{"id":103449,"date":"2021-07-21T20:41:58","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T20:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=103449"},"modified":"2021-07-21T22:58:23","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T22:58:23","slug":"dragons-to-pay-respects-to-fallen-club-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=103449","title":{"rendered":"Dragons to pay respects to fallen club legend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" title=\"THE Dragons\">The Dragons<\/a> are mourning the death of one of the hard men of their legendary golden era in the 1950s and &#x27;60s.<\/p>\n<p>St George set records that will never be broken in winning 11 straight premierships, and tough Irish born forward Robin Gourley was a key man in their artillery.<\/p>\n<p>Gourley, who played in two of the victorious grand finals and won another in reserve grade, passed away earlier this week after a long battle with dementia at the age of 85.<\/p>\n<p>Gourley&#x27;s son Scott also became a Dragons favourite, playing over 100 games in the Big Red V in the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"aec504bb-53ef-417a-94c9-333735f1d31e\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/aec504bb-53ef-417a-94c9-333735f1d31e\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"219\" data-height=\"154\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Born in 1935 in Northern Ireland, Gourley played rugby union in his formative years before moving to the NSW country town of Wagga at the age of 23.<\/p>\n<p>He won selection for NSW from Wagga and was quickly snapped up by St George in 1963, serving his apprenticehip in the lower grades before playing a key role in the club&#x27;s 1965 and 1966 grand final wins.<\/p>\n<p>Dragons players are expected to wear black armbands this weekend as a mark of respect to one of their finest.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><strong><em>clicking here!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The Dragons are mourning the death of one of the hard men of their legendary golden era in the 1950s and &#x27;60s. St George set <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=103449\" title=\"Dragons to pay respects to fallen club legend\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103449"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103451,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103449\/revisions\/103451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}