Matt Riddle (rugby league)
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| Full name | Matthew Riddle | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 18 March 1983 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Wing | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Matt Riddle (born 18 March 1983) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played for the South Sydney Rabbitohs in the National Rugby League (NRL).
Biography
[edit]Riddle, who grew up in the NSW north coast town of Lennox Head, started his career with Canterbury.[2] He was a member of the Bulldogs' 2001 Jersey Flegg premiership winning team and scored the winning try in the grand final win over Cronulla.[3] At the World Sevens in 2003 he was tournament's the leading point-scorer with 40 points, but didn't make a first-grade appearance while with the Canterbury club and left for South Sydney after that season.[2]
In the 2004 NRL season he featured as a goal-kicking winger for South Sydney in the first two rounds of the season. On debut against the Sydney Roosters he scored a second half try and kicked two goals from five attempts, in a 10-point loss.[4] The following round against the Wests Tigers he finished on the winning side courtesy of a golden point field goal by Willie Peters and scored from all four of his shots on goal, with two conversions and two penalties.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Collis, Ian (2018). The A to Z of Rugby League Players. New Holland Publishers. ISBN 9781921024986.
- ^ a b "Not much of a final but what a somersault". The Sydney Morning Herald. 3 February 2003.
- ^ "Jersey Flegg Grand Final". The Sydney Morning Herald. Newspapers.com. 1 October 2001.
- ^ "Roosters down Souths 26-16". The Sydney Morning Herald. 15 March 2004.
- ^ "Peters kicks Souths to golden point glory". ABC News. 21 March 2004.
External links
[edit]- Matt Riddle at Rugby League project
