Phil Blake
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Born | London, England, United Kingdom | 24 November 1963||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Height | 175 cm (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 83 kg (13 st 1 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Position | Halfback, Five-eighth, Fullback, Centre | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Phil Blake (born 24 November 1963) is a British-born Australian former rugby league footballer and a professional rugby union coach.
Originally a
Blake has held coaching positions with the
.Early life
Blake was born in London, England, but moved to
Playing career
Manly
Blake made his début for the
Blake's good form continued in
After playing 21 of his 23 games at halfback in 1983, he played there only 10 times in 1984, spending most of his time at centre as coach Fulton tried to cover his defensive lapses.[citation needed] This also allowed Fulton to play others (such as halfback Des Hasler who had joined the club from Penrith) in their preferred positions. After scoring 27 tries in 23 games in 1983, Blake scored only 11 tries from 23 games in 1984.[citation needed]
Blake broke his arm during the opening round of the 1985 season against Penrith.[citation needed] He returned to the field in Round 9 against Canberra, but was again used in various backline positions and only scored 3 tries in 11 games.
During the 1985/86 off-season Phil Blake traveled to England and played for
In the
Souths
In 1987, Blake joined Rabbitohs and went on to play four seasons for the club. Returning to his schoolboy position of five-eighth, Blake was instrumental in Souths winning the minor premiership in 1989. He played 75 games for Souths.
He returned to England to play for Wigan for the 1988/89 season. After returning from England, Blake, and Souths went from being minor premiers in 1989 to finishing with the wooden spoon in 1990, the biggest slide from grace in the competition's history.
Nomad
After three seasons at Souths, Blake joined the North Sydney Bears for 1991, however despite the Bears reaching the finals for the first time since 1982, he only played eleven games for the club and moved again at the end of the year, joining the Canberra Raiders.
Blake moved again at the end of the
In 1995, he joined the new
Representative career
Despite narrowly missing out on a Kangaroos jersey in 1982 and again in 1986, Blake never established himself at representative level. In 1988, he played for
In 1988, Blake was selected at fullback for an Australian select side called the
Retirement
Blake trained with the Manly team at the start of the 1998 season before announcing his retirement. He finished his career having played 261 games, scoring 138 tries as well as kicking eight goals and fifteen field goals.[citation needed]
Coaching career
Rugby league
Blake was appointed the sprint coach at the South Sydney Rabbitohs for their return season in 2002.[6] When Craig Coleman was fired as head coach at the beginning of the 2003 season, Blake was appointed the temporary head coach until he was replaced by Paul Langmack.[7][8][9]
Rugby union
In 2006, Blake began his rugby union coaching career as assistant coach of the Southern Districts first grade side. He joined Manly as head coach a year later.[10] Blake suffered from a series of potentially life-threatening blood clots in 2008 and spent some time in hospital.[11][12] In 2010, he underwent triple heart bypass surgery.[13]
After taking Manly into the semi-finals in 2010, Blake was appointed as defence and skills coach to the
Blake returned to Manly as head coach in 2013.
References
- ^ "Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org". rugbyleagueproject.org. 31 December 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
- ^ "Australian Schoolboys Representatives". sportingpulse.com. 31 December 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
- ^ "Custom Match List at rugbyleagueproject.org". rugbyleagueproject.org. 31 December 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
- ^ "1985–1986 Lancashire Cup Final". wigan.rlfans.com. 31 December 2011. Archived from the original on 26 September 2013. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
- ^ Presidents XIII vs Great Britain 1988
- ^ Light speed puts Clarke alongside the stars Sydney Morning Herald, 17 July 2002
- ^ Waite spurns South Sydney overtures[dead link] The Independent, 4 March 2003
- ^ Piggins says club won't be lashing out on coach[permanent dead link] AAP, 5 March 2003
- ^ Rabbitohs' chook raffle Archived 15 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine ABC, 5 March 2003
- ^ a b c "Blake a new Wallabies coach". Sportal. 20 October 2010. Archived from the original on 5 May 2014. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
- ^ "Former Wires star Phil Blake in blood clot drama". Warrington Wolves Official Site. 26 June 2008. Archived from the original on 29 August 2008. Retrieved 29 August 2008.
- ^ "Phil Blake's life-threatening shock". Herald Sun. News. 13 July 2008. Archived from the original on 6 September 2012. Retrieved 29 August 2008.
- ^ Avedissian, Jason (19 March 2010). "Phil Blake is back in the saddle". Manly Daily. Archived from the original on 2 March 2012. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
- ^ Harris, Bret (25 April 2012). "I'll take Western Force to finals, says Phil Blake". The Australian. News. Archived from the original on 5 May 2014. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
- ^ "Foley signs as Force coach". Sport 24. 1 August 2012. Archived from the original on 5 May 2014. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
- ^ Geddes, John (24 April 2013). "Former Wallabies assistant coach Phil Blake back in charge of the Manly Marlins". Manly Daily. News. Archived from the original on 5 May 2014. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
- ^ Guinness, Rupert (2 May 2014). "Phil Blake named first National Rugby Championship coach". The Daily Advertiser. Wagga Wagga. Archived from the original on 4 May 2014. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
- ^ Pandaram, Jamie. "Manly and North Harbour Rays coach Phil Blake poached by English club Leicester Tigers". The Courier-Mail. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
- ^ Sherrard, Gary. "Tigers to add Blake to coaching team". Leicestertigers.com. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
- ^ "Phil Blake: Former Leicester Tigers coach banned for six months". BBC. 25 June 2015. Archived from the original on 26 June 2015. Retrieved 25 June 2015.