Grant Doorey
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| Born | 3 February 1968 Auckland, New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Second-row | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Grant Doorey (born 3 February 1968) is a New Zealand professional rugby union coach and former rugby league player.
Playing career
Doorey started his career in Australia, appearing sporadically for Manly-Warringah and Eastern Suburbs between 1990 and 1993. He moved to England in 1994 to play for Keighley Cougars.[2]
In 1997, Doorey moved to France to become a player-coach at Villeneuve, where he won the Treize Tournoi in 1998,[3] and a European Challenge match against a Northern Ford Premiership XIII in 1999.[4] In 2001, he reached the quarter final of the Challenge Cup with the team before losing to Super League side Warrington Wolves.[5]
Coaching career
After leaving Villeneuve, Doorey later moved to rugby union, where we worked as an assistant coach alongside John Kirwan for the Italy and Japan national teams, and for the Blues in the Super Rugby competition. In 2015, he was appointed as a defence coach at London Irish.[6]
References
- ^ Rugby League Project
- ^ Hadfield, Dave (20 September 1995). "Powell power puts Keighley on top". The Independent. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
- ^ "Rugby League: Lynx fail to hold on". The Independent. 2 November 1998. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
- ^ "French Lesson". ladepeche.fr (in French). 6 October 1999. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
- ^ Whalley, John (11 March 2001). "Villeneuve make their point". Telegraph. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
- ^ Johnstone, Duncan (4 March 2015). "London Irish lure Blues and Hurricanes Super Rugby assistant coaches". Stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 3 October 2016.