Barry Russell (Cronulla)
- Not to be confused with Eastern Suburbs and North Sydney player Barry Russell.
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| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1985–91 | Cronulla-Sutherland | 76 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 124 |
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Barry Russell is an Australian retired professional rugby league footballer of the 1980s and 90s. He played in the halves for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks club of the NSWRL Premiership[1] with whom he won the Rothmans Medal in 1988.
A member of the same Jersey Flegg Cup team as Andrew Ettinghausen and Jonathan Docking,[2] Russell made his first-grade debut in 1985. Towards the end of the season, Russell was the team's regular five-eighth.
Russell had the first of two shoulder reconstructions after the 1985 season,[3] and took no part in 1986. His career was often hampered by injury.[4]
Despite missing six games of the 1988 NSWRL season due to injury, 23-year-old Russell was awarded the Rothmans Medal.[5]
Sources
- ↑ Barry Russell at yesterdayshero.com.au
- ↑ Jenny Stevens (21 July 1985). "Big Jack and his Kidlets". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 9 January 2012.
- ↑ "Blake to replace Hasler as Manly halfback". Sydney Morning Herald. 23 February 1986. Retrieved 9 January 2012.
- ↑ Ian Heads (28 April 1988). "Sterling shows why he is better than the King". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 9 January 2012.
- ↑ Paul Tait & Heather Smith (1 September 1988). "Cool Russell is ready to shoulder the burden for Sharks". The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia: Fairfax). p. 50. Retrieved 2010-05-06.
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