The Big Bulldog

Sporting club mascots at scale are everywhere – magpies, tigers, sharks, bulldogs, roosters, sitting on clubhouse roofs and beside canteens across both countries – and almost none of them appear in any register. They are made locally, funded by raffles and sponsorship, and replaced or repainted without ceremony. The Miriam Vale magpie in its oversized nest is the same species of object.

The bulldog is the right animal for a junior league club. It has been the standard emblem of stubbornness and low centre of gravity in rugby league since the code began, and it is an easier thing to render convincingly than most mascots.

Mackay is serious league country in a serious league state, and a junior club with its own monument is a club that has been around long enough to accumulate one.

Because the sculpture belongs to an active community sporting venue rather than a visitor attraction, this record treats it accordingly.

No record survives of the year it went up or its size.