Josh Addo-Carr

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Josh Addo-Carr
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Personal information
Full nameJoshua Addo-Carr[1][2]
Born (1995-07-28) 28 July 1995 (age 26)
Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia
Height183 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight93 kg (14 st 9 lb)
Playing information
PositionWing
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
2016 Wests Tigers 9 6 0 0 24
2017–21 Melbourne Storm 118 96 1 0 386
2022– Canterbury Bulldogs 0 0 0 0 0
Total 127 102 1 0 410
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
2017 NSW City 1 0 0 0 0
2018–21 New South Wales 12 10 0 0 40
2019 Australia 2 1 0 0 4
2019 Australia 9's 4 4 0 0 16
2019–22 Indigenous All Stars 2 2 0 0 8
As of 25 Sept 2021
Source: [3][4]

Josh Addo-Carr (born 28 July 1995) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a winger for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs in the NRL and Australia at international level.

He began his career with the Wests Tigers in the National Rugby League. Addo-Carr won the 2017 and the 2020 NRL Premiership with the Storm. At representative level he has played for the Indigenous All Stars, NSW City and helped New South Wales win the 2018 State of Origin in his Origin debut series.

Early life[]

Addo-Carr was born in Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia and is of Aboriginal descent - from Gunggandji, Birrbay & Wiradjuri people.[5]

Addo-Carr first picked up a football playing for the Doonside Roos as a three-year-old, before his family moved to Earlwood, New South Wales, where he began playing rugby league for the Earlwood Saints.[6]

Addo-Carr attended Matraville Sports High School as a teenager and played his junior rugby league for the La Perouse Panthers and Moore Park. In 2012, Addo-Carr played with the South Sydney Rabbitohs SG Ball team before being released due to an off-field incident.[7] He was then signed by the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks.

Addo-Carr is the grandson of Australian former boxer Wally Carr.[1]

Playing career[]

Early career[]

In 2014 and 2015, Addo-Carr played for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks' NYC team where he scored 28 tries in 44 matches.[8] On 23 September 2015, he signed a one-year contract with the Wests Tigers starting in 2016.[9][10]

2016: Wests Tigers[]

In Round 7, Addo-Carr made his NRL debut for the Wests Tigers against the Melbourne Storm,[11][12] scoring a try on debut.[13] Coincidentally, Suliasi Vunivalu made his debut on that same day opposite Addo-Carr for the Storm in jersey #22, also scoring a try on debut, Vunivalu would go on to be Addo-Carr's wing partner during his tenure at the Melbourne-based club. On 6 June, he signed a 3-year contract with the Melbourne Storm starting in 2017.[14] In September, he was named on the wing in the 2016 Intrust Super Premiership NSW Team of the Year.[15]

2017 - 2021: Melbourne Storm[]

Addo-Carr made his Melbourne Storm debut in round 1 of the season against the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs at Belmore Sports Ground.[16] In Round 3 against the Brisbane Broncos, Addo-Carr scored his first club try for Melbourne in the final minutes to win the match 14-12 at AAMI Park.[17] On 7 May, he represented City Origin against Country Origin, playing on the wing in the 20-10 win at Mudgee.[18][19] In round 25 against the South Sydney Rabbitohs, Addo-Carr scored his first career hat-trick of tries in the 64-6 win at AAMI Park.[20] On 31 August 2017, Addo-Carr extended his contract with Melbourne to the end of the 2021 season.[21] He went on to play in 2017 NRL Grand Final and scored two tries to help seal the premiership for the Storm.[22]

In 2018, Addo-Carr was selected to play for New South Wales in the 2018 State of Origin series. He played in all 3 games as New South Wales won their first origin shield since 2014.[23] In the 2018 NRL Grand Final, Carr scored an 85-metre intercept try in the 21-6 loss to the Sydney Roosters, bringing his year tally to 18 tries from 25 games. [1]

Before the start of the 2019 State of Origin series, Addo-Carr was one of the New South Wales players who declared they would not sing the Australian National Anthem.[24] He played in all 3 games as New South Wales won 2-1 and retained the shield for the first time since 2005. At club level, Addo-Carr made 23 appearances and scored 16 tries as Melbourne finished as minor premiers. Melbourne would go on to reach the preliminary final against the Sydney Roosters but were defeated 14-6.[25][26] On 7 October 2019, Addo-Carr Made his international debut for Australia Kangaroos in squads for both the 2019 Rugby League World Cup 9s and Oceania Cup fixtures. He is known as one of the fastest players in the NRL.

On 27 April, Addo-Carr was fined $1000 by the NRL and placed under investigation after he broke strict lockdown protocols with fellow player Latrell Mitchell by going on a weekend camping trip during the Coronavirus pandemic. He was also placed in further scrutiny for use of a firearm after he posed with and fired a gun in a video posted on his Instagram page.[27] The next day, he was fined an additional $50,000 by the NRL for breaching strict self isolation protocols and for bringing the game into disrepute.[28]

At club level, he went on to win the 2020 NRL Grand Final at Melbourne, finishing his season with 16 tries in 21 appearances. He was later on selected on the wing to represent NSW in the 2020 State of Origin series, scoring two tries in their 14-18 loss in game 1, and two tries in the 34-10 victory in game 2. NSW would end up losing the series 2-1 after defeat to Queensland in Game 3.[29] On 16 December 2020, he signed a four-year deal to join Canterbury-Bankstown from 2022 onwards.[30]

In round 9 of the 2021 NRL season, Addo-Carr scored six tries in Melbourne's 50-0 win over the South Sydney Rabbitohs. In scoring six tries in a single game, Addo-Carr set a new Melbourne Storm club record and became the first player in Australia in 71 years to do so, the last was Jack Troy in 1950 while playing for Newtown.[31]

On 30 May, he was selected for game one of the 2021 State of Origin series.[32] In game two of the 2021 State of Origin series, he scored two tries as New South Wales defeated Queensland 26-0.[33] Addo-Carr played a total of 22 games for Melbourne in the 2021 NRL season and scored 23 tries as the club won 19 matches in a row and claimed the Minor Premiership. He played in the preliminary final where Melbourne suffered a shock 10-6 loss against eventual premiers Penrith.[34]

Honours[]

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