Clive Griffiths (rugby player)
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Personal information
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| Full name | Clive Ronald Griffiths | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2 April 1954 Loughor, Swansea, Wales |
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Playing information
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Rugby league
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| Position | Fullback | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rugby union
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Coaching information
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Rugby union
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Clive Ronald Griffiths (born 2 April 1954) is a former Welsh rugby player and current coach. A Wales international rugby league and rugby union player and coach and former coach of the North Wales Crusaders rugby league club and currently the Director of Rugby at Doncaster Knights. Born in Loughor, Swansea, he was affectionately known as "Clive the Ship" after the family pub in nearby Penclawdd. Griffiths played club rugby union for Llanelli as full back and during this period took up his first senior coaching appointment in 1977 at the age of 25 for Newcastle Emlyn RFC
He represented the Barbarians and on the international scene he was capped once against England in his last match for his country on 17 March 1979. After winning his Wales B cap he was selected on the bench three times previously during the 1979 Five Nations but was an unused replacement.
On 16 August 1979 he switched codes signing for St. Helens rugby league club for a world record £27,000 and making his début in the 28-16 defeat by Widnes in the first round of the 1979 Lancashire County Cup at Knowsley Road, Eccleston, St Helens on Sunday 19 August 1979. In exactly 100 appearances he scored 598 points from 276 goals, 8 drop goals and 11 tries. After playing his last match for the club against Hull Kingston Rovers On 9 October 1984 he joined Salford. He also coached at St.Helens and Warrington before returning to Rugby Union.
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