Jason Bell (rugby league)

Jason Bell
Personal information
Born (1971-08-02) 2 August 1971
Height 173cm
Weight 79kg
Playing information
Position Five-eighth
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1989–92 Parramatta Eels 53 17 0 1 69
1993 North Sydney Bears 1 0 0 0 0
1994–96 South Sydney Rabbitohs 58 13 0 1 53
1997–99 Parramatta Eels 53 6 0 0 24
2000 Auckland Warriors 8 0 0 0 0
Total 173 36 0 2 146
As of 29 December 2008
Source: [1]

Jason Bell is a former rugby league player who played in the National Rugby League. His position of preference was at five-eighth.

Parramatta

A Parramatta junior, Bell made his first grade debut in 1989. He played fifty three games for the Eels before transferring to North Sydney at the start of the 1993 season. However he only played one first grade game for the Bears during the 1993 season.

Souths

Bell rejuvenated his career by moving across the harbour to the Rabbitohs. Here he played 58 games in three years for the club, and was regarded as a senior player by the time he was 24. He formed a solid halves combination with Craig Field.

Return to the Eels

His strong form at the Rabbitohs gave him the opportunity to return home to the Eels, and he went on to play another fifty three games for the club. In 1997 he won the club's Jack Boyle Tackling School Award, which is awarded to the club's best tackler each season.[2] By 1999 however, he was struggling to make first grade and instead captained the Eels reserve grade team to a win in the NSWRL First Division Grand Final.[3]

Final Years

He was not re-signed by the Eels for 2000 and instead he joined the Newtown Jets in the NSWRL First Division. The Jets had a feeder relationship with the Auckland Warriors and mid-season injuries to Stacey Jones and John Simon saw him signed by the Warriors.[4] He played eight games to finish off the season for the Warriors.[5]

At the end of the 2000 season the Warriors were sold and the new owners did not opt to re-sign Bell.

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