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Mathew Guberina is an Australian former professional
rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as rugby league in English-speaking countries and rugby 13/XIII in non-Anglophone Europe, is a contact sport, full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular Rugby league playin ...
footballer who played in the 1990s. He played for
Manly-Warringah The Manly Warringah Sea Eagles are an Australian professional rugby league club based in Sydney's Northern Beaches. They compete in the National Rugby League (NRL). The Manly club debuted in the 1947 New South Wales Rugby Football League seaso ...
in the ARL competition.


Playing career

Before joining Manly, Guberina played for the
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. He has the distinction of being the first rugby player to ever be sent to the sin bin. The sin bin was introduced at the start of the 1994 season and Mathew was sent off during Round 1 vs. Eastwood. In round 7 of the
1995 ARL season The 1995 ARL premiership was the 88th season of professional rugby league football in Australia, and the first to be run by the Australian Rugby League following the hand-over of the Premiership's administration by the New South Wales Rugby Lea ...
, he made his first grade debut against
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at the
Willows Sports Complex The Willows Sports Complex (last known as 1300SMILES Stadium due to naming rights) was a grass football stadium situated in Townsville, Queensland, Australia. It was used predominantly as a rugby league ground as the home ground of the North Que ...
. Guberina played a total of three years at Manly with each season seeing the club winning the
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and claiming the 1996 premiership defeating
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in the grand final.


References

1971 births Manly Warringah Sea Eagles players Australian rugby league players Rugby league props Living people Rugby league players from Sydney Australian rugby union players Warringah Rugby Club players Footballers who switched code {{Australia-rugbyleague-bio-1990s-stub