1. Craig Field was born on 12 December 1972 and is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer.
20 Facts About Craig Field
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Craig Field served a jail term for the manslaughter of a 50-year-old man in 2012.
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Craig Field made his debut with South Sydney as a seventeen-year-old in 1990, playing one game from the bench.
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In 1995, Craig Field was stripped of the captaincy and fined $10,000 for missing training and at the end of the 1996 season he left the Rabbitohs for Manly-Warringah.
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Craig Field was a member of the 1997 Manly side which lost the Grand Final to the Newcastle Knights.
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Early in 1999, Craig Field requested a release from the Manly club and he played his last game with the team in round 5.
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Craig Field became a Wests Tiger in 2000 when Balmain and Western Suburbs merged at the end of the 1999 season.
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Craig Field did not participate in any other first-grade games in Australia.
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In 2002, Craig Field moved to the south-west of France to play for the Pia Donkeys in the French Rugby League Championship.
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On his return to Australia in May, 2003, Craig Field joined the Newtown Jets in the premier-league competition, captaining the side for the remainder of the season.
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From 2005 till 2009, Craig Field was captain-coach of Wagga Brothers in the Group 9 competition.
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In 2013, at age 40, Craig Field was playing A-grade park football for Moore Park club in the South Sydney junior league competition.
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On 11 August 2009, after a four-day trial at Wagga Wagga Court House, Craig Field was acquitted of all charges by a majority jury verdict.
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On 15 July 2012, Craig Field was arrested and charged with assault occasioning grievous bodily harm after allegedly punching 50-year-old Kelvin Kane outside a hotel in Kingscliff, New South Wales.
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Craig Field later died in hospital, prompting the charges against Field to be upgraded to murder.
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Craig Field was released from prison on 18 December 2012 after a bail bond was posted, with strict reporting conditions.
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The murder trial, in which Craig Field pleaded not guilty, began in November 2014.
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On 9 December 2014, Craig Field was found not guilty of murder, but guilty of manslaughter over the death of Kane.
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In 2023 it was reported Craig Field was living on the Gold Coast working in construction.
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Craig Field was invited to speak with the Manly Sea Eagles about his experiences on and off the field.