Brad Morrin

Brad Morrin (born 23 September 1981) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs club of the National Rugby League. His usual position is as a second-row forward.

For other people named Morrin, see Morrin (disambiguation).

Brad Morrin
Personal information
Full nameBradley Morrin
Born (1981-09-23) 23 September 1981
Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia
Height1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight99 kg (15 st 9 lb)
Playing information
PositionSecond-row, Prop
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
2005–11 Canterbury Bulldogs 56 3 0 0 12
As of 3 January 2020
Source: [1]

Background

Morrin was born in Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia.

Playing career

Morrin made his first grade debut for Canterbury in round 7 of the 2005 NRL season against Newcastle at the Newcastle International Sports Centre scoring a try in a 24-20 victory.

In the 2006 and 2007 seasons, Morrin featured sporadically for the first grade team. In the 2008 NRL season, Morrin played 20 games as Canterbury finished last on the table.[2]

He played 8 games the following year as Canterbury-Bankstown finished second on the table but he did not feature in the club's finals campaign.[3]

Morrin had extended his contract with Canterbury until the end of the 2011 NRL season. Morrin later played front row with the Northern Suburbs Bulldogs in the Illawarra Coal Cup. After retirement Morrin went on to play in the Legends of League tournament in 2017, 18 and 2019.

Controversy

In 2005, Morrin was fined $5000 by Canterbury after an incident at a Melbourne pub. According to Morrin, he was trying to hail a cab at 3am so he could get something to eat. Morrin had tried several times to get a taxi but ended up walking in the middle of the road and hailing down a passing motorist. Morrin told the media "A car stopped in front of me and I opened the back door to ask the driver if I could get a lift. He got out of his car and looked upset. I explained I thought he had stopped to give me a lift and I apologised for alarming him". The incident was witnessed by police who arrested Morrin and took him back to the police cells and then was later released.[4]

In round 21 of the 2007 NRL season, Morrin was put on report for biting the arm of Parramatta Eel player Timana Tahu. He was suspended for 8 weeks and did not feature for the club again in the year.[5]

Morrin is affectionately referred to on the popular bulldogs fan forum The Kennel as "the nibbler"

gollark: RPN forever!
gollark: No, the supercomputer's programmer was.
gollark: And what idiot made it *explode* if it ran into a problem it couldn't solve easily?
gollark: Surely language parsing is not *as* complex as massively hard maths problems.
gollark: 3.7 hard.

References
  1. "Brad Morrin - Career Stats & Summary - Rugby League Project". www.rugbyleagueproject.org. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
  2. "Most boring team ever? 2008 wooden spoon Bulldogs would beat 2017 version by twenty points". The81stminute.
  3. "Eels thunder into grand final". www.abc.net.au.
  4. https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/claims-of-spit-and-spats-hit-clubland-20050524-gdldrt.html
  5. Morrin cops eight games for biting Tahu
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