About Richard Cooke
Richard Cooke was an Australian rugby league player.
Richard Cooke is an Australian former rugby league player for the Penrith Panthers and Canberra Raiders.
A St Mary's junior, Cooke competed in the Jersey Flegg Cup with the Penrith Panthers and featured briefly in their first-grade side during the 1977 NSWRFL season, after which he left to join the Queanbeayan Blues.
Cooke was a foundation player for the Canberra Raiders in the 1982 NSWRFL season, making 16 first-grade appearances as a prop and second-rower.
After his season with the Raiders, Cooke moved to Perth and coached North Beach to a grand final, while earning Western Australian representative honours as captain.
Cooke returned to Canberra in 1985 to captain-coach the Woden Valley Rams.
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