Paul Gregory Green was an Australian professional rugby league football coach who was most recently the head coach of Queensland in the State of Origin series, and a former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s.
A Wynnum Manly Seagulls junior, Green captained the Queensland Colts before winning Brisbane Rugby League’s Rothmans Medal in 1993 while playing for the Easts Tigers.
Green’s Tigers lost the 1993 BRL Grand Final 18-12 to Western Suburbs, despite Green scoring a try for the Eastern Suburbs side.
Paul Green Teams coached
After his retirement in 2004, Green worked as a specialist coach with the Brisbane Broncos – mainly working with the club’s halves & hookers from 2005, a position he held until 2008.
From 2009 Green was promoted to an assistant coach of the Brisbane Broncos before moving onto feeder club Wynnum Manly in 2010, working as an assistant.
Green coached the Wynnum Manly Seagulls in the 2011 and 2012 Queensland Cups.
He coached the 2012 Queensland Residents’ side. He won back-to-back premierships with Wynnum Manly during this time.