Joel Romelo

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Joel Romelo
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Romelo playing for the Bulldogs in 2012
Personal information
Born (1989-04-03) 3 April 1989 (age 34)
Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
Height170 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Weight88 kg (13 st 12 lb)
Playing information
Position Hooker, Five-eighth, Halfback, Lock
Club
YearsTeamPldTGFGP
2009 Penrith Panthers 30000
2010–13 Canterbury Bulldogs 2340016
2014 Melbourne Storm 20000
Total2840016
Representative
YearsTeamPldTGFGP
2013 Indigenous All Stars 10000
Source: [1]

Joel Romelo (born 3 April 1989) is a former Australian professional rugby league footballer who previously played for the Penrith Panthers, Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs and Melbourne Storm in the NRL. He primarily played at hooker but could fill in at five-eighth and halfback. Romelo is of Indigenous Australian and Italian descent. [2]

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Early life

Born in Darwin, Northern Territory, Romelo played junior football for the Nightcliff Dragons in the Darwin Rugby League. [3]

Romelo moved to Brisbane, Queensland as a 12-year-old and was educated at Redcliffe State High School. He continued playing junior football for the Redcliffe Dolphins before being signed by the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks.

Playing career

Romelo played for Cronulla-Sutherland's Jersey Flegg before joining Penrith.

In 2008, he signed with the Penrith Panthers and played for the Panthers' Toyota Cup in 2008 and 2009, scoring 22 tries in 41 games. [4] In February 2009, Romelo came to blows with Panthers teammate, Trent Waterhouse after Waterhouse resented a tackle by Romelo in training. [5] In Round 8 of the 2009 NRL season Romelo made his NRL debut for the Panthers against the Canberra Raiders. He went on to play 2 more games in first-grade that year. After the conclusion of the 2009 season, Romelo was named in the 2009 NYC Team of the Year.

In March 2010, Romelo signed a contract with the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs. [6] After playing in Canterbury's NSW Cup reserve-grade side, Romelo made his debut for Canterbury-Bankstown against his former club, Penrith, in round 11 of the 2010 NRL season. [7] In the 2012 NRL season, Romelo played 13 games for Canterbury as the club won the Minor Premiership. Romelo did not feature in the club's finals campaign or the 2012 NRL Grand Final loss to Melbourne.

On 23 January 2014, Romelo signed a one-year contract with the Melbourne Storm starting in the same year. [8] On 6 November 2014, Romelo signed with Queensland Cup team Eastern Suburbs Tigers full time for the 2015 season. [9]

Controversy

In 2007, Romelo was sacked by Cronulla-Sutherland for disciplinary reasons.

Early in 2010, Romelo was sacked from the Penrith club for disciplinary reasons. It was later revealed that Romelo was terminated due to a drink driving offence. Romelo spoke to the Daily Telegraph saying "I lost my licence for DUI, so I catch the train to Homebush and back, It's about a 45-minute trip and I have to change at Lidcombe and then walk to the training ground from Olympic Park station, "I went through a difficult time and I've got mixed emotions about Penrith. On one hand I was badly behaved, but there were other players who did much worse and who weren't sacked. I'm not going to say who they were because I've still got heaps of mates there, but it did feel like there were double standards". [10]

In 2016, Romelo was charged following a police bust of an alleged ice-dealing syndicate in Darwin. Romelo was arrested after a tip-off through the Dob in a Dealer campaign. Romelo was pulled over by police and was found to have 14g of methamphetamine in the vehicle. Police then raided Romelo's home finding another 2g of methamphetamine and $10,000 in cash, and arrested another associate who was at the property. Romelo was in breach of bail and was remanded in custody to appear again on May 4, 2016. [11]

In August 2017, Romelo was jailed for two years and disqualified from driving for the same period over drug dealing charges. [12]

In 2019, Romelo was jailed for three years and four months after being convicted of two high speed chases in stolen cars and a brutal attack on his ex-girlfriend which broke her eye socket. It was alleged that Romelo ripped chunks from her hair, punched and choked her until she almost lost consciousness, because she didn't give him her phone passcode. [13]

Representative career

Romelo has played for the Queensland Schoolboys.

In 2011, Romelo was announced as a member of the Italy squad that will compete in the 2013 World Cup qualifying matches. [14]

On 16 January 2013, Romelo was voted into the Indigenous All Stars team by the fans to play the NRL All Stars team in the 2013 All Stars match. [15]

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References

  1. ↑ "Joel Romelo - Playing Career - Summary". www.rugbyleagueproject.org. Retrieved 1 May 2023.
  2. ↑ "Behind Penrith's punch-up". Herald Sun. 22 February 2009. Retrieved 3 June 2010.
  3. ↑ Booth, Doug (15 May 2014). "Territorian Joel Romelo to play first match of NRL season". NT News. Retrieved 15 April 2015.
  4. ↑ "Rleague.com - Romelo, Joel". Archived from the original on 9 July 2008.
  5. ↑ Penrith Players In Training Punch Up The Daily Telegraph[ dead link ]
  6. ↑ "Romelo now a Bulldog". Northern Territory News. 25 March 2010. Retrieved 6 April 2010.
  7. ↑ "Canterbury-Bankstown must step up against the Panthers at CUA Stadium". Fox Sports. 24 May 2010. Retrieved 30 May 2010.
  8. ↑ "Storm sign Romelo and Roberts - Melbourne Storm". Archived from the original on 26 January 2014. Retrieved 23 January 2014.
  9. ↑ "Romelo heads new Easts signings | NRL | Zero Tackle". Archived from the original on 6 November 2014.
  10. ↑ "Last stop Homebush for sacked Panther". Daily Telegraph.
  11. ↑ "Former NRL player Joel Romelo charged after police bust of alleged ice-dealing syndicate in Darwin". Fox Sports. 23 March 2016.
  12. ↑ "Former Canterbury Bulldogs hooker Joel Romelo jailed for driving and drugs charges, court told of his struggles in prison". www.nt.news.com.au.
  13. ↑ "Joel Romelo jailed after spate of meth-fuelled crimes". The West. 27 August 2019.
  14. ↑ Minichiello to lead Italy in 2011 RLWC European Qualifiers Archived 8 April 2011 at the Wayback Machine rleague.com, 6 April 2011
  15. ↑ "2013 All Stars teams announced - NRL". 16 January 2013.
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