Aaron Booth (rugby league)

Aaron Booth (born 1 October 1995) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a hooker for the Gold Coast Titans in the NRL.

Aaron Booth
Personal information
Born (1995-10-01) 1 October 1995
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Height178 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight85 kg (13 st 5 lb)
Playing information
PositionHooker
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
2020–21 Melbourne Storm 6 0 0 0 0
2022– Gold Coast Titans 0 0 0 0 0
Total 6 0 0 0 0
As of 6 September 2021
Source: [1]

He previously played for the Melbourne Storm.

Background

Born in Sydney, Booth was raised in Brunswick Heads and played his junior rugby league for the Mullumbimby Giants.[2]

He attended Palm Beach Currumbin State High School before being signed by the South Sydney Rabbitohs.

Playing career

In 2011, Booth played for Gold Coast Green in the Cyril Connell Cup.[3] In 2012, he played for Gold Coast Green in the Mal Meninga Cup and later for Gold Coast White in 2013.[4][5]

In 2014, Booth joined the Rabbitohs' Under-20 side, playing for 40 games for them over two seasons.[6][7] In 2016, he played for the North Sydney Bears, the Rabbitohs' New South Wales Cup feeder club.[8]

In 2017, Booth joined the Mackay Cutters in the Queensland Cup.[9] He missed the entire 2018 season after tearing his ACL in pre-season training.[10]

In 2019, Booth signed with the Easts Tigers, a feeder club for the Melbourne Storm.[11] In November 2019, he joined Melbourne's NRL squad for pre-season training, earning a contract with the club.[12][13]

In 2020, Booth and hundreds of other players, played NO matches for their local or state based teams. Booth was one of the lucky few with contracts at National (NRL) Clubs.

In 2021, Booth played his third year with Easts Tigers. He played 9 matches averaging 76 minutes - thus proving his durability and relaibility.

Melbourne Storm

In Round 20 of the 2020 NRL season, Booth made his NRL debut for the Melbourne Storm against St. George Illawarra Dragons. He had his Melbourne jersey (cap number 208) presented to him by Melbourne Storm captain Cameron Smith.[14]

In 2021 Aaron was called into the Storm NRL Team for Round 11 against Canberra taking over from Brandon Smith at Hooker. His work at dummy half was crucial to the wins over Canberra(R11) , Brisbane(R12) , Gold Coast(R13) , Sydney Roosters(R16) and Newcastle(R17). When star Hooker, Harry Grant rejoined the team, their was no longer any room for Booth in the Storm front row.

Gold Coast Titans

In August 2021 the Gold Coast Titans added Aaron to their squad for 2022. “Aaron is a local (Gold Coast) boy and it’s great that he is coming back to represent the region,” Titans coach Justin Holbrook said.

While with the Titans during the 2022 NRL season, Booth will also play with Burleigh Bears in the 2022 Queensland Cup.

References
  1. Rugby League Project
  2. "Storm recruit arrives then rushes home before Queensland border shuts". Sydney Morning Herald. 24 March 2020.
  3. "Cyril Connell Cup 2011". 18th Man.
  4. "Mal Meninga Cup 2012". 18th Man.
  5. "Mal Meninga Cup 2013". 18th Man.
  6. "B". 18th Man.
  7. "Late Mail: Rd 10, 2015". South Sydney Rabbitohs. 16 May 2016.
  8. "TEAMS - Intrust Super Premiership NSW Rd 13". NSWRL. 31 May 2016.
  9. "Cutters gear up for State of Origin". Queensland Times. 22 June 2017.
  10. "Leadership crisis for Cutters". The Chronicle. 13 March 2018.
  11. "Gains and Losses for 2019: Easts Tigers". QRL. 20 February 2019.
  12. "Pre-season insight with Hoffy". Melbourne Storm. 12 November 2019.
  13. "Melbourne the perfect fit for Booth". Melbourne Storm. 3 June 2020.
  14. "Three to debut". Melbourne Storm. 26 September 2020.
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