Jarrad Anderson (born 7 March 1980) is an Australian 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 for the
Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in the
NRL
The National Rugby League (NRL) is an Australasian rugby league club competition which contains clubs from New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, the Australian Capital Territory and New Zealand. The NRL formed in 1998 as a joint partnership ...
.
Anderson, who played his junior football at Canterbury, spent his early career in Queensland at
Brisbane Norths
The Northern Suburbs Devils, or North Brisbane Devils, or often simply referred to as Norths for short, are a rugby league club representing the northern suburbs of Brisbane, Australia. The team colours are sky blue, navy blue and gold. They pl ...
, which were a feeder club to the Melbourne Storm. His elder brother,
Ben Anderson, played first-grade for Melbourne.
Recruited to Cronulla from
NSW First Division side Western Suburbs, Anderson made his NRL debut in round 13 of the
2003 NRL season
The 2003 NRL premiership was the 96th season of professional rugby league football in Australia and the sixth run by the National Rugby League. Fifteen teams competed, with the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles returning in place of their failed joint ...
. The club at the time was coached by his father, former Canterbury player
Chris Anderson.
He remained in the team for the remainder of the season, initially playing as a centre, before switching to the wing. Having taken over goal-kicking duties from
Brett Kimmorley, Anderson finished the season as Cronulla's top point-scorer.
In 2004 he left Cronulla for the
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs. The decision by Cronulla officials not to offer Anderson a contract for the 2004 season caused a rift between his father and the club.
References
External links
Jarrad Andersonat Rugby League project
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1980 births
Living people
Australian rugby league players
Rugby league players from Sydney
Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks players
Rugby league centres
Rugby league wingers
Norths Devils players
Western Suburbs Magpies NSW Cup players