Russell Packer
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| Packer while playing for the Warriors in 2009 | ||||||
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| Born | 9 October 1989 Huntly, New Zealand |
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| Height | 188 cm (6 ft 2 in) | |||||
| Weight | 103 kg (16 st 3 lb) | |||||
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| Position | Prop | |||||
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| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 2007– | NZ Warriors | 62 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
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| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 2010 | New Zealand Māori | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2011 | New Zealand | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| As of 14 June 2011 | ||||||
| Source: League Central RLP | ||||||
Russell Packer (born 9 October 1989) is a New Zealand professional rugby league footballer for the New Zealand Warriors of the National Rugby League competition. His usual position is at prop forward.
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[edit] Early years
Educated at Foxton Beach School and Manawatu College, Packer originally played rugby union from a young age for the junior Foxton rugby club and also for a junior Marist club in Nelson.
Russell also played in the Foxton Rugby League Under 14s side at the age of nine years old in a curtain raiser between the Manawatu Mustangs and Auckland Warriors reserve grade side in 1998.
Packer then played for the Levin Lions. When he was only 16 he debuted for the Central Falcons in the Bartercard Cup.
[edit] Warriors
In 2007 he signed with the New Zealand Warriors but spent most of the season playing for the Auckland Lions in the NSWRL Premier League. He also played for the Central Falcons in the final season of the Bartercard Cup. At the end of 2007 he received an offer from the Sydney Roosters but turned them down, preferring to stay in New Zealand.[1]
He made his National Rugby League debut in Round 10 on 4 May 2008 against the Canberra Raiders. He played in four other NRL games in 2008 and also played twenty games for the Junior Warriors in the new Toyota Cup competition. At the end of the season Packer was named in the National Youth Competition's Team of the Year alongside teammate Ben Matulino.[2] He finished his Toyota Cup career at the end of 2009 with twenty three appearances and five tries.[3]
[edit] Representative career
In 2005 Packer was named in the New Zealand under-16 side. He again achieved national selection in 2006 when he was named both the captain of the Junior Kiwis and as a part of the New Zealand 'A' squad.[1] In 2007 he was named in the New Zealand under-18 side.
Packer played for the New Zealand Māori in 2010 against England.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ a b Russell packs plenty of firepower Fairfax Media, 2 May 2008
- ^ "Warriors name Jones and World Cup stars". Television New Zealand. NZPA. 11 February 2009. http://tvnz.co.nz/rugby-league-news/warriors-name-jones-and-world-cup-stars-2478943. Retrieved 6 November 2011.
- ^ Russell Packer nzleague.co.nz
- ^ "League: Maori draw with England". The New Zealand Herald. 16 October 2010. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10681035&ref=rss. Retrieved 6 November 2011.
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