Jaeman Salmon (born 14 January 1999) is a professional
rugby league
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footballer who plays as a or for the
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs in the
National Rugby League (NRL).
He previously played for the
Parramatta Eels & the
Penrith Panthers in the NRL.
Early life and background
Salmon was born in
Caringbah
Caringbah is a suburb in Southern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Caringbah is south of the Sydney central business district in the Local government in Australia, local government area of Sutherland Shire.
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,
New South Wales, Australia. He went to high school at
De La Salle College Caringbah
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. He is of
Canadian
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and
Ukrainian
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* Something of, from, or related to Ukraine
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descent.
Playing career
Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks
Salmon started his football career playing Harold Matthews for the
Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks. While at Cronulla, Salmon represented
NSW
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at under 16's and 18's level.
Parramatta Eels
In 2017, Salmon signed with Parramatta on a three year deal until 2020. Salmon missed the first month of the 2018 season through injury, once returned he played five-eighth for Parramatta's jersey flegg team.
Later, he appeared for
Wentworthville Magpies in Intrust Super Premiership playing five-eighth playing 12 games and scoring 4 tries, including a hat-trick.
![Jaeman Salmon](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/Jaeman_Salmon.jpg)
On August 4, 2018 Salmon made his
NRL
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debut in Round 21 playing of the bench against the
Gold Coast Titans in a 28-12 win. In Round 22, Salmon started at five-eighth for
Parramatta in a 40-4 win over the
St. George Illawarra Dragons
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, ending the game with a try assist and line-break.
Salmon missed the opening round of the 2019 through injury. Salmon returned the side in Round 2 2019, playing from the bench as
Parramatta defeated rivals
Canterbury-Bankstown 36-16. After
Dylan Brown was ruled out through injury, Salmon was placed in the five-eighth position by coach
Brad Arthur
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He was the caretaker coach at the Eels for the final six games of the 2012 NRL season ...
. Salmon scored his first try for Parramatta in Round 6 2019 against
Wests Tigers which was the opening
NRL
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game to be played at the new
Western Sydney Stadium with
Parramatta running out winners 51-6.
On 14 May 2019, Salmon was demoted to reserve grade after Parramatta were defeated by Melbourne 64-10 at
Suncorp Stadium.
Following Parramatta's 44-22 loss against the
Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in Round 13, Salmon was recalled back to the starting side to replace
Will Smith
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against Brisbane. In Round 14 against Brisbane, Salmon started at five-eighth and set up teammate
Reed Mahoney for a second half try as Parramatta won the match 38-10.
Salmon spent most of the 2019 season playing for Parramatta's feeder club side the
Wentworthville Magpies in the
Canterbury Cup NSW competition. Salmon kicked a field goal in Wentworthville's 20-15 grand final loss against
Newtown at
Bankwest Stadium. Wentworthville had reached the decider after finishing in 8th position and had won 3 sudden death games in a row to make the final.
Salmon made no appearances for Parramatta in the
2020 NRL season
The 2020 NRL season was the 113th season of professional rugby league in Australia and the 23rd season run by the National Rugby League.
Teams
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. On 12 October 2020, he was released by Parramatta.
Penrith Panthers
On 22 December 2020, he signed a one-year deal to join
Penrith for the
2021 NRL season
The 2021 NRL season was the 114th season of professional rugby league in Australia and the 24th season run by the National Rugby League.
Teams
The lineup of teams remained unchanged for the 15th consecutive year.
Regular season
Ladd ...
. In round 13 of the
2021 NRL season
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Teams
The lineup of teams remained unchanged for the 15th consecutive year.
Regular season
Ladd ...
, he made his club debut for
Penrith against the
Wests Tigers in a 6-26 loss.
He was retained for the 2022 season and played the first nine games of the competition mostly in the back row.
In round 13 of the
2022 NRL season
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Teams
The lineup of teams remained unchanged for the 16th consecutive year. This became the second longest s ...
, Salmon scored his first try for Penrith in a 30-18 victory over
Canterbury
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.
Following Penrith's round 21 victory over
Canberra
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is the capital city of Australia. Founded following the federation of the colonies of Australia as the seat of government for the new nation, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The ci ...
in the
2022 NRL season
The 2022 NRL season is the 115th season of professional rugby league in Australia and the 25th season run by the National Rugby League.
Teams
The lineup of teams remained unchanged for the 16th consecutive year. This became the second longest s ...
, Salmon was verbally attacked by Canberra head coach
Ricky Stuart in the post match press conference. During the game, Salmon had lashed out with his boots whilst being tackled which injured Tom Starling. Stuart went on to say "I've had history with that kid. I know that kid very well. He was a weak gutted dog as a kid and he hasn't changed now. He's a weak gutted dog person now".
Stuart was later suspended by the NRL for those remarks towards Salmon. Salmon played 25 games for Penrith in the
2022 NRL season
The 2022 NRL season is the 115th season of professional rugby league in Australia and the 25th season run by the National Rugby League.
Teams
The lineup of teams remained unchanged for the 16th consecutive year. This became the second longest s ...
with 22 of them coming from the interchange bench. Salmon played for Penrith in their
2022 NRL Grand Final victory over
Parramatta. Following the game, Salmon took a picture of himself which was later uploaded to social media with the caption "Just a premiership winning weak gutted dog". The post was then subsequently deleted.
On 18 February 2023, Salmon played in Penrith's 12-13 upset loss to
St Helens RFC
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They are the current Champions, having won the last 4 consecutive titles, and becom ...
in the
2023 World Club Challenge
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.
In round 5 of the
2023 NRL season
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Teams
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, Salmon scored the final try in Penrith's 53-12 victory over Canberra. After scoring the try, Salmon could be seen yelling "Weak Gutted Dog" at the crowd.
On 1 August 2023, Salmon signed a two-year deal to join
Canterbury
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starting in 2024.
Personal life
On October 14, 2018, it was reported that Salmon had crashed his white Jeep Cherokee into 3 parked cars before rolling onto its roof, stopping southbound traffic in Miranda in Sydney's south. Salmon was taken to hospital for mandatory blood and urine testing before being released.
On 5 December 2018, Salmon was charged with low range drink driving for the incident which occurred in October 2018. Salmon was ordered to complete a safe driving course and faced court in January 2019.
On 17 January 2019, Salmon was fined $1500 and disqualified from driving for 6 months at Sutherland Local Court. The court heard Salmon was checking his phone when his Jeep Cherokee crossed onto the wrong side of the road, hit three parked cars before flipping onto its roof stopping traffic. The court also heard Salmon had been out clubbing in Cronulla and arrived on home at 3am, slept for 6 hours before waking at 9am to get breakfast and then buy a suit from Westfield Miranda when the crash occurred.
References
External links
Parramatta Eels profile
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1999 births
Living people
Australian rugby league players
Australian people of Canadian descent
Parramatta Eels players
Penrith Panthers players
Rugby league five-eighths
Rugby league players from Sydney
Rugby league centres
Wentworthville Magpies players