Bradley Clyde

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Brad Clyde
Culcairn, New South Wales, Australia
Height186 cm (6 ft 1 in)
Weight99 kg (15 st 8 lb)
Playing information
PositionLock, Second-row
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1988–98 Canberra Raiders 178 38 0 0 156
1999–00 Canterbury Bulldogs 36 8 0 0 32
2001 Leeds Rhinos 15 4 0 0 16
Total 229 50 0 0 204
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1989–90 NSW City 2 0 0 0 0
1989–94
New South Wales
 12 2 0 0 8
1992–94 NSW Country 2 1 0 0 4
1997
New South Wales (SL
) 		2 0 0 0 0
1989–94
Australia
 19 6 0 0 24
1997
Australia (SL
) 		2 0 0 0 0
Source: [1][2]

Bradley Clyde (born 27 January 1970) is an Australian former professional

Australian national side, and played his club football in Australia for the Canberra Raiders and Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, and in England for Leeds Rhinos
.

Clyde is one of only three players, along with Billy Slater and Nathan Cleary, to have twice won the Clive Churchill Medal as the best player in the Grand Final.

Bradley Clyde is an inductee into both the NSW Blues Hall of Fame and the NRL Hall of Fame.

Club career

He began his football career playing in the local ACT competition for the Belconnen United Sharks and was an Australian Schoolboy Representative in 1985,1986 and 1987. While attending

Australian Schoolboys team in 1986 and 1987.[4]

In 1988, Clyde was graded by the Canberra Raiders, winning the club's rookie of the year award, and soon established himself as an indispensable player for the club. He played in three

Manly in 2013), and Jack Wighton (Canberra in 2019
), he is also one of only four players to win the Clive Churchill Medal whilst on a losing Grand Final side (1991).

He was also a member of Canberra's premiership winning sides of 1989 (also winning the club's player of the year award that year). In the 1989 post season, he travelled with the Raiders to England for the 1989 World Club Challenge which was lost 30–18 to the 1988–89 Rugby Football League champions Widnes at the Old Trafford stadium in Manchester, England.

Clyde's

Eastern Suburbs Roosters at Henson Park. This caused him to miss Canberra's 18–14 win over the Penrith Panthers
in the Grand Final.

Clyde returned to the field in Round 7 of the

1994 Kangaroo tour. In a career spanning eleven seasons with the Raiders, Clyde scored 39 tries in a total of 178 games.[5]

Clyde moved from the Raiders to the Bulldogs in 1999, playing with the Belmore (Sydney) based club and scoring 8 tries in 36 games.

English Super League club Leeds Rhinos signed Clyde on a two-year deal starting in 2001.[6] He moved to the club alongside fellow Australians Brett Mullins and Tonie Carroll, finishing his playing career there.

Representative career

He made 12 appearances for

State of Origin games between 1989 and 1994 at lock forward. During his State of Origin career, Brad scored 2 tries for a total of 8 points.[7] He was well regarded as a Clyde was recalled to the New South Wales team for the 1999 series but a horse-riding accident in a team bonding exercise before the series opener ruled him out for eight weeks with a damaged shoulder.[8]

He represented

1990 Kangaroo tour
.

Clyde returned to the Australian team for the 1991 Trans-Tasman Test series against New Zealand where he was one of Australia's best in the 2–1 series win. After starring in the 1991 Grand Final loss, Clyde was named as vice-captain of the Australian team for the Tour of Papua New Guinea at the end of the year and was named Man of the Series also.

During the

Great Britain, Clyde had an unhappy game after dislocating his shoulder midway through the second half.[10]

Post-playing

Bradley Clyde is an inductee into the NRL Hall of Fame and also the NSW Blues Hall of Fame alongside Bob Fulton, Andrew Johns, Ron Coote, Laurie Daley, Bob McCarthy, and Brad Fittler.

Clyde is also an inductee into the ACT Sports Hall of Fame and the Albury-Wodonga Sports Hall of Fame. He was recognised by the Australian Government for his contribution to Rugby League by being awarded the Australian Sports Medal.

In 2002, Clyde was named in a 90s Team of the Decade. In 2005, on the 25th anniversary of

State of Origin, he was named by Rugby League Week
as one of NSW's 25 greatest players.

Clyde also made a cameo appearance in the 2006 film, Footy Legends.[11]

In February 2008, Clyde was named in the list of Australia's

ARL to celebrate the code's centenary year in Australia.[12]

Also following retirement Clyde served on the NRL Match Review Committee, the NRL Judiciary, and on the NRL Anti-Doping Tribunal.[13]

References

  1. ^ RLP
  2. ^ NRL Stats[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ "The Best Lock Forwards in Australian Rugby League History • Rugby League Opinions". 15 June 2017.
  4. ^ "SportingPulse Homepage for Australian Secondary Schools Rugby League". SportingPulse. Archived from the original on 31 January 2017. Retrieved 10 October 2008.
  5. ^ "Bradley Clyde – Career Stats & Summary – Rugby League Project".
  6. ^ "Rhinos sign Test star Clyde". BBC Sport. 8 July 2000. Retrieved 7 October 2009.
  7. ^ "Bradley Clyde BIO". FamousAussies.com.au. 12 December 2021.
  8. ^ "Legend Q&A Bradley Clyde". National Rugby League. 6 November 2019.
  9. ^ "ACT Sport Hall of Fame Inductees". actsport.com.au. ACT Sport. Archived from the original on 1 May 2011. Retrieved 2 April 2011.
  10. ^ 1992 World Cup final at Rugby League Project
  11. ^ Maddox, Gary (26 July 2007). "Lights, camera, scrum feed: league hits the big screen". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 7 October 2009.
  12. ARL. 23 February 2008. Archived from the original
    on 26 February 2008. Retrieved 23 February 2008.
  13. ^ Dean Ritchie and Christian Nicolussi (4 June 2010). "Johnathan Thurston let-off backfires on NRL". The Daily Telegraph. Australia. Retrieved 3 June 2010.

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