Terry Regan

[Johnny Tobin]

Some of you oldies will remember Terry Regan.

He was a real favourite of mine.

I heard a funny story about him.

In Canberra he was driving home a bit worse for wear and he saw the booze bus up ahead.

He pulled over and took the lawnmower out of the back of the ute and started mowing the lawn of a house where he pulled up.

The owner came out and asked what he was doing.

He said that he was a bit pissed and wanted to mow the lawn until the cops left.

The bloke who owned the house happened to be a cop himself.

Our boy did not get away.

Is that a great story or what?

[Guest]

Bloody hell, he hasnt changed, I knew Terry in Griffith, back in the mid 70s, before he came to play in Sydney, he was a wild bastard.

[BUDDY]

I remember a game, I think at Henson Park and they were about to pack a scrum and he kicked the ball away about 20M-30M and the ref stopped the game and told him to go and get it. He did. Very funny at the time.

[Johnny Tobin]

Bloody hell, he hasnt changed, I knew Terry in Griffith, back in the mid 70s, before he came to play in Sydney, he was a wild bastard.

I think it was a while ago that it happened.

[Spirit of 66]

I remember a game at the Sydney Sports Ground where Regan went completely psycho. Had to be Roid Rage.

[Johnny Tobin]

I remember a game at the Sydney Sports Ground where Regan went completely psycho. Had to be Roid Rage.

I remember him getting knocked out in just about every game.

[Headless Chook]

I played against him in the early 90's. He was captain coach of Cobar at the time. I remember we played them at home and we scored a try. They kicked off and our fullback stepped straight past Terry and ran to halfway before linking with our half back who ran away to score. The next kick off the fullback ran towards him again and Regan absolutely pole-axed him! One of the best hits I've seen!

There is a story that the previous year, Cobar were in the GF against Wellington. Scores were locked up with about 3 mins to go and Cobar got a penalty about 35m out and near the touch line. Regan went to his goal kicker and asked him to take a kick, but the kicker refused, reckoned he couldn't get the distance. Regan looked right through him after he refused, muttered something under his breath about somebody being a piss-weak bastard and instead lined the kick up himself. He duly slotted it straight between the uprights, to give Cobar the lead. Unfortunately, teh story doesn't have a happy ending. Regan then dropped the ball from the kick off, Wello won the scrum and hoisted a bomb as the full time siren went and the rest as they say is history!

I had heard that story about the lawn mowing incident. In the version I heard, the guy came out the front and asked Terry what he was doing. When Terry told him that he was over the limit and wanted to mow the lawn until the coppers left, the homeowner opened his wallet, flashed his police badge and said 'In that case you better do out the back as well!'

There is another story about him at Canberra. They were preparing for a game one day, and Regan's put his head gear on and checked himself out in the mirror. He's then gone and got a pair of scissors and proceeded to cut the bits of hair poking out through the holes in his head gear. One of his team mates asked him what he was doing and he replied, 'Its a TV game today. I'm just making sure I look my best!' After the game he went and had a shower and after drying his hair, his team mates were pissing themselves laughing at him. They told him to go and check out his hair in the mirror. There he was, big clumps of hair gone where he had done his tidying up. He mucked around trying to come it into place to make it look better. When that didn't work, he did the only other thing he could think of. He put his head gear back on and went back to the club for a few beers!

[Guest]

Love these stories guys. Keep posting!!!

[Guest]

I remember a game at the Sydney Sports Ground where Regan went completely psycho. Had to be Roid Rage.

In 29 games for us he was sent off 3 times

[Guest]

Terry Regan is the character that Mathew Johns based Reg Reagan on.

Terry was a friend of Matty's father.

[Headless Chook]

Terry Regan is the character that Mathew Johns based Reg Reagan on.

Terry was a friend of Matty's father.

He was the CRL Player of the Year when playing at Cessnock with Joey's father as Captain Coach.

[Johnny Tobin]

Terry Regan is the character that Mathew Johns based Reg Reagan on.

Terry was a friend of Matty's father.

I saw on Winkepedia that he was actaully coached by their dad at Cessnock:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Regan

Edit: Headless beat me to it.

[Guest]

A wildman, a journeyman but a Roosters man (at least for 2 years)

[Tom Verlaine's Ghost]

One of the maddest bastards I ever saw play the game. I remember a match one day when he had some kind of seizure on the sideline. It was scary stuff.

Here he is, cover of RLW, in 1983:

http://i962.photobucket.com/albums/a...ur/rooster.jpg

[Guest]

One of the maddest bastards I ever saw play the game. I remember a match one day when he had some kind of seizure on the sideline. It was scary stuff.

Here he is, cover of RLW, in 1983:

http://i962.photobucket.com/albums/a...ur/rooster.jpg

He looks like something that should be in Zed's dungeon.



Zed's dead.