Ray Downie, Date of Birth

    

Ray Downie

Australian rugby league player

Date of Birth: 06-Aug-1957

Profession: rugby league player

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Ray Downie

  • Raymond Allen (Ray) Downie (born 6 August 1957) is a former professional rugby league footballer who represented the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, Cronulla Sharks and the Newtown Jets in the late 1970s and the early 1980s.
  • His positions were lock and second row.
  • His junior club was Bankstown Sports. Ray Downie joined the Canterbury Bulldogs in 1977 as a second row forward and was a regular member of the Under 23 team.
  • Downie spent the next two years attending Goulburn Teaching College on a teaching scholarship. Downie returned in 1981 to become a regular member of the reserve grade team and received the opportunity to play first grade as a replacement.
  • He played in the reserve grade Preliminary Semi-Final against the St George Dragons. In 1982, he was a regular member of the reserve grade team and after playing Under 23s mid-season, returned from injury to finish the season in first grade. In 1983, Downie joined the Newtown Jets to play 14 first grade games.
  • In 1984, he joined the Cronulla Sharks to play two further games.

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