Nathanael Barnes

{{short description|Australian rugby league footballer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2023}}

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| name = Nathanael Barnes

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| club1 = {{nowrap|Tweed Heads Seagulls}}

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| tries1 = 73

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| points1 = 292

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Nathanael Barnes (born 11 October 1987) is an Australian rugby league footballer.

Barnes is the Tweed Heads Seagulls leading try scorer of all time. He scored a total of 73 tries in 92 games for the club in the Queensland Cup.{{cite web|url=http://www.qrl.com.au/default.aspx?s=qldcup-clubs-tweed|title=Tweed Heads Seagulls|publisher=QRL|year=2010|accessdate=2010-03-15|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110218232205/http://www.qrl.com.au/default.aspx?s=qldcup-clubs-tweed|archivedate=18 February 2011}}

In 2012 he was named in the Queensland Residents side.[http://www.nrl.com/queensland-residents-team-named/tabid/10874/newsid/68240/default.aspx Queensland Residents team named] nrl.com, 25 June 2012

In 2012, he played for the Wynnum Manly Seagulls and trialled for the Brisbane Broncos, before joining the North Sydney Bears in the New South Wales Cup. He then returned to Tweed Heads Seagulls.