Jordan Turner

Jordan Turner
Personal information
Born (1989-01-09) 9 January 1989
Oldham, England
Height 6 ft 2 in (188 cm)[1]
Weight 16 st 7 lb (105 kg)[1]
Playing information
Position Centre, Loose forward, Stand-off

Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
2007–09 Salford City Reds 69 24 15 0 22
2010–12 Hull F.C. 72 34 0 0 136
2013–16 St Helens 117 45 13 3 272
2017 Canberra Raiders 0 0 0 0 0
2017– Huddersfield Giants 38 4 0 0 12
Total 296 107 28 3 442
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
2012 England Knights 2 2 9 0 26
2017 World All Stars 1 0 0 0 0
As of 7 October 2018
Source: [2][3][4]

Jordan Turner is an English professional rugby league footballer who plays for the Huddersfield Giants in the Super League. He previously played for the Salford City Reds, Hull F.C. and St. Helens in the Super League.

Background

Turner attended the Radclyffe School. His mother was born in Wollongong in Australia while his grandparents are Jamaican.[5]

Salford

Turner first joined Salford at the age of 14 from his amateur club Waterhead R.L.F.C. in Oldham. He captained the England under 18s team and was voted Academy Player and Young Player of the Year in 2007, before establishing himself in the Reds' first team for 2 seasons.

Turner playing for Hull FC in 2010

Hull

Turner joined Hull from Salford at the start of the 2010 season. The sought after signing is hoping for some successful years to come with Hull and has enjoyed runs at centre and stand off since throwing on the black and white jersey. Twice in 2012 Turner played for the England Knights team. In July 2012, Turner signed a 2-year contract with St Helens starting from 2013 season.[6]

St. Helens

Turner was voted St Helens Player of the Season for 2013. After 9 consecutive wins in the 2014 season (1 in the Challenge Cup) the Saints lost 2 consecutive games against Wigan, and Widnes. Jordan was determined to make the club bounce back from two moral killer defeats. As of 24 April 2014, Jordan has scored three tries this season (all in the Super League) against Wigan, Catalans Dragons, and Castleford. St. Helens reached the 2014 Super League Grand Final, and Turner was selected to play at loose forward in their 14-6 victory over Wigan.[7]

Canberra Raiders

On 14 July 2016 he signed with NRL club Canberra Raiders for two seasons.[8]

Huddersfield Giants

On the 26 May 2017, it was announced that Turner had signed for super league side Huddersfield Giants on a three and a half year contract.[9] He made his début on Sunday 4 June against Warrington Wolves, scoring a try in the side's 44-4 home win.

References

  1. 1 2 "Jordan Turner St Helens". www.superleague.co.uk. Rugby Football League. 2015. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
  2. ↑ loverugbyleague
  3. ↑ Rugby League Project stats
  4. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-02-09. Retrieved 2009-12-28.
  5. ↑ "NRL 2017: Canberra Raiders recruit Jordan Turner background heritage". Foxsports.com.au. 5 December 2016. Retrieved 9 October 2017.
  6. ↑ "Jordan Turner". 4 July 2012.
  7. ↑ Cartwright, Phil (11 October 2014). "St Helens v Wigan as it happened". BBC Sport. BBC. Retrieved 12 October 2014.
  8. ↑ "Raiders sign Jordan Turner". NRL.com. 15 July 2016. Retrieved 15 July 2016.
  9. ↑ "Huddersfield Giants". Giantsrl.com. Retrieved 9 October 2017.


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