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Where it all began..
The early meetings to discuss the possibility of forming a Junior Rugby League Club were held at the home of Charlie Booth in 1967. Those present decided to call a meeting to gauge support for the concept.
The inaugural meeting to form the Club was held at the Pennant Hills Community Centre and chaired by Mr. Jack Argent from the Parramatta Rugby League Club. The meeting was well attended, and a decision was made to officially form the Pennant Hills District Junior Rugby League Club.
Nominations were called for positions to form a committee and the first committee elected was:
President: Max Shepherd
Sec/Treas: Eric Moore
Snr. V/Pres: George Butlin
Committee Members: Percy Frankel, Don Tully Jim Worrall, John Woods Alan Gale, Charlie Booth.
The Club had taken the first step.
The next decision to be made was which Junior League to apply to join. As Parramatta would require us to pay to join and pay for our own gear, while North Sydney was delighted to accept us and they would provide gear and help with uniforms. It was not a difficult decision.
Delegates were elected to meet with North Sydney: George Butlin, Don Tully, John Woods and Jim Worrell.
In 1968, eight teams took part in competition as the STAGS. The A grade team made the final at North Sydney Oval.
Our President Max Shepard was from Manchester City, England. He nominated for our colours to be Sky Blue and white which was accepted by the committee. Our emblem was decided by a clock which had a Stag head mounted to it. After hours of deliberation the clock struck midnight with all noticing the stag head and all parties agreed on the Mighty STAG.
Our Home ground was Pennant Hills Oval and in later years with our club growing we adopted Headen Park for our senior teams.
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Key Milestones:
1975: Our first sponsor in Cooks Plumbing.
1975 - 1978: We also adopted Castle hill RSL club oval where the pool and gym car park stand today. Our club patron was the Pennant Hills Inn for 20+ years.
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1974 - 1983: Our club formed a partnership with Addington JRLC, Christ Church, New Zealand. Our Under 11 & 12 would tour NZ on every odd year and they would tour Australia on every even year.
1986: B grade became A-res Grade. In our first year we set an undefeated senior club record of 758 points for and 22 against. Capt Coached by Jon Hunt.
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1987: Our club won its first A grade Premiership, coached by Ken Hey. This year our club recorded its highest achievement, PREMIERSHIPS IN: A GRADE, A RES GRADE, C GRADE, D GRADE AND 4 JUNIOR TEAMS. 8 Premierships. In that same year 13 players from our A grade & Res’s grade represented our district the North Sydney Bears in the 1987 Presidents Cup Grand final squad to go down 17-4 against the Roosters at the SCG.
1987/1991/1992: A Grade premiers
1993: Our club adopted the name of Cherrybrook due to being a new growth area for juniors and we became the Pennant Hills Cherrybrook Stags JRLC.
1994: We moved from Pennant hills oval & Headon park to Greenway oval, Cherrybrook.
2017: Our first registered girls tag side was formed U17 TAG
2018: U12 girls tag won our first tag Final with U14 grand finalist.
2020: U12, U14 and U16 girls Tag teams were formed
2023: Our U14 girls Tag set a record Undefeated Premiers 668pts for and 16pts against.
2024: Our club register its first girls tackle teams: A grade, U16 and U14 all semi-finalists.
2024: This is one of our clubs’ best years for registration of 24+ teams including:
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2 Girls tag teams in each age group U12, U14 and U16
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3 Girls tackle teams, U14, U16, A grade
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15 Boys Tackle teams U6 to U17 including A grade.
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2025 Our club has 20 boys team U6-Agrade with 2 junior teams with 2 sides
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Our girls have U12, U14, U16, U18 and A grade girls tackle and 2 teams in U12, U14, U16 and U18 tag
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2025: Our U16 Girls Tackle won our first girls Premiership.
Stags Life Members
1974 GEORGE BUTLIN
1974 JIM WORRELL (dec)
1981 EARNIE PARTRIDGE
1985 BILL MANSFIELD
1988 RAY WORRELL
1988 DENNIS GLEESON (dec)
1990 JOHN ONEIL (dec)
1991 BILL BUTLIN
1994 JON HUNT
1997 MARTIN SMITH
1997 SID AOUTAL
1999 CRAIG LINDSAY
2001 ROSS RUHAN
2001 DARELL BEITCH
2005 BARBRA BOSS
2006 DOM MILLAURO
2006 NICK BISHARA
2014 DAVE DAHLEN
2016 SIMONE DAHLEN
2018 TIM BEITSCH
2018 MATT MARSDEN
2023 EVAN PARTRIDGE
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LIFE MEMBERS NTH SYD D JRL:
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GEORGE BUTLIN
BRIAN MARSDEN
BILL MANSFIED
JACK LEARY
JON HUNT
SID AOUTAL
Stags Presidents
MAX SHEPARD 67
GEORGE BUTLIN
JOHN WOODS
BILL DUNFORD
JIM WORRELL
JOHN HICKEY
BILL MANSFIELD 82-88
JOHN ONEIL 89-91
GEORGE BUTLIN 92-93
SID AOUTAL 94-95
ROSS RUHAN 96 - 98
PETER KAY 99 - 20
DARRELL BEITCH 01 -03
NICK BISHARA 04-08
SID AOUTAL 09 –14
REES LEYSHON 15
DAVE ALBATINI 16 –17
GORDON BOATH 18
TIM BEITCH 19
MATT MARSDEN 20
MRS LEE CHERRY 21-26
A Grade Coaches
1968 ALAN HILL (EX NEWTOWN) FINALIST
1969 NO A GRADE/ B GRADE COACHED BY G BUTLIN -
1970 NO A GRADE/ B GRADE COACHED BY JACK CORDA
1971 JACK CORDA
1972 JACK CORDA
1973 JOHN DAVIS
1974 JOHN DAVIS
1975 ARTHUR NEWSON
1976 ARTHUR NEWSON
1977 ARTHUR NEWSON
1978 EARL CANTELL
1979 BILL JONES (EX PARRAMATTA)
1980 BILL JONES
1981 GREG BRADY
1982 GREG BRADY
1983 GREG BRADY
1984 GREG BRADY GRAND FINALIST
1985 GREG BRADY
1986 KEN HEY (EX WESTS/ PEN/PARRA)
1987 KEN HEY A GRADE PREMIERS
1988 JOHN HUNT
1989 JOHN HUNT
1990 JIM BIRRELL
1991 KEN HEY A GRADE PREMIERS
1992 BOB LENNOX A GRADE PREMIERS
1993 BOB LENNOX GRAND FINALIST
1994 BOB LENNOX
1995 CRAIG SANDERCOCK
1996 SID AOUTAL
1997 SID AOUTAL
1998 PETER SAVAGE
1999 PETER SAVAGE GRAND FINALIST
2000 DAVID SIMMONS
2001 DAVID SIMMONS
2002 DAVID SIMMONS A2 BRONZE GRADE PREMIERS
2003 STEWART WILKINS
2004 STEWART WILKINS
2005 NO TEAM
2006 STEWART WILKINS
2007 ( SUSE ) SAADI HADAD & ARTIE KAOUTAL
2008 NO TEAM
2009 BRAD JONES
2010 BRAD JONES
2011 BRAD JONES
2012 BRAD JONES GRAND FINALIST
2013 BRAD JONES
2014 REES LEYSHON
2015 REES LEYSHON
2016 NO TEAM
2017 NO TEAM
2018 NO TEAM
2019 NO TEAM
2020 NO TEAM
2021 NO TEAM
2022 NO TEAM
2023 LUKE PHILLIPS (EX-SYDNEY ROOSTERS)
2024 LIAM CONNOR (Capt. Coach)
2025 SID AOUTAL
A Reserve Grade Coaches
1986 JON HUNT UNDERFEATED PREMIERS
1987 JON HUNT PREMIERS
1988 JIM BIRREL
1989 JIM BIRREL
1990 MICK RIPWRECK
1991 ROB NALDER
1992 DAVID DWYER
1993 DAVID DWYER
1994 SID AOUTAL GRD FINALIST
1995 GREAME GARRETT GRD FINALIST
1996 JASON JUBELIN
1997 JASON JUBELIN
1998 DAVID SIMMONS
1999 DAVID SIMMONS
2000 SID AOUTAL (CPT COACH)
2001 SID AOUTAL