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luke burgess
LUKE BURGESS


6'4" Luke Burgess (born 20 February 1987) is the tattooed bad boy of the Burgess rugby family.  Ordinarily I'm not into tattoos but thank goodness that Luke has them otherwise I could not tell him from his huge family of hunky brothers, some of which are twins. He is the naughty one. While his brothers have had more minor scandals (liked leaked nude selfie pictures of brother George and his giant "junk") Luke managed to get himself thrown off a team due to a drunken brawl in Arizona that was put up on youtube.

Luke is an English professional rugby league footballer for the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles in the National Rugby League. A forward like his brothers Sam, George and Tom, he previously played in Super League for English sides, Harlequins and Leeds Rhinos, with whom he won the 2009 Super League Grand Final, and the South Sydney Rabbitohs in the NRL.   He and his brothers have all played for this team which is named after rabbits for no particular reason.  He also played for a team called "Manley." I'm serious.  Now THAT is a manly name for a team. Actually the town they are in is called Manley.  Wow my kind of place no girls allowed!

Burgess was born on 20 February 1987 in Liversedge, Wakefield, West Yorkshire. His late father, Mark Burgess who died of Motor neurone disease, was also a rugby league footballer who played for Nottingham City, Rochdale Hornets, Dewsbury and Hunslet; whilst his mother Julie is a teacher, currently employed at The Scots College in Bellevue Hill, Sydney. His younger brothers Tom and George, currently play professional rugby league with the South Sydney Rabbitohs, while Sam plays rugby union for Bath Rugby. He attended Heckmondwike Grammar School to receive a secondary education before becoming a professional rugby player. He played his junior rugby for Dewsbury Moor, and also played for Liversedge Cricket Club.

Burgess played Prop for the Leeds Rhinos having previously been on loan to Harlequins RL and Doncaster. He made his first appearance for Leeds in defeat at Castleford Tigers in March 2008. Burgess' début game was against Castleford Tigers at Wheldon Road, Leeds lost this game. Burgess scored his first try on his second game against Harlequins RL. At the end of the 2008 season, Burgess became the inaugural winner of the Albert Goldthorpe Rookie of the Year Award, presented by the leading trade newspaper, Rugby Leaguer & League Express. In 2009, Burgess played in 28 games, however, he only scored one try for the club against Salford City Reds, compared to five tries from only five appearances in 2008. On 21 June 2011 it was confirmed that Luke had signed for the South Sydney Rabbitohs, joining brothers Sam, Tom and George, at the club who play in the Australian NRL.

During the 2011 NRL season Burgess was named to make his NRL debut for Souths having been in Australia for less than two weeks. In May 2013, model Yolanda Hodgson who had been a contestant on Australia's Next Top Model in 2011, gave birth to the couples first child, daughter Grace Luca. In August 2013, the Burgess brothers became the first set of four brothers to line up in the same Australian side since Ray, Roy, Rex and Bernard Norman played for Sydney's Annandale club in the 1910 NSWRFL season. In 2015, he joined the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles, after being granted an early leave by the South Sydney Rabbitohs, after an incident at the Rabbitohs' high-altitude training camp in Arizona, United States.

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GEORGE BURGESS

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SAM BURGESS

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TOM BURGESS

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