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Dean Pay (born 3 June 1969) is an Australian professional rugby league football coach and former player, born in Dubbo NSW, Pay’s junior club is St Johns JRL Dubbo.
He is the current head coach of the NRL's Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs club. Pay played in late 80's and 90's with Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs and the Parramatta Eels. Pay is a State of Origin representative and a Australia national rugby league team player.
Widely regarded as "one of the greats," he was instrumental in the Bulldogs' success during the early 1990s, Pay was a skillful ball-playing forward and an especially strong defender. At the end of the 1994 NSWRL season, he went on the 1994 Kangaroo tour.
In a career-defining moment during the 1995 ARL season's semi-finals campaign, Pay broke the ribs of star Brisbane forward Glenn Lazarus in the opening moments of the match, thereby ruining the Broncos' premiership ambitions.
Pay launched his coaching career in 2007, at the helm of Dubbo CYMS who went on to claim the Group XI premiership title. Pay coached CYMS again in 2008 before being named as the Catalans Dragons' new assistant coach in 2009 under Kevin Walters. In 2010, Pay started coaching the Melbourne Storm's under-20 side in the NYC competition.
A year later, Pay was named as the coach of New South Wales in the inaugural under-20s State of Origin match. During 2012 Pay signed as Parammatta Eels assistant coach for the 2013 NRL season under incoming head coach Ricky Stuart.
In 2014, Pay coached the NSW Under-20s to their third consecutive victory.
In Sept 2017, Pay signed a two-year deal as Head Coach of the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs.
Pay has 3 daughters and a son. Emily, Elise, Zoe and Billy.