Ron Palmer
Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Ronnie Palmer | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing information | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Second-row, Centre | |||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||||
Source: As of 31 December 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Ron Palmer is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer and coach.
Background
Palmer is affectionately known as the "Balmain Charmer".
He qualified as a PE teacher and taught at Holy Cross College, Ryde.
Career
He played for the Balmain Tigers in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership.
Palmer was the strength and conditioning coach for 24 years at the Sydney Roosters. He also held roles at the Gold Coast Titans, Penrith Panthers and the Parramatta Eels before returning to the Wests Tigers as the Performance Coach, a role he held until the end of the 2023 season.
He was also on the coaching staff of the New South Wales Origin team and Australia at representative level.
References
- ↑ Rugby League Project
- ↑ Palmer's 'box of energy' breaks Brookvale hoodoo for Tigers
- ↑ Amiet, Kristen (April 1, 2015). "The faces of Australian fitness: Ronnie Palmer". coach.nine.com.au.
- ↑ ‘I feel quite a bit lost’: Wests Tigers sack rugby league icon
- ↑ "'I feel quite a bit lost': Wests Tigers sack rugby league icon". news.com.au. November 12, 2023.
- ↑ "'Feel a little bit let down': Tigers cult hero says 'no sour grapes' despite reported sacking". www.theroar.com.au. Archived from the original on 2023-11-13. Retrieved 2026-10-13.
- ↑ "PlayBook Coach - Ron Palmer". www.playbook.coach. Retrieved 2026-10-13.
 | This Australian rugby league football biography is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information. |