Miles to captain Broncos
NZPA-AAP Brisbane Queensland’s test and State of Origin veteran Gene Miles has sacrificed a record-equalling third Kangaroo tour next year to tackle the toughest onfield job in the Sydney Winfield Cup competition — captain of the Brisbane Broncos. Miles will replace the out-of-favour Australian skipper, Wally Lewis, as Brisbane’s leader next year. Accepting the job has placed the second-row convert in rugby league's hot seat with Brisbane widely tipped to make next year’s Sydney Grand Final after a two-year Winfield Cup initiation. Miles’ surprise appointment lowers the curtain on a distinguished representative career by the former centre, highlighted by 14 Tests and 21 State of Origins. Miles will inform Australian Rugby League officials in writing of his unavailability for future representative football, automatically ruling himself out of the Maroons’ 1990 origin defence. Former test forward and 1989 Broncos’ Player of the Year, Greg Dowling, was widely tipped to land the captaincy job
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Press, 9 December 1989, Page 96
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