Gold Coast NRL players: All the stars who lined up in the local competition
Israel Folau may be subject to heated debate over whether he should be allowed to play in the Gold Coast competition but there have been plenty of NRL stars line up over the years. LIST OF TALENTS >>>
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ISRAEL Folau may be subject to heated debate over whether he should be allowed to play in the Gold Coast competition but there have been plenty of NRL stars line up over the years.
Here are some of the NRL stars to line up on the Gold Coast in recent years.
BEN HANNANT - March 2018
DUAL NRL premiership winner Ben Hannant has made a successful return to football, helping lead the Burleigh Bears to a second straight win that has put them on the top of the Intrust Super Cup ladder.
Hannant came off the bench and play in the front row for the Bears during their Round 2 25-12 win over the Redcliffe Dolphins at Pizzey Park.
PRESTON CAMPBELL - 2015
HEY Presto. Look who’s back.
His hair is longer and the body older, but for Preston Campbell, the love and magic remains after he accepted $100 to come out of rugby league retirement.
Seventeen years ago, the 167cm dynamo hit the Gold Coast scene like a pint-sized footballing tsunami, making his top-grade debut for the now-defunct Chargers.
ASH HARRISON - March 2018
GUESS who’s back?
Former Maroons and Titans workhorse Ash Harrison will resurrect his rugby league career on the Gold Coast this year – and he means business.
Harrison has agreed to pull on the boots to play for the Tugun Seahawks, where his sons Ethan and Will play juniors.
CLINTON TOOPI - July 2019
FORMER Titans centre Clinton Toopi has answered a call to help out Rugby League Gold Coast battlers Ormeau.
Toopi has joined the Shearers to assist head coach Julius Kuresa and even pulled on the boots against Runaway Bay.
TODD CARNEY - February 2021
ONCE Todd Carney’s Byron Bay Red Devils contract expires at the end of 2021, the polarising former NRL star plans to take his talents to the Gold Coast, where, he says, he wants to begin his rugby league coaching journey.
Carney, 34, is on the final leg of a three-year deal with the Northern Rivers Regional Rugby League club, which he will captain-coach this year.
DANIEL MORTIMER - March 2019
CURRUMBIN have pulled off the biggest coup of the Rugby League Gold Coast season, agreeing to terms with former NRL prodigy Daniel Mortimer.
The deal, which only became official on Wednesday after clearance documents were approved, is a massive boost to the 2018 minor premiers.
ANTHONY WATTS - 2013
IT’S the question we have long wanted the answer for.
Former NRL bad boy Anthony Watts, who had ties with the notorious Finks and Mongols bikie gangs, found himself in strife in 2013 when he was given an eight-match ban for allegedly biting an opponent’s penis while playing for the Tugun Seahawks against Runaway Bay in a Gold Coast Rugby League preliminary final that year.
MATT GEYER - 2018
FOR Matt, Nash and Cole Geyer, few memories rank higher than the time they shared a football field together.
As Matt, a Melbourne Storm stalwart for more than a decade, neared retirement at the pointy end of the 2008 NRL season, his two sons scored ball boy duties.
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