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| Nickname | Sutto, Johnny | |||||
| Born | 5 November 1984 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
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| Height | 190 cm (6 ft 3 in) | |||||
| Weight | 102 kg (16 st 1 lb) | |||||
| Playing information | ||||||
| Position | Five-eighth, Lock | |||||
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| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 2004– | South Sydney | 155 | 35 | 7 | 1 | 155 |
| Representative | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 2008–09 | City Origin | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| As of 2 August 2009 | ||||||
| Source: RLP | ||||||
John Sutton (born 5 November 1984 in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer for the South Sydney Rabbitohs of the National Rugby League competition. He primarily played at lock or centre but is now a five eighth.
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Sutton's junior football was played at Kensington and with the Coogee Wombats. He made his first grade debut in Round 17 of the 2004 season for the South Sydney Rabbitohs against the Brisbane Broncos at Suncorp Stadium.
In 2007, whilst playing against the Broncos he suffered a shoulder injury attempting to score the Rabbitohs' match-winning try in dramatic circumstances. He was ruled to have knocked on following a late attempt from Broncos fullback Karmichael Hunt to prevent the try. Souths lost the match 8-4 after a scoreless hour of play.
In 2009, Sutton moved to play at five eighth for the Rabbitohs.[1] In 2009 Sutton won the George Piggins Medal as the South Sydney Rabbitohs' best and fairest player for the season.[2]
In 2005, Sutton was selected for the Australian Prime Minister's XIII.
Due to his Rotuman mother, Sutton qualifies to play for the Fiji Bati. Fiji attempted to call Sutton up for their training squad for the 2008 Rugby League World Cup,[3] but he pulled out citing injury. Sutton has never played for Fiji.[4][5]
Sutton was named in the preliminary 40 man squad for game 1 of the 2009 State of Origin series and was selected for City in the City vs Country match on 8 May 2009.[6] He was one of the favorite for the NSW halves combination, but injured a knuckle during the City-Country match (Ironically replaced in that game by Craig Wing) and missed the Origin series as a result.
Sutton is a member of the Maroubra Bra Boys brotherhood.[7] He is the older brother of Joanna Sutton.
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