About Michael O'Connor (rugby)
Michael David O'Connor (born 30 November 1960) is an Australian former rugby league and rugby union footballer who represented Australia in both codes. He played for the Wallabies in 13 Tests from 1979 to 1982 and then the Kangaroos in 17 Tests from 1985 to 1990. O'Connor played club football in the NSWRL Premiership for the St. George Dragons from 1983 until 1986, and later the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles from 1987 until his retirement at the end of 1992, becoming captain of Manly in 1990, as well as winning the 1987 Winfield Cup with the Sea Eagles. == Rugby union == Raised in Canberra, O'Connor attended Phillip College. He was selected and toured with the undefeated Australian Rugby Union Schoolboys tour of Europe and Japan in 1977-78 alongside the likes of the Ella brothers Mark, Glen and Gary, as well as Queenslanders Wally Lewis and Chris Roche. His club rugby career was with the Canberra Royals and then Brisbane club, Teachers-Norths. He was first selected for the Wallabies in 1979. With a number of those players, he was a young starter in the 1980 Wallaby side that won the Bledisloe Cup in Sydney in the 3rd and deciding game that year. O'Connor scored a try in this game, marking his ascendancy in representative rugby and coinciding with a rebirth of Australian rugby and the beginning of a golden period through to the Grand Slam achievement of 1984.
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