Steve Sharp (rugby league)

Steve Sharp
Personal information
Full name Steve Brian Sharp
Born 11 September 1957
Paddington, New South Wales
Playing information
Position Second-row
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1979–90 Parramatta Eels 164 7 0 0 27

Steve Sharp is an Australian rugby league football administrator and former professional player, who is currently chairman of the Parramatta Eels club, with whom he played and won three premierships in the 1980s.

Sharp started playing in Sydney's New South Wales Rugby Football League Premiership for the Parramatta Eels club during the 1979 NSWRFL season.[1] He was selected as one of Parramatta's reserves in the 1981 NSWRFL season's grand final, in which they defeated the Newtown Jets to claim their maiden premiership. Sharp was selected to play for the Eels at second-row forward in the 1982 NSWRFL season's grand final victory over the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles. At the end of the 1983 NSWRFL season Parramatta again faced Manly in the grand final and again Sharp played at second-row forward in the Eels victory, making it three consecutive premierships for the club. He was selected to play for the Eels as a reserve in the 1984 NSWRL season's grand final which was lost to the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs.[2] When the newly-build Parramatta Stadium hosted its first match in 1986, Sharp scored the first try there.[3] The 1990 NSWRL season was his last in first grade.

In May 2013 Sharp was elected Chairman of the Parramatta Eels board, replacing Roy Spagnolo.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Steve Sharp". nrlstats.com. Sports Data. Retrieved 16 October 2013.
  2. ↑ Whiticker, Alan. "Steve Sharp". rugbyleagueproject.org. Shawn Dollin, Andrew Ferguson and Bill Bates. Retrieved 16 October 2013.
  3. ↑ "Steve Sharp". yesterdayshero.com.au. SmartPack International. Retrieved 16 October 2013.
  4. ↑ Ritchie, Dean (13 May 2013). "New Parramatta chairman Steve Sharp vows to again make Eels club for the people". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 16 October 2013.