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{{Short description|Australia international rugby league footballer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2013}}
{{Infobox rugby league biography
| name         = Anthony Watmough
| fullname     = Anthony Thomas Watmough<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,25898971-5018866,00.html | title=FOX SPORTS &#124; Live Sports Scores &#124; NRL, AFL, Cricket Scores }}</ref>
| image        = Anthony Watmough.jpg 
| image_size   = 
| position     = {{rlp|SR|LK}}
| birth_date   = {{birth date and age|1983|07|10|df=yes}}
| birth_place  = [[Auburn, New South Wales]], Australia
| height       = {{convert|183|cm|ftin|abbr=on}}
| weight       = {{convert|97|kg|stlb|abbr=on}}
| club1        = [[Northern Eagles]]
| year1start   = 2002
| year1end     =
| appearances1 = 8
| tries1       = 1
| goals1       = 0
| fieldgoals1  = 0
| points1      = 4
| club2        = [[Manly Warringah Sea Eagles|Manly Sea Eagles]]
| year2start   = 2003
| year2end     = 14
| appearances2 = 278
| tries2       = 71
| goals2       = 0
| fieldgoals2  = 0
| points2      = 284
| club3        = [[Parramatta Eels]]
| year3start   = 2015
| year3end     = 
| appearances3 = 17
| tries3       = 1
| goals3       = 0
| fieldgoals3  = 0
| points3      = 4
| teamA        = [[City vs Country Origin|City Origin]]
| yearAstart   = 2005
| yearAend     = 07
| appearancesA = 2
| triesA       = 1
| goalsA       = 0
| fieldgoalsA  = 0
| pointsA      = 4
| teamB        = [[New South Wales state rugby league team|New South Wales]]
| yearBstart   = 2005
| yearBend     = 14
| appearancesB = 14
| triesB       = 1
| goalsB       = 0
| fieldgoalsB  = 0
| pointsB      = 4
| teamC        = [[Australia national rugby league team|Australia]]
| yearCstart   = 2008
| yearCend     = 13
| appearancesC = 16
| triesC       = 0
| goalsC       = 0
| fieldgoalsC  = 0
| pointsC      = 0
| teamD        = [[All Stars Match|NRL All Stars]]
| yearDstart   = 2010
| yearDend     = 12
| appearancesD = 2
| triesD       = 0
| goalsD       = 0
| fieldgoalsD  = 0
| pointsD      = 0
| retired      = yes
| source       = <ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.nrl.com/telstrapremiership/playerprofiles/seaeaglesplayerlist/tabid/10837/default.aspx| title = NRL stats}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = http://rugbyleagueproject.com/players/Anthony_Watmough.html| title = RLP}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.yesterdayshero.com.au/PlayerProfile_Anthony-Watmough_370014.aspx| title = Yesterday's Hero| access-date = 4 September 2008| archive-date = 3 August 2012| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120803060802/http://www.yesterdayshero.com.au/PlayerProfile_Anthony-Watmough_370014.aspx| url-status = dead}}</ref>
| updated      = 
}}

'''Anthony Watmough''' (born 10 July 1983) is an Australian former professional [[rugby league]] footballer. An Australian international and New South Wales State of Origin representative forward, he played the majority of his career with the [[Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles]], winning both the [[2008 NRL Premiership]] and the [[2011 NRL Premiership]] with them.

==Playing career==
===2000s===
A product of the Narrabeen Sharks,<ref>{{cite news
| last       = Stevenson
| first      = Andrew
| title      = Choc an irresistible force
| newspaper  = The Age
| place      = Melbourne, Australia
| publisher  = Fairfax
| date       = 24 September 2007
| url        = http://www.theage.com.au/news/news/choc-an-irresistible-force/2007/09/23/1190486140521.html?page=2
| access-date = 27 December 2009
}}</ref> Watmough first played in the NRL in 2002 for the [[Northern Eagles]] club. In 2005, Watmough was first selected for the [[New South Wales state rugby league team|New South Wales]] [[2005 Rugby League State of Origin series|State of Origin]] team. Watmough was awarded the 2007 [[Dally M Awards|Dally M]] ''Second Rower of the Year'' award. He played in the [[National Rugby League season 2007#Grand final|2007 NRL grand final]] defeat by the [[Melbourne Storm]].<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,24415751-5001023,00.html| work=The Daily Telegraph| title=Factfile on 2007 grand final| date=29 September 2008}}</ref> He played in the [[National Rugby League season 2008#Grand final|2008 NRL Grand Final]] victory over the Melbourne Storm and was then named in the [[Australia national rugby league team|Australian]] squad for the [[2008 Rugby League World Cup]].<ref name="Grand final: As it happened">{{cite web|url=http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,24449388-23214,00.html|title=Grand final: As it happened|work=Fox Sports|date=5 October 2008|access-date=5 October 2008}}</ref> 
[[File:Chocks-away.jpg|thumb|left|Watmough in 2008]]
After being involved in an alleged incident where Watmough abused a club sponsors 21-year-old daughter and then punched the sponsor at the club's 2009 season launch,<ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-sport/watmough-slaps-over-sponsors-daughter-20090310-8tuz.html| work=The Sydney Morning Herald| title=Watmough slaps over 'sponsor's daughter'}}</ref> Watmough started the following season in good form, winning the man-of-the-match award for his two-try performance in Manly's victory in the [[2009 World Club Challenge]]. He was selected for [[Australia national rugby league team|Australia]] in the one-off test match against [[New Zealand national rugby league team|New Zealand]] on 8 May 2009.<ref>{{cite news|work=[[Fox Sports (Australia)|Fox Sports]]|title=Kangaroos selectors stick by losing World Cup team for New Zealand Test|first=Tom|last=Wald|url=http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,25422175-5016947,00.html|date=3 May 2009|access-date=3 May 2009}}</ref>

Watmough gave a dominant display to earn the man of the match award in game 3 of the [[2009 State of Origin series]] in what was described by commentator [[Andrew Voss]] as one of the greatest ever Origin performances.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,25789250-10389,00.html |title=Anthony Watmough tops State of Origin III player ratings |date=16 July 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090718201518/http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0%2C23739%2C25789250-10389%2C00.html |archive-date=18 July 2009 }}</ref> He won his second Dally M Second-Rower of The Year award for the 2009 season and in doing so made sure Manly retained the award for the third year in a row as his teammate [[Glenn Stewart]] won it the year before and Watmough won it in 2007. In the 3-year period from the start of 2008 season, Watmough was penalised in games 70 times, the most of any player in the NRL. To add, he had recently been caught urinating on a shopfront which caused a fan fume uproar.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Daily Telegraph (Sydney)|title=Stats Central|date=11 March 2011}}</ref>

===2010s===
For the [[2010 ANZAC Test]], Watmough was selected to play for [[Australia national rugby league team|Australia]] from the interchange bench in their victory against [[New Zealand national rugby league team|New Zealand]]. 2011 was seen as a turnaround for Anthony Watmough both on and off the field. Off-field, Manly coach Des Hasler enlisted the help of his [[1987 NSWRL season|1987]] and [[1996 ARL season|1996]] premiership coach, [[The Immortals (rugby league)|Rugby League Immortal]] and club legend [[Bob Fulton]] whose private talk with Watmough put the 27-year-old back on the straight and narrow while his on-field form for the second placed Manly club saw him return to the [[New South Wales rugby league team|NSW Origin team]] for games 2 and 3 of the [[2011 State of Origin series]].<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/nrl/the-reinvention-of-nsw-state-of-origin-star-anthony-watmough/story-e6frexv9-1226085856775| title = The reinvention of Anthony Watmough}}</ref>

However, before the end of the season, reports emerged of another off-field transgression, with Watmough accused of trashing a hotel room after a State of Origin victory.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|title=Watmough trashed Origin hotel room|author=Danny Weidler|url=http://www.smh.com.au/sport/watmough-trashed-origin-hotel-room-20110827-1jfew.html|access-date=3 September 2011|date=28 August 2011}}</ref>

In the [[2012 State of Origin series]], Watmough was the only New South Wales player who had ever experienced a series victory. Watmough was selected for Australia in the [[2013 ANZAC Test]] and played from the interchange bench. In what was the first [[Test match (rugby league)|test match]] ever played in [[Canberra]], New Zealand were defeated.

On 28 October 2014, after a couple months of speculation of Watmough making a move to the [[Parramatta Eels]], he was released from Manly-Warringah to sign a four-year deal with the Eels starting from the [[2015 NRL season]].<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/manly-sea-eagles/manly-release-anthony-watmough-sign-willie-mason-and-feleti-mateo-20141028-11cvy7.html| title = Manly release Anthony Watmough; sign Willie Mason and Feleti Mateo| date = 28 October 2014}} </ref><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.9news.com.au/national/2014/10/28/11/25/anthony-watmough-released-from-manly-contract| title = Manly confirm Anthony Watmough's exit, unveil new CEO}}</ref>

Following his first full season with the Parramatta club in 2015, with some time off the field due to injury, Watmough entered the [[2016 NRL season]] with the club aiming for a premiership. It was early in the [[2016 NRL season]] that he suffered a recurring knee injury which saw him sidelined once again.{{cn|date=September 2023}}

It was also early into 2016 which saw the club entangled in salary-cap related controversy, and following a lengthy investigation, the [[NRL]] deemed Parramatta to be non-compliant with the salary cap - the club was docked 12 competition points, and ordered to become compliant to be able to play for competition points over the remainder of the season.

This led to the club needing to move players on, and with Watmough having been rumored to be looking to retire due to injury earlier on in the season, this was something the club would want to make use of to become compliant.{{cn|date=May 2023}}

It was on May 12, 2016 that Watmough's medical retirement was given the green light by the [[NRL]].<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/league-news/parramatta-eels-allowed-to-compete-for-points-after-complying-with-the-salary-cap-20160512-gotpht.html| title = Parramatta Eels allowed to compete for points after complying with the salary cap| date = 12 May 2016}} </ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.parraeels.com.au/about/official-player-numbers/|title=Official Player Numbers|website=Parramatta Eels}}</ref>

==Post playing==
On 13 June 2018, Watmough unleashed an extraordinary tirade against Manly captain [[Daly Cherry-Evans]], accusing him of holding Manly back over his financial demands. Watmough claimed that Cherry-Evans had turned into a "fuckwit" after the halfback's first season with the club in 2011, when they won the NRL premiership. Watmough said, "He just signed a four-year deal and he didn’t turn up to training. He said his manager told him not to. His idiot manager signed him for five years on no money because nobody thought he was good. In the end, [coach] [[Geoff Toovey]] succumbed to the board and [Cherry-Evans] was put on $500,000 after being on $50,000. Toovey chose the board and one player over the rest of the players and that’s where he lost me".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl-premiership/former-manly-enforcer-anthony-watmough-has-opened-up-on-his-falling-out-with-daly-cherryevans/news-story/ead58f414e6e63b4e2bcfb7264203e97/|title=Anthony Watmough has opened up on his falling out with Daly Cherry-Evans|website=Fox Sports|date=12 June 2018}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.nrl.com/telstrapremiership/playerstats/playerprofile/tabid/10898/clubid/9/playerid/398/seasonid/43/default.aspx NRL profile]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20061209110620/http://www.manlyseaeagles.com.au/players.asp?playerid=99 Anthony Watmough at ''Manly Sea Eagles'']

{{Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles squad - 2008 NRL premiers}}
{{Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles - 2009 World Club Challenge winners}}
{{Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles squad - 2011 NRL premiers}}
{{Australia 2008 Rugby League World Cup squad}}
{{Australia squad - 2009 Rugby League Four Nations Champions}}
{{Australia squad - 2010 Rugby League Four Nations}}
{{Australia squad - 2011 Rugby League Four Nations}}
{{Rugby league footballers with 300 NRL games}}

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