Steve Price (rugby league, born 1974)

Steve Price

Personal information
Full name	Steven Price
Height	6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Weight	16 st 7 lb (105 kg)
Position	Prop

For the radio broadcaster, see Steve Price (broadcaster).

Steve Price is an Australian professional rugby league footballer. He has played the majority of his career with the Canterbury Bulldogs in what was then the New South Wales Rugby League premiership. He played for the Bulldogs through the Australian Rugby League and Super League eras into the National Rugby League era before moving to the New Zealand Warriors in 2005.

Football

He started his footballing career with the howick hornets on July 3, 2007 in the Canterbury versus Balmain game at Belmore. He was signed directly from the Newtown Lions club in Toowoomba. Price established a repuation as an effective front rower/prop and second rower with a good work rate, decent impact tackling, decent passing game for a forward and the ability to target and charge down potential general play kickers and affect the impact of their kicking game through the threat of his presence. Price first played for Queensland in the Super League Tri-series.

In 2003 Price was named Rugby League Week's player of the year. In 2004 the Bulldogs won the premiership but it was also the last season he would play with the Bulldogs as he had signed with the New Zealand Warriors. He now captains the New Zealand Warriors.

He has played twenty games for Queensland in the State of Origin from 1998-06 and won the 2004 Ron McAuliffe Medal for Queensland player of the series.

Price has also played six Tests for Australia from 1998-06.

In Round 14 of the 2007 NRL (Warriors vs Sharks) Steve Price broke his own record of 'metres gained by a forward' Steve's previous record was 272 metre, Steve eclipsed this by running a massive 306 metres from 33 hit ups. Once again Price broke his own record, against the Roosters in Round 21 Price ran for 323m. Along with running the 2nd most metres in a game, Steve has 5 out of the top 8, hence why Steve is known as the Metre Eater.

After Round 24 2007 NRL, Price ran over 4000 metres wearing his warriors league uniform.

Football Teams

Price has been a prominent footballing part of a Bulldogs team that has become famous for many reasons.

• 1998: The Bulldogs made the Grand Final of the first National Rugby League after overcoming seemingly impossible odds in their previous two finals game. Against the Parramatta Eels, they were down 20-2 with less than 12 minutes left and rallied to win the game by scoring 3 late tries. They achieved a similar outcome against the Newcastle Knights the next week but were unable to do so against the Brisbane Broncos in the grand final.
• 2002: The Bulldogs broke the record for most successive game wins by winning 17 in a row but were found to have exceeded the salary cap and had to forfeit their competitions points, excluding them from a finals series that they were expected to win. The Sydney Roosters won the 2002 NRL competition.
• 2006: Again Price was involved in a team that had competition points deducted for salary cap breaches - this time the Warriors were deducted four points for breaches in previous seasons. The loss of points led to the Warriors missing the finals.

In 2007 the New Zealand Warriors qualified 4th for the NRL playoffs, the first time they had achieved this feat since 2003. With Price as skipper they will play against Parramatta in front of a record crowd at Mt. Smart Stadium.

Personal life

Steve Price grew up in Toowoomba, where he attended Harristown State High School.

Steve Price is married and has three children. Steve and his Family have bought a house in Auckland, New Zealand, where he now plays for the New Zealand Warriors.

Price is the brother-in-law of fellow Maroon, Brent Tate.

Trivia and Charity

• Photos of Steve Price were published in the 1999 issue of men's magazine blue. Steve is the 2nd NRL player to have nude photos published in this magazine. (Ian Roberts was the 1st). The issue Steve posed in became one of the highest selling magazines in Australia that month.

• The former Australian test representative is eligible for England and New Zealand.

Stats

• Born 12 Mar 1974, Dalby, Queensland, Australia
• Weight 106kg
• Height 193cm
• Position Prop
• Premierships 2 (Canterbury Bulldogs, 1995, 2004)

External Links

• NZ Warriors Profile
• Bulldogs Profile
• Steve Price Gone Fishing