Gordon Pritchard
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| Born | 26 September 1954 Cardiff, Wales | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Wing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Fullback | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Gordon Pritchard (born 26 September 1954) is a Welsh rugby union and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s, and coached rugby union in the 1990s and 2000s. He played club level rugby union (RU) for Cardiff RFC, and Newport RFC, as a wing, and representative level rugby league (RL) for Wales, and at club level for Leeds, Bradford Northern, Barrow, Huddersfield (two spells), Eastern Suburbs (in Canterbury, New Zealand), and Cardiff City (Bridgend) Blue Dragons, as a fullback, i.e. number 1,[1][2] and coached club level rugby union (RU) for Tondu RFC, Caerphilly RFC, .Senghenydd RFC and Machen RFC
Playing career[edit]
International honours[edit]
Gordon Pritchard won caps for Wales while at Barrow, and Cardiff City (Bridgend) Blue Dragons 1978…1981 1(3?)-caps + 2-caps (interchange/substitute).[1]
Club career[edit]
Pritchard played a season with the Eastern Suburbs club in the Canterbury Rugby League competition.[3]
Note[edit]
Before the start of the 1984/85 season, Cardiff City Blue Dragons relocated from Ninian Park in Cardiff, to Coychurch Road Ground in Bridgend, and were renamed Bridgend Blue Dragons.
References[edit]
- ^ a b c "Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org". rugbyleagueproject.org. 31 December 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
- ^ Williams, Graham; Lush, Peter; Farrar, David (2009). The British Rugby League Records Book. London League. pp. 108–114. ISBN 978-1-903659-49-6.
- ^ Coffey, John. Canterbury XIII, Christchurch, 1987. p.96
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- 1954 births
- Living people
- Barrow Raiders players
- Bradford Bulls players
- Cardiff City Blue Dragons players
- Cardiff RFC players
- Huddersfield Giants players
- Leeds Rhinos players
- Newport RFC players
- Rugby league fullbacks
- Rugby league players from Cardiff
- Rugby union wings
- Rugby union players from Cardiff
- Welsh rugby league players
- Welsh rugby union players
- Welsh rugby union coaches
- Wales national rugby league team players