Craig Coleman is a former professional rugby league footballer and coach. History See also History of rugby league The grass roots of rugby league can be traced to early football history, through the playing of ball games His usual position was at halfback. A typical Rugby league team consists of thirteen players on the field plus four substitutes on the bench Coleman played 200 games over eleven seasons with the South Sydney Rabbitohs from 1982 to 1992 before spending two seasons with the Gold Coast Giants and one more with the Western Suburbs Magpies. The South Sydney Rabbitohs, also known as Souths, The Bunnies, SSFC or The Rabbits, are an Australian professional Rugby league Gold Coast were a Rugby league team which played in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership from 1988 to 1994, the Australian Rugby The Western Suburbs Magpies are a Rugby league football club in Sydney Australia
Coleman started coaching the Rabbitohs in the 1998 season. 1998 saw the inaugural season of the reunited National Rugby League premiership the 91st season of professional Rugby league football in Australia After the following season South Sydney were excluded from the premiership, but returned for the 2002 season. The year 2002 saw the fifth National Rugby League (NRL season the 95th season of professional Rugby league football in Australia This was to be Coleman's last year with the club after a season win percentage of just over 20%. He was replaced by Paul Langmack. Paul Langmack is an Australian former Rugby league coach and representative and premiership-winning player