Morné Mellett

Morné Mellett
Personal information
Full name	Morné Melvin Mellett
Born	(1989-10-02) 2 October 1989 Boksburg, South Africa
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	115 kg (18 st 2 lb)
School(s) attended	Dr E.G. Jansen
Club information
Playing position	Loosehead Prop
Youth career
2006–07	Falcons
2007–10	Blue Bulls
Amateur team(s)
Years	Team
2010–11	UP Tuks	4	(0)
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Pts)^†
2010–14	Blue Bulls	26	(10)
2013–15	Bulls	36	(0)
2010–15	Total	62	(10)
Representative team(s)^‡
2009	S.A. Under-20	5	(0)
* Senior club appearances and points correct as of 13 June 2015. † Appearances (Points). ‡ Representative team caps and points correct as of 24 September 2012.

Morné Melvin Mellett is a former South African rugby union player, that played with the Blue Bulls provincial team between 2010 and 2014 and with the Bulls Super Rugby team between 2013 and 2015.^[1] His usual position is prop.

Career

After representing the Falcons at several youth tournaments, he joined the Blue Bulls in 2010.

He made his first team debut for the Blue Bulls in the 2010 Vodacom Cup, coming on as a substitute in their game against his former team, the Falcons.^[2] He made several appearances in this competition over the next three seasons and finally made his Currie Cup debut in the 2012 Currie Cup Premier Division against the Free State Cheetahs.^[3]

He also played for UP Tuks in the 2010 and 2011 Varsity Cup competitions.

He retired in December 2015, aged just 26, on medical advice after he suffered a vertebral artery dissection earlier in the year.^[4]

References

↑ "Player Profile Morné Mellett". sarugby.net. Retrieved 24 Sep 2012.
↑ "Valke 7-50 Blue Bulls". South African Rugby Union. 27 March 2010. Retrieved 10 December 2015.
↑ "Vodacom Blue Bulls 34-30 Toyota Free State Cheetahs". South African Rugby Union. 22 September 2012. Retrieved 10 December 2015.
↑ "Mellett calls it a day" (Press release). Bulls. 10 December 2015. Retrieved 10 December 2015.

Squads

Blue Bulls – 2013 Currie Cup Premier Division

Forwards	David Bulbring Jean Cook Jacques du Plessis Jacques Engelbrecht Dean Greyling Grant Hattingh Frik Kirsten Werner Kruger Wiaan Liebenberg Bandise Maku Bongi Mbonambi Morné Mellett Jono Ross Wilhelm Steenkamp Marcel van der Merwe Callie Visagie Jaco Visagie Willie Wepener Paul Willemse Did not play: Shaun Adendorff Deon Stegmann Dawie Steyn Schalk van Heerden Hencus van Wyk

Backs	Bjorn Basson Ulrich Beyers Clayton Blommetjies JJ Engelbrecht Travis Ismaiel Lohan Jacobs Tony Jantjies Sampie Mastriet Waylon Murray Akona Ndungane Rudy Paige Handré Pollard Jan Serfontein William Small-Smith Ruan Snyman Francois Venter Jurgen Visser Did not play: Willie du Plessis Danie Faasen Rohan Janse van Rensburg Tian Schoeman Courtnall Skosan Dries Swanepoel

Coach	Pine Pienaar

Blue Bulls – 2012 Currie Cup Premier Division

Forwards	Arno Botha Robbie Coetzee Jean Cook Rossouw de Klerk Dean Greyling Grant Hattingh Cornell Hess Frik Kirsten Juandré Kruger Werner Kruger Bongi Mbonambi Morné Mellett Franco Mostert Dewald Potgieter Jacques Potgieter Chiliboy Ralepelle CJ Stander Wilhelm Steenkamp Deon Stegmann Dawie Steyn Warwick Tecklenburg Flip van der Merwe Willie Wepener Did not play: Rayno Gerber Jono Janse van Rensburg Vincent Koch Wiaan Liebenberg

Backs	Bjorn Basson Ulrich Beyers Clayton Blommetjies Lionel Cronjé JJ Engelbrecht Louis Fouché Francois Hougaard Lohan Jacobs Zane Kirchner Sampie Mastriet Akona Ndungane Rudy Paige Johann Sadie Jan Serfontein Ruan Snyman Morné Steyn Francois Venter Jano Vermaak Jurgen Visser Did not play: Willie du Plessis Adri Jacobs Trompie Pretorius

Coach	Pine Pienaar

Blue Bulls – 2012 Vodacom Cup

Forwards	Daniel Adongo Arno Botha Zane Botha Robbie Coetzee Jean Cook Rossouw de Klerk Rayno Gerber Cornell Hess Vincent Koch Wiaan Liebenberg Bongi Mbonambi Morné Mellett Jacques Momberg Franco Mostert Jono Ross Lean Schwartz Basil Short Dawie Steyn Warwick Tecklenburg Schalk van Heerden Gerrit-Jan van Velze Jacques Verwey Did not play: Shaun Adendorff Louis Albertse JJ Breet Gerno Eksteen Victor Hechter Marvin Orie Stephan Pretorius Juan Schoeman Stephan Schoeman CJ Stander Jason Thomas Hencus van Wyk

Backs	Ulrich Beyers Clayton Blommetjies Wesley Dunlop Jean du Plessis Willie du Plessis Lohan Jacobs Tony Jantjies Sampie Mastriet Jerome Pretorius Jan Serfontein Courtnall Skosan Ruan Snyman Rudi van Rooyen Francois Venter Jurgen Visser Did not play: Travis Ismaiel Adri Jacobs Pieter Oosthuizen Xander Redelinghuys

Coach	Pine Pienaar

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