{"id":57297,"date":"2025-04-28T11:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T11:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/57297\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T11:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T11:17:10","slug":"ron-sigsworth-dead-at-63-tributes-are-made-to-footy-great-who-once-provided-a-moment-fans-will-never-forget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/57297\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Sigsworth dead at 63: Tributes are made to footy great who once provided a moment fans will never forget"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>Ron Sigsworth has sadly passed away at the age of 63\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>The Newtown Jets have paid tribute to the former footy star\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/profile-743\/ed-carruthers.html\" class=\"author\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ED CARRUTHERS FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"> Published:  05:44 EDT, 28 April 2025   |  Updated:  05:46 EDT, 28 April 2025   <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Former Australian rugby league star Ron Sigsworth has sadly passed away at the age of 63.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The former Newtown Jets fullback, who is also the brother of league great Phil Sigsworth, made 65 combined first-grade appearances for the Jets, the Canberra Raiders and Castleford Tigers during his distinguished footy career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The Newtown Jets announced the news on Monday morning and paid their respects to the former star on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;The Newtown Jets Rugby League Football Club passes its deepest condolences to the friends and family of Ron Sigsworth, who passed away this morning,&#8217; the club wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;A local junior, Ron played 25 first-grade games for the club in 1982 and 1983.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;Rest in peace, Ron.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-4110d12688cbbb85\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/97776479-14655197-image-a-22_1745833244414.jpg\" height=\"794\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Former Newtown Jets fullback Ron Sigsworth has sadly passed away at the age of 63\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Former Newtown Jets fullback Ron Sigsworth has sadly passed away at the age of 63\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-fe66d426d978db36\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/97776475-14655197-image-a-25_1745833261835.jpg\" height=\"287\" width=\"634\" alt=\"The footy club paid their respects to Sigsworth on social media, while sending their condolences to his family and friends\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">The footy club paid their respects to Sigsworth on social media, while sending their condolences to his family and friends<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Sigsworth made his debut for Newtown in Round Two of the 1982 season, against South Sydney Rabbitohs at Redfern Oval.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He would go on to make 25 appearances for the footy club, returning 11 tries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The fullback, who also enjoyed spells in the centres, is known by many in the rugby league community for having scored Newtown&#8217;s last-ever try in the first grade at Henson Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">It came during their Round 23 clash against Balmain in the 1983 season, with Sigsworth also playing his last-ever game for the Jets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The following season, the fullback would move to Canberra to play in the premiership after Newtown were excluded from the top flight, having experienced financial issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Sigsworth would later move to the UK where he would turn out for the Castleford Tigers for two seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Social media users paid tribute to Sigsworth on X, with one writing: &#8216;Oh my heart. Great player.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;Vale Ron Sigsworth,&#8217; another added.<\/p>\n<p>                    Share or comment on this article:<br \/>\n                        Ron Sigsworth dead at 63: Tributes are made to footy great who once provided a moment fans will never forget<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ron Sigsworth has sadly passed away at the age of 63\u00a0 The Newtown Jets have paid tribute to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[92,30118,4151,30119,93,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-57297","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-dailymail","9":"tag-nrl","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-south-sydney-rabbitohs","12":"tag-sport","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114415314184999908","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}