Jets

KOE NSW Cup Round 8 (Tommy Raudonikis Cup)

Saturday 26th Apr 2025

2pm

 LIDCOMBE OVAL

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Newtown halfback and captain Tom Raudonikis scores for the Jets early in the second half of the 1981 NSWRL first grade grand final.

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Newtown RLFC.
Newtown halfback and captain Tom Raudonikis scores for the Jets early in the second half of the 1981 NSWRL first grade grand final. Photo: Newtown RLFC.

The Newtown Jets bid Farewell to Tommy Raudonikis

The Newtown Rugby League Football Club mourns the passing of Tom Raudonikis, one of the great identities in the history of the rugby league game.

Tom made his senior rugby league debut with the RAAF club in Group 13 in southern NSW in 1968.

He was recruited by Western Suburbs from the Group 9 club Wagga Kangaroos and joined the Magpies in mid-1969. He played 202 games with Wests from 1969 to 1979, where he attained legendary status and regular representative honours.

John Singleton recruited him to the Newtown Jets in 1980, where he proved to be the perfect addition to the powerful Jets squad that Singleton and coach Warren Ryan were assembling.

Tom played with Newtown for three dramatic seasons from 1980 to 1982. Terry Rowney recalls that Raudonikis provided Newtown with inspired leadership and a never-say-die determination that transformed the Jets from being cellar-dwellers into nearly making the semi-finals in 1980, and then on a thrilling surge into the grand final against Parramatta in 1981.

He captained NSW in the inaugural State of Origin match played at Lang Park in July 1980.

Raudonikis moved to Queensland in 1983 where he coached in the Brisbane first grade competition for several seasons. He later coached Western Suburbs and NSW in the 1990s.

Tom played for NSW on 24 occasions and 20 times for Australia. He was a member of both the Western Suburbs and Newtown Teams of the Century.

He was made a member of the NRL Hall of Fame in 2008 and the NSWRL Hall of Fame in 2019.

Tom was an outstanding rugby league personality, the like of which the Newtown RLFC is unlikely to see again in a very long time.

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