Gary Winter (born 28 April 1977) is a former professional

rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rugby or league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring 68 metres (75 yards) wide and 112 ...

footballer who played in the 2000s. He played as a forward for the

Northern Eagles The Northern Eagles were a rugby league team, that competed in the National Rugby League (NRL) between 2000 and 2002. The club was formed during the rationalisation process of the NRL by the merger of the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles and the Nort ...

and Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles in the

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Playing career

Winter was a Narrabeen junior. In round 7 of the

2002 NRL season The 2002 NRL season was the 95th season of professional rugby league football in Australia and the fifth to be run by the National Rugby League. The season was affected by the competition-leading Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs' salary cap breach fi ...

, on his 25th birthday, Winter made his NRL debut for the

in their 34–16 loss to the Wests Tigers at

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. He spent the majority of the season playing for the Eagles' NSW Cup side. At the end of the 2002 season, the

were dissolved with the Manly club announcing that they had applied to the

to once again be a stand-alone club returning to the top grade for the first time since 1999. Winter played with the Sea Eagles until he was released from the club at the end of the 2003 season.

Statistics

NRL

: ''Statistics are correct to the end of the 2003 season''

References

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