Paul Sculthorpe

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Paul Sculthorpe

Personal information
Date of birth	September 22, 1977
Place of birth	Oldham, England
Height	6'3" (1.91m)
Weight	17st 0lbs (108Kg)
Nickname	Scully
Position	Loose-Forward / Second Row
Club information
Current club	St Helens
Number	13
Youth clubs
	Warrington Wolves
Professional clubs*
Years	Club	Apps (points)
1996-97 1997-07	Warrington Wolves St Helens	? (?) 235 (1116)
Representative teams
1998-07 1999-07	England Great Britain	? (?) ? (?)
* Professional club appearances and points counted for domestic first grade only.

Paul Sculthorpe (born in Oldham, Greater Manchester on 22nd September 1977) is a rugby league footballer. He is nicknamed Scully. He is the older brother of Wakefield Trinity Wildcats player Danny Sculthorpe.

Paul joined Saints from Warrington Wolves as a 20 year-old in a £370,000 record deal for a forward, and has fulfilled that early potential, being named as Man of Steel in 2001 and 2002, becoming the first player to retain the award. He was Saints’ sole representative in the 2002 Super League Dream Team, a feat he repeated in 2004.

In 2004, his first season as captain, he lifted the Challenge Cup after Saints’ 32-16 win over Wigan Warriors at the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff. He also joined a select band of players to have scored 100 tries and 100 goals in Super League, and in 2005 scored his 1000th point for Saints. Paul has been one of Great Britain’s leading performers in recent years, and it was no surprise when he was named as captain in 2005

Having been ruled out for the most of the 2005 season and prevented him from leading the side in the Gillette Tri-Nations tournament. He is one of the stars of the world game and also the face of Gillette. Sculthorpe's deal with razor giants Gillette is the most lucrative sponsorship deal made by any rugby league player world wide. In March 2006, Sculthorpe signed a deal with Random House to publish his no-holds barred autobiography.