Australia rugby league & NZ rugby union international footballer
Brad Thorn
Personal information
Full name
Bradley Carnegie Thorn
Born
(1975-02-03) 3 February 1975 (age 49) Mosgiel, Otago, New Zealand
Playing information
Height
195 cm (6 ft 5 in)[1]
Weight
114 kg (17 st 13 lb)[1]
Rugby league
Position
Second-row, Prop
Club
Years
Team
Pld
T
G
FG
P
1994–00
Brisbane Broncos
130
22
0
0
88
2005–07
Brisbane Broncos
70
10
0
0
40
Total
200
32
0
0
128
Representative
Years
Team
Pld
T
G
FG
P
1996–05
Queensland
11
1
0
0
4
1997
Queensland (SL)
3
0
0
0
0
1997
Australia (SL)
5
1
0
0
4
1998
Australia
3
2
0
0
8
Rugby union
Position
Lock
Club
Years
Team
Pld
T
G
FG
P
2001–04, 08–11
Crusaders
92
11
0
0
55
2001–04, 08–10
Canterbury
30
4
0
0
20
2008
Tasman
1
0
0
0
0
2011–12
Sanix Blues
10
0
0
0
0
2012
Leinster
8
0
0
0
0
2013–14
Highlanders
16
1
0
0
5
2014–15
Leicester
12
1
0
0
5
2016
Queensland Country
2
0
0
0
0
Total
171
17
0
0
85
Representative
Years
Team
Pld
T
G
FG
P
2003–11
New Zealand
59
4
0
0
20
Coaching information
Club
Years
Team
Gms
W
D
L
W%
2017–2018
Queensland Country
10
8
0
2
80
2018–2023
Queensland Reds
93
42
1
50
45
Total
103
50
1
52
49
Source: [2][3][4]
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Bradley Carnegie Thorn (born 3 February 1975) is a New Zealand Australian rugby union coach and former rugby league and rugby union footballer. Born in New Zealand, he represented Australia in rugby league and New Zealand in rugby union in a twenty-two year career as a player, starting at age nineteen and finishing at age forty-one. He was the head coach of the Australian Super Rugby Pacific team, the Queensland Reds. Thorn is their second longest-serving coach in history and their longest serving coach in the professional era.
Thorn played rugby league for the Brisbane Broncos in the Australian National Rugby League (NRL) competition for a total of ten seasons in two spells, and represented Queensland in the State of Origin series. He played eight times for Australia – five for the Kangaroos, and three games for the Super League Australia team. His preferred position in rugby league was in the second-row, though he was equally effective as a prop. In 2000 Thorn was awarded the Australian Sports Medal for his contribution to Australia's international standing in rugby league.
He first moved to rugby union in 2001 and, over two spells in the sport, became one of the most successful rugby union players. A lock, he was the first player to win a World Cup, a Super Rugby title and the Heineken Cup, despite only moving to the sport in his mid-twenties.[5] He won fifty-nine international caps for New Zealand, and was part of the team that won the 2011 Rugby World Cup. Thorn holds the world record for the oldest player to play in the final of a World Cup match and win it, aged 36 years, 262 days vs France 23 October 2011.
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injury when he was lifted and dumped by New Zealand lock BradThorn after the whistle had blown: Thorn received a one-match suspension but Smit missed the...
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Coles 36 years 308 days 10 December 1986 14 October 2023 Ireland 3. BradThorn 36 years 262 days 3 February 1975 23 October 2011 France 4. Keven Mealamu...
debate raging over the choice between Tallis or Andrew Johns to succeed Brad Fittler. Days later Johns was chosen to lead the Kangaroos in the July Test...
2013/14 – 2014/15 Charlie Ngatai 2022/23 – Ben Te'o† 2014/15 – 2015/16 BradThorn* 2012 South Africa Jason Jenkins 2022/23 – Zane Kirchner 2013/14 – 2016/17...
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