Great Britain National Rugby League Team Coaches - Ellery Hanley (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ellery Cuthwyn Hanley MBE (born 27 March 1961 in Leeds) is an British former rugby league footballer of the 1970s, 80s and 90s, and former head coach of Great Britain, St Helens RLFC and Doncaster RLFC. As a player he played most of his games at stand-off and loose forward. Over a period of nineteen years, he played for Bradford Northern, Wigan, Balmain, Western Suburbs and Leeds. He was capped 34 times by Great Britain and honoured by the Queen in January 1990 for his services to the game. In 2007, he was voted as the greatest British rugby league player of all time. In 1978, Ellery Hanley signed for Bradford Northern from the junior club Corpus Christi. On the 26th November 1978, he made his professional debut for Bradford against the Rochdale Hornets in a League Division One match. He helped his club to a 30-18 victory, by scoring a try on his debut. He had to wait his time before gaining a regular first team place but in the early eighties he exploded onto the scene as one of the top try scoring non-wing players in the history of the game. In the 1981-82, Bradford made it to the Yorkshire Cup final. They lost the match 18-7 to Castleford, with Hanley scoring a goal for Bradford. In 1984-85, his final season with the club, Hanley became the first man to score more than 50 tries in a season since Billy Boston and the first non-winger to reach this figure for 70 years. He scored a remarkable 55 tries in only 37 appearances, an achievement made even more remarkable as he switched between the several positions of wing, centre and stand-off. For his achievements in the 1984-85 season, he was awarded the Man of Steel award, which is awarded to the personality judged to have made the biggest impact in the season, as well as the First Division Pl... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1198992