Jarrod Mullen
Mullen in 2012
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Personal information
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| Full name | Jarrod Stephen Mullen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Mullo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
9 April 1987 Singleton, New South Wales, Australia |
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| Height | 178 cm (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 88 kg (13 st 12 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Playing information
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| Position | Five-eighth, Halfback | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Newcastle Knights
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| As of 21 March 2016 Source: |
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Jarrod Stephen Mullen (born 9 April 1987) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays for the Newcastle Knights of the National Rugby League (NRL). A New South Wales State of Origin representative halfback, he also plays five-eighth and has played his entire career with the Knights.
Mullen is a playmaker for the Newcastle Knights. After playing only nine first grade games as halfback and 31 games in total, he was a shock pick at that position for the New South Wales Blues in the 2007 State of Origin series. Most believed that at 20 years of age, the job would go to a more experienced playmaker, but the selectors saw him as a potential long-term prospect. Ultimately, Mullen was dropped after one game, a match in which NSW let slip an 18-6 halftime lead to lose 25-18.
Mullen was provisionally suspended on 17 January 2017 by the NRL after his A-sample tested positive for an anabolic steroid.
Born in Singleton, NSW, he moved to Newcastle with his family when he was nine. Son of Leeann and Steve Mullen, a former rugby league player who played for the Canterbury Bulldogs and Western Suburbs Magpies in the 1980s.
Jarrod played his first rugby league game aged seven for the Taree-Old Bar Lifesavers (now known as Taree Panthers), where it was obvious he had talent. Two years later (after a brief stint playing soccer), Mullen relocated to Newcastle, where he continued his junior career with the Western Suburbs club. His first representative game was for St Therese's Primary School, New Lambton, in the Regional Knights Knockout competition, with the school winning the competition in 1996 and 1997. He played most of his junior football at five-eighth.
Mullen joined the Knights as a junior in 1997 and soon stood out. Representative honours came quickly, he played five-eighth for the NSW under-17s in 2004, catching the eye of Newcastle's champion halfback Andrew Johns.
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