Harry Grant (rugby league)

Harry Grant (born 17 February 1998) is an Australian rugby league footballer who plays as a hooker for the Wests Tigers, on loan from the Melbourne Storm in the NRL. The arrangement between Wests Tigers and Melbourne Storm to trade Grant with Paul Momirovski for the 2020 NRL season was the first loan arrangement in NRL history.[2]

Harry Grant
Personal information
Full nameHarry Grant
Born (1998-02-17) 17 February 1998
Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
Height177 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight87 kg (13 st 10 lb)
Playing information
PositionHooker
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
2018–19 Melbourne Storm 2 0 0 0 0
2020– Wests Tigers (loan) 9 3 0 0 12
Total 11 3 0 0 12
As of 9 September 2019
Source: [1]

Early life

Grant was born in Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia and educated at St. Brendan's College, Yeppoon.

Grant played his junior rugby league for the Yeppoon Seagulls.

Playing career

2017

Grant while playing for Melbourne Storm National Youth Competition also made appearances for Sunshine Coast Falcons in the Queensland Instrust Super Cup. At the seasons end at Rugby League Players Association Awards night he was recipient of the National Youth Competition player of the year award.

2018

He made his NRL debut for the Melbourne Storm in their Round 11 match against Sea Eagles.[3] His jersey was presented by Cameron Smith.

2019

Grant spend the majority of the season playing for the Sunshine Coast Falcons in the Queensland Cup, taking them to the minor premiership and earning a spot in the Intrust Super Cup Team of the Year. In Round 25 he made his second NRL appearance, coming off the bench in the Storm's 24–16 win over the North Queensland Cowboys.

2020

During the lead up to the 2020 NRL season the Wests Tigers and Melbourne Storm attempted to arrange a temporary player swap between Grant and Wests Tigers player Paul Momirovski.[4] The primary catalyst of this was Wests Tigers requiring reinforcements at Grant's preferred position of hooker due to the retirement of Robbie Farah and long-term injury to Wests Tigers preferred replacement Jacob Liddle. Grant, being Melbourne's third choice at his preferred position behind Melbourne Storm captain Cameron Smith and New Zealand Kiwis international hooker Brandon Smith was receptive to the move and began to push for it himself. Initially the NRL salary cap administrators refused to process the request because Melbourne would have gone over the salary cap if the deal had been processed at that time.[5]

After the NRL initially rejected the arrangement Grant requested an immediate release from his Storm contract in the hopes of joining the Tigers as soon as possible though this did not eventuate.[6]

There were further delays due to injury to Brandon Smith causing Melbourne to hold up proceedings so they could have Grant provide back up to Cameron Smith in the early rounds of the season,[7] and briefly by Momirovski wishing to sign a new contract with Wests Tigers prior to leaving,[8] but the deal was finally made official during round 2 of the season on March 21, 2020. This deal was the first of its kind in the NRL.

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References
  1. Rugby League Project
  2. https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl-premiership/nrl-2020-paul-momirovski-harry-grant-wests-tigers-melbourne-storm-swap-deal-still-on/news-story/4f97f17e5beaf088221ebc6b413f001e
  3. 2018 Round 11 Storm vs Sea Eagles
  4. https://www.nrl.com/news/2020/01/29/tigers-and-storm-teeing-up-nrls-first-player-loan-swap/
  5. https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/nrl-torpedoes-tigers-storm-loan-deal-20200218-p5420w.html
  6. https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/harry-grant-asks-storm-for-immediate-release-to-join-tigers-20200226-p544j5.html
  7. https://www.nrl.com/news/2020/03/16/tigers-storm-swap-deal-back-on-cards-as-smith-eyes-early-injury-return/
  8. https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/trading-places-nrl-close-to-approving-tigers-storm-player-loan-20200321-p54ci7.html
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