Darryl Brohman

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Darryl Brohman

Personal information
Full name	Darryl Brohman
Date of birth	22 June 1956 (1956-06-22) (age 51)
Place of birth	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Youth clubs
Years	Club
	Norths Brisbane[1]
Senior clubs*
Years	Club	Apps (points)
1979 – 1983 1984 – 1985 1986 – 1987	Penrith Panthers Canterbury Bulldogs Penrith Panthers	? (46)[2] 23[1] (0)[2] ? (8)[2]
Representative teams
1983, 1986	Queensland	2[3] (0)[3]
* Professional club appearances and points counted for domestic first grade only.

Darryl Brohman (born 22 June 1956 in Brisbane, Queensland) is a former Australian rugby league player and commentator, currently working for 2GB on its Continuous Call Team broadcasts.

[edit] Playing career

Brohman attended Wavell High School in Brisbane's working class northern suburbs.^{[citation needed]} While there, he played first grade for Norths in the Brisbane competition. During his time there, he was awarded the Norths Player of the Year in 1976 and won Brisbane's Rothman's Medal as the best and fairest player, also in 1976.^[4]

He then moved to Sydney and played for the Penrith Panthers, from 1979 to 1983 (captain from 1982-83^[5])and again from 1986 to 1987, and the Canterbury Bulldogs in 1984 and 1985. Brohman played two State of Origin matches for Queensland in 1983 and 1986.^[6][7]

After he retired from playing, he took up coaching for two seasons. Firstly in 1988, he coached Brisbane's reserve grade and in 1989 he returned to Canterbury to coach their reserve grade team.^[1]

He is best remembered as a footballer when in his Origin debut he had his jaw broken by a vicious Les Boyd elbow, which saw Boyd suspended for 12 months. Brohman was a talented ball playing forward (a fact disputed by the Continuous Call Team) and played for Canterbury Bulldogs in their 1984 Grand Final win against Parramatta Eels under the leadership of Steve Mortimer. His final match was for Penrith Panthers in the 1987 Reserve Grade Final. The next two seasons he turned his hand to coaching at the newly formed Brisbane Broncos in 1988 and Canterbury Bulldogs in 1989. Brohman's style resembled that of the 1960s where ball-playing forwards were far more commonplace. Strong and hard to tackle, with great touch and subtlety and an outstanding football brain. In 2006, he was nominated as the one of front rowers in the 40th Anniversity Penrith Panthers "Team of Legends".^[8] He lost out to Terry Geary (8 seasons - 1969-76) and Tim Sheens (13 seasons - 1970-82).^[9]

[edit] Media career

Brohman has found his home in the media where he has worked for several radio stations across Sydney. Brohman's media career includes stints at 2KA, ABC Local Radio, 2UE, 2SM and once before at 2GB. He also worked on the Nine Network's The NRL Footy Show, where one of his most memorable performances included crashing into a fence on a motorcycle, and being mobbed by rabid fans during a live cross.

Following the tragic death of former team member Peter Frilingos in 2004, "The Big Mahn" was welcomed back to 2GB, taking his place in 2005. In July 2007, Brohman found himself in an on-air battle with Bob Fulton. Les Boyd's wife had rung the Continuous Call Team and expressed her dissatisfaction with comments made by Brohman in his weekly newspaper column about the famous incident during Brohman's origin debut, in which her husband broke his jaw. Brohman defended himself by stating that he was only replying to comments made by Les Boyd a week earlier in a Brisbane Newspaper, in which Boyd made the accusation that Brohman was "shitting himself" at a function in which the two were re-united earlier that month. Fulton then called Brohman a coward for having sued Boyd at the time. The incident turned relations within the Continuous Call Team on their head until Fulton apologised on Ray Hadley's morning program. Neither Fulton nor Brohman were reprimanded and the hatchet seems to have been buried.

Brohman is employed by Konami and during the week works as a sales rep promoting poker machines at leagues clubs. Brohman also lives in one of Sydney's most prestigious suburbs, Barden Ridge (formerly Lucas Heights) and has switched his allegiances to local team, the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks, after previously supporting former clubs - Canterbury and Penrith. His on-air persona does not endear himself to all the players in the NRL however, and despite his standing as a nominee for the Penrith Team of the Century, he had a public falling out with premiership winning captain Craig Gower along with Paul "Nobby" Clark.

Brohman has been involved in a number of other dramas during his life including offending many members of the scrap metal industry with scathing attacks including calling them "scavengers", however ironically a scrap recycling business is advertised on the show, not to mention accusing Ray Hadley of being gay (as well as the most degrading nickname of "Dancing Gums"), as well as showing his scaredy cat personality by claiming that he was chased by a killer koala.

Brohman has many rightful nicknames amongst the Continuous Call Team, including Peter Pan (for his inability to grow up and act his age), Fat Guts, Showbags (Full of Crap), Fillet (no backbone), Fatso, The Big Fat Blancmange, Lump (which lead to his new segment- "Stump the Lump" where a caller rings in and tries to 'Stump' the BIG MARN on a non-rugby league related questions) and the 150kg White Ant (for attempting to usurping Ray Hadley with very dire results and dismal failure, as well as riding on his coat-tails).

Brohman finishes his contract with 2GB at the end of the 2008 NRL season and given his appalling track record on radio (especially that he's breached the ACMA code of conduct for conducting third party clandestine affairs and engaging in TV appearances on both Thai TV and sports network ESPN), it effectively signals the end of the radio side of his media career. He has already been given his marching orders from both TV and print media.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Darryl Brohman at the Internet Movie Database
• Darryl Brohman at the State of Origin official website.