Cliff Lyons

Cliff Lyons, nicknamed Napper or Cliffy, is an Australian former rugby league footballer, born on 19 October 1961 in Narrandera, New South Wales, who played in the 1980s and 1990s. He made 309 first-grade appearances with the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles and won grand finals with them in 1987 and 1996. A Clive Churchill Medallist and two-time Dally M Medallist, he began as a lock forward but was at his best at five-eighth, where coach Bob Fulton played him permanently, and he was known for elusive cross-field runs that set up support players such as Steve Menzies. He represented New South Wales and Australia, and was part of the successful 1990 Kangaroo Tour of Great Britain and France.