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Paul Sculthorpe
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| Personal information |
| Full name |
Paul Sculthorpe |
| Date of birth |
September 22, 1977 (1977-09-22) (age 30) |
| Place of birth |
Burnley, England |
| Height |
6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) |
| Weight |
17 st 0 lb (108 kg) |
| Nickname(s) |
Scully |
| Relatives |
Danny Sculthorpe |
| Club information |
| Position(s) |
Loose forward |
| Current club |
St Helens |
| Number |
13 |
| Youth clubs |
| Years |
Club |
|
Waterhead |
| Senior clubs* |
| Years |
Club |
Apps (points) |
1996 ‐ 97
1997 ‐ |
Warrington Wolves
St Helens |
78 (69)
247 (1232) |
| Representative teams |
1996 ‐
1996 ‐ 06 |
England
Great Britain |
4 (16)
26 (26) |
|
* Professional club appearances and points
counted for domestic first grade only.
|
Paul Sculthorpe (born in Burnley, Lancashire on September 22, 1977 but grew up in Oldham, Greater Manchester), is a rugby league footballer who plays for St Helens, and is nicknamed "Scully". He has won a total of four Grand Finals, three Challenge Cups and two World Club Challenges with St Helens. 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, 'Man of Steel', which was published in August 2007.
In September 2007 he signed a new 12-month contract with St Helens which will see him celebrate his Testimonial Season at the club.
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