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Roy Masters


Roy Masters coached first grade rugby league for ten years. He is St George's longest- serving coach and Western Suburbs Coach of the Century. An award-winning sports journalist, he has written for The Sydney Morning Herald for two decades. Roy is a member of a well-known literary and media family, his mother Olga being one of Australia's foremost novelists. An inaugural member of the Australian Sports Commission (1984), Roy still serves on the board, having initiated the program of modified sports for primary school children.
Roy is married to Elaine Canty and divides his time between Sydney and Melbourne.

Books by Roy Masters

Bad Boys

When do the football codes burn brightest? When the fireflies of controversy dance around them. They say best men are moulded out of faults, and, for the most, become much more the better, for being a little bad. Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

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