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Wayne Bartrim
Personal information
Full nameWayne Bartrim
Born (1971-10-09) 9 October 1971 (age 52)
Hat Head, New South Wales, Australia
Playing information
Height179 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight92 kg (14 st 7 lb; 203 lb)
PositionLock, Hooker
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1991–94
Gold Coast
 77 18 76 0 224
1995–98 St. George Dragons 83 19 242 0 560
1999–01
St George Illawarra
 72 8 171 0 374
2002–03 Castleford 48 9 171 0 378
Total 280 54 660 0 1536
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1995–98
Queensland
 9 0 11 0 22
1995–96
Australia
 4 3 0 0 12
Source: [1]

Wayne Bartrim (born 9 October 1971), is an Australian former professional

Queensland during his career, which he spent playing for the Gold Coast Seagulls, St. George Dragons and the St. George Illawarra Dragons in Australia and the Castleford Tigers (Heritage No. 785) in England. Bartrim primarily played his club career as a lock, but played his representative career as a hooker
.

Background

Born in Hat Head, New South Wales on 9 October 1971, Bartrim played his junior football in Kempsey, New South Wales.

Playing career

1990s

Bartrim was graded with the

Eastern Suburbs Roosters scored a club record of 20 points. He joined the St. George Dragons
in 1995 and in his seven-year career with the club was the club's highest point scorer in seasons 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 and 1999.

He was one of the senior players at the time of the merger with the Illawarra Steelers and captained the club on a number of occasions. Bartrim made his début for Queensland as a hooker in the

Suncorp Stadium, and appeared in two Tests of that series (won 3-0 by the Australians), scoring a try in the second game at the Sydney Football Stadium
.

Injury forced him to miss the final game of the series and he was replaced by

1994 Kangaroos backup hooker Jim Serdaris. At the end of the 1995 ARL season Bartrim was in Australia's squad for the 1995 Rugby League World Cup played in England and made two appearances in games against England (at the famous Wembley Stadium in the opening game of the tournament, won 20-16 by the host nation). He also played in the Kangaroos 86–6 win over South Africa in Gateshead
.

Bartrim was again Queensland's starting hooker in Game I of the

1998 series playing at Lock, Hooker, the second-row, or off the interchange bench. In total, he played nine games and kicked eleven goals in his Origin career. He played at lock forward for the St. George club in their 1999 NRL Grand Final loss to Melbourne
.

2000s

Bartrim left St. George at the end of the 2001 NRL season to play two years in England with the Castleford Tigers. He set the Castleford club's record for most goals in a season with 115 scored in 2002. Whilst at Castleford Tigers Bartrim proved an excellent signing. In 2002 he scored a vital try in a game against Salford to get the tigers into the playoffs. In 2003 Bartrim was injured for most of the season, ]. Bartrim left the club at the end of the 2003 season.[2] At the end of 2003, Bartrim returned to Australia to settle in Hat Head and was the Macleay Valley Mustangs' captain-coach in the NSW Group 2 competition in 2004 and 2005. In 2006, he moved to Brisbane and played with the Noosa Pirates in the Sunshine Coast Rugby League competition in 2006 and 2007. He is married and has 4 children.

References

  1. ^ "Wayne Bartrim – Career Stats & Summary – Rugby League Project". Rugby League Project.
  2. ISBN 1875169571
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