Rhys Lovegrove
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| Full name | Rhys Houston Lovegrove[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 11 March 1987 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 16 st 3 lb (103 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Prop, Second-row, Loose forward | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rhys Lovegrove (born 11 March 1987) is an Australian rugby league coach who is the head coach of Jamaica and a former assistant coach at the London Broncos in the Championship and a former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 2000s and 2010s.
He played for the Bradford Bulls, Hull Kingston Rovers and the London Broncos, primarily as a second-row forward and occasionally as a prop. After retiring from playing Lovegrove moved into coaching and took up his first head coaching role as the head coach of the Keighley Cougars at Cougar Park in June 2019.
Lovegrove was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
A Como Jannali Crocodiles junior who, while attending Endeavour Sports High School, played for the Australian Schoolboys Team in 2004.[4]
Playing career
He was initially signed by Hull Kingston Rovers on loan from the St George-Illawarra Dragons until the end of the 2007 Super League season, but then made the move permanent. In September 2014, he joined the London Broncos.[5]
He was named in Scotland's initial 40-man squad for the 2008 Rugby League World Cup,[6] but he was forced to withdraw through injury.[7] Lovegrove was selected for the Scotland squad for the 2013 Rugby League World Cup.[8]
