Liam Finn (rugby league)

Liam Finn
Personal information
Born (1983-11-02) 2 November 1983
Yorkshire, England[1]
Height 5 ft 11 in (180 cm)
Weight 14 st 7 lb (92 kg) [2]
Playing information
Position Stand-off, Scrum-half, Hooker

Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
2002–03 Halifax 21 3 30 1 73
2004–05 Wakefield Trinity 2 0 1 0 2
2005 Featherstone Rovers 19 8 80 0 192
2006–09 Dewsbury 109 45 121 5 427
2010–13 Featherstone Rovers 118 64 503 5 1267
2014–15 Castleford 53 9 6 2 50
2016– Wakefield Trinity 79 9 251 0 538
2018– → Widnes Vikings (loan) 1 0 0 0 0
2019 Newcastle Thunder 0 0 0 0 0
Total 402 138 992 13 2549
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
2007–17 Ireland 24 6 39 0 102
As of 12 August 2018
Source: [3][4]

Liam Finn (born 2 November 1983) is an Irish international rugby league footballer who plays for the Widnes Vikings in the Super League. (Heritage № 1220). An Ireland international representative scrum-half, stand-off or hooker, he has previously played for Halifax and Castleford in the Super League, as well as Dewsbury and Featherstone Rovers (Heritage № 867) in the Championship.

Background

Finn was born in Yorkshire, England.

Club career

After brief stints in Super League with Halifax, and Wakefield Trinity Wildcats as a young player, Finn spent most of his career in the Championship, playing for Featherstone Rovers, and Dewsbury. He returned to Super League in 2014 with Castleford, and played for them in the Challenge Cup final that year.

In October 2015, Finn re-joined Wakefield Trinity on a 2-year deal.

Testimonial match

Liam Finn's benefit season/testimonial match at Featherstone Rovers, allocated by the Rugby Football League, took place during the 2013 season.

International career

Finn was named in the Ireland squad for the 2008 Rugby League World Cup.[5][6]

In 2010 he represented Ireland in the Alitalia European Cup. Also he followed up his 2009 Championship 1 Player of the Year award with a Championship player of the year award in 2010 for Featherstone Rovers in his first season back with Rovers.

He was named as captain of Ireland in 2012, and was later confirmed as captain for the 2013 Rugby League World Cup campaign.[7]

He is Ireland's joint most capped player alongside Bob Beswick and is also Ireland's record point scorer.

In November 2014, Finn was called up to play for Ireland in their final European Cup game against Wales. He was a huge influence scoring a total of 18 points in their sides massive 42-14 victory. However, their performance wasn't good enough as Ireland needed to win by 41 points if they were to secure the European Cup title, a place in the 2016 Four Nations, and 2017 Rugby League World Cup.

Unlike 2014, Finn was called up to the Irish squad in October before the European Cup which began on 17 October 2015.

In 2016 he was called up to the Ireland squad for the 2017 Rugby League World Cup European Pool B qualifiers.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "Rugby League: Liam Finn". Sky Sports. BSkyB. Archived from the original on 30 June 2015. Retrieved 27 June 2015.
  2. ↑ "Castleford Tigers 1st Team Liam Finn". Official Castleford Tigers web site. Castleford Tigers Rugby League Football Club Ltd. 2015. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
  3. ↑ loverugbyleague
  4. ↑ Ferguson, Shawn Dollin and Andrew. "Liam Finn - Career Stats & Summary - Rugby League Project".
  5. ↑ "Cassidy included in Ireland squad". BBC. 2008-10-07. Retrieved 2008-10-07.
  6. ↑ "Ireland Name World Cup 40 Man Training Squad". Rugby League Ireland. 2008-08-01. Retrieved 2008-08-02.
  7. ↑ "Rugby League World Cup 2013: Ireland name 24-man squad". BBC Sport.
  8. ↑ "Warrington Wolves trio named in Ireland squad for World Cup qualifiers". Warrington Guardian. 24 September 2016. Retrieved 26 September 2016.
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