Martyn Ridyard

Martyn Ridyard is an English professional rugby league footballer who plays as a goal-kicking stand-off or scrum-half for the Leigh Centurions in the Betfred Championship. Ridyard came through the junior ranks at Leigh Miners, joining Leigh academy squad upon leaving school before returning to Leigh Miners. There he helped Miners win the 2004-2005 National Conference Championship and the 2005-2006 BARLA National Cup Final, continuing to play at that level before accepting an offer from Warrington to play in their Senior Academy during 2007.

Martyn Ridyard
Personal information
Born (1986-07-25) 25 July 1986
Leigh, Greater Manchester, England
Height5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Weight13 st 12 lb (88 kg)
Playing information
PositionStand-off, Scrum-half
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
2009–17 Leigh Centurions 222 77 740 9 1797
2017(loan) → Huddersfield Giants 7 1 26 0 56
2018 Featherstone Rovers 20 8 59 0 150
2019– Leigh Centurions 28 3 98 3 211
Total 277 89 923 12 2214
As of 08 sept 2019
Source: [1][2]

Background

Ridyard was born in Leigh, Greater Manchester, England.

Career

Ridyard returned once more to Leigh Miners and helped them win the 2008 League Leaders Trophy, scoring 231 points along the way, only for Miners to lose in the 2008 National Conference League Grand Final, though his season ended on a personal high by winning the highly coveted Player of the Season award.

After a couple of false starts, Ridyard's professional career finally took off in 2009 when he rejoined hometown club Leigh, and quickly established himself as a first team regular.

A highly decorated player at amateur level, Ridyard has been capped by the BARLA Young Lions and GB Community Lions and has also represented Lancashire, before winning the first honour of his professional career when Leigh won the 2011 Northern Rail Cup Final. His second honour was being MOM in the 2013 Northern Rail Cup final win 2014 Leighcenturions won the Kingston press championship at Headingly, Martyn winning the Tom Bergin trophy as MOM and also was voted Kingstone press player of the year.

In October 2017 he signed a two-year deal to play for Featherstone.[3] He returned to his home town club Leigh Centurions in

2018 for the 2019 season

References
  1. loverugbyleague
  2. Rugby League Project
  3. "Featherstone Rovers wrap up surprise move for Leigh pivot Ridyard". Yorkshire Evening Post. 26 October 2017. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
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