| Playing information | ||||||
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| Position | Halfback | |||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1994–98 | Cronulla-Sutherland | 95 | 24 | 3 | 0 | 102 |
| 1999–00 | NQ Cowboys | 35 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 28 |
| 2001–02 | Sydney Roosters | 20 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 24 |
| 2003 | Parramatta Eels | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2004 | Brisbane Broncos | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 162 | 37 | 3 | 0 | 154 | |
| Representative | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1997 | Queensland (SL) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1997 | Australia (SL) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1999–01 | Queensland (SOO) | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
Paul Green is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s. 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.
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Paul Green was a Brisbane junior and captained the Queensland Colts before winning Brisbane’s version of the Rothmans Medal in 1993 while playing with the Easts club.
Green followed his Brisbane coach John Lang to Cronulla, turning heads with the maturity and skill of his play at halfback.
In 1995, he won the ARL's prestigious Rothmans Medal award as best and fairest player.
Following Cronulla’s defection to Super League, Green was selected as a reserve in the ANZAC Test in 1997 before representing Queensland as a replacement in three 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.
Green signed with North Queensland for 1999. That season he became the club's first State of Origin representative, when he was selected as Queensland's halfback for game 2. Out of favour with coach Tim Sheens who preferred the halfback partnership of Scott Prince and Noel Goldthorpe, the Cowboys sacked Green midway through the 2000 season for allegedly negotiating with other clubs while still under contract and he turned out for the Roosters in 2001 (Green subsequently won an out-of-court settlement against the North Queensland club).
Green’s 2002 campaign was put on hold when he injured his knee in the season opener against Souths and he moved to Parramatta in 2003.
Returning to Brisbane, he made five appearances for the Broncos during the representative season before retiring.
He is coaching the Wynnum Manly Seagulls in the 2011 Queensland Cup.[1] He will coach the 2012 Queensland Residents side.[2]
Green's house in Caringbah (NSW, AUS) burned down one horrible night in 2003, he is currently living in Brisbane with wife Amanda.
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