| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Scott Sattler | |
| Date of birth | 13 December 1971 | |
| Place of birth | Sydney, Australia | |
| Height | 180 cm | |
| Weight | 95 kg | |
| Nickname(s) | Satts | |
| Relatives | John Sattler (father) | |
| Youth clubs | ||
| Years | Club | |
| ?? 1990–91 |
Runaway Bay Seagulls Gold Coast |
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| Senior clubs* | ||
| Years | Club | Apps (points) |
| 1992–93 1994 1995–96 1997–98 1999–2003 2004 |
Gold Coast Seagulls Sydney Roosters South Queensland Crushers Gold Coast Chargers Penrith Panthers Wests Tigers |
6 (4) 1 (0) 8 (0) 47 (16) 118 (66) 22 (8) |
| Representative teams** | ||
| 2003 | Queensland | 1 (0) |
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* Professional club appearances and points |
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Scott Sattler (born 13 December 1971 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) is a former professional rugby league player who is now currently the Football Manager for the Gold Coast Titans. Events 1294 - Saint Celestine V abdicates the papacy after only five months Celestine hoped to return to his previous life Year 1971 ( MCMLXXI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. Sydney (ˈsɪdniː is the most populous city in Australia, with a Metropolitan area population of approximately 4 For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. 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 The Gold Coast Titans are an Australian professional Rugby league football team based on the Gold Coast in Queensland. As a player he played for the Gold Coast Chargers from 1992 to 1993 as well as a second spell with the club between 1997 and 1998. Gold Coast were a Rugby league team which played in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership from 1988 to 1994, the Australian Rugby He also played for the Sydney Roosters in 1994, the South Queensland Crushers between 1995 and 1996, the Penrith Panthers between 1999 and 2003 and one season with the Wests Tigers in 2004. The Sydney Roosters is a professional Rugby league club based in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, Australia. The South Queensland Crushers were an Australian Rugby league football club based in Brisbane, Queensland. The Penrith Panthers is an Australian professional Rugby league football team The Wests Tigers are a professional Rugby league football club in the National Rugby League (NRL the premier Rugby league competition in Australasia He also represented Queensland on one occasion in 2003. His position of choice was as a lock forward. He is the son of former South Sydney great, John Sattler. The South Sydney Rabbitohs, also known as Souths, The Bunnies, SSFC or The Rabbits, are an Australian professional Rugby league For the United States Marine Corps Lieutenant General see John F
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Growing up Scott Sattler was educated at Coombabah State Primary School, Nudgee College and Coombabah State High School. Coombabah State Primary School (commonly known as Coombabah State School) is a P-7 State Primary school located in Coombabah, on the Northern Gold Coast Coombabah State High School is a public secondary school located in the northern suburb of Coombabah on Queensland 's Gold Coast. [1] He played his junior rugby league for the Runaway Bay Seagulls and the Gold Coast Chargers.
Sattler joined the Gold Coast Chargers as a junior from the Runaway Bay Seagulls junior club. He made his first grade debut for the club against the Parramatta Eels at the age of twenty. The Parramatta Eels are an Australian professional Rugby league football club based in the Sydney suburb of Parramatta.
Sattler joined the Sydney Roosters in 1994 but his time with the club was a brief one, only making a single appearance off the bench for the club.
He joined the South Queensland Crushers in 1995. The South Queensland Crushers were an Australian Rugby league football club based in Brisbane, Queensland.
He joined the club he began his career with, the Gold Coast Chargers, in 1997 for his second spell with the club.
After his second spell with the Gold Coast club, Sattler moved to the Penrith Panthers in 1999. He was named as the first grade player of the year in 2001 after an impressive season. He will perhaps be best remembered for the moment in the 2003 Grand Final in which he made one of the greatest tackles in rugby league grand final history. During a pivotal point in the match, Sattler made a try-saving tackle when he chased down and made a textbook tackle on the Sydney Roosters winger Todd Byrne to send him over the touchline during his clubs 18 points to 6 victory of the Roosters. The Sydney Roosters is a professional Rugby league club based in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, Australia. Todd Byrne (born 16 July, 1978, in Sydney New South Wales) is an Australian professional Rugby league player for Hull FC A superb effort considering Sattler is a lock forward and Byrne is a winger. Reflecting on that tackle Sattler stated, "It was one tackle and when I was out on the field I didn’t really think about it being a turning point in the game. You just focus on each tackle as they happen and do what you need to do to get the job done. " After the 2003 season, in which Sattler won his first ever premiership, he left the club to join the Wests Tigers due to salary cap restrictions. After it was announced that Sattler would be leaving the club he stated, "This is the perfect way to leave the club. I'm looking forward to going to Wests Tigers next year and playing a senior role. "
Sattler joined the Wests Tigers in 2004 where he played one season for the club before retiring from rugby league. That year he was named captain. Also during that year, Sattler was named as the player of the tournament at the Wests Tigers 2004 World Sevens Championship victory. After his final year in rugby league, Sattler required a knee operation to undergo a cartilage graft. In total he played 203 first grade games for five different clubs. Sattler named his most respected opponents throughout his career as Tony Butterfield and Luke Ricketson. Tony Butterfield (born 4 February 1966 in Penrith New South Wales) is an Australian former Rugby league player for the Penrith Panthers Luke Ricketson is a former Australian Rugby league player who played for the Sydney Roosters.
In 2003, Scott Sattler became the second oldest player ever, after Arthur Beetson, to be selected for the Queensland State of Origin team. Arthur Henry Beetson, OAM (born 22 January 1945 in Roma Queensland) is an Australian former Rugby league player and coach He did however make only one appearance for his state, without scoring a point.
In 2006, it was announced that Scott Sattler had signed for the Gold Coast Titans as the Football Manager for the club. Upon signing for the club, Sattler commented, "Having made my First Grade debut with the Gold Coast and playing all my junior football here I feel I have an emotional attachment to the club; an attachment that I want to make sure this team is one that is successful on and off the field. I have experienced the highs and lows of Rugby League and I feel I can draw on those experiences into assisting the mould we want at this club; a club the Gold Coast and Northern NSW community will embrace. "
Sattler resigned from his position as football manager with the Titans in January, 2008, citing the pursuit of other business interests as his reason. [2]