Gary Thornton

Gary Thornton is a rugby league coach who coached Castleford ^[1] U20s academy side from 2009 to 2012.

Gary spent 6 years as head coach at Batley (the longest serving Championship coach at the time), and also spent time as U21s coach at Wakefield Trinity.^[2]

As a player he spent 4 seasons at Wakefield Trinity before joining Batley in 1990. He went on to make over 220 appearances for the club scoring 89 tries.

Head Coach at York between 2012 and 2014.

Current Head Coach at Doncaster, taking over from Paul Cooke in June 2015, after a run of 16 straight defeats.

Has won the coach of the year award in respective Championship divisions: 2006 - National League 1 (Now the Championship) Coach of the Year - Batley 2014 - Championship 1 Coach of the Year - York

References

↑ "Thornton joins Castleford staff.". BBC Sport. 9 September 2009. Retrieved 2009-09-18.
↑ "Thornton accepts Wakefield post". BBC Sport. 27 May 2009. Retrieved 2009-09-18.

External links

Doncaster RLFC – current squad

1 Tom Carr
2 Aaron Jones-Bishop
3 Liam Welham
4 Matthew Cook
5 Matty Welham
6 Jordan Howden
7 Jordie Hedges
8 Mark Castle
9 Kyle Kesik (c)
10 Connor Scott
11 Mason Tonks
12 Brad Foster
13 George Milton
14 Kieran Cross
15 Michael Kelly
16 Joe Picketts
17 Jack Walton
18 Jason Tali
19 Sam Doherty
20 Ben Frankland
21 Louis Sheriff
22 David Foggin-Johnston
23 Alex Gilbey
24 Daniel Hirst
25 Matt Nicholson
26 Jordan Harper
27 Mitch Vincent
29 Zac Braham
32 Makaie Aizue
Coach: Gary Thornton

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 9/9/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.