Michael De Vere

  • Playing Career

Playing Career

Vital Statistics

Born
Saturday, 11th December, 1976
Current Age
47 years and 99 days
Place Of Birth
Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia

Biography

Campbelltown product spent a year playing with Appin in the Group 6 competition before being graded with St George in 1995. The following year De Vere wrote to Brisbane coach Wayne Bennett requesting a trial. Bennett went one better, offering the young winger/centre an incentive contract. In 1998 De Vere scored the opening try in Brisbane’s 38-12 grand final win against C’bury. 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 Roosters in 2000. The following year he joined the ranks of two other Brisbane players (Terry Matterson and Chris Johns) to represent NSW in a State of Origin match. In 2003 De Vere was responsible for one of State of Origin’s more macabre images when NSW medical staff stapled a head gash while he was still on the field (the staple ‘gun’ got jammed on his head in front of over a million viewers). De Vere made his Test debut on the 2003 Kangaroo Tour and scored the try in the dying minutes of the Third Test of the Ashes series that saved the match. In 2004 he represented Australia in the ANZac Test but was dropped from the NSW team after the Blues’ narrow 9-8 win in the first match of the series. The leading point-scorer in the Broncos’ club history De Vere left the Broncos at the end of the season to take up a contract with English club Huddersfield.
- ALAN WHITICKER

Playing Career Statistics

All statistics shown in this section are based only on data available in the RLP database, and are not necessarily a complete and/or 100% accurate representation of a player's career. This information should be used as a guide only. If you see a question mark (?), it denotes that the figure is not available.

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Competitions

Competition   App T G   GK % FG Pts W L D Win %  
NRL 161 64 403   - 1062 102 52 7 63.35% List
NRL Finals 12 4 15   - 46 8 4 0 66.67% List
World Club Challenge 1 - 3   - 6 0 1 0 0.00% List
State of Origin 5 - 2   - 4 3 2 0 60.00% List
City vs Country 2 2 3   - 14 2 0 0 100.00% List
Tour Matches Australia 4 1 5   - 14 4 0 0 100.00% List
The Ashes 2 1 -   - 8 2 0 0 100.00% List
Test Series 2 1 -   - - 2 0 0 100.00% List
Anzac Tests 1 1 4   - 12 1 0 0 100.00% List
Super League 36 6 74   - 172 13 23 0 36.11% List
Challenge Cup 6 2 27   - 62 4 2 0 66.67% List


International

Test Matches - By Team

Team Years App T G   GK % FG Pts W L D Win %  
Australia 2003-04 4 2 4   - 16 3 1 0 75.00% List


Representative

Australia - By Team

Team Years App T G   GK % FG Pts W L D Win %  
NSW 2001, 2003-04 5 - 2   - 4 3 2 0 60.00% List
NSW City 2002-03 2 2 3   - 14 2 0 0 100.00% List
Overall2001-2004 7 2 5   0 18 5 2 0 71.43% List


Club Career

NRL/NSWRL - By Year

Team Season App T G   GK % FG Pts W L D Win %  
Brisbane Super League 1997 13 7 2 / 2 100.00% - 32 12 1 0 92.31% List
Brisbane NRL 1998 18 8 9 / 13 69.23% - 50 15 2 1 83.33% List
Brisbane NRL 1999 18 9 4 / 6 66.67% - 44 6 10 2 33.33% List
Brisbane NRL 2000 27 12 74 / 103 71.84% - 196 20 5 2 74.07% List
Brisbane NRL 2001 25 2 99 / 122 81.15% - 206 13 11 1 52.00% List
Brisbane NRL 2002 21 6 81 / 102 79.41% - 186 14 6 1 66.67% List
Brisbane NRL 2003 23 12 69 / 97 71.13% - 186 12 11 0 52.17% List
Brisbane NRL 2004 15 8 65 / 82 79.27% - 162 10 5 0 66.67% List
Brisbane NRL 2009 1 - -   - - 0 1 0 0.00% List

NRL/NSWRL - By Team

Team Years App T G   GK % FG Pts W L D Win %  
Brisbane 1997-04, 2009 161 64 403 / 527 76.47% - 1062 102 52 7 63.35% List

English Career - By Year

Team Season App T G   GK % FG Pts W L D Win %  
Huddersfield 2005 15 1 28   - 60 5 10 0 33.33% List
Huddersfield 2006 27 7 73   - 174 12 15 0 44.44% List

English Career - By Team

Team Years App T G   GK % FG Pts W L D Win %  
Huddersfield 2005-06 42 8 101   - 234 17 25 0 40.48% List

Your Say

  • Lachlan cole
    20/12/2013

    It would have been great if you were able to play for QLD because you were one of the Broncos finest players.

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Contributions: Rugby League Tables, Andrew Ferguson, Shawn Dollin, Paul Carter, Greg Fiveash, AJ Lucantonio, Alan Katzmann, Bill Bates, Terry Liberopoulos

Sources: NRL Rugby League Yearbook 2001, NRL Rugby League Yearbook 2002, NRL Rugby League Yearbook 2004, NRL Rugby League Yearbook 1998, NRL Rugby League Yearbook 1999, NRL Rugby League Yearbook 2000, NRL Rugby League Yearbook 2003, NRL 2004 Official Rugby League Annual