{"id":460352,"date":"2025-07-24T21:45:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T21:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=460352"},"modified":"2025-07-24T22:13:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T22:13:37","slug":"superstar-fullback-of-the-90s-found-dead-in-toowoomba-motel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=460352","title":{"rendered":"Superstar fullback of the &#039;90s found dead in Toowoomba motel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/rugby-league-1ti\" title=\"Rugby league\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rugby league<\/a> has been rocked by the death of Danny Peacock, one of the game&#x27;s star fullbacks of the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>A brilliant ball runner who played for Wests Magpies, the Gold Coast, South Queensland and Bradford Bulls in Super League, Peacock was only 57.<\/p>\n<p>He was found by staff in a Toowoomba motel where he was staying on Thursday after the break-up of his marriage earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"55583afd-4abe-4c5c-8de6-29ea01feed36\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/55583afd-4abe-4c5c-8de6-29ea01feed36\" alt=\"Danny Peacock in action for the Western Suburbs Magpies. \" data-width=\"2034\" data-height=\"1144\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Peacock burst onto the scene with the Magpies in 1988, establishing himself as a real danger man with his pace and acceleration.<\/p>\n<p>He switched to the Gold Coast in 1991, playing five seasons there before moving to the now-defunct South Queensland Crushers for a year in 1996.<\/p>\n<p>Peacock then finished his career with three seasons in the UK, where he was a favourite with the fans at Bradford.<\/p>\n<p>Former Wests teammate Allan Fallah said old Magpies have been devastated by the news.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Danny was a popular guy, quiet, but he had a wicked sense of humour and a killer smile,&quot; Fallah told Wide World of Sports.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We called him &#x27;Bird&#x27; at Wests.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He had a horrific injury against Parramatta, a dislocated hip, and it looked like that would end his career, but he came back from that.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Rugby league has been rocked by the death of Danny Peacock, one of the game&#x27;s star fullbacks of the 1990s. A brilliant ball runner who <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=460352\" title=\"Superstar fullback of the &#039;90s found dead in Toowoomba motel\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":460356,"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\/460352"}],"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=460352"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":460358,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460352\/revisions\/460358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/460356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=460352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=460352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=460352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}