Wes Patten
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| Full name | Wesley Patten | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 17 February 1974 Taree, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Halfback | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Wes Patten (born 17 February 1974) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s. He played for the Balmain Tigers, Gold Coast Chargers, South Sydney Rabbitohs and the St. George Illawarra Dragons. Patten primarily played at half-back.
Playing career
[edit | edit source]Patten made his first-grade debut for Balmain in Round 22 of the 1993 NSWRL season against Parramatta. In 1995, Balmain changed their name to the "Sydney Tigers" at the start of the Super League war and moved their home games to Parramatta Stadium. Patten became a regular starter for the team in 1996, before departing at the end of the season to join the Gold Coast Chargers.
In his first year at the Gold Coast, Patten played 24 matches as the club reached its first-ever finals series. Patten played in both finals games, a 25–14 victory over Illawarra and a 32–10 loss against the Sydney City Roosters.
The following year, Patten played in the Chargers' final ever game as a club, a 20–18 loss against Cronulla-Sutherland. In 1999, Patten joined South Sydney and played in the club's final season in the league before they were controversially excluded from the competition. In 2000, Patten joined St George-Illawarra and played one season with them before retiring at the end of the season at the age of 26.[3]
Other activities
[edit | edit source]Patten guest-starred in Australian soap operas A Country Practice as Lionel Ngurra (1989) and Home and Away as student Kevin Baker (1993). He also appeared in the 1994 Australian television show Heartland.[4]
Patten worked as a reporter and sideline host for The Barefoot Rugby League Show on National Indigenous Television (NITV).[5]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]Patten is the cousin of Anthony Mundine.[6]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Wes Patten RLP
- ^ Rugby League Tables
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Sources
[edit | edit source]- Whiticker, Alan and Hudson, Glen; The Encyclopedia of Rugby League Players; published 2005 by BAS publishing, f16/171 Collins St, Melbourne, Vic., 3000
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- 1974 births
- Living people
- Indigenous Australian rugby league players
- 21st-century Indigenous Australian people
- Australian rugby league players
- Balmain Tigers players
- 20th-century Australian sportsmen
- Gold Coast Chargers players
- South Sydney Rabbitohs players
- St. George Illawarra Dragons players
- Newcastle Yowies players
- Australian male television actors
- Indigenous Australian male actors
- Rugby league halfbacks
- Rugby league players from Taree
- Australian rugby league biography, 1980s birth stubs