22-445: Watmough is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Anthony Watmough , Australian rugby league footballer Chris Watmough , English cricketer David Watmough , Canadian playwright, short story writer, and novelist Dickie Watmough , English footballer and cricketer John Goddard Watmough , American politician [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
44-451: A lengthy investigation, the NRL deemed Parramatta to be non-compliant with the salary cap - the club was docked 12 competition points, and ordered to become compliant to be able to play for competition points over the remainder of the season. This led to the club needing to move players on, and with Watmough having been rumored to be looking to retire due to injury earlier on in the season, this
66-487: A rectangular stadium built for rugby league, rugby union and soccer in a city known for its preference for Australian rules football . Despite having been officially sold out wet conditions on the night meant an attendance of 29,442, which nearly satisfied the stadium's 30,050 capacity. The opening ceremony featured the NRL's all-time highest point-scorer, Hazem El Masri kicking a goal. The National anthem of New Zealand
88-577: A series victory. Watmough was selected for Australia in the 2013 ANZAC Test and played from the interchange bench. In what was the first test match ever played in Canberra , New Zealand were defeated. On 28 October 2014, after a couple months of speculation of Watmough making a move to the Parramatta Eels , he was released from Manly-Warringah to sign a four-year deal with the Eels starting from
110-530: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Anthony Watmough Anthony Watmough (born 10 July 1983) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer. An Australian international and New South Wales State of Origin representative forward, he played the majority of his career with the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles , winning both the 2008 NRL Premiership and the 2011 NRL Premiership with them. A product of
132-498: The 2015 NRL season . Following his first full season with the Parramatta club in 2015, with some time off the field due to injury, Watmough entered the 2016 NRL season with the club aiming for a premiership. It was early in the 2016 NRL season that he suffered a recurring knee injury which saw him sidelined once again. It was also early into 2016 which saw the club entangled in salary-cap related controversy, and following
154-413: The surname Watmough . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Watmough&oldid=1010722388 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
176-585: The Australian team made only five changes to the squad that won the final of the 2009 Four Nations . Three of those changes were due to injuries. Notable among the selections was the omission of Brisbane Broncos centre Israel Folau . There had been rumours that Folau was considering moving to the Australian Football League or rugby union ; however, the selectors insisted he had been dropped for form reasons. Manly centre Jamie Lyon
198-790: The Narrabeen Sharks, Watmough first played in the NRL in 2002 for the Northern Eagles club. In 2005, Watmough was first selected for the New South Wales State of Origin team. Watmough was awarded the 2007 Dally M Second Rower of the Year award. He played in the 2007 NRL grand final defeat by the Melbourne Storm . He played in the 2008 NRL Grand Final victory over the Melbourne Storm and
220-424: The award for the third year in a row as his teammate Glenn Stewart won it the year before and Watmough won it in 2007. In the 3-year period from the start of 2008 season, Watmough was penalised in games 70 times, the most of any player in the NRL. To add, he had recently been caught urinating on a shopfront which caused a fan fume uproar. For the 2010 ANZAC Test , Watmough was selected to play for Australia from
242-492: The board and one player over the rest of the players and that’s where he lost me". 2010 ANZAC Test The 2010 ANZAC Test was a rugby league test match played between Australia and New Zealand on 7 May 2010. The match coincided with the official opening of AAMI Park in Melbourne . The match was won by Australia with a score of 12–8. The squads for each side were announced on 2 May 2010. The selectors for
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#1732790563625264-431: The halfback's first season with the club in 2011, when they won the NRL premiership. Watmough said, "He just signed a four-year deal and he didn’t turn up to training. He said his manager told him not to. His idiot manager signed him for five years on no money because nobody thought he was good. In the end, [coach] Geoff Toovey succumbed to the board and [Cherry-Evans] was put on $ 500,000 after being on $ 50,000. Toovey chose
286-401: The interchange bench in their victory against New Zealand . 2011 was seen as a turnaround for Anthony Watmough both on and off the field. Off-field, Manly coach Des Hasler enlisted the help of his 1987 and 1996 premiership coach, Rugby League Immortal and club legend Bob Fulton whose private talk with Watmough put the 27-year-old back on the straight and narrow while his on-field form for
308-534: The match 12–8. The match was affected by wet conditions that forced more conservative play. After the match, New Zealand captain Benji Marshall claimed that his side was at least as good as the Australian team, citing that the difference in the scoreline was caused only by Australia's better goalkicking. Australia's Sam Thaiday was named Man of the Match. Cameron Smith and Zeb Taia were both injured in
330-467: The second placed Manly club saw him return to the NSW Origin team for games 2 and 3 of the 2011 State of Origin series . However, before the end of the season, reports emerged of another off-field transgression, with Watmough accused of trashing a hotel room after a State of Origin victory. In the 2012 State of Origin series , Watmough was the only New South Wales player who had ever experienced
352-597: Was called up in Folau's place, and to act as goal-kicker due to Johnathan Thurston's injury-enforced absence. Thurston, the incumbent Australian half back , missed the match with a shoulder injury. He was replaced in the position by Cooper Cronk . Michael Weyman , a prop forward from the St. George Illawarra Dragons was the only member of the squad representing Australia for the first time. The New Zealand team included two debutants: Aaron Heremaia and Zeb Taia . Alex Glenn
374-428: Was named in the 18-man squad but was left out of the 17-man team. One of the notable selections was 19-year-old Kieran Foran being named as half back for the first time: Commentators predicted he would be the long-term incumbent in the position, with former Australian halfback Andrew Johns suggesting he could become the best player in the world. The match was the first event to be held at Melbourne's AAMI Park ,
396-459: Was performed by Elizabeth Marvelly and the National anthem of Australia was performed by Katie Noonan . The first half of the match was low-scoring, as wet conditions caused numerous ball-handling errors. Australia took a 6–0 lead at half-time, after Brett Morris scored a try to add to an earlier penalty goal from Jamie Lyon . Morris' try was scored in the 39th minute of the first half and
418-428: Was selected for Australia in the one-off test match against New Zealand on 8 May 2009. Watmough gave a dominant display to earn the man of the match award in game 3 of the 2009 State of Origin series in what was described by commentator Andrew Voss as one of the greatest ever Origin performances. He won his second Dally M Second-Rower of The Year award for the 2009 season and in doing so made sure Manly retained
440-475: Was something the club would want to make use of to become compliant. It was on 12 May 2016 that Watmough's medical retirement was given the green light by the NRL . On 13 June 2018, Watmough unleashed an extraordinary tirade against Manly captain Daly Cherry-Evans , accusing him of holding Manly back over his financial demands. Watmough claimed that Cherry-Evans had turned into a "fuckwit" after
462-433: Was the result of a grubber kick from Darren Lockyer . Morris scored a second try shortly into the second half to make the score 12–0. Sam Thaiday set up the try with a flick pass as he was being pushed out of the field of play by New Zealand defenders. New Zealand pulled back two unconverted tries through Jason Nightingale and Junior Sa'u ; however, they were not able to make up the 12-point deficit, and Australia won
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#1732790563625484-533: Was then named in the Australian squad for the 2008 Rugby League World Cup . After being involved in an alleged incident where Watmough abused a club sponsors 21-year-old daughter and then punched the sponsor at the club's 2009 season launch, Watmough started the following season in good form, winning the man-of-the-match award for his two-try performance in Manly's victory in the 2009 World Club Challenge . He
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