Chris Hill (rugby league)

Christopher Hill is an English professional rugby league footballer who plays as a prop for the Warrington Wolves in the Super League, and England and Great Britain at international level.

Chris Hill
Personal information
Full nameChristopher Hill
Born (1987-11-03) 3 November 1987[1]
Wigan, Greater Manchester, England
Height6 ft 3 in (190 cm)[1]
Weight17 st 13 lb (114 kg)[1]
Playing information
PositionProp
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
2005–11 Leigh Centurions 160 35 0 0 140
2012– Warrington Wolves 258 32 0 0 128
Total 418 67 0 0 268
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
2012– England 29 0 0 0 0
2019– Great Britain 3 0 0 0 0
As of 15 November 2019
Source: [2][3][4]

He previously played for the Leigh Centurions in the Championship.[2][3]

Early career

Hill signed for Leigh from local Wigan amateur club New Springs Lions in 2004, and started his career as a stand-off or loose forward before moving to prop, progressing through Leigh's service area, scholarship and youth ranks before making his first senior appearance for Leigh in the 2005 Super League X season, during a 8–74 defeat by St. Helens.

In 2006, Hill won the Northern Rail Cup with Leigh after consolidating his place in the side. He toured Australia with Great Britain Under-18s in this same year.

2011 saw Hill win his second Northern Rail Cup trophy with Leigh, featuring as Halifax were defeated 16-20 at Blackpool's Bloomfield Road Stadium.[5]

Hill accumulated a couple of accolades with Leigh; firstly in reaching 100 appearances for the club, and also being the most recent prop-forward for Leigh to score a hat-trick of tries. After missing only one game in two years, he was made captain of Leigh in 2010.[6]

Move to Warrington

In 2011, Hill's impressive displays in the Championship saw him earn a three-year deal with Warrington in Super League, which saw him join the Warrington squad in 2012, remaining with Leigh on a dual registration until the end of the 2011 season. In light of this, his then-coach Ian Millward predicted future national caps for Hill, with his nurturing at Warrington.

I am delighted for Chris. As the fans will testify he has developed all season and is ready for Super League. It would not surprise me if in due course he won national recognition.[7]

Hill was selected to start in the 2012 Challenge Cup Final victory over the Leeds Rhinos at Wembley Stadium.[8][9][10][11]

At the end of Hill's first season with Warrington, Chris was named as player of the season, players’ player of the season and won the Vice President's award, thus taking each of the major accolades at the Warrington end of season awards night.[12]

He played in the 2012 Super League Grand Final defeat by the Leeds Rhinos at Old Trafford.[13][9]

He played in the 2013 Super League Grand Final defeat ny the Wigan Warriors at Old Trafford.[14][15][16][17][18]

In 2016, Hill was named club captain of the Wolves. This was a successful year overall for the Wolves under Hill, as they reached both finals and won their first piece of silverware since 2016, when they won the League Leaders' Shield, the second time in the club's history. Hill was named in the Dream team for the season, and was also the Top Metre Maker of the season. He was rewarded for this amazing season with a contract extension with the club, which will keep him with the wolves until at least November 2021

He played in the 2016 Challenge Cup Final defeat ny Hull F.C. at Wembley Stadium.[19][20]

He played in the 2016 Super League Grand Final defeat by the Wigan Warriors at Old Trafford.[21]

He played in the 2018 Challenge Cup Final defeat by the Catalans Dragons at Wembley Stadium.[22]

He played in the 2018 Super League Grand Final defeat by the Wigan Warriors at Old Trafford.[23]

He played in the 2019 Challenge Cup Final victory over St. Helens at Wembley Stadium.[24]

International career

Chris made his International début for England in the 2012 Autumn International Series match against Wales in Wrexham.[4]

In October and November 2013, Chris played in all 5 England matches of the Rugby League World Cup.

At the end of the 2014 domestic season, Chris traveled Down Under as part of the England national rugby league team's Four Nations squad.

In the 2015 International period, Chris was selected in Steve McNamara's 24-man squad to take on New Zealand up in England in a test-series.[25] Before the series began England played a test match against France.[26] Chris was part of the team that demolished the 'Les Tricolores'.[27]

The following year, Hill was selected in England's 24-man squad for the 2016 Four Nations.

In October 2017 he was selected in the England squad for the 2017 Rugby League World Cup.[28]

He was selected in squad for the 2019 Great Britain Lions tour of the Southern Hemisphere.[29] He made his Great Britain test début in the defeat by Tonga.[30]

References
  1. "Player Profile Chris Hill". rugby-league.com/england. The Rugby Football League. 2015. Retrieved 2 August 2016.
  2. "Profile at loverugbyleague.com". loverugbyleague.com. 31 December 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
  3. "Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org". rugbyleagueproject.org. 31 December 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
  4. "England Statistics at englandrl.co.uk". englandrl.co.uk. 31 December 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
  5. "Northern Rail Match Review". www.northernrail.org. 18 April 2011. Retrieved 26 August 2012.
  6. "rleague.com profile". rleague.com. 6 April 2010. Archived from the original on 17 June 2012. Retrieved 6 April 2010.
  7. "Hill agrees Warrington switch". superleague.co.uk. 8 July 2011. Retrieved 11 July 2011.
  8. "Warrington's battered Brett Hodgson recovers to see off Leeds in final". Guardian UK. 25 August 2012. Retrieved 20 November 2019.
  9. "Leeds' Kevin Sinfield stars in Grand Final triumph against Warrington". Guardian. 6 October 2012. Retrieved 20 November 2019.
  10. "Leeds Rhinos 18–35 Warrington Wolves". BBC Sport. 25 August 2012. Retrieved 20 November 2019.
  11. "Warrington Wolves Are Challenge Cup Winners 2012!". Warrington Wolves Official Site. 25 August 2012. Archived from the original on 17 December 2013. Retrieved 20 November 2019.
  12. "Chris is king of the Hills". warringtonguardian.co.uk. 6 September 2012. Retrieved 25 September 2012.
  13. "Grand Final: Warrington 18-26 Leeds". BBC Sport. 6 October 2012. Retrieved 20 November 2019.
  14. "Super League Grand Final". Super League. Archived from the original on 29 July 2013. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
  15. Newsum, Matt (5 October 2013). "Super League Grand Final: Wigan Warriors beat Warrington". BBC Sport. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
  16. "Super League Grand Final: Warrington v Wigan". BBC Sport. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
  17. "Warrington Wolves 16 Wigan Warriors 30". Daily Telegraph. 5 October 2013. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
  18. "Wigan see off Warrington in X-rated Grand Final to complete double". Guardian. 5 October 2013. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
  19. "Hull FC's Jamie Shaul's late try takes Challenge Cup away from Warrington". Guardian. 27 August 2016. Retrieved 7 November 2019.
  20. "Challenge Cup final: Hull FC 12-10 Warrington Wolves". BBC. 27 August 2016. Retrieved 7 November 2019.
  21. "Warrington 6-12 Wigan: Super League Grand Final – as it happened!". Guardian. 8 October 2016. Retrieved 7 November 2019.
  22. "Catalans Dragons beat Warrington in Challenge Cup final to make history". Guardian. 25 August 2018. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
  23. "Super League Grand Final 2018: Wigan 12-4 Warrington – as it happened". Guardian. 13 October 2018. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
  24. "St Helens 4-18 Warrington RESULT: Challenge Cup Final as it happened from Wembley". Mirror. 24 August 2019. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
  25. "MCNAMARA NAMES 24-MAN SQUAD FOR 2015 INTERNATIONAL SERIES". englandrl.co.uk. 11 October 2015. Retrieved 24 October 2015.
  26. "England vs France". sportinglife.com. 24 October 2015. Retrieved 1 January 2016.
  27. "England demolish France 84-4 in record win". skysports.com. 24 October 2015. Retrieved 1 January 2016.
  28. "England rugby league World Cup squad revealed - and James Roby is back in the fold". Mirror. 9 October 2017. Retrieved 30 October 2019.
  29. "Zak Hardaker shock inclusion in 24-man Great Britain squad for tour of New Zealand and Papua New Guinea". Telegraph. 14 October 2019. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
  30. "Great Britain left bruised at Tonga party". Times. 26 October 2019. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
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