Paul Green (rugby league)

Paul Green

Personal information
Full name	Paul Gregory Green
Born	(1972-09-12) 12 September 1972 (age 45) Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Playing information
Height	167 cm (5 ft 6 in)
Weight	80 kg (12 st 8 lb)
Position	Halfback, Hooker
Club Years Team Pld T G FG P 1994–98 Cronulla Sharks 95 24 3 0 102 1999–00 North Queensland 35 7 0 0 28 2001–02 Sydney Roosters 20 6 0 1 25 2003 Parramatta Eels 7 0 0 0 0 2004 Brisbane Broncos 5 0 0 0 0 Total 162 37 3 1 155 Representative Years Team Pld T G FG P 1998–01 Queensland 7 1 0 0 4 1997 Australia (SL) 2 0 0 0 0 1997 Queensland (SL) 3 0 0 0 0
Coaching information
Club Years Team Gms W D L W% 2014– North Queensland 115 70 0 45 61
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Paul Gregory Green (born 12 September 1972) is an Australian professional rugby league football coach and former player. He is currently the head coach of the North Queensland Cowboys of the National Rugby League, whom he guided to their first premiership in 2015. A Queensland State of Origin and Australian international representative halfback, he played for several clubs throughout his career and won the Rothmans Medal in 1995.

A Wynnum Manly Seagulls junior, Green captained the Queensland Colts before winning Brisbane Rugby League's Rothmans Medal in 1993 while playing with for the Easts Tigers.

In 1994, Green followed his Easts' coach John Lang to Sydney's Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks, turning heads with the maturity and skill of his play at halfback. In his rookie season in the NSWRL, Green played 24 games. In 1995, he backed up his solid debut season by winning the ARL's prestigious Rothmans Medal award as best and fairest player. Following Cronulla’s defection to Super League, Green was selected for Australia as a reserve in the 1997 ANZAC Test before representing Queensland as a replacement in three Super League Tri-Series matches. At the end of the season, he was chosen as halfback in the return Test against New Zealand in September but an injury kept him out of Australia’s tour of Great Britain. After missing just one match in four seasons, a serious shoulder injury restricted Green to just four matches in 1998.