Jacob Lillyman (born 7 March 1984) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer. Throughout his career, he played for the North Queensland Cowboys, New Zealand Warriors and Newcastle Knights in the National Rugby League, while representing Queensland in State of Origin as a prop or second-row.
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Lillyman was born in Richmond, Queensland, Australia.
Lillyman attended Columba Catholic College, Charters Towers, where he was a boarding student for a while. His youth club was the Richmond Tigers in Northwest Queensland.[2]
While attending Kirwan State High School, Lillyman played for the Australian Schoolboys team in 2002.[3]
Lillyman made his debut for the Cowboys in Round 22 of the 2003 season against the Newcastle Knights. He then went on to play sixty two games for the club, showing good enough form to earn State of Origin selection.
In 2008 Lillyman was forced to leave the North Queensland Cowboys due to salary-cap pressures,[2] and that year there ended abruptly for him when he suffered a season-ending injury in Round 15, playing against the Melbourne Storm.[4]
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