Simon Angell
| Personal information | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Simon Alexander Angell | |||||
| Born | 12 November 1970 | |||||
| Height | 194 cm (6 ft 4 in) | |||||
| Weight | 110 kg (17 st 5 lb) | |||||
| Playing information | ||||||
| Position | Prop, Second-row | |||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1989–1998 | Hornby (CRL) | |||||
| 1994 | Christchurch City | 15 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 41 |
| 1995–1996 | Featherstone Rovers | |||||
| 1996–1997 | Salford City Reds | 6 | ||||
| Total | 21 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 41 | |
| Representative | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1989–1997 | Canterbury | 32 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 28 |
| 1993 | New Zealand | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Simon Alexander Angell is a former rugby league player who represented his country.
Playing career
From the Hornby club, Angell played for the Canterbury side that bet Auckland in 1993, starting in the second row in the Provincial grand final.[1][2]
He played for the Christchurch City Shiners in the 1994 Lion Red Cup.[3]
Angell was then signed to the Auckland Warriors in 1995 but did not play in the first grade team. He signed with the Featherstone Rovers for the 1995/96 season but in February 1996 Featherstone had to cut his contract as a cost-cutting measure.[4] Angell played the rest of the 1996 season with the Salford City Reds and remained there for 1997.[5]
He then returned to Canterbury and resumed his provincial representative career.[6] In 1998 he played for the Tasman Orcas as an import player while playing for the Hornby Panthers in the Canterbury Rugby League.[7]
Between 1999 and 2003 Angell played for the Canning Bulldogs in the Western Australia Rugby League competition.[5][8]
Representative career
Angell was named in the touring squad for the 1993 New Zealand Kiwis tour of Great Britain and France, however Angell did not play a test while on tour.[9] He did however wear the Kiwis colours on several tour matches and is Kiwi number 651.
References
- ↑ Smith, Tony (30 May 2009). "Nothing better than bettering Auckland". The Press. Retrieved 11 November 2011.
- ↑ Bruce Montgomerie Those Who Played, Montgomerie Publishing, 2004. ISBN 0646434071
- ↑ Lion Red Rugby League Annual 1994, New Zealand Rugby Football League, 1994. p.133
- ↑ Dave Hadfield Kiwi trio pay price in cost cutting The Independent, 22 February 1996
- 1 2 ANGELL, Simon Alexander - 1993 nzleague.co.nz
- ↑ John Coffey Old hand and rookie strengthen Canty ranks The Press, 30 August 1997
- ↑ New Zealand Rugby League Annual '98, New Zealand Rugby Football League, 1998. p.141
- ↑ South Perth Lions make easy prey of Bulldogs rleague.com, 12 May 2003
- ↑ Coffey and Wood The Kiwis: 100 Years of International Rugby League ISBN 1-86971-090-8. p.334.