R.I.P. Rex Mossop

[sapaul]

Rex Mossop passes away

FOOTBALL legend and former rugby league commentator Rex Mossop has died, aged 83.

Mossop, who played rugby league and rugby union for Australia, died on Friday night - rugby league officials confirmed on Saturday.

The former Manly-Warringah star forward, who was known to suffer from Alzheimer's disease, was admitted to Royal North Shore Hospital earlier this year and his condition is understood to have deteriorated in the past week.

He was surrounded by family and friends when he died.

The Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles club said Mossop would be sadly missed.

"He was an icon of our club, he was out first dual international player and he was larger than life," Manly media manager and former player Peter Peters said.

"He will be sadly missed."

Peters said the sport had "lost a real character."

The club said it would do everything it could to assist the family.

Mossop played rugby union for the Manly club and played eight tests for the Wallabies from 1948 to 1951.

He joined the Manly Sea Eagles and becoming the cornerstone of their forward pack in the late 1950s, retiring in 1963 at the age of 35.

He was rugby league's premier television commentator on Channels 7 and 10 from the 1970s through to 1990.

[bayman]

RIP rex ''the moose'' mossop

i thought he was a very funny man when on a friday night ch 2 tv show with 'elle mcfeast' & 'debbie spillane' i think it was called ''live and sweaty'' (or similar)

RIP

[ORDoubleBlues]

Remember his exchanges with Julian Clary on the Steve Vizard late night show in the early '90's. To Clary's credit, he handled it extremely well.

Not sure what would happen if something like that happened on TV now LOL!