The Canberra Raiders are saddened to hear of the passing of Foundation Raider Mick Tilse #16, who has passed away following a long illness.<\/p>\n
Tilse was part of the Raiders’ inaugural squad in 1982 and played 9 matches for the club in the Raiders’ first-ever season.<\/p>\n
Mick was also the father of Raider #263 Dane Tilse, who played 201 matches for the club from 2006-2015.<\/p>\n
Mick and Dane also hold the honour of becoming the club\u2019s first father\/son to have played for the club.<\/p>\n
Raiders CEO Don Furner said the Tilse name had long been associated with the Raiders.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Raiders would like to pass on their condolences to the Tilse family after the passing of Mick Tilse,\u201d Furner said. \u201cMick was a foundation player in 1982 and his son Dane went on to play over 200 first-grade games for the club, so the Tilse name has had a long and proud association with the Raiders.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMick and Dane have the honour of being the club’s first father\/son combination to have played for the Raiders.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Canberra Raiders are saddened to hear of the passing of Foundation Raider Mick Tilse #16, who has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-46196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}