Career
He played for the Newcastle Knights, Hunter Mariners and the Leeds Rhinos as a fullback, centre and on the wing. Australia
Godden started his first grade career with the Newcastle Knights, playing from the bench in a 30-0 loss to the Parramatta Eels at Parramatta Stadium in Round 14 of the 1991 NSWRL season. Brad Godden"s form at fullback for the Knights was one of the reason"s Newcastle qualified for their first finals series in 1992.
Representative players Mark Sargent, Paul Harragon, Michael Hagan and Robbie McCormack led the Knights to a 4th placed finish in the regular season.
They then accounted for Western Suburbs 21-2 in the Minor Preliminary Semi-final, with Godden scoring just his third try for the season, before going down to eventual Grand Finalist Saint George 2-3 in a rare low scoring encounter in the Minor Semi-final. Godden continued with the Knights until the end of the 1996 season.
However, the emergence of Robbie Ross saw Godden restricted to just 11 games for the Mariners only season of existence. Godden also missed playing for the Mariners in the 1997 World Club Championship final against the Brisbane Broncos in Auckland.
England
Brad Godden then linked with the Leeds Rhinos in 1998, playing centre in their 1998 Super League Grand Final loss to Wigan Warriors.
After playing at centre for the Rhinos throughout the 1999 season, where he scored 7 tries in 24 games, Brad Godden retired from playing at the age of 31. After starring at fullback for the Knights in the 1992 Finals series, Godden gained selection for Australia for the 1992 World Cup Final in England. He played in one of the three preliminary matches on the tour, but wasn"t selected for the final at Wembley Stadium, coach Bob Fulton preferring Balmain youngster Tim Brasher instead.
Despite being two years older than Brasher, the speedy Balmain back had big game experience over Godden, having played centre as a 17-year-old in the Tigers losing 1989 Grand Final side, as well as playing for New South Wales in Game 3 of the 1992 State of Origin series.
Brasher also was a handy back-up goal kicker to team captain Mal Meninga.
