Michael Porter (born 25 March 1964) 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 for the

Cronulla Sharks The Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks are an Australian professional rugby league club based in the Sutherland Shire of Southern Sydney, New South Wales. Cronulla compete in the National Rugby League (NRL), Australasia's premier rugby league compet ...

. Porter is the son of premiership winning St. George second rower

Monty Porter Montague "Monty" Porter Public Service Medal (Australia), PSM (1934–2011) was an Australian premiership winning and New South Wales rugby league team, state representative rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s and 1960s. He was a R ...

, who was Cronulla's inaugural captain in 1967. A local junior from the

Engadine Dragons The Cronulla-Sutherland District Rugby Football League (Cronulla-Sutherland District Junior Rugby Football League in the case of junior football) is an amateur competition for rugby league clubs in and around the Sutherland Shire district of S ...

, Porter debuted for Cronulla in 1984 and started out as a prop. He made 154 first-grade appearances for Cronulla, often featuring as a hooker, which included finals series in both 1988 and 1989. In 1988/89 he spent a season in England with the

Hull Kingston Rovers Hull Kingston Rovers (often abbreviated to Hull KR) are a professional rugby league club based in Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, England. The club play home games at Craven Park, Hull, Craven Park and compete in Super League, the top tier of B ...

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Michael Porter
at Rugby League project {{DEFAULTSORT:Porter, Michael 1964 births Living people Australian rugby league players Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks players Hull Kingston Rovers players Rugby league players from Sydney Rugby league props 20th-century Australian sportsmen