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Born |
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
20 February 1992 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 190 cm (6 ft 3 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 103 kg (16 st 3 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing information
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Position | Second-row, Lock, Prop | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kyle Turner (born 20 February 1992) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who currently plays for the South Sydney Rabbitohs in the National Rugby League. He plays at second-row and lock, but can also fill in as a prop and as a centre. He played in the Rabbitohs' 2014 NRL Premiership winning team and has represented the Indigenous All Stars.
Born in Sydney, New South Wales, Turner is of Indigenous Australian descent and played his junior rugby league for the Coonabarabran Unicorns, before being signed by the South Sydney Rabbitohs. As a youngster, he played for the New South Wales Indigenous Under-16s team. In 2011 and 2012, Turner played for the South Sydney Rabbitohs' NYC team before moving on to the Rabbitohs' New South Wales Cup team, North Sydney Bears in 2013. On 1 March 2013, Turner re-signed with the Rabbitohs on a 2-year contract to the end of the 2015 season.
In Round 3 of the 2014 NRL season, Turner made his NRL debut for Rabbitohs against the Wests Tigers, playing off the interchange bench in the Rabbitohs' 16-25 loss at ANZ Stadium. In Round 6 against the Penrith Panthers, he scored his first NRL career try in the Rabbitohs' 18-2 win at Penrith Stadium. On 5 October, he played off the interchange bench in the Rabbitohs' 2014 NRL Grand Final win over the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs. He finished the 2014 season having playing 25 matches and scoring six tries.