Rhys Lovegrove

Rhys Lovegrove (born 11 March 1987) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played for the Bradford Bulls, the London Broncos and the Hull Kingston Rovers, primarily as a second-row and occasionally as a prop. After retiring from playing Lovegrove moved into coaching and took up his first head coaching role at Keighley Cougars in June 2019.

Rhys Lovegrove
Personal information
Born (1987-03-11) 11 March 1987
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Playing information
Height185 cm (6 ft 1 in)
Weight103 kg (16 st 3 lb)
PositionProp, Second-row, Loose forward
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
2007–14 Hull Kingston Rovers 159 19 0 0 76
2015 London Broncos 20 1 0 0 4
2016 Bradford Bulls 5 0 0 0 0
Total 184 20 0 0 80
Coaching information
Club
Years Team Gms W D L W%
2019–current Keighley Cougars
Source: [1][2]

Background

Lovegrove was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

A Como Jannali Crocadiles junior who while attending Endeavour Sports High School, Lovegrove played for the Australian Schoolboys Team in 2004.[3]

Playing career

He was initially signed by the 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.[4]

He was named in the Scotland Training Squad for the 2008 Rugby League World Cup,[5] but he was forced to withdraw through injury.[6]

In August 2016 he announced his retirement due to injury from playing to join the coaching staff at the Bradford Bulls.[7]

Following periods on the coaching staff at Bradford and Doncaster, Lovegrove joined Keighley Cougars as assistant coach in January 2019 and was appointed as head coach in June 2019 following the sacking of Craig Lingard the previous month.[8]

References
  1. loverugbyleague
  2. Rugby League Project
  3. "SportingPulse Homepage for Australian Secondary Schools Rugby League". SportingPulse. Retrieved 10 October 2008.
  4. "Rhys Lovegrove: London Broncos sign Hull KR forward". BBC Sport. 5 September 2014. Retrieved 15 December 2014.
  5. "Henderson trio in Scots cup squad". BBC. 29 August 2008. Retrieved 3 October 2008.
  6. "Heckenberg out of the World Cup". Quins. 29 September 2008. Retrieved 3 October 2008.
  7. "London Broncos sign Jay Pitts from Bradford Bulls". Sky Sports. 26 August 2016. Retrieved 20 February 2017.
  8. "Keighley Cougars appoint Rhys Lovegrove as head coach". Keighley News. 13 June 2019. Retrieved 17 June 2019.


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