Gary Kemble
| Personal information | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Gary Edward Kemble | |||||
| Nickname | Crayfish | |||||
| Playing information | ||||||
| Position | Fullback | |||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| Ellerslie | ||||||
| 1981–87 | Hull F.C. | 195 | 180 | |||
| Total | 195 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 180 | |
| Representative | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1976–?? | Auckland | |||||
| 1980–86 | New Zealand | 19 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Coaching information | ||||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Gms | W | D | L | W% |
| 1993 | Northcote | |||||
| 1994–95 | Hawke's Bay | |||||
| Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Representative | ||||||
| Years | Team | Gms | W | D | L | W% |
| 2007 | New Zealand | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 20 |
| Source: Playing & Coaching RLP | ||||||
Gary Edward Kemble is a New Zealand rugby league coach and former player. He has both played and coached the New Zealand Kiwis. He is the current head coach of the Papakura Sea Eagles in the Auckland Rugby League.
An Ellerslie club member, Kemble debuted for Auckland in 1976, aged only 19. He then played rugby league at a senior level throughout the 1970s and 1980s, also playing for the Papakura club. His career included a first stint in the UK as a young unknown for Hunslet in 1977 / 78. After a successful tour with New Zealand in 1980 however he came to far greater prominence, beginning a lengthy stint with English club Hull during a golden period for the club. Debuting v Wakefield Trinity on 30 August 1981, achievements over the next year included; helping Hull to win the John Player Trophy, also being Premiership runners-up, he had taken Man of the Match in the Challenge Cup semi-final, scoring a 50-yard try rated as the best solo effort of the season, and lifting the Challenge Cup, the first time the Challenge Cup had been back at the Boulevard since 1914.
Gary Kemble played Fullback in Hull's 14-14 draw with Widnes in the 1982 Challenge Cup final during the 1981–82 season at Wembley Stadium, London on Saturday 1 May 1982, in front of a crowd of 92,147, and played Fullback, and scored a try in the 18-9 victory over Widnes in the 1982 Challenge Cup final replay during the 1981–82 season at Elland Road, Leeds on Wednesday 19 May 1982, in front of a crowd of 41,171.
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