James Gopperth
| Full name | James Gopperth | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 28 June 1983 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | New Plymouth, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 88 kg (13 st 12 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | New Plymouth Boys' High School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position(s) | Fly-half, Inside Centre | ||
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| Current team | Wasps | ||
| Amateur team(s) | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| Senior career | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 2009–2013 2013–2015 2015– |
Newcastle Falcons Leinster Wasps |
70 58 63 |
(719) (350) (680) |
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Correct as of 28 October 2017
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| Provincial / State sides | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 2004–2007 2008 |
Wellington North Harbour |
36 10 |
(407) (90) |
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Correct as of 12 April 2015
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| Super Rugby | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 2005–2008 2009 |
Hurricanes Blues |
52 11 |
(354) (104) |
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Correct as of 12 April 2015
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| National team(s) | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 2004–05 | Junior All Blacks | 1 | (6) |
James Gopperth (born 29 June 1983) is a New Zealand rugby union player who plays for Wasps in the English Premiership. His position is Fly-half.
Gopperth was born in New Plymouth and first played rugby for New Plymouth Boys' High School, before having his first break in the game and playing for the Old Boys University in the Wellington premier competition. Then, in 2004 at the age of 21, Gopperth signed for the then Super 12 team Hurricanes.
Gopperth made a good start to his career with the Hurricanes when he made 12 appearances in the 2004/2005 Super 12 season. All of his appearances during that season came from starting the game and he managed to score an impressive 139 points, scoring 3 tries in the process.
Gopperth got a chance to finally show what he could do in the 2005/2006 season, in the newly formed Super 14. He made 7 starts during the season, but made all in all 15 appearances during this season, in which he scored a fairly unimpressive 86, scoring a further 2 tries and racking up 637 minutes throughout.
During the 2006/2007 season Gopperth impressed for his club Wellington, although was unimpressive for his region the Hurricanes. In Super Rugby Gopperth managed to get 66 points in 13 appearances, still nowhere near his opening season tally, but for Wellington in the Air New Zealand Cup he managed to get an impressive 121 points in just 10 games, mostly through the boot finally showing what he could do.
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