livenews.com.au/Articles/2008/02/22/Controversy_reigns_as_NRL_releases_top_100_players|access-date=23 February 2008|date=23 February 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080225164807/http://www.livenews.com.au/Articles/2008/02/22/Controversy_reigns_as_NRL_releases_top_100_players|archive-date=25 February 2008 }}</ref> Fulton went on to be named as an interchange player in Australian rugby league's ''[[Australian Rugby League's Team of the Century|Team of the Century]]''. Announced on 17 April 2008, the team is the panel's majority choice for each of the thirteen starting positions and four interchange players.<ref>{{cite news|author=Todd Balym|work=Fox Sports|location=Australia|title=Johns, Meninga among Immortals|url=http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,23557351-23214,00.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120907035412/http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,23557351-23214,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=7 September 2012|access-date=17 April 2008|date=17 April 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|publisher=[[National Rugby League|NRL]] & [[Australian Rugby League|ARL]]|title=Team of the Century Announced|url=http://www.centenaryofrugbyleague.com.au/site/news--reviews/media-releases/team-of-the-century-announced.aspx|access-date=17 April 2008|date=17 April 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100521122127/http://www.centenaryofrugbyleague.com.au/site/news--reviews/media-releases/team-of-the-century-announced.aspx|archive-date=21 May 2010}}</ref> Respected rugby league commentator [[Roy Masters (sport)|Roy Masters]], believes he was left off the starting team due to his versatility, making it difficult to put him in just in one position.

In 2008 New South Wales announced their rugby league team of the century also, naming Fulton as a {{rlp|fe}}.<ref>{{cite web
|last=ARL 
|title=Australian Rugby Football League 2008 Annual Report 
|page=30 
|publisher=Australian Rugby Football League Limited 
|year=2008 
|url=http://www.australianrugbyleague.com.au/files/11726_ARL_Annrep_1.pdf 
|access-date=19 July 2009 
|url-status=dead 
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120317182126/http://www.australianrugbyleague.com.au/files/11726_ARL_Annrep_1.pdf 
|archive-date=17 March 2012 
}}</ref>

He was made a life member of the [[Sydney Cricket Ground]] and a plaque in the Walk of Honour there commemorates his career. He was a member of the [[Order of Australia]] (AM).
 
Fulton is one of only two people to have gone on four [[Kangaroo Tour]]s. Fulton toured as a player in [[1973 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France|1973]] and [[1978 Kangaroo tour|1978]] and as team coach in [[1990 Kangaroo tour|1990]] and [[1994 Kangaroo tour|1994]]. The other is [[Mal Meninga]] who made four tours as a player on the unbeaten [[1982 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France|1982]] and [[1986 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France|1986]] tours and as the team captain under Fulton's coaching in both 1990 and 1994. He is also the only person to have captained and coached Kangaroos touring teams on separate tours.

==Personal life and death==
Fulton was married to Anne until his death. The couple had two sons and a daughter – [[Scott Fulton|Scott]], [[Brett Fulton|Brett]] and Kristie Fulton. Both sons also played first grade for Manly.

Fulton, aged 73, died of cancer on 23 May 2021 at [[St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney|St Vincent's Hospital]] in [[Darlinghurst, New South Wales|Darlinghurst, Sydney]]. A state funeral was offered by premier of New South Wales [[Gladys Berejiklian]].<ref name="Media releases">https://www.nsw.gov.au/media-releases/state-funeral-for-robert-bob-fulton-am NSW Government. 31 May 2021. Retrieved 14 July 2021.</ref>

He was laid to rest at St Mary's Cathedral in Sydney on 4 June 2021, with hundreds of Australian sporting and media personalities in attendance.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Sources==
*[[Alan Whiticker|Whiticker, Alan]] (2004) ''Captaining the Kangaroos'', New Holland, Sydney
* Andrews, Malcolm (2006) ''The ABC of Rugby League'' Austn Broadcasting Corpn, Sydney
*Hadfield, Dave (23 October 1992) [https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/rugby-league-fulton-plays-honorary-consul-dave-hadfield-on-the-man-from-mining-stock-in-warrington-who-became-a-leader-down-under-1558970.html "Fulton plays honorary consul"] ''The Independent'' (UK)

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20071005002132/http://www.eraofthebiff.com/p69a.html Bob Fulton at eraofthebiff.com]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120211125345/http://silvertails.net/ex-player-profiles/37-ex-player-profiles/3336 Bob Fulton 1966 to 1976 at Silvertails.net]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120224235428/http://www.totalrl.com/features/content.php?feat_id=289&featcat_id=32 Kangaroos beat Lions at Wilderspool]{{s-start}}
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{{succession box
| before = [[Greg Pierce]]<br>1978
| after = [[George Peponis]]<br>1979-1980
| title = Captain<br>{{flagicon|Australia}}<br>[[Australian national rugby league team#Captains|Australia]]
| years = 1978
}}
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| before = [[Graham Lowe]]<br>1990–1993
| after = [[Peter Sharp (rugby league)|Peter Sharp]]<br>1999
| title = Coach<br>{{leagueicon|manly|size=18}}<br>[[Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles]]
| years = 1993–1999
}}
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| before = [[Don Furner]]<br> 1986–1988
| after = [[Wayne Bennett (rugby league)|Wayne Bennett]]<br>1998
| title = Coach<br>{{flagicon|Australia}}<br>[[Australia national rugby league team|Australia]]
| years = 1989–1998
}} 
{{succession box
| before = [[Ray Ritchie]]<br>1981–1982
| after = [[Alan Thompson (rugby league)|Alan Thompson]]<br>1989
| title = Coach<br>{{leagueicon|manly|size=18}}<br>[[Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles]]
| years = 1983–1988
}}
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| before = [[Arthur Beetson]]<br>1977–1978
| after = [[Laurie Freier]]<br>1983–1984
| title = Coach<br>{{leagueicon|sydney roosters|size=18}}<br>[[Eastern Suburbs District RUFC|Eastern Suburbs]]
| years = 1979–1982
}}
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[[Category:English emigrants to Australia]]
[[Category:Manly Warringah Sea Eagles captains]]
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[[Category:Members of the Order of Australia]]
[[Category:New South Wales rugby league team players]]
[[Category:People from Stockton Heath]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Australian Sports Medal]]
[[Category:Rugby league centres]]
[[Category:Rugby league five-eighths]]
[[Category:Rugby league players from Cheshire]]
[[Category:Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductees]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from Warrington]]
[[Category:Sydney Roosters captains]]
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[[Category:Sydney Roosters players]]
[[Category:Warrington Wolves players]]
[[Category:20th-century Australian sportsmen]]