Ron Lynch (rugby league)

Ron Lynch

Playing information
Position	Lock, Second-row
Club
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
19??–60	Forbes
1961–71	Parramatta	194	28	0	0	84
1972–73	Penrith	44	10	0	0	30
	Total	238	38	0	0	114
Representative
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
1960	Country NSW
1960–67	New South Wales
1961–70	Australia	12	1	0	0	3
1962–67	Sydney

Ron Lynch is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1960s and 1970s. An Australian international and New South Wales interstate representative forward, he played club football in NSW for Young, Forbes, Parramatta and Penrith.

Lynch started his playing career in the town of his birth, Young, where he played Maher Cup aged 19 in 1958. He moved to Forbes for work where he gained selection in the Country NSW and New South Wales sides in 1960. He then moved to Sydney for the 1961 NSWRFL season, playing for the Parramatta club after they paid a £700 transfer fee. During that season he made his Test debut against the Kiwis in New Zealand. Appointed captain of Parramatta, in 1963 Lynch led his club to victory over the touring South African side. In 1964 he was the top try-scorer in a combined Sydney side's 49-2 rout of France. Lynch was selected to go on the 1967-68 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France. In 1970 he was Parramatta's captain-coach. The following season was to be his last for the club. Moving to Penrith for the 1972 NSWRFL season, Lynch was appointed captain of the club. He retired at the end of the 1973 season.