St Clair Comets Rugby League Football Club are is an Australian
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 ...
football club based in
St Clair, New South Wales
St Clair is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is 44 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Penrith and is part of the Greater Western Sydney region. St ...
formed in 1984 as West St Clair. The club now has over 700 registered players and is considered one of the biggest clubs in the Penrith area.
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Notable players
*Michael Withers
Michael Withers (born 16 May 1976) is a former Ireland international rugby league footballer who played as a and in the 1990s and 2000s. He played club football in Australia for the Balmain Tigers in the National Rugby League, and in England ...
*Ned Catic
Ned Catic (born 2 August 1978) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s. He played at club level for the Penrith Panthers, Sydney Roosters, Wakefield Trinity, Castleford Tigers and the Barro ...
* Matthew Rieck
* Scott McLean
*Wade McKinnon
Wade McKinnon (born 12 February 1981) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 2000s and 2010s. His position of preference was as a fullback.
Playing career Early years
Educated at St Dominic's College, P ...
* Steve Turner
* Dayne Neirinckx
*Frank Pritchard
Frank Semu Pritchard (born 3 November 1983), also known by the nicknames "Cranky" and "Frank the Tank", is a former professional rugby league footballer who represented New Zealand national rugby league team, New Zealand and Samoa national rug ...
* Ben Rogers
*Simon Finnigan
Simon Finnigan (born 8 December 1981) is a rugby league coach and former player who was most recently the head coach of the Widnes Vikings in the RFL Championship, Championship and was previously head coach at Newcastle Thunder and an Coach (sp ...
*Zeb Taia
Zeb Taia (born 11 October 1984) is a former professional rugby league footballer who played as a forward for both New Zealand and the Cook Islands at international level.
He played for the Parramatta Eels, Newcastle Knights and the Gold Coast ...
*Matt Moylan
Matthew Moylan (born 16 June 1991) is a retired Australia international rugby league footballer.
He played for the Penrith Panthers from 2013–17 and captained the club from 2016-17 in the NRL. He played for the Cronulla Sharks from 2018-23. ...
* Junior Paulo
* Lancen Joudo
*Kurtley Beale
Kurtley James Beale (born 6 January 1989) is an Australian professional rugby union representative player who has made over 90 national representative appearances in a ten-year playing career at the world-class level. He is of Aboriginal desce ...
*Justin Horo
Justin Horo (born 7 September 1986) is a retired New Zealand professional rugby league footballer who last played as a er and for Wakefield Trinity in the Super League. He previously played for the Parramatta Eels and the Manly Warringah Sea ...
*Joseph Paulo
Joseph Paulo (born 2 January 1988) is a former professional rugby league footballer who last played as a and for Baroudeurs de Pia XIII, Pia in the Elite Two Championship. He has played for both Samoa national rugby league team, Samoa and the ...
*Blake Austin
Blake Austin (born 1 February 1991) is a professional rugby league footballer who plays as a for The Entrance Tigers in the Central Coast Division Rugby League in NSW, Australia.
Austin previously played for the Canberra Raiders, Penrith Pant ...
* Sarafu Fatiaki
*Tinirau Arona
Tinirau Arona (born 8 May 1989) is a former Cook Islands national rugby league team, Cook Islands international rugby league footballer who last played as a and for Wakefield Trinity in the Super League.
He previously played for the Sydney R ...
* Tepai Moeroa
*Dallin Watene-Zelezniak
Dallin Watene-Zelezniak (born 17 August 1995) is a New Zealand professional rugby league footballer who plays as a er or for the New Zealand Warriors in the National Rugby League (NRL) and New Zealand national rugby league team, New Zealand at ...
* Ryan Walker
*Malakai Watene-Zelezniak
Malakai Watene-Zelezniak (born 27 August 1991) is a former rugby league footballer who played on the . He played for the Penrith Panthers in two separate spells, and the Wests Tigers in the NRL.
Watene-Zelezniak briefly played rugby union for ...
*Stephen Crichton
Stephen Crichton (born 22 September 2000) is a Samoan professional rugby league footballer who captains and plays as a for the Canterbury Bankstown Bulldogs in the National Rugby League. He has represented New South Wales rugby league team, New ...
* Jordan Grant
* Joe Chan
See also
*List of rugby league clubs in Australia
This is a list of current rugby league clubs in Australia.
New South Wales/Australian Capital Territory
State of Origin
New South Wales rugby league team, New South Wales Blues
National Rugby League
NSWRL major competitions
NSW Cup ...
*Rugby league in New South Wales
Rugby league in New South Wales is the most popular spectator sport in the state
A state is a political entity that regulates society and the population within a definite territory. Government is considered to form the fundamental apparatus o ...
References
External links
St Clair RLFC website
Rugby league teams in Sydney
Rugby clubs established in 1984
1984 establishments in Australia
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