Heritage Committee of the Sydney Roosters announced

The Sydney Roosters, who are gearing up for their 117th season in 2024, are pleased to announce the establishment of the Sydney Roosters Heritage Committee as a way to recognize, celebrate, and promote the Club’s past.

In an effort to emphasize the significance of the Sydney Roosters’ past, the club has formed a Heritage Committee, whose job it is to make sure that all issues pertaining to remembering and honoring our past are consistently kept front and center. The Committee works with the Board of Directors as an advisory and working committee.

The Committee, which will be led by Roosters Director Peter Newton, will provide the Club’s strategic plan more structure and support. One of the strategy’s four main pillars, “Honouring Our History,” will receive special attention from this committee.

The Committee was carefully chosen to oversee this strategically significant part of our club and to raise its profile among all stakeholders, including members and supporters who have a connection to the Sydney Roosters, staff, and former and current players.

The Committee will assume management of legacy events and festivities, among many other duties, with the goal of becoming a vital source of heritage content for the Club’s digital and social media channels.

The Club is pleased to declarethe inaugural Sydney Roosters Heritage Committee members are as follows:

Newton, Peter
Newton has been a director of the Sydney Roosters | Easts Group since 2001. He is the chairman and principal stakeholder of All-States Finance Pty Limited. He is currently Chairman of Metals X Limited and a co-founder of the company. Since 1961, he has been an ardent supporter of the Sydney Roosters. Newton was named the Sydney Roosters Foundation Chairman in 2021.

Quayle John
Quayle, a former senior official at Easts Leagues Club and Roosters player, was appointed the first general manager of the NSWRL in 1983. When the ARL took over the management of the competition in 1988, he was named general manager and held that role until late 1996. Quayle served as SOCOG’s events manager for the 2000 Summer Olympics and was a member of the Board of Venues.NSW since 2012 and is thought to be among the best athletic administrators in Australia.

Joe Kelly
Joe Kelly, a prominent administrator in rugby league, has been the CEO of the Sydney Roosters | Easts Group since 2017. Previously, he was employed in high-level positions as the Chief Executive Officer of the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles from 2014 to 2016, the Chief Financial Officer of the South Sydney Rabbitohs from 2007 to 2014, and the Financial Controller of Chelsea Football Club from 2002 to 2007. Since 2023, he has also served as a director of the NSW Leagues Club and the NSW Rugby League.

Johnstone Jarrod
Since 2017, Jarrod Johnstone has served as the Sydney Roosters’ chief operating officer. He was the Club’s Head of Commercial Operations before that. Having worked for three different clubs over the course of more than 17 years, he has held positions in membership, match daySenior Management, Merchandise, Stadium Operations, Entertainment, and Commercial Operations.

Trent Robinson
In 2022, Trent Robinson, the Club’s longest-serving head coach, became the first person to reach 250 games with the clipboard.

In his first season (2013), Robinson made an immediate impression, winning the Club’s Minor Premiership and NRL Premiership. Since then, he has added more hardware to his collection, winning multiple Minor Premierships (2013–2015, 2018), an Auckland Nines championship (2017), and he became the first coach in NRL history to lead a team to consecutive Premierships in 2018 and 2019.

Robinson is a true Rooster who has a strong affinity for the Club’s past and the heritage of the eastern suburbs. He played in the Club’s lower grades in the late 1990s.

Mitchell Aubusson
Mitchell Aubusson

is the Sydney Roosters Academy’s chief executive officer, a role he has held since the organization’s founding in 2021. Not only was he a one-club player when he retired from the NRL in 2020, but he also held the record for most caps among Roosters players, having appeared in 306 NRL games.

Three-time Premiership winner (2013, 2018, 2019), he was scouted by legendary player, coach, and talent scout Arthur Beetson to join the Club at the age of sixteen. Throughout his amazing 14-season career, he frequently played the unassuming position of Mr. Fix It for the Roosters.

The Roosters hold Aubusson in high regard for his leadership; he has been named captain on several occasions and has won the James Mathews Clubman of the Year Award three times (2011), (2015), and (2016).

Cathy King
King, a Sydney Roosters fan for three generations, marked her 30 years of employment at Sydney Roosters | Easts Group in 2023. King has worked for the club for a long time, holding a variety of administrative and HR roles before becoming the first female football manager in club history in 2010. She is well-liked and regarded in the Club because of her enthusiasm and in-depth knowledge of both the eastern suburbs and the Roosters.

King will be the first female Lifeguard for the Sydney Roosters, it was confirmed in November 2023.

Sports organizations with a lengthy history tend to have heritage committees and societies. They can be found in the English Premier League (EPL) with teams like Everton, county cricket sides like Lancashire, and renowned rugby league teams Wigan and St Helens in the United Kingdom. The Western Suburbs Magpies, an Australian rugby league team founded in 2013, are the only other team in the league with a legacy committee.

The Sydney Roosters Heritage Committee, the only team to participate in all 116 Australian professional rugby league seasons, will make sure that the people who “dug the well” are never forgotten.

The Committee’s goals are to inform the public about the remarkable history of the Club and to honor the accomplishments of all people who have