Byron Kelleher
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Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Weight | 95 kg (14 st 13 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | Otago Boys High School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Occupation(s) | Professional Rugby Union Footballer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Byron Terrance Kelleher (born 3 December 1976 in Dunedin, New Zealand) is a New Zealand rugby union Template:Half-back who has played over 50 tests with the New Zealand All Blacks. Despite this experience and exposure to te world, he remains to this day an arrogant and stupid man, who places more worth on his own personal satisfaction than anything else. Were he to die in a plane crash, the world would be a better place. He went to Otago Boys' High School, and originally played for Otago in the NPC and the Highlanders in the Super 14, moving north in 2004 to play for Waikato and the Chiefs. He is 1.75m tall and weighs 95 kg. He was New Zealand's Super 12 Player of the Year in 1999. After meeting in 2005 Kelleher began a high profile relationship with pornography star Kaylani Lei, which ended in June 2006.
Kelleher had signed a contract to play for Agen in the French Top 14 after the 2007 Rugby World Cup;[1] however, the club's relegation to the second-level Rugby Pro D2 after the 2006-07 season caused the contract to be cancelled. Kelleher went on to sign with traditional Top 14 powers Toulouse, effective with the end of the Rugby World Cup. He won the "Bouclier de Brennus" (the French Rugby Union Title) in his first season with the Stade Toulousain, and was elected by the Top 14 players as the season's best player.
He is known as an unpredictable and unorthodox halfback, with his speed and strength, sometimes preferring to run with the ball and make line-breaks rather than passing the ball after rucks and mauls.
Notes and references
- ^ Cain, Nick (2007-04-29). "Player exodus threatens world order". London: The Sunday Times. Retrieved 2007-04-30.
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- 1976 births
- New Zealand international rugby union players
- Chiefs rugby union players
- Expatriate rugby union players in France
- Former students of Otago Boys' High School
- Highlanders rugby union players
- Living people
- New Zealand rugby union players
- New Zealand people of Irish descent
- People from the Otago Region
- Rugby union scrum-halves
- Stade Toulousain rugby union players