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- Q5257235 description "Australian rugby league player".
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- Q5257235 abstract "Denis William Fitzgerald, AM, (born 14 November 1949) is an Australian former rugby league footballer and former Chief Executive Officer of the Parramatta Eels.As a player, Fitzgerald played mainly as a prop but was atypically tall and lean for his position. Though a strong scrummager and a tireless defender Fitzgerald preferred to run wide where he could be a dangerous attacking force. Remarkably he was Parramatta's leading pointscorer in 1974 from nine tries alone - proof of their weakness in goalkicking. Fitzgerald's great uncles were Australian Rugby League players Bill Farnsworth & Viv Farnsworth.Fitzgerald first played first grade in 1970 and the following year his finely-contrasted partnership with Bob O'Reilly saw them rise from last to the final four. Fitzgerald was rewarded with selection for New South Wales. In the following years, however, the Eels returned to the bottom of the table and Fitzgerald's form was erratic, but during the Eels' surge to the finals late in 1975 his form was too good for the international selectors to ignore. After returning to the New South Wales side earlier, Fitzgerald played in the World Cup that year and again in 1977. He had been a major force in the Eels' rise to the grand final in 1976 and the minor premiership in 1977, but was out of form by finals time and played only on the bench in the two 1977 grand finals. After that year, though only 27, he retired as a player.Even while a prominent player, Fitzgerald had shown great interest in working in club administration. In 1973 he had led a reform group at the then-troubled club, and after retiring as a player he became CEO immediately. Fitzgerald's work as an administrator is credited with building up the "golden years" of the early to middle 1980s, and he was an original member of the NSWRL Board from 1983 until a crisis in 1992. After a lean period beginning in 1987 he came under threat, notably from Ray Price. However, Fitzgerald's skill as a businessman was so well-honed that he could push aside this challenge, and when success returned in 1997 his position once again became solid. In 2003 he became one of the few rugby league players to receive the Member of the Order of Australia (AM) medal.As a vigorous opponent of Super League, Fitzgerald has become known for a number of prominent opinions about other football clubs including: criticising the joint merger between the Western Suburbs Magpies and the Balmain Tigers into the Wests Tigers in 2000 trying to get a Super 12 rugby union club established in western Sydney declaring that rugby league football had no place in Melbourne after the Storm's record-breaking 2007 season refusing to honour Ray Price for his services to the EelsIn 2007 Melbourne Storm defeated Parramatta in the grand final qualifier, drawing a larger crowd than the preliminary final held in Sydney. Fitzgerald is critical of the preferential treatment given to the Storm by television in recent years.In 2008 Denis Fitzgerald was widely criticised for his views on reducing the NRL salary cap. Australian and New South Wales representative Willie Mason was quoted, "It's the stupidest comment I've ever heard". Other media agencies have reported that if such a move was implemented at the Parramatta Eels, a player revolt would be likely.Midway through the 2009 NRL season the troubled Parramatta Eels club removed Fitzgerald, then the longest-serving club CEO in the competition's history, replacing him with Paul Osborne.".
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- Q5257235 dateOfBirth "1949-11-14".
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- Q5257235 comment "Denis William Fitzgerald, AM, (born 14 November 1949) is an Australian former rugby league footballer and former Chief Executive Officer of the Parramatta Eels.As a player, Fitzgerald played mainly as a prop but was atypically tall and lean for his position. Though a strong scrummager and a tireless defender Fitzgerald preferred to run wide where he could be a dangerous attacking force.".
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