Paul Carige
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Full name | Paul Jeffery Carige | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 5 August 1973 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 187 cm (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 102 kg (16 st 1 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Position | Fullback, Centre, Wing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Paul Carige (born 5 August 1973) is an Australian former rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s. He played for the Illawarra Steelers, Parramatta Eels, and the Salford City Reds. He mostly played at centre, but occasionally he played the odd game at fullback or wing.
Playing career
Carige made his first-grade début for the Illawarra Steelers in round 2 of the 1996 season, an 18–10 loss to the Auckland Warriors at Ericsson Stadium. He played 16 games and scored one try in his début season.[2]
In 1997, Carige joined the Parramatta Eels. The 1997 season also saw the recruitment of a new coach, former Illawarra Steelers and St. George Dragons mentor Brian Smith. Smith's appointment saw a reversal in the club's fortunes, taking the Parramatta club from being perennial easybeats (not having made a finals appearance since their last premiership win in 1986) to title contenders, although the club lost both of their finals matches that year to the Newcastle Knights and the North Sydney Bears in weeks 1 and 2 of the finals series respectively.[3] In 1998, the Parramatta side went even closer to breaking their premiership drought, going within one game of making their first Grand Final appearance since 1986.
Carige is probably best remembered for his poor performance in Parramatta's 32–20 extra-time loss to arch-rivals the
In 1999, Carige joined an English Super League side, the Salford City Reds. After playing 27 games and scoring seven tries for the Reds, Carige left Salford at the end of the 1999 Super League season.
In 2000, Carige played for the Newtown Jets in the NSW Cup competition.[7] Carige then returned to Queensland, where he went on to play for the
In November 2018, Carige unexpectedly made a comeback after several years in hiding, taking to the field for Parramatta in the Legends of League tournament.[9]
References
- ^ Paul Carige rugbyleagueproject.org
- ISBN 0-7322-5787-5
- ISBN 0-7322-6424-3
- ^ SANTAROSSA, ADAM (3 September 2015). "VIDEO: Worst rugby league error of all time?".
- ^ "Horror game still dogs Carige - Herald Sun".
- ^ "Category". Herald Sun. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
- ^ "Throw Back Thursday – Once Were Warriors". www.newtownjets.com. 30 May 2019.
- ^ "Bombers bring in big guns to turn fortunes".
- ^ "Parramatta at Legends of League tournament". 18 November 2018.