Matt King (rugby league)
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| Personal information | ||||||
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| Full name | Matthew King | |||||
| Born |
22 August 1980 Casino, New South Wales, Australia |
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| Playing information | ||||||
| Height | 190 cm (6 ft 3 in) | |||||
| Weight | 100 kg (15 st 10 lb) | |||||
| Position | Centre, Wing | |||||
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| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 2003–07 | Melbourne Storm | 91 | 60 | 1 | 0 | 242 |
| 2008–11 | Warrington Wolves | 106 | 66 | 0 | 0 | 264 |
| 2012–13 | South Sydney Rabbitohs | 23 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 28 |
| Total | 220 | 133 | 1 | 0 | 534 | |
| Representative | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 2004–12 | Country NSW | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2005–07 | New South Wales | 9 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 24 |
| 2005–07 | Australia | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
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Matt King (born 22 August 1980) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer. A New South Wales State of Origin and Australian international representative three-quarter back, he played in Super League for English club Warrington Wolves and in the National Rugby League (NRL) for the South Sydney Rabbitohs and Melbourne Storm, with whom he won the 2007 NRL Grand Final. During his time in England he won the 2009 and 2010 Challenge Cups with Warrington and was also named at centre in the 2010 Super League Dream Team.
King began playing rugby league at the age of seven for his local club side the Casino RSM Cougars in northern New South Wales. When Matt was eleven he moved to Wauchope where he played Junior League for the Wauchope Blues in the under-11 and under-12 teams before moving back to Casino. He attended St Mary's Primary School and then went on to attend St Mary's High School (St Mary's Catholic College) until Year 10. When back in Casino, King joined the Lismore Marist Brothers Rams who went on to win the Group 1 A-Grade Premiership. In 2000, he was signed by the North Sydney Bears where he worked his way through the grades at the club playing in both Jersey Flegg and reserve grade. King suffered a serious shoulder injury in 2002 while playing off the bench for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks' reserve grade side and then quit rugby league because of a claimed disinterest.
After hanging up his boots at the age of 22, King took up several odd jobs such as working as a bar man and even a garbage collector. Ray Warren began to refer to him as "Ropehead", after his return to the NRL with dreadlocked hair. before deciding to give rugby league another go in 2003, signing with the Melbourne Storm's feeder club, Brisbane Norths on the insistence of former North Sydney teammate Matt Orford who was now at the Storm.
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