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Personal information
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Nickname | Blakey, Greeny | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born |
Fairfield, New South Wales, Australia |
18 September 1986 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 177 cm (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 89 kg (14 st 0 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing information
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Position | Five-eighth | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Rugby League Project, NRL Stats
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Blake Green (born 18 September 1986) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who currently plays for the Manly Sea Eagles in the National Rugby League. He previously played in the National Rugby League for the Parramatta Eels, Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks and Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs before moving to Super League and playing for Hull Kingston Rovers and then Wigan, with whom he won the Harry Sunderland Trophy as man-of-the-match in the 2013 Super League Grand Final.
Playing junior rugby league for Cabramatta Two Blues & Hills District Bulls. Blake was attending Westfields Sports High School, and played for the Australian Schoolboys team in 2004.
Green made his professional rugby league debut during the 2007 NRL season with the Parramatta Eels before being snapped up by the Cronulla Sharks on a two-year deal. He moved to the Canterbury Bulldogs in 2010, enjoying his most consistent season to that point playing 18 games in the halves.
In October 2010 it was announced that Green had inked a two-year deal with the East Riding of Yorkshire club Hull Kingston Rovers, starting from the 2011 Super League season. Blake is linking up with former colleague Michael Dobson to form a new partnership at half-back for the Robins. Crusaders based in Wales currently playing in European Super League were also in the running to sign him as a specialist halfback for 2010's Super League XV.