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Mark Gasnier is reportedly looking to return to the NRL for the remainder of the 2010 season, with a possible new deal with the St George Illawarra Dragons. It is believed the deal offered by the Dragons for the remainder of the 2010 season is worth just $50,000 however it will be backended in 2011 and 2012. Gasnier is also reportedly attracting interest from a number of other clubs including Newcastle Knights and Sydney City Roosters. |
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Mark Gasnier (born 19 July 1981 in Sydney, NSW) is an Australian rugby leauge footballer for the St.George Illawarra Dragons, returning from French rugby union team Stade Francais
Rugby league
Early career
While attending Peakhurst High School, Gasnier played for the Australian Schoolboys team in 1998 and 1999.[1]
Gasnier played his junior rugby in the St George District with the Renown United club. He toured New Zealand with the Australian Schoolboys in 1998. Gasnier made his 1st Grade debut for the Dragons in round 8 of the 2000 season against Newcastle Knights and made his International debut in a 2001 Test against the PNG Kumuls and scored a try in each.
2006
After stamping himself as the best centre in the game, it was rumoured that Mark Gasnier would make a move to rugby union. Gasnier held highly publicised talks with Wallaby Coach John Connolly and New South Wales Waratahs Coach Ewen McKenzie. However he ultimately signed a new one year contract, with further one year options for the next four years with the St George Illawarra Dragons.
2007
In early 2007 it was announced that Mark Gasnier, Ben Hornby and Jason Ryles would captain St George Illawarra. Controversially, given his reputation as centre, Gasnier was moved to five-eighth for the Dragons following Trent Barrett's move to the Wigan Warriors. However, Gasnier tore his pectoral muscle tackling Nigel Vagana in the Charity Shield pre-season trial and was unable to play again until July. On 21 July, Gasnier made his long – awaited return to the Dragons, in the five-eighth position, with his team winning 38–20 against the Penrith Panthers.
Despite Gasnier's shortened season, he was selected for the Australian Kangaroos in October to play the New Zealand Kiwis in Wellington. Gasnier spent 24 minutes on the field before being knocked out by a Steve Matai high tackle. Suffering from concussion, Gasnier was unable to participate further in the game.[2]
2004 controversy
In 2004 Gasnier was dropped from the NSW State of Origin team following a complaint that he had made a lewd telephone call to a woman. After a night of heavy drinking he and team-mates Anthony Minichiello, Craig Wing and Craig Fitzgibbon were in a taxi when Gasnier rang a number on Minchiello's mobile phone, leaving a message that he and three other footballers were feeling "toey and kinky". [3] League comedians Roy and HG have since referred to Gasnier as "Fire Up", in reference to the voicemail message, and he has been lampooned by Matthew "Reg Reagan" Johns over the subject. Gasnier was selected to play game III for the blues and scored two tries.
2008
Mark Gasnier was named sole captain of the Dragons for the 2008 season. He paired up with Matt Cooper in the centres. Gasnier was selected to play for Australia on 9 May and scored the first two tries.He was selected for origin 1 against the Maroons, and helped set up two tries. He was also picked for origin 2 despite carrying an injury, but was unable to play the 3rd game.
In July, 2008 Gasnier reported that he would switch to rugby union at the end of the season to link up with French club Stade Français. Gasnier played his final game for the Dragons against the Manly Sea Eagles at Brookvale in the 3rd Qualifying Final, scoring the Dragons' only points.
2010 onwards
Mark Gasnier is reportedly looking to return to the NRL for the remainder of the 2010 season, with a possible new deal with the St George Illawarra Dragons. It is believed the deal offered by the Dragons for the remainder of the 2010 season is worth just $50,000 however it will be backended in 2011 and 2012. Gasnier is also reportedly attracting interest from a number of other clubs including Newcastle Knights and Sydney City Roosters.
Rugby union career
Gasnier joined French rugby union club Stade Français from October 2008 on a two year deal worth approximately €300,000 a season. Upon joining the Paris club he was coached by former NSW Waratahs coach Ewen McKenzie.[4] After finishing the rugby league season with the Dragons, Gasnier flew out to France to start his rugby union career when the Dragons dropped out of the finals. For his debut with Stade Français on 26 September 2008, Gasnier played right wing and ran in for a try, finishing off a fine display of passing rugby by the Stade backs, against Bourgoin-Jallieu at the Stade des Alpes in Grenoble before getting injured. On 24 January 2009 he scored the decisive try in a Heineken Cup victory over Ulster. [5] Gasnier also scored a brilliant solo try beating 8 defenders in a 30 metre run to the line in Stade Français' 23–18 victory over French rivals SC Albigeois at the Stade Jean Bouin in Paris on 5 November 2009. He is known as "Les Gaz!" by the fans.[6].
Gasnier continued his prolific 2009/10 season by scoring his 6th try of the campaign against Bayonne in round 15 in front of more than 70,000 fans at the Stade de France in Paris. This made him the Top 14's leading try scorer and he continues to impress after switching codes.[7] In April 2010 Gasnier was reportly talking with coach Rod Macqueen about the possibility of Gasnier signing with the Melbourne Rebels for the team's debut in the expanded Super 14, February 2010.<ref>{{cite web
rugby league return Gasnier returned to rugby league team St.george illawarra dragons on wednesday 12th may, 2010
References
- ^ "SportingPulse Homepage for Australian Secondary Schools Rugby League". SportingPulse. Retrieved 10 October 2008.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ "No hard feelings over head-hunt". Fox Sports News. 16 October 2007. Retrieved 22 October 2007.
{{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Sydney Telegraph, 21 May 2004
- ^ I am not pillaging NRL – McKenzie
- ^ Ulster show plenty of heart in Paris defeat
- ^ http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-sport/gasnier-shows-french-a-touch-of-magic-20091106-i18c.html
- ^ http://www.heavensgame.com/competitions/french-top-14/top-14-round-15-review-racing-keep-winning-ways-going-and-plenty-more.html