Nathan Turner
{{short description|Australian rugby player}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2024}}
{{Use Australian English|date=July 2013}}
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Nathan Turner is an Australian rugby player who played rugby league professionally for the South Queensland Crushers and Oldham Bears and rugby union professionally for Leinster.
He is now a criminal defence lawyer and partner in the law firm Anderson Fredericks Turner.{{cite web| url=https://www.aftlawyers.com.au/our-people/nathan-turner/ | title=Nathan Turner – Principal Lawyer | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161123172801/https://www.aftlawyers.com.au/our-people/nathan-turner/ | archive-date=2016-11-23}}
Playing career
Turner originally played rugby union as a fullback for the Sunnybank club in Brisbane. In 1994 he was selected for the Australian under-21 tour of Africa but withdrew due to his planned switch of codes the next year.[http://newsstore.fairfax.com.au/apps/viewDocument.ac?page=1&sy=nstore&kw=fullback&pb=all_ffx&dt=selectRange&dr=entire&so=relevance&sf=text&sf=headline&rc=200&rm=200&sp=nrm&clsPage=1&docID=news940906_0091_3362 WALLABIES LOSE ONE AS CRUSHERS SNARE FULLBACK] Sydney Morning Herald, 6 September 1994
Turner signed with the new South Queensland Crushers rugby league franchise in 1995 and played in their inaugural team on 11 March. However Turner did not establish himself and went on to play in only six matches over the next two seasons. In 1997 Turner joined the Oldham Bears in 1997's Super League II.[https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/rugby-clubbyclub-guide-to-the-super-league-1272658.html CLUB-BY-CLUB GUIDE TO THE SUPER LEAGUE] The Independent, 13 March 1997 However Turner returned to Queensland without playing a match after suffering a foot injury.[https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/scotlands-14-new-caps-for-historic-first-1249798.html Scotland's 14 new caps for historic first] The Independent, 9 July 1997
In the late 1990s Turner coached London Skolars rugby league club in the National Conference League. He later managed a playing comeback in rugby union with Leinster and Blackrock College in Ireland.{{Cite web|title=Blackrock College Rugby Club 15/11/2000 {{!}} Inpho Photography|url=http://inpho.ie/assignment/Blackrock-College-Rugby-Club-15-11-2000/Owr3SnttG4FaZs1DfQDMDw..a|access-date=2021-11-28|website=inpho.ie}}
He currently works as a Barrister-at-Law in Queensland, Australia.
References
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Category:Australian rugby league players
Category:South Queensland Crushers players
Category:20th-century Australian sportsmen
Category:Oldham R.L.F.C. players
Category:Australian rugby union players
Category:Rugby union fullbacks
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)