Dane Tilse

Dane Tilse

Personal information
Born	24 January 1985 Scone, New South Wales, Australia
Height	200 cm (6 ft 7 in)
Weight	112 kg (17 st 9 lb)
Playing information
Position	Prop
Club
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
2004	Newcastle Knights	3	0	0	0	0
2006–15	Canberra Raiders	201	12	0	0	48
2015–	Hull Kingston Rovers	25	3	0	0	12
	Total	229	15	0	0	60
As of 11 April 2016
Source: [1]

Dane Tilse (born 24 January 1985, in Scone, New South Wales) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who currently plays for the Hull Kingston Rovers in the Super League. He previously played for the Canberra Raiders in the National Rugby League. His position of choice is at prop. At 200 cm (6 ft 7 in) tall, Tilse was one of the tallest players in the NRL.

Dane Tilse joined the Canberra Raiders in 2006, after previously being with the Newcastle Knights.

On 1 April 2015, Tilse signed a 2 ¹⁄₂ year contract with Hull Kingston Rovers.

Controversy

Tilse and other Newcastle Knights players were involved in a drunken incident in Bathurst, New South Wales in 2005 in which a 19-year-old woman was sexually assaulted. Although no official complaint was made and police did not lay any charges, the Newcastle board sacked Tilse and issued fines totalling A$50,000 against 12 players over the incident at Charles Sturt University for breaching the club curfew.^[2][3] Tilse was also de-registered by the NRL for a period of twelve months.^[4]

Amidst the controversy, the Knights terminated 20-year-old Dane Tilse's contract for conduct "contrary and prejudicial to the club and the NRL".

Tilse later apologised for his part in the drunken rampage.^[2]

Footnotes

1. RLP
2. "Knights players assaulted me: student". The Age. 2005-02-22. Retrieved 2007-12-27.
3. "Police won't press sex charges, says Knights". The Age. 2005-02-22. Retrieved 2007-12-27.
4. Mascord, Steve and Norrie, Justin (2005-02-22). "One fired, 11 fined after NRL rampage". The Age. Retrieved 2007-12-27.