Paul Carter

Paul Carter (born 23 May 1992) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who last played for the Sydney Roosters in the NRL.

He primarily plays at and, but can also fill in at.

He previously played for the Gold Coast Titans, South Sydney Rabbitohs and the Sydney Roosters.

Born in Penrith, New South Wales, Carter played his junior rugby league for the Wyong Roos, before being signed by the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs.

Carter is the son of former Penrith Panthers and Widnes Vikings player Steve Carter.

From 2010 to 2012, Carter played for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs' NYC team.

In November and December 2010, he played for the Australian Schoolboys.

On 21 April 2012, he played for the New South Wales Under-20s team in New South Wales' 18–14 win over Queensland at Penrith Stadium.

On 21 August 2012, he was named at lock in the 2012 NYC Team of the Year.

On 17 July 2013, he played for the New South Wales Residents against the Queensland Residents.

On 14 August 2013, Carter signed a 2-year contract with the Gold Coast Titans starting in 2014.

In February 2014, he played for the Titans in the inaugural NRL Auckland Nines.

In Round 1 of the 2014 NRL season, he made his NRL debut for the Titans against the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks off the interchange bench in the Titans' 18–12 win at Remondis Stadium.

In Round 3 against the Canberra Raiders, he scored his first career try in the Titans 24–12 win at Canberra Stadium.

On 12 June 2014, he was stood down by the Titans for 2 matches after being charged with high range drink driving at Surfers Paradise.

He later returned to the Titans first-grade squad in Round 17 against the South Sydney Rabbitohs, playing at lock in the Titans 14–10 win at ANZ Stadium.

He finished off his debut year in the NRL, having played in 21 matches and scoring 1 try for the Titans.

On 20 December 2014, his Titans contract was terminated due to disciplinary reasons.

In 2014 season (while contracted with the Gold Coast) Carter was twice charged with drink driving.

His first charge was in June, the Court gave him a $14,000 fine and suspended him from driving for 12 months.

In December (six months later) he was charged with high-range drink driving while driving unlicensed.

Following the incident Coach Neil Henry commented that "Paul has had an opportunity... we've put measures in place to help him out with a few of the issues he has and he was making some progress but to go and transgress again, especially when the courts have said he's unlicensed, that's unacceptable".

On 15 June 2015, Carter signed a 1 1⁄2-year contract with the South Sydney Rabbitohs effective immediately.

He made his Rabbitohs debut in Round 23 against the North Queensland Cowboys.

On 12 July, Carter had his Rabbitohs contract terminated following a breach of the club's code of conduct and specific clauses of his contract.

In July 2016 (while contracted with South Sydney) Carter was sacked because he failed to attend a training session following a weekend bender.

This was not Carter's first breach of conduct with the club.

A month earlier (June 2016) Carter and teammate Kirisome Auva'a were both stood down for turning up to training under the influence of alcohol.

Following Carter's sacking by South Sydney, he checked into an alcohol rehabilitation centre in Thailand.

In October, he signed a 1-year contract with the Sydney Roosters starting in 2017.

On 7 June, Carter was released from the Roosters effective immediately and without comment.

On 13 July 2017 it was revealed that Carter was playing for The Coffs Harbour Comets on The NSW Mid North Coast in The Group 2 division.

In November 2017, it was announced that The Cessnock Goannas were attempting to sign Carter on a 2-year contract but were told by The CRL that Carter had his registration as a player cancelled.

CRL Operations Manager Bert Lowrie said "Carter has been deregistered by the board "based on his history" and "will remain that way until he makes an application to be registered".

Carter's career has been marred by alcohol abuse, which led to his contracts with the Gold Coast and South Sydney being torn up.

On 11 October 2017, Carter again made headlines when it was alleged that he went to the house of former teammate Blake Ferguson.

According to authorities, Carter and Ferguson were drinking until 3AM when Ferguson asked Carter to leave the house as he had young children asleep inside.

It is then alleged that after Carter left Ferguson's property he made a phone call to the authorities saying that Ferguson had given his two young children drugs.

The Police then knocked on Ferguson's door around 5:15AM to respond for a call to welfare of the two young children.

After emergency services checked the children they found no wrongdoing from Ferguson nor any drugs in the house.