Daniel Irvine
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Daniel Irvine nephew of Australian Rugby League Great Ken Irvine, is a former Australia
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player for the South Sydney Rabbitohs
in the National Rugby League
.
While attending Parramatta Marist High, Irvine played for the Australian Schoolboys team in 1999.
He formerly played for the Parramatta Eels
then the Canterbury Bulldogs
and is commonly known by the nickname
of Bubsy. Irvine signed a 2 year contract with the South Sydney Rabbitohs
for 2007/2008.
He went on to coach the South Sydney Rabbitohs Toyota Cup team for the 2008/09 seasons.
He is currently studying his Masters of Chiropractic at Macquarie University and will complete his degree in 2011.
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
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Rugby league
Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...
player for the South Sydney Rabbitohs
South Sydney Rabbitohs
The South Sydney Rabbitohs are an Australian professional rugby league football team based in Redfern, a suburb of South-central Sydney, New South Wales. They participate in the National Rugby League premiership and are one of nine existing teams from the state capital...
in the National Rugby League
National Rugby League
The National Rugby League is the top league of professional rugby league football clubs in Australasia. The NRL's main competition, called the Telstra Premiership , is contested by sixteen teams, fifteen of which are based in Australia with one based in New Zealand...
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While attending Parramatta Marist High, Irvine played for the Australian Schoolboys team in 1999.
He formerly played for the Parramatta Eels
Parramatta Eels
The Parramatta Eels are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the Sydney suburb of Parramatta. The Parramatta District Rugby League Football Club was formed in 1947, with their First Grade side playing their first season in the New South Wales Rugby Football League...
then the Canterbury Bulldogs
Canterbury Bulldogs
The Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in Belmore, a suburb in the Canterbury-Bankstown region of Sydney. They compete in the National Rugby League premiership, as well as New South Wales Rugby League junior competitions...
and is commonly known by the nickname
Nickname
A nickname is "a usually familiar or humorous but sometimes pointed or cruel name given to a person or place, as a supposedly appropriate replacement for or addition to the proper name.", or a name similar in origin and pronunciation from the original name....
of Bubsy. Irvine signed a 2 year contract with the South Sydney Rabbitohs
South Sydney Rabbitohs
The South Sydney Rabbitohs are an Australian professional rugby league football team based in Redfern, a suburb of South-central Sydney, New South Wales. They participate in the National Rugby League premiership and are one of nine existing teams from the state capital...
for 2007/2008.
He went on to coach the South Sydney Rabbitohs Toyota Cup team for the 2008/09 seasons.
He is currently studying his Masters of Chiropractic at Macquarie University and will complete his degree in 2011.