Mathew James Murray Tait (born 6 February 1986)[1] is a retired English rugby union player who gained 38 caps for England between 2005–2010, including starting in the 2007 Rugby World Cup Final; and played 279 club games for Newcastle Falcons, Sale Sharks and Leicester Tigers between 2004 and 2018. He was considered a utility back regularly playing at centre, fullback or wing. Tait made his Newcastle debut in 2004 and made his England debut at 18 years old in 2005, at the time the second youngest England player selected since the second World War. He played 87 times for Newcastle before joining Sale in 2008 where he played 49 times. Tait joined Leicester in 2011 and made 143 appearances between his 2011 debut and retirement. Whilst at Leicester Tait started the 2013 Premiership Rugby Final which Leicester won as well as the 2017 Anglo-Welsh Cup Final, which Leicester also won. His final game was on 5 May 2018 against former club Sale.
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Mathew James Murray Tait (born 6 February 1986) is a retired English rugby union player who gained 38 caps for England between 2005–2010, including starting...
2003 Newcastle saw three players in the 2007 Rugby World Cup Final with MathewTait starting and Toby Flood appearing from the bench. Mark Wilson played...
Rob Andrew and Tony and Rory Underwood. The school has also produced MathewTait, Lee Dickson and Tim Visser, and appeared in three finals of the inter-school...
the ball to win the first line-out of the match. In the sixth minute, MathewTait attempted to run the ball from inside England's 22-metre line, only to...
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matches, but picked up a knee injury in the 36–0 defeat to South Africa. MathewTait took his spot at outside centre which proved to be very pivotal, as Noon's...
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at Twickenham, edging the match 17–14 with tries from Nick Easter and MathewTait. It was nominally Martin Johnson's first match in charge although he...
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8 August 1985 12 Newcastle Jamie Noon Centre 9 May 1979 27 Newcastle MathewTait Centre 6 February 1986 19 Newcastle Mike Tindall Centre 18 October 1978...
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