Paul Dunn (rugby league)
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| Personal information | ||||||
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| Full name | Paul Anthoney Dunn | |||||
| Born |
7 August 1963 Molong, New South Wales, Australia |
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| Playing information | ||||||
| Height | 189 cm (6 ft 2 1⁄2 in) | |||||
| Position | Prop | |||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1984–85 | Easts (Sydney) | 36 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| 1986–90 | Canterbury-Bankstown | 100 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| 1991–92 | Penrith Panthers | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993–95 | Parramatta Eels | 60 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1996 | Sydney City Roosters | 24 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Total | 254 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 36 | |
| Representative | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1986–88 | Australia | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1988–89 | New South Wales | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1988–91 | Country NSW | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Source: RLP Yesterdays Hero | ||||||
Paul Dunn (born 7 August 1963) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1980s and 1990s. A New South Wales State of Origin and Australian international representative forward, he played club football in Sydney for Eastern Suburbs, Canterbury-Bankstown, Parramatta and Penrith.
Dunn was born in the small country New South Wales town of Molong on 7 August 1963 and grew up in both Orange and Bathurst. Paul Dunn moved to Sydney at the age of 19 and played a season with Bondi United.
In 1983 Dunn began his 1st Grade Career in the NSWRL premiership with Sydney's Eastern Suburbs club, where he played for two years before moving to the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, his most successful club where he played 100 games over 5 years. At the end of the 1986 NSWRL season, he went on the 1986 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France. A major player and staff change at the Bulldogs prompted a move to the Penrith Panthers where Dunn spent 2 years before moving to the Parramatta Eels his most unsuccessful club where he retired at the end of 1995 before returning for one year to his first club, the newly re-branded Sydney City Roosters.
In New South Wales Rugby League season 1988 Dunn was the recipient of the Clive Churchill Medal for his man-of-the-match performance at prop in the Grand Final-winning Canterbury team. Dunn also played for the Penrith Panthers, winning another premiership with them in NSWRL season 1991. Following the grand final victory he travelled with the Panthers to England for the 1991 World Club Challenge which was lost to Wigan. He also played for the Sydney Roosters and Parramatta Eels clubs.
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