Bradley Clyde
Australian rugby league footballer
Bradley Clyde (born 27 January 1970) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s who, at the peak of his playing career was widely acknowledged as the best lock in the game. He represented both New South Wales, and played for the Australian national side, and played his club football in Australia for the Canberra Raiders and Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, and in England for Leeds Rhinos.
Clyde is one of only three players, along with Billy Slater and Nathan Cleary, to have twice won the Clive Churchill Medal as the best player in the Grand Final.
Bradley Clyde is an inductee into both the NSW Blues Hall of Fame and the NRL Hall of Fame.
Early life and junior football
Clyde was born in Culcairn, New South Wales but was raised in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory where his parents were from.
Clyde began playing Australian rules football with West Canberra in the ACTAFL and dreamed of playing for the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League. Once he started playing rugby league at school, his mother asked him to make a decision to choose between the codes due to the cost. He began his football career playing in the local ACT competition for the Belconnen United Sharks and was an Australian Schoolboy Representative in 1985,1986 and 1987. While attending Hawker College, Clyde played for the Australian Schoolboys team in 1986 and 1987. It was during this time that he decided to focus on rugby league.
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