At club level for Cape Town Coasters (South Africa), Castleford Tigers,[1][2][3] Oldham, Doncaster,[4] Widnes Vikings,[5]Halifax Panthers, Huddersfield Giants and player-coach for Stainland Stags ARLFC, as a fullback, wing, centre, scrum-half, second-row, or loose forward.
[6][8][9] Bloem initially played his club rugby league for the Cape Town Coasters in South Africa,[10] he also played in France and has travelled extensively as a player, he became player-coach at Stainland Stags ARLFC (Halifax, West Yorkshire) during the Pennine League 2010–11 season.
In November 1994, Bloem was the first rugby league player to test positive for performance enhancing anabolic steroid nandrolone, he was banned for two years.
[15][16][17] Bloem was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia to Scottish and South African parents, his twin sister died at the age of six weeks.
After retiring from rugby Bloem set up a landscape gardening business in Halifax, West Yorkshire.