Mark Patch

Albert Mark Patch (1933–2015) was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s and 1960s.

Mark Patch

Personal information
Full name	Albert Mark Patch
Born	(1933-02-23)23 February 1933 Lismore, New South Wales, Australia
Died	17 August 2015(2015-08-17) (aged 82) Yamba, New South Wales, Australia
Playing information
Position	Prop
Club Years Team Pld T G FG P 1956–61 Western Suburbs 69 3 0 0 9 Representative Years Team Pld T G FG P 1957–59 New South Wales 3 0 0 0 0 1957 NSW City 1 0 0 0 0
Source: [1]

Career

Originally from Lismore, New South Wales, Patch picked up a contact from Western Suburbs in 1956 and stayed with them for five seasons until the end of 1961.

Patch was a fierce forward and enforcer for Wests during this period, and played in two losing grand finals: 1958 and 1961. He represented New South Wales on three occasions in 1957 and 1959. After retiring from Sydney, Patch joined Yass as a Captain-coach for some years.^[2]

He lived in retirement in the New South Wales north coast town of Yamba,^[3] and died there on 17 August 2015, aged 82.^[4][5]