Jake Trbojevic

Jake Trbojevic is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a lock and prop for the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles in the NRL and Australia at international level.

Jake Trbojevic
Personal information
Born (1994-02-18) 18 February 1994
Mona Vale, New South Wales, Australia
Height185 cm (6 ft 1 in)
Weight107 kg (16 st 12 lb)
Playing information
PositionLock, Prop
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
2013– Manly Sea Eagles 139 27 0 0 108
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
2015– Prime Minister's XIII 5 2 0 0 8
2016– Australia 7 2 0 0 8
2017–20 New South Wales 12 1 0 0 4
As of 12 July 2020
Source: [1]

Trbojevic has played for Prime Minister's XIII and New South Wales.

Background

Trbojevic was born in Mona Vale, New South Wales, Australia. He is of a mixed Cameroonian (mother), and Serbian (father) ancestry, as he noted on the Foxtel program, Sterlo, on 28 February 2017[2][3]

He played his junior rugby league for Mona Vale Raiders in the Mona Vale rugby league, before being signed by the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles. During his time at Mona Vale Raiders Rugby League club, he was coached by Mitchel Murphy and assisted by Steve Wilson, both helped to shape Jakes rugby league career. Trbojevic is the older brother of fellow Manly Warringah Sea Eagles player Tom Trbojevic.[4] Trbojevic has played for the New South Wales U16's and U18's teams.[5][6] In October 2011, Trbojevic played for the Australian Schoolboys.[7] On 7 March 2012, Trbojevic re-signed with the Sea Eagles on a 2-year contract.[8] Trbojevic played for the Sea Eagles NYC team in 2013.[9] On 20 April 2013, Trbojevic was named in the New South Wales Under 20s team against the Queensland Under 20s team, Trbojevic played off the interchange bench in the 36-12 victory at Penrith Stadium.[10] On 27 August 2013, Trbojevic was named at prop in the 2013 NYC Team of the Year.[11] On 13 October 2013, Trbojevic played for the Junior Kangaroos against the Junior Kiwis off the interchange bench in the Kangaroos 38-26 win at Jubilee Oval.[12]

Playing career

2013

In round 26 of the 2013 NRL season, Trbojevic made his NRL debut for the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles against the Penrith Panthers off the interchange bench in Manly's 38-26 loss at Brookvale Oval.[13] Trbojevic only played 1 match for the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles in the 2013 NRL season.

Trbojevic playing for the Sea Eagles in the NSW Cup in 2014

2014

Trbojevic played no matches for the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles in the 2014 NRL season after suffering a broken leg and dislocated ankle in a New South Wales Cup match.[4]

2015

In round 2 of the 2015 NRL season, Trbojevic played his first grade match for the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles since round 26 in the 2013 NRL season, playing against the Melbourne Storm off the interchange in the club's 24-22 win at Brookvale Oval.[14] On 28 April 2015 Trbojevic re-signed with the Sea Eagles on a 2-year contract.[15] In Round 20 against the New Zealand Warriors, Trbojevic scored his first NRL career try in the club's 32-12 win at Mt Smart Stadium.[16] On the 8th of September, Trbojevic's form for Manly, which finished the season in 9th place with an 11-13 record (missing the finals for the first time since 2004) saw him win the clubs "Roy Bull Best & Fairest" award for the year. He played 23 games for Manly in 2015, scoring 3 tries, making 601 tackles, 2,559 metres and 247 hit ups.[17] On 26 September, Trbojevic earned his first senior representative jumper when he played at prop for the Prime Minister's XIII against Papua New Guinea in the 40-12 win in Port Moresby.[18][19][20]

2016

On 1 February Trbojevic was named as captain of the Sea Eagles' 2016 NRL Auckland Nines squad.[21]

After again playing for the Prime Ministers XIII, on 13 October 2016, Trbojevic was called into the Australian Kangaroos squad for the 2016 Rugby League Four Nations tournament after Canberra Raiders forward Josh Papalii withdrew with an ankle injury.[22] He made his test debut playing lock forward for Australia in the opening match of the Four Nations tournament against Scotland in Hull, England on 28 October and scored a try on debut. By playing in the match, he became Manly-Warringah's 68th Australian test player and the first local Manly junior to make his test debut for Australia since Anthony Watmough in the 2008 Rugby League World Cup.[23]

2017

Manly coach Trent Barrett named Jake Trbojevic as vice-captain of Manly-Warringah for the 2017 NRL season with Daly Cherry-Evans named as captain, the pair taking over from retired captain Jamie Lyon and vice-captain Brett Stewart. Trbojevic finished the year with 23 games and 9 tries. At the end of the year, Trbojevic was selected in the 24 man squad to play for Australia with his younger brother Tom Trbojevic. He was injured in the first game of the World Cup and did not play for the rest of the tournament.

2018

Trbojevic played all three games for the New South Wales Blues on the Bench. [24] He was a shining light (alongside his younger brother and star fullback Tom Trbojevic) in an otherwise rocky season at the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles. At the years end, Trbojevic was selected to play in the Prime Minister's XIII which they went on to win 18 – 34.

2019

Trbojevic was selected by New South Wales to play in the 2019 State of Origin series after a good start to the season. Trbojevic played in all 3 matches as New South Wales won the series 2-1. It was the first time since 2005 that New South Wales had won back to back series.[25][26]

Trbojevic made 25 appearances for Manly in the 2019 NRL season as the club qualified for the finals after finishing in sixth place. Trbojevic played in the club's elimination final victory over Cronulla and also featured in Manly's elimination final loss against South Sydney where he was controversially sent to the sin bin for allegedly pushing a Souths player in the second half of the match.[27][28]

On 30 September, Trbojevic was named at lock for the Australia PM XIII side. On 7 October, Trbojevic was named in the Australian side for the upcoming Oceania Cup fixtures.

2020

Trbojevic played 20 games for Manly in the 2020 NRL season. The club missed the finals finishing 13th on the table.

Trbojevic was selected by New South Wales for the 2020 State of Origin series. He played in all three games as New South Wales suffered a shock 2-1 series loss against an under strength Queensland side.[29][30]

References
  1. "Jake Trbojevic - Career Stats & Summary". Rugby League Project. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp13snkDjgk
  3. "Serbian Rugby League on Twitter: "Booooom! Great hit by jake trbojevic #serb @NRL #manvmel @SeaEagles"". Twitter.com. 14 March 2015. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  4. "Jake and Tom Trbojevic are Manly's younger version of the Stewart brothers". Foxspoprts.com.au. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  5. "NSW Under 16s Possibles V Probables - NSWRL Academy". Fox Sports Pulse. 31 May 2010. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  6. "NSW Under 18's Team announced - NRL.com". M.nrl.com. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  7. "ASSRL Schoolboys rugby league news, Australian Secondary School Rugby League, Australian Schoolboys". Ourfootyteam.com. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  8. https://web.archive.org/web/20140301174608/http://www.silvertails.net/news/latest-sea-eagles-news/6087-saved-from-dogs-manly-sign-outstanding-junior-prop. Archived from the original on 1 March 2014. Retrieved 4 February 2016. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  9. https://web.archive.org/web/20150928181420/http://rleague.com/players/Jake-Trbojevic_4039/Matches. Archived from the original on 28 September 2015. Retrieved 4 February 2016. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  10. "New South Wales defeat Queensland 36-12 in under-20s Origin". Dailytelegraph.com.au. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  11. "2013 Holden Cup Team of the Year". NRL.com. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  12. "Clubs Queue for Young Manly Sea Eagles". Dailytelegraph.com.au. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  13. "Flat Manly know they must improve for finals bid". Smh.com.au. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  14. "Manly hold off fast-finishing Storm". NRL.com. 14 March 2015. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  15. "Manyl Will Re-sign Trbojevic Brothers". Dailytelegraph.com.au. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  16. "Famous Win Reignites Top Eight Hopes". Dailytelegraph.com.au. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  17. "Jake Trbojevic wins Manly's top award". Sea Eagles. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  18. "Merrin to lead Prime Minister's XIII". NRL.com. 15 September 2015. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  19. "Jake Trbojevic named in Prime Minister's XIII". Sea Eagles. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  20. Tom Decent. "Australian Prime Minister's XIII beat Papua New Guinea 40-12 in Port Moresby". Smh.com.au. Retrieved 20 December 2015.
  21. "Manly names new look Nines squad". NRL.com. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
  22. Trbojevic replaces Papalii for Kangaroos
  23. 2016 Rugby League Four Nations - Australia vs Scotland
  24. https://www.nrl.com/news/2018/06/24/nsw-blues-player-ratings-state-of-origin-game-two/
  25. "Emotional Blues legend Wayne Pearce opens up on his son Mitchell's battle". www.news.com.au.
  26. "I'm very lucky text exchange that squashed cooks pre game nerves". Sydney Morning Herald.
  27. "South Sydney Rabbitohs beat Manly Sea Eagles 34-26 in NRL semi-final". ABC.
  28. "Rabbitohs dig deep to eliminate Sea Eagles in finals thriller". NRL.
  29. O'Loughlin, Liam (26 October 2020). "NRL 2020 Season Review: How will your side fare next year?". Sporting News. Archived from the original on 26 October 2020.
  30. "State of Origin 2020 game 3: Qld Maroons beat NSW Blues – as it happened". www.theguardian.com.
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