Rex Terp (born 13 March 1970) is an Australian former professional

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footballer who played for

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and

Illawarra Steelers The Illawarra Steelers are an Australian rugby league football club based in the city of Wollongong, New South Wales. The club competed in Australia's top-level rugby league competition from 1982 until 1998. On 13 December 1980, they were the ...

. He played his football in the backline, as a centre and winger.

Playing career

Terp, who comes from the New South Wales town of Wauchope, spent a season in England playing for

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in 1989/90, before embarking on a career in the NSWRL.Alan Whiticker/Glen Hudson: Encyclopedia of Rugby League Players, 1995. From 1991 to 1994 he played first-grade for the

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and was on the bench for the club's 1992 and 1993 grand final losses to

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. He played for Illawarra in the

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, before suffering a knee injury which restricted him to three first-grade appearances. During his time in the NSWRL/ARL he continued to work as a postman, the job he had held in Wauchope.

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