Terry Matterson
Personal information
Born	4 March 1967 (1967-03-04) (age 42)[1]
	Auburn, New South Wales, Australia
Playing information
Position	Lock
Club
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
1986–87	Easts (Sydney)	10	0	1	0	2
1988–95	Brisbane Broncos	156	29	314	0	744
1995–98	London Broncos	74	23	116	6	330
	Total	240	52	431	6	1076
Representative
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
1989	New South Wales	1	0	0	0	0
Coaching information
Club
Years	Team	Gms	W	D	L	W%
2005–	Castleford Tigers	88
Representative
Years	Team	Gms	W	D	L	W%
2007	USA
Source: NRL Stats, [1]

Terry Matterson (born 4 March 1967 in Auburn, New South Wales) is an Australian rugby league football coach and former player. He has been the coach for the Castleford Tigers of Europe's Super League since 2005.

As a player Matterson was a goal-kicking lock forward and was selected to represent New South Wales in State of Origin once in 1989. He played the majority of his club football for the Brisbane Broncos, with whom he won the 1992 and 1993 premierships, in addition to stints with the Eastern Suburbs Roosters and London Broncos clubs.

[edit] Playing

After playing at five-eighth for the Eastern Suburbs Roosters, Matterson moved to Brisbane to be part of the Broncos' inaugrual 1988 team. Playing at lock and being the team's goal-kicker, Matterson scored 24 points in the Broncos' first ever match in the opening round of 1988 against the previous year's premiers, the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles. This would stand as the record for most individual points in a Broncos game for over fourteen years.

In 1989 Matterson represented New South Wales in the State of Origin, playing against many of his Broncos' teammates. He was also named player of the series for the 1989 Panasonic Cup tournament.

Matterson went on to play in the 1992 and 1993 Grand Final victories for the Brisbane Broncos. He was judged to be the man-of-the-match in the Broncos' historic victory in the 1992 World Club Challenge against Wigan.

Matterson joined the London Broncos in 1995. At the time of his retirement he was the Brisbane club's top point-scorer, as well as record-holder of most points scored in a single match.

During the 2007 season at the Broncos' 20-year anniversary celebration, the club announced a list of the 20 best players to play for them to date which included Matterson.^[2]

[edit] Coaching

Terry Matterson has been coaching English Super League club Castleford Tigers since 2005.

Matterson expressed interest in taking over from Wayne Bennett as coach of the Brisbane Broncos at the end of the 2008 National Rugby League season.[1]

Matterson has since signed a new 3 year deal to stay at Castleford.

Matterson guided Cas to 7th place in Super League 2009. The clubs first play off finish since 2002. They faced Wigan at the DW Stadium and lost 18-12 with Joe Westerman scoring 8 points.

[edit] References

• Phil Wilkinson. "Legend Q&A". Rugby League Week (Sydney, NSW: PBLMedia) (18 July 2007): pgs 22–23. 

[edit] Footnotes

[edit] External links

• Terry Matterson at thecastlefordtigers.co.uk
• Terry Matterson stats at rugbyleagueproject.com
• Matterson named new Tigers coach - article at news.bbc.co.uk
• Terry Matterson at yesterdayshero.com.au
• Terry Matterson at nrlstats.com