Michael De Vere

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Michael De Vere
Personal information
Full name Michael De Vere
Date of birth December 11, 1976 (1976-12-11) (age 31)
Place of birth Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia
Senior clubs*
Years Club Apps (points)
1997-2004
2005-2006		 Brisbane Broncos
Huddersfield Giants		 163 (1,062)
34 (162)
Representative teams
2001-2004
2003-2004		 New South Wales
Australia		 5 (4)
4 (0)

* Professional club appearances and points
counted for domestic first grade only.


Michael De Vere (born Michael Hunt on 11 December, 1976 in Campbelltown, New South Wales) is an Australian former rugby league footballer who played for Brisbane Broncos in the NRL and Huddersfield Giants in the Super League. He represented New South Wales in State of Origin on five occasions and played in four tests for Australia.

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[edit] Playing career

A product of Campbelltown, De Vere spent a year playing with Appin in the Group 6 competition before being graded with St. George in 1995.

The following year he wrote to Brisbane coach Wayne Bennett requesting a trial. Bennett went one better, offering the young winger/centre an incentive contract.

De Vere won the Broncos rookie of the year award in 1997. In 1998 De Vere scored the opening try in Brisbane’s 38-12 grand final win against the Canterbury Bulldogs. The club’s top point-scorer in 2000, De Vere made it two premierships in four seasons with the club when he landed three goals in the 14-6 grand final win against the Sydney Roosters in 2000.

The following year he joined the ranks of other Brisbane players (Terry Matterson, Glenn Lazarus, Luke Priddis, Chris Johns) to have represented New South Wales against his Queensland teammates in a State of Origin match. He was again top point-scorer for the Broncos in 2001 and 2002. Also in 2003 he was the Broncos' top try-scorer.

In 2004 he was dropped from the New South Wales team after the Blues’ narrow 9-8 win in the first match of the series. De Vere then left the Broncos at the end of the season after again being the club's top-point scorer, to take up a contract with English club Huddersfield Giants, becoming the club's first Australian international player since Pat Devery in the 1950s. At the time Michael was the Broncos highest ever point scorer with 1,062 points as well as record-holder of most goals in a match (9).

De Vere played with Huddersfield in 2005 and 2006, scoring four points in the 2006 Challenge Cup final. On November 20, 2006, he announced that he will retire from professional football and will return to the Brisbane Broncos. He will join the Carina Leagues club as a Development/Coaching Officer in 2007.

[edit] Career playing statistics

[edit] Point scoring summary

Games Tries Goals F/G Points
197 70 477 - 1234

[edit] Matches played

Team Matches Years
Brisbane Broncos 161 1996 - 2004
Huddersfield Giants 36 2005 - 2006
New South Wales 5 2001 - 2004
Australia 4 2003 - 2004

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