{"id":36502,"date":"2021-02-19T00:36:25","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T01:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=36502"},"modified":"2021-02-19T06:57:38","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T06:57:38","slug":"tigers-hall-of-fame-legend-dies-aged-76","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=36502","title":{"rendered":"Tigers Hall of Fame legend dies, aged 76"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John &#x27;Spook&#x27; Spencer &#8211; one of the heroes of the Balmain Tigers &#x27;Miracle of 1969&#x27; &#8211; has died.<\/p>\n<p>Spencer, aged 76, passed away after a long illness yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>A hard-working back-rower, Spencer was Balmain royalty.<\/p>\n<p>His father Jack was a club great in the 1940s and &#x27;50s, playing 149 games for the club.<\/p>\n<p>John went one better, playing 150. Both were one-club men, playing all their football for the black and golds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/9_Moley\/status\/1362500940637462528\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/9_Moley\/status\/1362500940637462528<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Spencer is best remembered for the 1969 grand final, in which the Tigers &#8211; rank outsiders &#8211; scored an upset 11-2 win over the star-studded South Sydney side.<\/p>\n<p>It remains the biggest boilover in grand final history.<\/p>\n<p>After leaving the Tigers in 1975, Spencer moved to Newcastle, where he captain-coached Waratah Mayfield before returning to Sydney to coach the Tigers in the lower grades.<\/p>\n<p>A former Balmain captain, he is also a member of the club&#x27;s Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here!\"><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>John &#x27;Spook&#x27; Spencer &#8211; one of the heroes of the Balmain Tigers &#x27;Miracle of 1969&#x27; &#8211; has died. Spencer, aged 76, passed away after a <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=36502\" title=\"Tigers Hall of Fame legend dies, aged 76\">[&#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\/36502"}],"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=36502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36503,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36502\/revisions\/36503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}