Danny Buderus

Danny Buderus

Personal information
Nickname	Bedsy
Born	(1978-02-06) 6 February 1978 (age 39) Taree, New South Wales, Australia
Playing information
Height	185 cm (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	96 kg (15 st 2 lb)
Position	Hooker
Club Years Team Pld T G FG P 1997–08 Newcastle Knights 220 58 0 0 232 2009–11 Leeds Rhinos 82 15 0 0 60 2012–13 Newcastle Knights 37 3 1 0 14 Total 339 76 1 0 306 Representative Years Team Pld T G FG P 2001–08 NSW Country 5 1 0 0 4 2002–08 New South Wales 21 2 0 0 8 2001–06 Australia 24 2 0 0 8 2011 Exiles 1 0 0 0 0
Coaching information
Club Years Team Gms W D L W% 2015 Newcastle Knights 6 2 0 4 33
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Danny Buderus (born 6 February 1978) is an Australian rugby league coach and former professional footballer of the 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s. An Australian international and New South Wales State of Origin representative hooker, he played in the National Rugby League for Australian club, the Newcastle Knights, with whom he won a Dally M Medal and the 2001 NRL Premiership before setting a new record for most games with the club. Buderus also played in Super League for English club, the Leeds Rhinos, with whom he won 2011's Super League XVI. He set the record for most appearances as captain of the New South Wales State of Origin team at 15 and for most consecutive appearances for the side at 21. Buderus also played representative football for the Exiles and New South Wales Country. In 2015, he took up an interim coaching role with the Knights and continued as an assistant coach in 2016.

Born in Taree, New South Wales, Buderus played his junior football for Taree Red Rovers and played 1 season for Taree United. In 1995, while attending St Francis Xavier's College, Hamilton, Buderus played for the Australian Schoolboys team.