Braidon Burns

Braidon Burns (born 8 July 1996) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a centre and winger for the South Sydney Rabbitohs in the NRL.

Braidon Burns
Personal information
Born (1996-07-08) 8 July 1996
Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia
Height185 cm (6 ft 1 in)
Weight98 kg (15 st 6 lb)
Playing information
PositionWing, Centre
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
2017– South Sydney 32 7 0 0 28
As of 19 August 2019
Source: [1]

Background

Burns was born in Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia, and is of Indigenous Australian descent.[2]

He played his junior rugby league for the Coonamble Bears. He was then signed by the Penrith Panthers.

Playing career

Early career

In 2015 and 2016, Burns played for the Penrith Panthers' NYC team.[3] In August 2016, he signed a two-year contract with the South Sydney Rabbitohs starting in 2017.[4]

2017

In round 2 of the 2017 NRL season, Burns made his NRL debut for South Sydney against the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles.[5][6] In round 6 against Penrith, Burns endured a horror night after dropping multiple bombs from Nathan Cleary. Souths went on to win the match 21-20. Burns played the following week but then was left out of the side for eight weeks until managing to be recalled to the starting lineup for Souths round 15 clash against the Gold Coast.[7][8]

2018

Burns made his first appearance of the season for Souths in the round 4 Good Friday match against Canterbury.[9] Burns made a total of five appearances for Souths in 2018 but spent the majority of the season playing in reserve grade for North Sydney and did not feature in Souths finals campaign.[10]

2019

Burns played a total of nine games for South Sydney in the 2019 NRL season as the club finished third on the table at the end of the regular season. Burns did not play in South Sydney's finals campaign.[11]

References
  1. "Braidon Burns - Career Stats & Summary". Rugby League Project.
  2. King, Simon (8 February 2016). "Inglis's life lesson to juniors: know yourself". The Australian. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
  3. "B". Nyc Database. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
  4. "Rabbitohs Sign Four Up-And-Coming Players". rabbitohs.com.au. 25 August 2016.
  5. "Updated team lists: Sea Eagles v Rabbitohs". NRL.com. 11 March 2017. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
  6. "LATE MAIL: Round 2, 2017". Rabbitohs. 11 March 2017. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
  7. Barrett, Chris (7 April 2017). "Souths escape after Braidon Burns revives memories of Steve Mavin's case of the fumbles". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
  8. Ferguson, Shawn Dollin and Andrew. "Custom Match List - Rugby League Project". www.rugbyleagueproject.org. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
  9. "Rabbitohs v Bulldogs NRL live stream, live scores, updates: Round 4 live blog, SuperCoach scores". 30 March 2018. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
  10. http://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/matches/Custom/MTItMTcxNy00LS0tLS0tMjM0MDktLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0t
  11. "Rabbitohs pair Burns and Reynolds look fit to play". www.nrl.com.
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