Steve Mortimer

Year inducted: 2019
True Blue number: 704
Origin number: 29
Born: July 15, 1956, Yagoona, NSW
Club: Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs
Position: Halfback
Premiership career: (1976-88) 273 games, 79 tries, 5 field goals
First Grade debut: Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs vs Balmain Tigers at Leichhardt Oval on 21 March, 1976
Representative honours: Australia 8 Tests (1981-84); NSW 7 Interstate matches (1977-71), 9 State of Origins (1982-85)
Other honours: NRL Hall of Fame 2008
Steve Mortimer burst on the Sydney scene in 1976 but his first taste of representative football was a sour one that forced him to mature as a player. Premiership success at club level steeled him so that he was a star for NSW and Australia and he holds a special place in NSW Origin lore as captain of the first Blues side to win a series in 1985.