Rod Silva

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Playing Career

Vital Statistics

Born
Sunday, 10th December, 1967
Current Age
56 years and 100 days

Awards & Accolades

Dally M Fullback Of The Year
1993

Known Family Links

Nephew
Beau Mundine

Biography

Dashing fullback, a Penrith junior, made a great impression in his debut season with Easts in 1988. Selected for City in 1989, Silva's great pace and swerve were seen to advantage when running the ball back or backing up to score a try. In 1992 he suffered a shattered jaw in a match against Cronulla and though the season was lost, he quickly regained his confidence to reproduce his best form in 1993-94. After signing a Super League contract in 1995, he was dumped to reserve grade by Easts’ pro-ARL coach Phil Gould and successfully sought a release from the club to play for C’bury. In an amazing end to a troubled season, Silva’s showed his class and experience at fullback in the Bulldogs’ ‘against all odds’ grand final win over Manly. A try-scorer in the match, he again found himself on the outer with his coach, this time Chris Anderson, during the 1996 season. A NSW policeman, Silva’s dedication to his profession brought him into conflict with the Super League club’s move to full-time professionalism. In characteristic fashion, Silva then overcame a series of personal tragedies to claw his way back from the Metropolitan Cup competition and regain his place as fullback in C’bury’s grand final loss to Brisbane in 1998. Silva savoured another premiership title, with the Bulldogs’ First Division team in 2000, before retiring at the end of 2001.
- 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 192 90 0   - 360 97 90 5 50.52% List
NRL Finals 12 7 -   - 28 9 3 0 75.00% List


Club Career

NRL/NSWRL - By Year

Team Season App T G   GK % FG Pts W L D Win %  
Eastern Suburbs NSWRL 1988 1 - -   - - 1 0 0 100.00% List
Eastern Suburbs NSWRL 1989 13 1 -   - 4 4 8 1 30.77% List
Eastern Suburbs NSWRL 1990 18 8 -   - 32 4 13 1 22.22% List
Eastern Suburbs NSWRL 1991 6 - -   - - 4 2 0 66.67% List
Eastern Suburbs NSWRL 1992 8 4 -   - 16 6 2 0 75.00% List
Eastern Suburbs NSWRL 1993 22 8 -   - 32 11 10 1 50.00% List
Eastern Suburbs NSWRL 1994 22 13 0 / 1 0.00% - 52 6 15 1 27.27% List
Sydney City ARL 1995 2 - -   - - 1 1 0 50.00% List
Sydney Bulldogs ARL 1995 16 8 -   - 32 12 4 0 75.00% List
Canterbury ARL 1996 12 9 -   - 36 7 5 0 58.33% List
Canterbury Super League 1997 14 7 -   - 28 8 6 0 57.14% List
Canterbury NRL 1998 13 11 -   - 44 10 3 0 76.92% List
Canterbury NRL 1999 26 18 -   - 72 16 9 1 61.54% List
Bulldogs NRL 2000 18 2 -   - 8 6 12 0 33.33% List
Bulldogs NRL 2001 1 1 -   - 4 1 0 0 100.00% List

NRL/NSWRL - By Team

Team Years App T G   GK % FG Pts W L D Win %  
Eastern Suburbs 1988-95 92 34 - / 1 0.00% - 136 37 51 4 40.22% List
Canterbury 1995-01 100 56 -   - 224 60 39 1 60.00% List
Overall1988-2001 192 90 0 / 1 0.00% 0 360 97 90 5 50.52% List

Your Say

  • Anonymous
    07/06/2012

    Congratulations on your blurb on Rod Silva.I can't reveal who I am,but I can tell you I know Rod better than most.I've known Rod for 26 years.This piece on Rod is the most accurate I've ever read.Well done,anonymous.

  • Anonymous
    10/07/2012

    A great footballer and great Policeman.

    Ajax, APM

  • Anonymous
    20/12/2017

    Did an RBT on my mum one night in about 1992. Signed an autograph for me at the time as well. Good fella!

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Contributions: Rugby League Tables, Shawn Dollin, Andrew Ferguson, AJ Lucantonio, Greg Fiveash, Paul Carter, Bill Bates, Max Turner, Steven Russo, Alan Katzmann

Sources: ARL Rugby League Yearbook 1996, ARL Rugby League Yearbook 1997, NRL Rugby League Yearbook 2001, NRL Rugby League Yearbook 2000, NRL Rugby League Yearbook 1998, NRL Rugby League Yearbook 1999, NRL Rugby League Yearbook 2002, NSWRL Rugby League Yearbook 1989-90, NSWRL Rugby League Yearbook 1988-89, NSWRL Rugby League Yearbook 1990-91, NSWRL Rugby League Yearbook 1991-92, NSWRL Rugby League Yearbook 1992-93, NSWRL Rugby League Yearbook 1994, ARL Rugby League Yearbook 1995