John Bentley (rugby)

John Bentley

Personal information

Date of birth

5 September 1966

Place of birth

Dewsbury, Yorkshire, England

Club information

Position

Wing

Current club

Retired

Youth clubs

Years	Club
	Cleckheaton RUFC

Senior clubs*

Years	Club	Apps (points)
____ ‐ 88 1988 ‐ 92 1992 ‐ 96 1996 ‐ __	Otley Sale Leeds Halifax Newcastle Rotherham Halifax Huddersfield	101 (212)

Representative teams

1988 ‐ 99
1997
1992 ‐ 94
1995 ‐ 96

England RU
British and Irish Lions
Great Britain
England RL

4

2

* Professional club appearances and points
counted for domestic first grade only.

John Bentley (born 5 September 1966) is an English former dual-code international Rugby League and Rugby Union wing three quarter.

Career

Originally a Union player, he made his England debut against Ireland in 1988 aged 21 and played on the summer tour against Australia.

After training as a policeman he switched codes from Rugby Union, which was then an amateur-only game, to Rugby League, where he became a professional. He played for Great Britain at league, for England in the 1995 Rugby League World Cup and signed for Leeds, before moving on to Halifax, as well as enjoying a short spell in Australia with Balmain Tigers.

When Rugby Union turned professional, he signed for Union side Newcastle Falcons in 1996, making 3 appearances as they won their first and so far only Premiership title in 1998.^[1] He was then selected for the 1997 British and Irish Lions tour to South Africa, where he played in the second and third Tests, playing opposite James Small.

After the tour he played twice more for England at Rugby Union before switching back to League with Huddersfield Giants.

He is currently involved with Leeds Tykes community rugby programme and matchday entertainment. He is an Honorary President of the Yorkshire Region of the rugby charity Wooden Spoon improving the lives of disadvantaged children and young people in Britain and Ireland.

Born in Dewsbury, he currently lives in nearby Mirfield with his wife Sandy and three children. Hosting and coaching at rugby camps across England with Sale Sharks, Newcastle Falcons and Leeds Carnegie.

References

↑ "Allied Dunbar Premiership, 1997/98 / Newcastle Falcons / Player records". espnscrum.com. Retrieved 7 September 2014.

External links

British and Irish Lions – 1997 South Africa tour

Forwards	Back Dallaglio Davidson Hill Johnson (c) Leonard Miller Quinnell Regan Rodber Rowntree Shaw Smith Wainwright Wallace Weir Williams Wood Young Redman (injury replacement) Diprose (injury replacement)

Backs	Bateman Beal Bentley Dawson Evans Healey Howley Jenkins Gibbs Greenwood Guscott Grayson Stimpson Tait Townsend T. Underwood Catt (injury replacement) Bracken (injury replacement)

Coach	McGeechan & Telfer

England squad – 1995 Rugby League World Cup finalists

Betts (c) Bentley Broadbent Cassidy Clarke Connolly Cook Edwards Farrell Goulding Harrison Haughton Jackson Joynt Mather McCurrie Newlove Offiah Pinkney Platt Powell Radlinski Robinson Sampson Smith Coach: Larder

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