Lachlan Anderson (born 27 August 1997) is an Australian professional

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footballer who plays

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for

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franchise the

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, having formerly played for the

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, and the

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. In his early career, he was selected to play in the 2017

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s for

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and plays for

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club Eastwood. Anderson grew up in

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and played rugby for Dural rugby club. He was educated at

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where he played rugby and captained the first XV, the top representative team in secondary school with

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player

Ryan Papenhuyzen Ryan Papenhuyzen (born 10 June 1998) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a for the Melbourne Storm in the National Rugby League. Papenhuyzen won the 2020 NRL Grand Final with Melbourne, winning the Clive Churchi ...

. In rugby sevens he made his

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debut in

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in 2017. Anderson has also represented his country at the

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. Anderson was a member of the Australian men's rugby seven's squad at the

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. The team came third in their pool round and then lost to Fiji 19-nil in the quarterfinal. On 31 May 2025, Anderson scored a record-breaking four tries in the first half against the

Fijian Drua The Fijian Drua (currently known as the Swire Shipping Fijian Drua for sponsorship reasons) is a professional rugby union team based in Fiji that competes in the Super Rugby. The team was created by the Fiji Rugby Union and launched in August ...

. He became the first Reds player to score four tries in a game since the beginning of the professional era and joined

Joe Roff Joseph Ward Roff (born 20 September 1975) is an Australian former professional rugby union footballer who played on the Wing (rugby union), wing or at Fullback (rugby union), fullback for ACT Brumbies and Australia national rugby union team, A ...

(1996) and

Drew Mitchell Drew Alan Mitchell (born 26 March 1984) is a former Australian rugby union professional player. He played on the wing or as fullback. Up to the 2006 season he played for the Queensland Reds. He played for the Western Force for the 2007–09 Su ...

(2010) as the only Australian players to achieve this feat in Super Rugby.

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