| Personal information | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Steven Turner | |||||
| Born | 10 October 1984 Sydney, Australia |
|||||
| Height | 177 cm (5 ft 9 in) | |||||
| Weight | 86 kg (13 st 7 lb) | |||||
| Playing information | ||||||
| Position | Wing, Fullback | |||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 2002–03 | Penrith Panthers | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2004–09 | Melbourne Storm | 105 | 59 | 14 | 0 | 264 |
| 2010– | Canterbury Bulldogs | 45 | 19 | 40 | 0 | 156 |
| Total | 152 | 78 | 54 | 0 | 420 | |
| Representative | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 2008 | New South Wales | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| As of 15 July 2010 | ||||||
| Source: Yesterday's Hero | ||||||
Steve Turner, (born on the 10 October 1984 in Sydney) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs in the National Rugby League (NRL) competition. A New South Wales State of Origin representative winger, he previously played for the Penrith Panthers before joining the Storm. With the Storm he won the 2007 and 2009 NRL Grand finals. Despite this, he still considers himself to be a premiership player.[1] In 2010 he linked with the Canterbury club.
Turner was educated at St Dominics College.[1] He started playing rugby league as a seven-year-old with Cambridge Park in Sydney's west. Also an under-15 state level touch football player, Turner was signed by the Penrith Panthers in 2000. He was a standout for Penrith's Harold Matthews side and won selection in the NSW under-17 team. In 2001, he was the Panthers SG Ball Player of the Year. During this time he was coached by current Gold Coast Titans coach, John Cartwright. He went on to play for NSW under-19s and the Junior Kangaroos and in 2002 he made his first grade debut for the Panthers against the Melbourne Storm. Turner then signed with Melbourne the next year. The reason given for the move to the Storm was that he was overshadowed by Queensland representative fullback Rhys Wesser. For Melbourne he played on the wing in the 2006 NRL Grand Final which they lost to the Brisbane Broncos.
In 2007, Turner was to be one of the inaugural members of the newly admitted Gold Coast Titans side after he announced in 2006 that he had signed a new deal to the Gold Coast. Turner agreed to join the Titans until the end of 2009 in June only to later change his mind and re-sign with the Storm for another three years.
On 16 January, the Titans agreed to release Turner to the Storm in exchange for two players [2]. In 2007 and 2009 Steve Turner was a member of the Storm's grand winning side.
He made his NSW State of Origin debut in Game II 2008 but has not played for the Blues since. The Blues were beaten 30-0 by the Maroons.
He signed with the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs for the 2010 and 2011 seasons on a 2 year deal, competing for the place left by retiring Bulldogs icon Hazem El Masri. He scored his first double for the club in the Bulldogs' 60–14 thrashing of the Sydney Roosters in Round 3.
|
|
|||||
|
|||||
|
|||||