Thorn with the William Webb Ellis Cup | ||||||
Personal information | ||||||
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Full name | Bradley Carnegie Thorn | |||||
Born |
Mosgiel, Otago, New Zealand |
3 February 1975 |||||
Height | 196 cm (6 ft 5 in) | |||||
Weight | 119 kg (18 st 10 lb) | |||||
Playing information | ||||||
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 |
Source: Brad Thorn at AllBlacks.com, RLP and Yesterday's Hero |
Bradley Carnegie Thorn (born 3 February 1975) is a professional rugby union player. He has in the past represented Australia at rugby league, and New Zealand in union. A lock, Thorn is a former All Black, and is currently playing for the Leicester Tigers in the Aviva Premiership. Thorn is one of the most successful rugby union players and was the first player to win a World Cup, a Super Rugby title and the Heineken Cup.
He previously played rugby league for ten years for the Brisbane Broncos in the National Rugby League competition and has also represented Queensland in the State of Origin series. 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.
Having relocated with his family from New Zealand to Australia at age eight, Thorn's junior football was rugby league played in Queensland with Aspley and Wests Arana. He was signed as a junior with the Brisbane Broncos in 1994 and that same year represented Australia in the Junior Kangaroos side.
Thorn made his first grade debut in the NSWRL for the Brisbane Broncos, who were then defending premiers, in the 1994 Winfield Cup season's 12th round against the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs. At season's end he was awarded the club's rookie of the year award.
At the outbreak of the Super League war in 1995, Thorn along with the rest of his Broncos team-mates and players of several other clubs, was aligned with Super League and so ineligible for selection in the Australian Rugby League's 1995 State of Origin series or post-season 1995 Rugby League World Cup. The following year, when all players were again allowed to be selected for representative football, Thorn's debut for the Queensland Maroons came in Game I of the 1996 State of Origin series. He held his place at second-row forward for all three games of that series.