Playing Career
Vital Statistics
- Born
- Saturday, 31st January, 1959
- Current Age
- 65 years and 99 days
Awards & Accolades
Known Family Links
- Brother
- Ron Sigsworth
Biography
Graded as a 16-year-old in 1976, Sigsworth went back to the Newtown juniors for two seasons before returning to the club's U’23s team. A capable utility player, Sigsworth was originally a five-eighth who settled into the fullback role. Coming back from a broken jaw injury in 1980 he had a memorable 1981 season debuting for NSW, making his sole Test appearance as a reserve against France and playing in the club’s grand final loss against P’matta. The following year Sigsworth was involved in an infamous in-goal bungle with winger Phillip Duke which resulted in Wally Lewis scoring the winning try in the second State of Origin match. At Manly in 1983, Sigsworth was the club's sole try-scorer in the grand final loss to P’matta (as a centre) and finished second runner up in 'Dally M' Player of the Year polling. He battled knee injuries during the remainder of his career but linked with former coach Warren Ryan at C’bury in the mid 1980s. In the 1986 grand final he became the first player in 24 years to be sent off when he caught Brett Kenny in a high, reflex tackle in the club's 4-2 loss to P’matta. Sigsworth was the assistant coach to Tom Raudonikis at Wests in the late 1990s and continued in this role under Wayne Pearce with the merged W’Tigers in 2000 until replaced by in-coming coach Terry Lamb.
- ALAN WHITICKER
Playing Career Statistics
All statistics shown in this section are based only on data available in the RLP database, and are not necessarily a complete and/or 100% accurate representation of a player's career. This information should be used as a guide only. If you see a question mark (?), it denotes that the figure is not available.
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Competitions | ||||||||||||||
Competition | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | ||||
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NSWRFL/NSWRL Premiership (NRL) | 175 | 50 | 49 | 2 | 268 | 87 | 83 | 5 | 49.71% | List | ||||
National Panasonic Cup | 21 | 10 | 18 | - | 67 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 61.90% | List | ||||
Craven Mild Cup | 10 | 3 | 18 | 1 | 46 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 50.00% | List | ||||
Tooheys Challenge Cup | 1 | - | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | ||||
Interstate Matches | 2 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
Tour Matches | Australia | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | |||
Test Series | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | ||||
State of Origin | 3 | - | 2 | - | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0.00% | List | ||||
NSWRFL/NSWRL Finals | 11 | 2 | 2 | - | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 54.55% | List | ||||
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Test Matches - By Team | ||||||||||||||
Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | |||
Australia | 1981 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | |||
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Australia - By Team | ||||||||||||||
Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | |||
NSW | 1981-83 | 3 | - | 2 | - | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0.00% | List | |||
NSW City Seconds | 1981 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | |||
NSW Firsts | 1981 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | |||
Overall | 1981-1983 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 50.00% | List | |||
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NSWRFL/NSWRL Premiership (NRL) - By Year | ||||||||||||||
Team | Season | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | |||
Newtown | NSWRFL 1977 | 15 | 4 | 10 | - | 32 | 1 | 14 | 0 | 6.67% | List | |||
Newtown | NSWRFL 1978 | 21 | 5 | 10 | - | 35 | 2 | 18 | 1 | 9.52% | List | |||
Newtown | NSWRFL 1979 | 17 | 6 | - | - | 18 | 5 | 12 | 0 | 29.41% | List | |||
Newtown | NSWRFL 1980 | 9 | 4 | 3 | - | 18 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 55.56% | List | |||
Newtown | NSWRFL 1981 | 25 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 38 | 16 | 7 | 2 | 64.00% | List | |||
Newtown | NSWRFL 1982 | 21 | 7 | 7 | - | 35 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 47.62% | List | |||
Manly | NSWRFL 1983 | 28 | 9 | 8 | - | 52 | 23 | 5 | 0 | 82.14% | List | |||
Manly | NSWRL 1984 | 6 | 3 | - | - | 12 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 50.00% | List | |||
Canterbury | NSWRL 1985 | 8 | 3 | - | - | 12 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 87.50% | List | |||
Canterbury | NSWRL 1986 | 16 | 1 | 2 | / | 4 | 50.00% | - | 8 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 62.50% | List |
Balmain | NSWRL 1987 | 9 | 2 | - | - | 8 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 55.56% | List | |||
NSWRFL/NSWRL Premiership (NRL) - By Team | ||||||||||||||
Team | Years | App | T | G | GK % | FG | Pts | W | L | D | Win % | |||
Newtown | 1977-82 | 108 | 32 | 39 | 2 | 176 | 39 | 64 | 5 | 36.11% | List | |||
Manly | 1983-84 | 34 | 12 | 8 | - | 64 | 26 | 8 | 0 | 76.47% | List | |||
Canterbury | 1985-86 | 24 | 4 | 2 | - | 20 | 17 | 7 | 0 | 70.83% | List | |||
Balmain | 1987 | 9 | 2 | - | - | 8 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 55.56% | List | |||
Overall | 1977-1987 | 175 | 50 | 49 | 2 | 268 | 87 | 83 | 5 | 49.71% | List |
Contributions:
Greg Fiveash, Andrew Ferguson, Shawn Dollin, Paul Carter, Rugby League Tables, Alan Katzmann, AJ Lucantonio, Steven Russo
Sources:
NSWRL Rugby League Yearbook 1987-88
Your Say
17/05/2012
Nickname was "What's-a-packet-of" (possibly inspired by one of the various tobacco manufacturers who provided financial backing for NSWRL during Sigsworth's era).
09/08/2012
In 1983 Sigsworth was the Rugby League Week player of the year.
11/08/2016
Nic name given to him by H.G and Roy ,also coached HULL to a English tile
07/09/2022
I played 5 games for NSW.
2 State games before Origin Series in 1981-Jets
1 Origin game in 1981-Newtown Jets
1 Origin game in 1982- Newtown Jets
1 Origin game in 1983-Manly Eagles.
Please adjust & Thanks Phil Sigsworth
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