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Steve Mavin () (born 11 January 1968) is an
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former professional
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footballer. He played for the
South Sydney Rabbitohs The South Sydney Rabbitohs are a professional Australian 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 pla ...
from 1987 until 1990. Mavin played in
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for Trafford Borough in 1990, the
Canterbury Bankstown Bulldogs The Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in Belmore, a suburb in the Canterbury-Bankstown region of Sydney. They compete in the NRL Telstra Premiership, as well as competitions facilita ...
in 1991 and then returned to the Rabbitohs in 1992.


Background

Mavin was born in
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, is of
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descent, and grew up in
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. He played his junior football for the
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and
Alexandria Rovers The Alexandria Rovers are an Australian rugby league football team based in Alexandria, New South Wales, a suburb of south-central Sydney. They play in the South Sydney District Junior Rugby Football League. Notable Juniors Notable First Grade ...
in the
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before being graded by South Sydney in 1986.


Playing career

Mavin (
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Mavo) played a total of 101 first grade games which included 89 for the South Sydney Rabbitohs(first grade player #757) and 12 for the Canterbury Bankstown Bulldogs (first grade player #564). Mavin made his debut with the South Sydney club as a 19-year-old on 27 February 1987 and scored his first
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in round 4 when he crossed for a double against the
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at
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. Mavin played in every game of the
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and scored a total of 27 tries during his career. Mavin is remembered for his performance in the 1987 sudden death semi final against the
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when he made a number of errors that led to him being replaced in the first half of the game before South Sydney were eliminated from the competition 46–12. In 2017, it was revealed that Mavin left the ground at
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after being substituted and watched the second half from the Cauliflower Hotel in Waterloo. Mavin later said of the game "A bit later, Ian Roberts and David Boyle came to get me. They said the team function was at
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and that I should come along. I was like, 'Ah … what can I do?’ But I went along and it was OK.
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was there. He sort of gave me the
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. But mate I was pretty inconsolable". Mavin would spend three more years with Souths including the 1989 season when he played in every game and the South Sydney club were minor premiers. He then played the
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off-season with English club Trafford Borough and one year with Canterbury in
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. He returned to Souths in
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and broke his leg in Round 1 against the
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. Mavin was later released by Souths and trialled with the
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and
St George Dragons The St. George Dragons is an Australian rugby league football club from St George District in Sydney, New South Wales that played in the top level New South Wales competition and Australian Rugby League competitions from the 1921 until th ...
but decided to retire at the age of 25. Mavin was a big and fast flamboyant centre/winger who was also well known for his swan dive tries. One of Mavins' tries was shown in the much publicized first
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rugby league advertisement in 1988 in which she sang the song
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. In 2008 Mavin was named in the Alexandria Rovers "60 Year Best of Team".


Personal life

Since 2006, Mavin has worked as a
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(Wharfie) on the
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waterfront. In 2019 Mavin began co-hosting Rabbitohs Radio, a weekly rugby league
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covering the South Sydney Rabbitohs. In the podcast Mavin, former teammate Darren Brown & Grant Chappell examine Rabbitohs team
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, performances &
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special guests.


References

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