About Tommy Bishop
Thomas Bishop is an English former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s and 1970s, and coached in the 1970s and 1980s. He played for Blackpool Borough, Barrow and St Helens in the English Championship, and the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in the New South Wales Rugby League competition in Australia. He also represented Great Britain on several occasions during his career, captaining them on two occasions, his position of choice was as a scrum-half. Bishop's first match as coach in 1970 provided a 23–13 win over Newtown at Endeavour, but the club lost their next seven consecutive matches. This meant Bishop would not return to playing for Cronulla until the first match of the 1973 season. In the 1972 season Cronulla won eight of 22 games and languished in the lower half of the table, which just shows how much of a key Bishop was to their side. The year 1973 saw Bishop's Cronulla side make the end of season play-offs for the first time in the club's history and they did it in style.
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