Matty Smith
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| Personal information | ||||||
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| Full name | Matthew Smith | |||||
| Born |
23 July 1987 St. Helens, Merseyside, England |
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| Height | 176 cm (5 ft 9 in) | |||||
| Weight | 13 st 5 lb (85 kg) | |||||
| Playing information | ||||||
| Position | Scrum-half | |||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 2006–10 | St. Helens | 20 | 3 | 10 | 1 | 33 |
| 2008(loan) | → Widnes Vikings | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| 2009(loan) | → Celtic Crusaders | 16 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 17 |
| 2010(loan) | → Salford City Reds | 26 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 41 |
| 2011–12 | Salford City Reds | 50 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 30 |
| 2012–16 | Wigan Warriors | 139 | 24 | 301 | 25 | 723 |
| 2017– | St Helens RLFC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 260 | 47 | 320 | 28 | 856 | |
| Representative | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 2011–12 | England Knights | 2 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 14 |
| 2014–15 | England | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| As of 3 December 2016 | ||||||
| Source: rugbyleagueproject | ||||||
Matty Smith (born 23 July 1987) is an English rugby league footballer who currently plays for St. Helens in the Super League. His position is Scrum-half. He previously played for his home town club St Helens, Salford and the Wigan Warriors also spending time on loan at Widnes Vikings and Celtic Crusaders. Before converting to rugby league, Smith had a youth career with Premier League association football club Everton, occasionally appearing in the reserve team.
After coming through the junior ranks at St Helens, Smith made his Super League debut for the club in 2006 in a match against Huddersfield Giants.
After a loan spell in the Championship with Widnes in 2008, Smith joined Celtic Crusaders on a season-long loan and played for the Welsh franchise in their first season in Super League. He later had a loan spell at Salford, for whom he eventually signed on a permanent basis.
After his Salford loan, Smith was recalled by his parent club St. Helens to play in the 2010 Super League Grand Final against Wigan, which St Helens lost despite a valiant performance by Smith.
Following his successful loan spell at the club, Smith signed for Salford after the 2010 season and spent all of 2011 and the first half of 2012 with the club, before moving to the Wigan Warriors
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