Darryl Brohman

Darryl Brohman

Personal information
Full name	Darryl Brohman
Nickname	The Big Marn[1]
Born	22 June 1956 (1956-06-22) (age 55) Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Playing information
Position	Prop Forward
Club
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
	Norths (Brisbane)
1979–1983	Penrith Panthers	71	10	7	0	46
1984–1985	Canterbury-Bankstown	23	0	0	0	0
1986–1987	Penrith Panthers	20	2	0	0	8
	Total	114	12	7	0	54
Representative
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
1983–1986	Queensland	2	0	0	0	0
Source: Rugby League Project and Yesterday's Hero

Darryl (The Big Marn) Brohman (born 22 June 1956) is an Australian former rugby league footballer, commentator and media personality. Brohman is best known for his time playing for the Penrith Panthers and the Queensland rugby league team. At present, he is working for 2GB on its Continuous Call Team broadcasts, on the Nine Networks's NRL Footy Show program and makes guest appearances on the Australian version of the ESPN show Pardon The Interruption.

Playing career

Brohman attended Wavell High School in Wavell Heights, one of Brisbane's northern suburbs, and completed his Senior year in 1973. While there, he played first grade for Norths in the Brisbane competition. He was awarded the Norths Player of the Year in 1976 and won Brisbane's Rothmans Medal as the best and fairest player, also in 1976.^[2]

He then moved to Sydney and played for the Penrith Panthers, from 1979 to 1983 (being the club's captain from 1982-83^[3]) and again from 1986 to 1987, and the Canterbury Bulldogs in 1984 and 1985. Brohman played two State of Origin matches for Queensland in 1983 and 1986.^[4][5]

In his Origin debut in the opening match of the 1983 series, Brohman had his jaw broken by an elbow tackle from Les Boyd, which saw him sidelined for the rest of the season.^[6] At the time, Brohman had been tipped to make his Test debut in the series against New Zealand starting two days later, and would have been the Panthers' first international had this eventuated. That honour later went to hooker Royce Simmons in 1986. Brohman returned to the playing field for the 1984 season with the Canterbury Bulldogs, where his skills as a talented ball-playing forward under the leadership of Steve Mortimer helped the club to their Grand Final win against the Parramatta Eels. His final match was for Penrith Panthers in the 1987 Reserve Grade Final. For the next two seasons, he turned his hand to coaching at the newly formed Brisbane Broncos in 1988 and Canterbury Bulldogs in 1989. Brohman's style resembled that of the 1960s where ball-playing forwards were far more commonplace. Strong and hard to tackle, with great touch and subtlety and an excellent understanding of tactics, Brohman was one of the game's best ball-playing forwards of the modern era, up there with Arthur Beetson. Rugby league "Immortal" Bob Fulton has described Brohman as one of the best players he has ever seen.

After he retired from playing, he took up coaching for two seasons. Firstly, he coached Brisbane's reserve grade side in 1988, before returning to Canterbury in 1989 to coach their reserve grade team.^[7]

In 2006, he was nominated as the one of front rowers in the 40th Anniversary Penrith Panthers "Team of Legends"^[8] but lost out to Terry Geary (8 seasons - 1969-76) and Tim Sheens (13 seasons - 1970-82).^[9]

Media career

Brohman has found his home in the media where he has worked for several radio stations across Sydney. Brohman's media career includes stints at 2KA, ABC Local Radio, 2UE, 2SM and once before at 2GB. He is currently a host on the Nine Network's The NRL Footy Show (since 2010). He has been part of the menswear chain Lowes's advertising campaigns, which also feature other retired Rugby League players.

References

1. ^ Rothfield, Phil (2010-08-01). "The Big Marn's brave face". The Daily Telegraph. http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/the-big-marns-brave-face/story-e6freuy9-1225899447551. Retrieved 2010-09-27. 
2. ^ "Club History and Awards". Norths Devils Rugby League Football Club. http://www.northsdevils.com/index.php?itemid=5. Retrieved 2007-01-07. 
3. ^ "Club Statistics - Penrith Panthers". rleague.com. http://rleague.com/db/club/penrith_panthers/stats.php. Retrieved 2007-02-11. 
4. ^ "Darryl Brohman's State of Origin appearances". Rugby League Project. http://rugbyleagueproject.com/matches/Custom/LS0tMi0tLS0tMTU1OC0tLS0=. Retrieved 2007-02-11. 
5. ^ "Darryl Brohman's State of Origin statistical breakdown". Rugby League Project. http://rugbyleagueproject.com/players/Darryl_Brohman.html. Retrieved 2007-02-11. 
6. ^ Gallaway, Jack (2003). Origin: Rugby league's greatest contest 1980 - 2002. University of Queensland Press. p. 41. ISBN 0702233838, 9780702233838. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3nDbsx3Hk7QC&printsec=frontcover. 
7. ^ "Player profile of Darryl Brohman". Canterbury Bulldogs. http://www.bulldogs.com.au/main.php?page=player&id=487. Retrieved 2008-07-20. 
8. ^ "Full list of nominees for Penrith Panthers Team of Legends". Penrith Panthers Rugby League Football Club. http://www.panthers.com.au/default.aspx?id=413. Retrieved 2007-02-11. 
9. ^ O'Neill, Matthew (2006-10-05). "Penrith's 40-year team announced and 2006 Panthers awards". Rleague.com. http://www.rleague.com/db/article.php?id=26761. Retrieved 2007-02-11. 

External links

• Darryl Brohman at the Internet Movie Database
• Darryl Brohman at the State of Origin official website.
• Darryl Brohman at the Rugby League Project
• Darryl Brohman at the Bulldogs

Persondata
Name	Brohman, Darryl
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	1956-06-22
Place of birth	Brisbane, Queensland
Date of death
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