Viv Thicknesse

His rugby league career was spent with the champion Eastern Suburbs sides of the 1930s and he represented Australia in that code in seven Tests.

He was a member of the Tricolours' champion teams of the 1930s and won consecutive premierships with the club in the NSWRL seasons of 1935, 1936 and 1937.

He represented New South Wales on eleven occasions between 1933 and 1936 and made his international debut for Australia on the 1933–34 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain where he appeared in two Tests and in sixteen minor matches.

[2] He formed a formidable representative halves pairing with Wests great Vic Hey and with his Easts clubmate Ernie Norman.

Viv Thicknesse maintained scrapbooks throughout his playing career, and a diary of the 1933–34 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain.

Thicknesse scores in 1933 for NSW v Qld