Eric
Staff
Johnny Raper dead: Rugby league Immortal and St George Dragons legend passes away aged 82
Rugby league has lost one of its greatest ever players with Immortal and Dragons legend Johnny Raper passing away aged 82.“Chook” was a legendary player and coach, winning eight premierships in a row as part of the Dragons’s magical streak of 11.
St George great Raper fought a long battle with dimentia and spent the latter part of his life in a Sydney nursing home.
The rugby league community will come together to remember one of the greatest players in the game’s 114-year history.
He notched 33 Test caps and was named as one of the original Immortals.
Raper, Provan, Langlands, Gasnier all gone over the last 5 or so years. We need to new legends to step up from now. Of course we will never have such a large group within a generation again but need one every generation.