Playing Career
A product of Campbelltown, De Vere spent a year playing with Appin in the Group 6 competition before being graded with St. George in 1995.
The following year he wrote to Brisbane coach Wayne Bennett requesting a trial. Bennett went one better, offering the young winger/centre an incentive contract.
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