Barrie-Jon Mather
| Full name | Barrie-Jon Mather | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 15 January 1973 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Wigan, Lancashire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 201 cm (6 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 104 kg (16 st 5 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position(s) | Wing, Centre, Second-row | ||
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Correct as of 1 November 2006
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 1992–95 1995–97 1998 2000–02 |
Wigan Western Reds Castleford Tigers Castleford Tigers |
67 24 18 49 |
(105) (20) (28) (64) |
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Correct as of 21 July 2008
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| National team(s) | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 1994–96 1995 |
Great Britain England |
3 3 |
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Correct as of 13 Sep 2006
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| Position(s) | Outside Centre, Winger | ||
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 1998–00 | Sale Sharks | 17 | (20) |
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Correct as of 21 July 2008
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| National team(s) | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 1999 | England | 1 | (0) |
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Correct as of 13 Feb 2007
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Barrie-Jon Mather (born 15 January 1973) is a former Great Britain national rugby league team,England rugby league, and England rugby union dual-code international player. He is best known for being the first Great Britain rugby league international player to be capped by England at rugby union. He is currently NSWRL's general manager of football.
Mather was born in Ince-in-Makerfield, a suburb in Wigan, Lancashire, on 15 January 1973. He moved to Blackpool at a young age when his father took up a teaching position in Lytham St Annes, and attended Arnold School, where he quickly developed as a rugby union player. In 1991 he was selected in the England Schools rugby union team which lost a Grand Slam against Wales. Other notable players in that side were future World Cup Winners Matt Dawson and Richard Hill.
Despite his school boy success, Barrie-Jon Mather decided that his future lay in rugby league and eventually signed for the Wigan Warriors in 1992. Barrie-Jon Mather played Centre, i.e. number 3, in the 2–33 defeat by Castleford in the 1993–94 Regal Trophy Final during the 1993–94 season at Elland Road, Leeds on Saturday 22 January 1994. He saw domestic success with Wigan and was a member of the Challenge Cup Winning side of 1994 as well as a member of the side that defeated the Brisbane Broncos in the 1994 World Club Challenge held at Brisbane's ANZ Stadium. However relations between the two turned sour when Mather claimed his contract was null and void because of the circumstances in which it was signed. Mather eventually took Wigan to court when they refused to release his registration without a transfer fee following him signing a contract with Western Reds in Australia. However he was unsuccessful in his challenge.
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