"stadium hosted the first leg of the 2014 AFC Champions League Final between Western Sydney Wanderers and Saudi Arabian side Al-Hilal. Parramatta Stadium has been used for various rugby league matches such as pre-season Sevens tournaments in 1989 and 1990, and a test match against France in 1994. Parramatta Eels is the main Rugby League team to use this stadium as their home-ground usage in the NRL premiership season. They have been here since 1986. In 1995 and 1996, the ground was also used for the short-lived Sydney Tigers, what became of Balmain Tigers. In 1997 the Sydney Tigers went"
"Peter Frilingos, a Sydney rugby league journalist, suggested that the club should be known as the ""Eels"". This reasoning was based on the name of the Parramatta, anglicised from the Aboriginal dialect ""Barramattagal"" meaning ""place where the Eels dwell"". After this, the team was commonly called ""The Eels"" and it became an official nickname in the late 1970s. As a result, the club’s crest was changed in 1980, to a design featuring an eel. This crest remained, despite several changes in jersey design, until a new eel logo was introduced in 2000. In 2004, the club mascot featured on the"
"Pittwater Park Pittwater Park is a rugby stadium in Warriewood, New South Wales, Australia. It is located 500 metres from North Narrabeen beach within the reserve of the area. The park is more colloquially known as Rat Park being named after the Warringah Rugby Club whose official mascot is a rat. The ground was established in 1971, over the years, basic facilities have been added, such as the 1,500-seat grandstand, clubhouse, and training field. Lights have also been installed on the main field. It is mainly used for rugby union and has been the home ground of the Warringah Rugby"
"Club since 1975. The stadium has a capacity of 10,000. Pittwater Park Pittwater Park is a rugby stadium in Warriewood, New South Wales, Australia. It is located 500 metres from North Narrabeen beach within the reserve of the area. The park is more colloquially known as Rat Park being named after the Warringah Rugby Club whose official mascot is a rat. The ground was established in 1971, over the years, basic facilities have been added, such as the 1,500-seat grandstand, clubhouse, and training field. Lights have also been installed on the main field. It is mainly used for rugby union"
"banks of the Parramatta River. This crest was used by the Club until the 1970s when a more stylised version showing only the hunter, and the club’s name on a scroll, was used. This crest is still used in 2006 by the Parramatta District Junior Rugby League Football Club. In 2009, the Parramatta Eels announced they were returning to their original 1980s club emblem in the 2011 season with the numbers 1947 added, this being the year of conception of the Eels. When a Parramatta District Club was first proposed in 1936, the colours put forward to the New South"
"established in the area in 1908. Manly Warringah chose the sea eagle – the native bird of prey on the Sydney coastline – as its emblem. The club's first jersey was maroon with a large white 'V' on the front. Manly-Warringah teams were one of the first to feature an emblem, with an 'MW' appearing in the early 1950s. Far from the flashy logos worn today, the Manly 'Sea Eagle' has appeared on all jerseys since the mid-1950s. Various changes to the jersey were introduced at irregular intervals. The classic 'V' design was radically changed in the late 1960s when"
"Jacob Gagan Jacob Gagan (born 25 March 1993) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who currently plays for the South Sydney Rabbitohs in the National Rugby League. He plays at and . He previously played for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks and Newcastle Knights. Born in Westmead, New South Wales, Gagan played his junior rugby league for the Cabramatta Two Blues, before being signed by the Parramatta Eels. From 2010 to 2012, Gagan played for the Parramatta Eels' NYC team. In 2010, he played for the Australian Schoolboys. In 2013, he joined the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles on a 1-year contract."
"Parramatta Two Blues Parramatta Two Blues Rugby is a rugby union club based in Parramatta, the second CBD of Sydney, Australia. The club was formed in 1879 and competes in the Shute Shield run by the New South Wales Rugby Union. One of the oldest clubs in the Sydney Premier Rugby competition the club has produced nineteen Wallabies over the years, starting with the great Bill Cerutti in 1936 through to the club's current, Tatafu Polota-Nau. To date Parramatta has played in eight First grade grand finals. Parramatta Two Blues Rugby Club has enjoyed 130 years of top grade rugby"
"Reggie the Rabbit Reggie the Rabbit is the mascot of the South Sydney Rabbitohs. The rabbit took lifesize form in 1968 when celebrity fan Don Lane brought back a suit from the US in time for the 1968 grand final against Manly Warringah Sea Eagles, won by the Bunnies 13–9. Perhaps the most notable of the early Reggies was the club's groundsman Reg Fridd. Standing just over four feet tall, the Rabbitohs lured the diminutive Kiwi from a touring production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, the same troupe that had yielded the second Reggie, Roscoe Bova, killed in"
"opted to revert to the previous logo but tweaked it slightly to focus on the sea eagle itself and include Warringah in the club's name again. They also returned to their original colours however a darker shade of maroon and white, a symbol of their roots steming back from 1947. This logo has been in use since then. The Sea Eagles have donned commemorative logos every decade since their 50th in 1996 and continued to do so for their 60th in 2006; and 70th in 2016 to mark their respective anniversaries of inclusion in the competition. Manly Warringah Rugby League"
"from the NRL, Anth Courtney was Reggie Rabbit appearing at the second Town Hall rally and at games at Redfern Oval as well as being active in travelling extensively around the state to attend fundraisers as Reggie Rabbit. Reggie the Rabbit Reggie the Rabbit is the mascot of the South Sydney Rabbitohs. The rabbit took lifesize form in 1968 when celebrity fan Don Lane brought back a suit from the US in time for the 1968 grand final against Manly Warringah Sea Eagles, won by the Bunnies 13–9. Perhaps the most notable of the early Reggies was the club's groundsman"
"uniform design when placed in the same league as another club (Claremont Magpies) with the same emblem. In New Zealand, the Hawke's Bay Rugby Union team, from Napier, New Zealand, is also known as the magpies. One of the best-known New Zealand poems is ""The Magpies"" by Denis Glover, with its refrain ""Quardle oodle ardle wardle doodle"", imitating the sound of the bird – and the popular New Zealand comic ""Footrot Flats"" features a magpie character by the name of Pew. An online poll conducted by ""Guardian Australia"" and BirdLife Australia was held in late 2017 to choose the ""Australian"
"on a stylised emerald green and white rugby ball, outlined in navy blue. The only change from the original logo has been the name prefix moving from Central Coast to North Harbour and, as of 2016, Sydney. The team plays in a harlequin-style quartered strip composed of blue, red, green, gold and black colours from the four constituent clubs. All four clubs’ colours are also featured on the socks. In 2007, an attempt was made to form a third tier of rugby in Australia, similar to New Zealand's ITM Cup and South Africa's Currie Cup. The newly formed competition included"
"Wally (Wallabies mascot) Wally is the name of the official mascot of the Australian rugby union team, the Wallabies. Wally is a wallaby. The stuffed toy version of the mascot is carried with the Wallabies on overseas tours to Europe. It then becomes the duty of the youngest member of the touring party to protect the mascot from pranks by older players to hide and sabotage it. It is considered an embarrassment to the protector if Wally is not safely guarded. The protector is forced to hold Wally at all times. It becomes a source of entertainment for senior players"
"was then known as Nathan's Cow Paddock. A third version claims the Rabbitoh name was adopted from that of the touring Australian rugby union teams of the early 1900s who were nicknamed ""Rabbits"" prior to discarding the name in 1908 in favour of the moniker ""Wallabies"". The ""Rabbitoh"" emblem, a running white rabbit, first appeared on the team's jersey in 1959. The Rabbitoh emblem has in various forms been carried as the club's crest on every player's jersey ever since. The original ""Rabbitoh"" emblem design that appeared on the team's jerseys throughout the 1960s and 1970s has now been incorporated"
"Cabramatta Two Blues Cabramatta Two Blues, colloquially known as ""Cabra"", is an Australian rugby league football club that was originally formed in 1919 and then later completely formed as the Two Blues in 1939. They have always based from the Parramatta Junior Leagues, and their junior teams compete in the Parramatta District Junior Rugby League Association. They currently compete in the Ron Massey Cup and the Sydney Shield. They play out of the Cabramatta, New South Wales, Sports Ground Complex which can fit up to 5,000 spectators. The Two Blues have won numerous A-Grade Titles with their last Premiership received"
"with Smith coming off the bench. Will Smith (rugby league) Will Smith (born 3 July 1992) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays for the Parramatta Eels in the National Rugby League. He primarily plays at , but can also fill in at and . He previously played for the Penrith Panthers. Born in Newcastle, New South Wales, Smith is an Indigenous Australian and played his junior football for the Western Suburbs Rosellas in the Newcastle Rugby League. He was then signed by the Newcastle Knights. From 2010 to 2012, Smith played for the Newcastle Knights' NYC team."
"was marked with an issue featuring the anniversary logo, a stylised black swan. A 1991 series of waterbirds included a 43-cent stamp showing a pair of black swans nesting with cygnets. This is the only philatelic recognition of the black swan's cultural values in eastern Australia as an emblem of estuarine and riverine environments characteristic of south-eastern Australia. Incidental philatelic illustrations of the black swan include the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games (held in Perth) stamp issue bearing the Arms of the City of Perth with black swan supporters and charge, a 1963 commemorative of Canberra's founding featuring the"
"of Clube Atlético Mineiro. In Australia, the Sydney Roosters, who play in the National Rugby League have adopted the cockerel as its emblem. The Roosters' emblem is a cock with its comb fashioned to represent the Sydney Opera House. Jesus College in the University of Cambridge features roosters on its coat of arms, which is a pun on the name of the college's founder, John Alcock. The University of South Carolina features a Gamecock, or fighting cockerel, as its mascot for all athletic programs. The Coat of arms of Kenya features a rooster holding an axe. The emblem of Chianti"
"else, retaining only an echo of its formerly symbolic values. None of the current AFL teams have taken a black swan emblem in allusion to any natural qualities of the bird, and its sole representation in the symbology of the league refers to the largely unresearched phenomenon of late 19th-mid 20th century migration between Western Australia and Victoria - now borne by a club that has emigrated to New South Wales. It is an ironic transformation in the symbolism of a bird that that was for so long thought to be non-migratory. The tender to ""Australia II"", the yacht that"
"professional Rugby League game since 1995. The second game at Marrara came in Round 17 of the 2013 NRL season when the Penrith Panthers (who had previously played games in Darwin during the 1990s) defeated the Gold Coast Titans 40–18 in front of 8,050 for what was a Titans home game. In 2014, the Parramatta Eels, a Sydney-based National Rugby League (NRL) club, announced they would be playing four games at Marrara over the following four years. The first game came on 9 August (Round 22) during the 2014 NRL season when the Eels defeated the Canberra Raiders 18–10 in"
"is featured in the logo of Ourimbah Public School. The school song references the magpie in its first verse, “Here lies Ourimbah nestled in a valley,/ Home of the magpie and blue gum tree” and in its repeating chorus, “home of the magpie colours black and white,” referring to the school uniform colours. The magpie symbol is used for many local sports teams: Ourimbah Rugby League Football Club, Lisarow Ourimbah Cricket Club, Ourimbah Netball Club, and Ourimbah Lisarow RSL Bowling Club. Ourimbah, New South Wales Ourimbah is a small township and a suburb of the Central Coast region of New"
"given aquatic nicknames. Notably in 2012 the club fielded an all-girls Under 8's team, Paremata-Plimmerton RFC Paremata-Plimmerton Rugby Football Club is a rugby union club based in Paremata, a northern suburb of Porirua, New Zealand. The club was formed in 1959 as a merger of the Paremata and Plimmerton clubs. The Plimmerton club was formed in 1932 and based at what is now the Plimmerton Domain. Paremata was formed later in 1946, taking over a section of the Army Camp which was being dismantled at Ngatitoa Domain on the shores of Porirua Harbour. The amalgamated club adopted Ngatitoa as its"
"and dash to the goal."" The Hawthorn FC has had four VFL/AFL endorsed logos in its entirety. The first (1977), a flying Hawk, was an adaptation of a pre-existing unofficial logo that appeared on the club's official documentation throughout the 1960s and 1970s. The Hawks's Mascot Manor representative and club mascot is Hudson ""Hawka"" Knights, a caricature of a hawk dressed the same way as the Hawthorn players and slightly depicting club champion Dermott Brereton. The Hawthorn colours are brown and gold vertical stripes. Hawthorn has worn this design since 1950. The current major sponsors are Tasmania, iiNet, Bupa, Audi"
"the Cronulla Sharks. Jamie Dowling Jamie Dowling (born 29 October 1990) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer for the Gold Coast Titans of the National Rugby League. He is the grandson of former St. George Dragons and Queensland hooker, John Dowling. Born in Sydney but raised on the Gold Coast, Dowling began playing rugby league for Brighton Seagulls in Sydney before moving to the Burleigh Bears under 10's. Dowling continued playing for the Bears through his teenage years where he was a part of the Parramatta Eels development squad from 2005 to 2007. A graduate of Marymount College, Dowling"
"Manly Warringah Sea Eagles The Manly Warringah Sea Eagles are an Australian professional rugby league team named after the Manly and Warringah areas of Sydney's Northern Beaches in which the club is based. They compete in the National Rugby League's (NRL's) Telstra Premiership, the premier rugby league competition of Australia. The club first appeared in the 1947 New South Wales Rugby Football League season and currently plays home matches out of its ground, Lottoland (Brookvale Oval) whilst training at the New South Wales Academy of Sport in Narrabeen. The Manly Sea Eagles have never gotten the wooden spoon. The Manly"
"regarded as Australia’s unofficial animal emblem. The kangaroo has appeared on coins and emblems, been used in logos, architectural decoration, the decorative arts and public art, been a mascot and used in the naming of sports teams. Kangaroos also appear in books, television series, films, cartoons, games and songs. The kangaroo and emu are bearers on the Australian Coat of Arms. It has been claimed these animals were chosen to signify a country moving 'forward' because of a common belief that neither can move backward. Two red kangaroos serve as bearers to the Coat of Arms of Western Australia. Australia's"
"games. Nigel Chamier , former Chairman of the GOLDOC, said that it was the result of months of market research. Borobi was named as the mascot of the 2018 Commonwealth Games in 2016. Borobi is a blue koala, with indigenous markings on its body. The term ""borobi"" means koala in the Yugambeh language, spoken by the indigenous Yugambeh people of the Gold Coast and surrounding areas. The song <nowiki>""Days of Gold""</nowiki> composed by the Australian Duo band Busby Marou, which was released on 17 October 2014, was considered as the official song of the Mascot Borobi. The official partners of"
"the official mascot of the United States Marine Corps, and many bases have their own mascot on base. Thirty-nine American universities use a Bulldog as their mascot including Georgetown, Butler, CSU Fresno State, Drake, Gonzaga, North Carolina A&T, Mississippi State, Louisiana Tech, Yale, The Citadel South Carolina State, Georgia, and the University of Redlands. The Bulldog is an official mascot of the Croatian ultras group Bad Blue Boys, which supports the football club GNK Dinamo Zagreb. The Australian Rugby League team Canterbury-Bankstown has a Bulldog as its emblem and mascot. The Western Bulldogs Australian rules football club has a real-life"
"Borobi's footprints stretching from Southport to Broadbeach meant to keep visitors healthy throughout the games. Along the trail are several statues of Borobi dressed in attire for different sports. Borobi (mascot) Borobi was the official mascot of the 2018 Commonwealth Games, in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. Borobi was a male koala with blue fur and unusual markings on his paws (which are designed by Aboriginal artist, Chern’ee Sutton). The name Borobi is derived from a dialect used by the Yugambeh people, an indigenous Australian group from the Gold Coast region. The mascot, along with its fictional back story, was revealed"
"name Rams derived from the pioneering past of Western Sydney; and as recognition of the settlers that started the Australian sheep and wool industries in Parramatta. The original orange and blue colours of the Rams were unveiled at the ARC team's launch in March 2007. White was added to the collar of the jersey and base of the sleeves in 2014, and a predominantly white and blue kit with orange highlights was introduced when Eastwood took ownership of the team for the 2017 season. In 2007, an attempt was made to form a third tier of rugby in Australia, similar"
"animal was a hybrid of a duck and a water rat. According to one story, the major animal groups, the land animals, water animals and birds, all competed for the platypus to join their respective groups, but the platypus ultimately decided to not join any of them, feeling that he did not need to be part of a group to be special. Platypuses has been used several times as a mascot: ""Syd"" the platypus was one of the three mascots chosen for the Sydney 2000 Olympics along with an echidna and a kookaburra, ""Expo Oz"" the platypus was the mascot"
"Parramatta FC Parramatta Football Club, commonly known as Parramatta Melita Eagles or just Melita, are an Australian soccer club based in South Granville, New South Wales. The club was established by Maltese migrants in 1956 and played several seasons in the National Soccer League winning the NSL Cup twice in 1990/1991 and 1993/1994 and later the New South Wales Premier League which the club has won in various forms on six occasions 1985, 1988, 1989, 1996, 1997, 2001/2002. The club currently competes in the National Premier Leagues NSW 2. The Eagles were formed in 1956 as the Melita Eagles by"