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Ben Roberts (rugby league)

Ben Roberts
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Personal information
Full name Benjamin Tapuloa Roberts
Born (1985-07-08) 8 July 1985 (age 31)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Height 173 cm (5 ft 8 in)
Weight 94 kg (14 st 11 lb)
Playing information
Position Five-eighth, Halfback, Hooker, Centre
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
2006–11 Canterbury Bulldogs 93 10 0 1 41
2012–13 Parramatta Eels 37 2 1 0 10
2014 Melbourne Storm 18 2 3 0 14
2015– Castleford Tigers 30 10 0 2 42
Total 178 24 4 3 107
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
2006–07 New Zealand 5 0 3 0 6
2008–14 Samoa 12 4 9 0 34
As of 25 September 2015

Ben Roberts (born 8 July 1985) is an Australian professional rugby league player currently playing club football for the Castleford Tigers.

Of Samoan descent, Roberts is the cousin of soccer players Tim Cahill and Chris Cahill. He was educated at John Therry Catholic High School, Rosemeadow, and Patrician Brothers' College, Fairfield, alongside Sharks centre Dean Collis.

Joining the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs in 2006 as a five-eighth, Roberts was originally recruited from Western Suburbs Magpies before became a regular member of the NSWRL Premier League team. In 2007, he has started in halfback in the early rounds due to injury to regular playmaker Brent Sherwin. With Sherwin's return from injury and form, Roberts was shifted to five-eighth.

He made his second international appearance for the New Zealand Kiwis on Friday 20 April at the 2007 ANZAC Test against the Australia national rugby league team in Brisbane.

He was named in the New Zealand and Samoan extended training squads for the 2008 Rugby League World Cup. In the end he was selected in the Samoan squad for the tournament.

5 years later he was selected for Samoa in April 2013, for a test match against Tonga in Penrith, New South Wales. Later in the year he was selected for Samoa again, but this time for their 2013 Rugby League World Cup campaign. He featured in all 4 games that the Samoans played, scoring two tries. He scored one try against heavyweights New Zealand in an entertaining 42–24 defeat. He scored his second try in Samoa's 38–4 thrashing of The Kumuls.


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