Brent Webb

Not to be confused with Brant Webb.

Brent Webb

Webb playing for Leeds in 2010
Personal information
Full name	Brent Douglas Webb[1]
Born	(1979-11-08) 8 November 1979 Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Height	175 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	82 kg (12 st 13 lb) [2]
Playing information
Position	Fullback
Club
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
2002–06	NZ Warriors	103	39	27	0	210
2007–12	Leeds Rhinos	159	89	0	0	356
2013–	Catalans Dragons	8	2	0	0	8
	Total	270	130	27	0	574
Representative
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
2004–08	New Zealand	17	9	10	0	56
Source: RLP

Brent Webb (born 9 November 1979 in Cairns, Queensland, Australia) is a professional rugby league footballer for French club Catalan Dragons of Super League. A New Zealand national representative fullback, he previously played in the National Rugby League for the Warriors before moving to Super League with English club Leeds Rhinos.

Background

Of Torres Strait Islander descent, Webb was born in Cairns and educated at Townsville's Kirwan State High School. He played his junior rugby for the Cairns Kangaroos. He was the Queensland Cup leading try scorer in 2001 before being spotted by Daniel Anderson and signed by the New Zealand Warriors.

Professional playing career

New Zealand Warriors

Webb made his NRL debut for the Warriors in front of a home crowd against the Newcastle Knights on 1 April 2002, aged 21. He was named the Supporters' Player of the Year in 2003 and 2004. Webb became eligible for selection after living in New Zealand for three years. He was part of the New Zealand squad that won the 2005 Rugby League Tri-Nations. 2006 was Webb's last for the Warriors. Despite being the club's top try-scorer with a career best 11 tries, it was a frustrating season.

Leeds Rhinos

Webb played for Leeds in the Super League. The club announced they had captured the signature of New Zealand full back Brent Webb during the 2006 season on a two year contract. He came to the Headingley fresh from being one of the players of the tournament in the Tri Nations. Since making his first team debut back in 2002 Webb has established himself as an attacking full backs in NRL and later the Super League. His reputation has earned him the chant from the South Stand spectators, 'Brent Webb is Superman!'.

Brent Webb received a four match ban following two head high tackles in Leeds' 2007 match against Harlequins RL at the Twickenham Stoop.^[3] The Kiwi international had an eventful game, being placed on report twice and sin-binned, but then scoring two tries and having a hand in others.^[4]

Webb was forced to withdraw from the New Zealand national rugby league team squad for the 2008 Rugby League World Cup through injury.^[5]

On 29 June 2011 Brent signed a new 1-year deal with Leeds to keep him at the club until the end of 2012, despite reports linking him with a move to newly promoted Widnes ^[6] Later that year he played at fullback for Leeds in the 2011 Challenge Cup final which was lost to Wigan.

It was announced on 4 September 2012 that Brent Webb had signed for the Catalans Dragons on a two year deal.

Personal life

His partner Jenny gave birth to their first son in April 2007 and named him Ruben Douglas Webb, after retired Kiwis' captain Ruben Wiki.

References

External links

• Leeds profile
• tvnz.co.nz Warriors profile
• NZ Warriors profile
• Brent Webb feature
• Brent Webb at RLeague.com