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Popular rugby league identity Peter Mulholland has passed away following a long battle with cancer.
Mulholland worked in rugby league for 50 years as a player, coach and talent scout, and at the time of his death, was employed as the Canberra Raiders’ recruitment and high performance director.
Legendary rugby league coach Wayne Bennett will lead the South Sydney Rabbitohs in the NRL grand final this weekend against the Penrith Panthers. It will be his 10th NRL/NSWRL grand final appearance as coach.
His first was with the Canberra Raiders in 1987, in his only season at the club, in which he took it to its first grand final.
The impact Bennett made in those 12 months effectively set the template for the Raiders in the successful years that followed. Prior to this, Canberra had finished the 1986 season towards the bottom of the ladder in 11th place, with 15 losses.
Canberra coach Ricky Stuart believes rugby league is a “lesser” game without Peter Mulholland after the famed recruitment guru lost a three-year battle with cancer.
The news Mulholland had died on Thursday sent the rugby league world into mourning. The 68-year-old was the Raiders recruitment and high-performance director.