Mathew Steve Rogers was born on 1 February 1976 and is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s.
43 Facts About Mat Rogers
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Mat Rogers played rugby union at the highest level, becoming a dual-code international.
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The son of the late Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks legend and chief executive officer Steve Rogers, Mat played for the Sharks as well.
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Mat Rogers played in two State of Origin series for Queensland, and 7 Tests for the Australian national side before his switch to union in 2001.
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Mat Rogers returned to rugby league in 2007 with the newly formed Gold Coast Titans club and retired in 2010.
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Mat Rogers is well known for another career path on the Network Ten revival of Australian Survivor, competing in both the third and fifth seasons.
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Mat Rogers began playing junior rugby league for the Engadine Dragons.
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Mat Rogers played his junior rugby league for the Nerang Roosters and attended The Southport School during his high schooling years, playing both forms of the game.
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Mat Rogers excelled in union at TSS, a well known rugby union nursery.
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Mat Rogers played in the Australian Schoolboys representative team in 1993, at one point playing opposite a young Jonny Wilkinson, and future All Blacks player Jonah Lomu.
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Mat Rogers formed powerful combinations with centre partner Andrew Ettingshausen and later fullback David Peachey.
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Mat Rogers held several point-scoring records with Cronulla being a talented goal kicker and having an ability to score tries from the tightest situations.
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Mat Rogers was chosen for the Australian team to compete in the end of season 1999 Tri Nations tournament.
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Mat Rogers expressed his desire to shift from his position on the wing to either Centre or Fullback.
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Mat Rogers made his Wallaby debut with Wendell Sailor in a Test match against France in June 2002.
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Several times Mat Rogers found himself the focus of media scrutiny after making comments regarding the state of Australian club rugby in comparison to training for the Wallabies and after an alleged altercation outside an Edinburgh nightclub with a fan in 2004.
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Mat Rogers continued to play in that position during the 2005 spring tour of Europe and remained there for the Waratahs for most of the new Super 14 competition in 2006.
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The Daily Telegraph in 2006 sparked the question of how many games Mat Rogers has actually not participated in due to injuries and quoted the following figures: Mat Rogers has missed 21 out of 61 games for the Waratahs, some due to his father's death at the start of the year.
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Mat Rogers was named in the 37-man squad for Australia's tour of Europe.
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Mat Rogers had been selected to play at fly-half with usual number 10 Larkham playing outside him at inside-centre.
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On 14 December 2006, Mat Rogers was released from his contract from the Waratahs and the Australian Rugby Union.
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In 2007, Mat Rogers revived his rugby league career with the new club, Gold Coast Titans in the National Rugby League.
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Mat Rogers became their equal top tryscorer for the Titans' inaugural season even after missing a handful of games late in the season due to a cracked patella.
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Mat Rogers started the 2008 season with the Gold Coast Titans at five-eighth.
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Mat Rogers returned in Round 18 against the New Zealand Warriors, with this match marking his 200th NRL appearance.
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In 2000, Mat Rogers was awarded the Australian Sports Medal for his contribution to Australia's international standing in the sport of rugby league.
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Mat Rogers holds the standing record for the most points scored in an Australia-New Zealand rugby league Test match with 24 scored in the Anzac Test of 2000 in Sydney.
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Mat Rogers equalled Matthew Burke's record for the most individual conversions in a match with six, achieved in the Waratahs 2004 round two clash against the Sharks at Aussie Stadium on 28 February 2004.
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Mat Rogers married model and media personality Chloe Maxwell on the Gold Coast on 26 October 2008.
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Mat Rogers has four children: Jack and Skyla from a previous relationship, Max Danger was born on 5 June 2006 and and daughter Phoenix was born on 21 September 2007 and with current wife Chloe.
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Mat Rogers has been committed to raising awareness about depression since the death of his father Steve in January 2006.
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Mat Rogers's father battled depression for three years and, while suicide was initially suspected, his death after taking alcohol and prescription drugs was ruled an accident.
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Mat Rogers has said he fears inheriting a propensity for the mental illness.
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Mat Rogers has made a pact with brother Don always to be honest about their feelings and encouraged men to talk to family, doctors or mates.
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Mat Rogers was a semifinalist in the fifteenth season of Dancing with the Stars.
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Mat Rogers worked for the Gold Coast commonwealth Games held in 2018.
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In 2018, Mat Rogers appeared as a contestant on Australian Survivor: Champions vs Contenders, competing in the fifth season of the competitive reality television series Australian Survivor as part of the Champions tribe.
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Mat Rogers was able to make it to merge only losing one alliance member, Hope, but soon assisted in voting out Lassila and Hinton.
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On Day 37, Rogers had a plan to vote out fellow contestant Brian Lake, but was ultimately blindsided and voted out by tribemates Monika Radulovic and Benji Wilson.
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Mat Rogers finished in 9th place and became the third member of the jury.
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In 2020, Mat Rogers returned to compete on Australian Survivor: All Stars.
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Mat Rogers gained praise after forming an underground alliance with David Genat, after being on the bottom of the Vakama tribe.
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Mat Rogers was voted out on Day 22, after playing 2 idols throughout the season.