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Craig Stapleton Personal information Born 31 August 1978
Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaPlaying information Height 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) Weight 17 st 5 lbs (110 kg) Position Prop Club Years Team Pld T G FG P 1998 St. George Dragons 6 1 0 0 4 2001–2003 St. George Illawarra 30 2 0 0 8 2004 Parramatta Eels 23 1 0 0 4 2005 Leigh Centurions 27 4 0 0 16 2006 Penrith Panthers 24 1 0 0 4 2007 Cronulla-Sutherland 24 0 0 0 0 2008–2009 Salford City Reds 18 4 0 0 16 2010– Souths Rabbitohs 1 0 0 0 0 Total 153 13 0 0 52 Craig Stapleton (born 31 August 1978 in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer for the South Sydney Rabbitohs in the National Rugby League. Stapleton formerly played for St. George and St. George Illawarra, Parramatta Eels, Penrith Panthers and Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in the Australian National Rugby League (NRL) competition as well as Leigh Centurions and Salford City Reds in Super League. Stapleton primarily plays at prop. A journeyman forward, Stapleton has played for seven clubs in ten years.
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Return to Australia
He returned to Australia in 2009 to play in the Illawarra rugby league competition with Wests and was called up by South Sydney Rabbitohs in 2010 due to their lack of depth in the forwards.[1]
Career highlights
- First Grade Debut: 1998 - Round 11, St. George vs Gold Coast Chargers at Gold Coast Stadium, 23 May
- Salford's Player of the Year in 2008 & 2009[2]
Footnotes
- ^ http://www.nrl.com/news/news/newsarticle/tabid/10874/newsid/58992/souths-sign-prop-stapleton/default.aspx
- ^ Brad Walter (11 June 2010). "Red-headed journeyman finds himself at Redfern to help the Rabbitohs". Sydney Morning Herald. http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/league-news/redheaded-journeyman-finds-himself-at-redfern-to-help-the-rabbitohs-20100610-y0l8.html. Retrieved 19 July 2010.
External links
South Sydney Rabbitohs - current squad Categories:- 1978 births
- Australian rugby league players
- St. George Dragons players
- St. George Illawarra Dragons players
- Parramatta Eels players
- Penrith Panthers players
- Prime Minister's XIII players
- Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks players
- Salford City Reds players
- Living people
- Leigh Centurions players
- South Sydney Rabbitohs players
- Australian rugby league biography, 1970s birth stubs
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