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Wayne Bartrim
Wayne Bartrim
Personal information
Full name	Wayne Bartrim
Born	9 October 1971 (age 38)
	Hat Head, New South Wales, Australia
Playing information
Height	179 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	92 kg (14 st 7 lb)
Position	Lock, Hooker
Club
Representative
	Source: NRL Stats, RLP

Wayne Bartrim (born 9 October 1971 in Hat Head, New South Wales), is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s. He was selected to represent Australia and Queensland during his career, which he spent playing for the Gold Coast Seagulls, St. George Dragons and St. George Illawarra Dragons in Australia and Castleford Tigers in England. Bartrim primarily played at lock.

[edit] Career

[edit] Club career

Bartrim played his junior football in Kempsey. He was graded with the Gold Coast Seagulls in 1992 and made 76 appearances for the club. In 1994 he was the club's highest point scorer with 224 points and in a match that season against the Eastern Suburbs Roosters scored a club record of 20 points.

He joined the St George Dragons in 1995 and in his seven year career with the club was the Dragons' highest point scorer in seasons 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 and 1999. He was one of the senior players at the time of the merger with the Illawarra Steelers and captained the club on a number of occasions.

He played in the Dragons' 1996 Grand Final loss to the Manly where he kicked two goals and the 1999 Grand Final loss to the Melbourne Storm. He left St George at the end of the 2001 season to play two years in England with the Castleford Tigers. He holds the standing Castleford club record for most goals in a season with 114 scored in 2002.

[edit] Representative career

Bartrim made his State of Origin debut for Queensland as a hooker in the Paul Vautin coached 1995 Origin side full of inexperienced unknowns with so many Queensland regulars unavailable due to the Super League war. Bartrim kicked the only goal and points in game I and figured as hooker and goal-kicker in all matches of that year's 3-0 Queensland whitewash.

He was hooker in game I of the 1996 series but was kept out of the rest of that year's series by Steve Walters in the hooking role. He returned for all three games of the 1997 series and games I and II of the 1998 series playing at lock, hooker, second-row or off the interchange bench. He kicked eleven goals in his Origin career.

Bartrim debuted for the Australian national side in the first Test of the 1995 domestic series against New Zealand and appeared in two Tests of that series. He was in Australia's squad for the 1995 World Cup played in England and made two appearances in games against England and South Africa. In 1995, he played from the bench against Papua New Guinea, scoring two tries.

[edit] Records

Bartrim's 176 points scored in 1996 with St George are the most ever scored by a lock in a New South Wales Rugby League season.

He holds the standing Castleford club record for most goals in a season with 114 scored in 2002.

[edit] After first grade football

At the end of 2003, Bartrim returned to Australia to settle in Hat Head and was the Macleay Valley Mustangs' captain-coach in the NSW Group 2 competition in 2004 and 2005. In 2006 he moved to Brisbane and played with the Noosa Pirates in the Sunshine Coast Rugby League competition in 2006 and 2007. He is married and has four children.

[edit] References

Andrews, Malcolm (2006) The ABC of Rugby League Austn Broadcasting Corpn, Sydney
Big League's 25 Years of Origin, (2005 Collectors Edition), News Magazines, Surry Hills, Sydney
Whiticker, Alan and Hudson, Glen (2007). The Encyclopedia of Rugby League Players. Wetherill Park, New South Wales: Gary Allen Pty Ltd. pp. 609. ISBN 9781877082931.

[edit] External links

Wayne Bartrim at the State of Origin official website.
Wayne Bartrim at the Rugby League Project
Wayne Bartrim at NRL Stats
Wayne Bartrim at thecastlefordtigers.co.uk

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