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| Full name | Gareth Raynor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 24 February 1978 Leeds, West Yorkshire, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 14 st 9 lb (93 kg)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Gareth Raynor (born 24 February 1978) is an English former professional
Background
Raynor was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, he started his career in rugby union as a centre. He started out at Pontefract RU and later moved onto Castleford Panthers before Leeds Tykes stumbled upon his performances and took a keen interest. It was not long after that he moved to the Tykes in 2000. He made 8 appearances (4 as substitute) for the Tykes in their Division One season.
Raynor left the Tykes in the summer and switched codes to play Rugby league for big next door club, Leeds Rhinos.
Professional playing career
2000s
Gareth transferred to Leeds in the summer of 2000 and made three off the bench performances for the Rhinos. With little game time Gareth moved to Hull F.C. on a two-year contract. Injury to established winger
Raynor was a regular at
He was forced to rule himself out contention for the England training squad for the 2008 Rugby League World Cup through injury.[11]
2010s
For 2010's
Raynor was jailed for 15 months on 17 May 2010 for his part in an eBay ink cartridges and computer games scam and breaching a suspended sentence for assault.[14] Despite a lucrative rugby career Raynors scam netted over £36k. He imported fake ink and Nintendo games cartridges from the Far East and re-packed it. He was caught after a complaint from EPSON ink manufacturers which made test buys from his eBay site.
On 16 September 2010 it was confirmed that he had signed a 1-year deal with the Bradford Bulls.
Gareth featured from Round 1 (
He was sacked by the Bradford Bulls in the off-season for undisclosed reasons.
He signed for the Featherstone Rovers for the 2012 season, but he only played 4-matches, scoring 3-tries.
After 22 July 2013 he signed a year-long contract with the London Skolars in the Kingstone Press Championship 1[7] which proved as quite a shock to all the rugby league admirers. He provided a try 2 minutes into his début for the London Skolars against Oldham.
References
- ^ "The official Engage Super League web site". web page. Super League. Archived from the original on 21 October 2011. Retrieved 21 August 2011.
- ^ Hull F.C Player Profile [permanent dead link]
- ^ a b "Profile at loverugbyleague.com". loverugbyleague.com. 31 December 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
- ^ a b "Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org". rugbyleagueproject.org. 31 December 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
- ^ a b "England Statistics at englandrl.co.uk". englandrl.co.uk. 31 December 2017. Archived from the original on 11 March 2014. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
- ^ a b "Great Britain Statistics at englandrl.co.uk". englandrl.co.uk. 31 December 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
- ^ a b "Skolars sign Raynor". Archived from the original on 11 August 2013.
- ^ "Raynor rejoins Hull". BBC – Leicester. 23 June 2003. Retrieved 14 June 2007.
- ^ "Gareth Raynor Profile". Leicester Tigers. 23 June 2003. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 9 May 2009.
- ^ "St Helens 26-4 Hull FC". BBC News. 14 October 2006. Retrieved 18 August 2013.
- ^ "Winger Raynor to miss World Cup". BBC. 22 September 2008. Retrieved 3 October 2008.
- ^ "Hull confirm Raynor exit". Sky Sports. 26 December 2009.
- ^ Irvine, Christopher (19 January 2010). "Crusaders make Gareth Raynor ninth new signing". The Times. London. Retrieved 3 May 2010.
- ^ "Rugby player Gareth Raynor jailed for internet scam". BBC. 17 May 2010. Retrieved 18 May 2010.
- ^ "Raynor wings in for Bulls". Archived from the original on 23 March 2012.
- ^ "Bradford Bulls sign winger Gareth Raynor". BBC Sport. BBC. 16 September 2010. Retrieved 13 October 2010.