Paul Stringer
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15 April 1976 Gosford, New South Wales, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Paul Stringer (born 2 December 1976, Gosford, New South Wales) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s. He played with the North Sydney Bears, Northern Eagles, South Sydney Rabbitohs and the Parramatta Eels years spanning 1997-2006. He played 2 matches for the Country Origin side in 2002 and 2005. He main position was Prop.
Stringer attended Berkeley Vale Community High School on the Central Coast of New South Wales. This is the same school that produced Australia Rugby Union Wallaby star Adam Ashley-Cooper, Scottish and British Lions player Nathan Hines and Olympic Marathon runner and City to Surf winner, Martin Dent.
Stringer made 27 appearances for North Sydney between 1997-1999 and was a member of The North Sydney side which played it's final ever first grade game against The North Queensland Cowboys in Townsville. [1]
Stringer was a key player in Parramatta's Minor Premiership in 2005 and again earned representative honours as a starting Prop for the Country Origin side. Having been forced to retire prematurely in 2006 due to a neck injury, Stringer commenced as Head Coach of the Wyong Kangaroos in 2007. Having withdrawn from the Central Coast competition and joined the much stronger Newcastle Rugby League, Stringer led the club to a grand final appearance in his first year in charge, losing to Lakes United. In 2009, Stringer led the club to their first premiership in the Newcastle Premiership when he coached the side to a comprehensive defeat of the heavily fancied Cessnock 36-4.
After leaving Wyong, Stringer joined the coaching ranks at Wests Tigers in 2015, taking charge of the forwards in the Under 20s competition. Head coach Jason Taylor then promoted Stringer to take charge as Coach of the Wests Tigers NSW Cup side in 2016. This saw a marked improvement for the club at this level as Stringer galvanised the playing group and led them to the brink of an unlikely grand final birth, falling agonisingly short with a 24-18 loss to the highly fancied Mounties with less than 3 minutes to play. Wests Tigers management again moved to promote Stringer in their coaching hierarchy for the 2017 NRL season where he will take up duties alongside Jason Taylor as the Assistant Coach of the NRL First Grade side.