Paul Reilly (rugby league)
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10 May 1976 Huddersfield, England |
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Playing information
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| Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 13 st 7 lb (86 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Fullback, Wing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: RLP
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Paul Reilly (born 10 May 1976 in Huddersfield, England) is a rugby league player who played for the Huddersfield Giants for 11 years until signing for Wakefield Trinity Wildcats for the 2008 season. He played in the full back position.
Reilly was not interested in rugby league as a child and only watched a few Huddersfield matches until a friend at school encouraged him to play for a local amateur side. Paul started playing for Moldgreen Under-14s and discovered a real talent for the game.
He was playing well at Moldgreen and as a result he attended trials at Halifax. They offered him a contract for the following season, but as the 1996 season was only halfway through Paul found himself back at his hometown club where he turned up for training to keep himself fit. After four or five weeks the then coach of Huddersfield Giants, Darryl van der Velde had seen enough and offered him a deal. In 2001, he spent a month on loan at Batley.
Reilly established himself as the first choice full-back at Huddersfield, and he was a stand-out player in both the successful 2002 NFP campaign and then later in the Super League, where his passionate, whole-hearted performances were a key factor in the Giants establishing themselves as a competitive club.
He played twice for England in the 2004 European Nations Cup, including a man-of-the-match performance in the final against Ireland, in which he scored two tries in the first seventeen minutes.
He featured for his home town team in the 2006 Challenge Cup Final, where he performed a memorable try-saving tackle on Ade Gardner to keep his side in the game in the first half.
Towards the end of 2006 Paul released a testimonial booklet entitled "The Life of Reilly" which celebrated his 10 years with the Giants and featured contributions from many past players and coaching staff. Paul had a joint testimonial match with Keith Senior of the Leeds Rhinos on 26 January 2007. The game was played at Headingley.
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