Paul Sykes (rugby league)
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| Personal information | ||||||
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| Full name | Paul Sykes | |||||
| Nickname | Sykesy, Syko | |||||
| Born |
11 August 1981 Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England |
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| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | |||||
| Weight | 14 st 7 lb (92 kg) | |||||
| Playing information | ||||||
| Position | Fullback, Centre, Stand-off/Five-eighth | |||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1999–02 | Bradford Bulls | 10 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 14 |
| 2002–07 | Harlequins RL | 134 | 46 | 272 | 4 | 732 |
| 2008–12 | Bradford Bulls | 100 | 36 | 72 | 2 | 290 |
| 2012(Loan) | → Wakefield Trinity Wildcats | 22 | 3 | 73 | 3 | 161 |
| 2013–14 | Wakefield Trinity Wildcats | 40 | 9 | 55 | 3 | 149 |
| 2015 | Featherstone Rovers | 32 | 16 | 89 | 0 | 242 |
| 2016– | Dewsbury Rams | 29 | 9 | 70 | 1 | 177 |
| Total | 367 | 121 | 634 | 13 | 1765 | |
| Representative | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 2005–10 | England | 5 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 20 |
| 2007–08 | Great Britain | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| As of 5 February 2017 | ||||||
| Source: RLP Love Rugby League | ||||||
Paul Sykes (born 11 August 1981 in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire) is an English professional rugby league footballer for Featherstone Rovers. He has previously also played for Bradford, Harlequins RL and Wakefield Trinity.
Sykes' position of choice is at Right-Centre. He has for most of his career operated at Fullback. He has also played some games in the Stand-off role.
Paul Sykes is a product of Bradford academy, making his breakthrough in the 1999 Bradford season during 1999's Super League IV. However opportunities at Odsal Stadium were limited and so Sykes went on loan spells at London in both the 2001 and 2002 seasons.
In his first spell at Bradford, he was loaned out to Wakefield RFC for which he played one game of Rugby Union.
With the promise of more regular first XIII rugby Sykes moved south to join the London Broncos in a permanent deal in August 2002.
Sykes soon settled back to life in the capital and representative honours were gained with an appearance for England "A" against New Zealand in October, followed by a place on the successful "A" team tour to Fiji and Tonga.
Sykes has further earned England caps against Russia and Wales in 2003 and France and New Zealand in 2005.
Sykes originally came to the club as full-back, but the arrival of club captain Mark McLinden has seen Sykes operate largely in the centres in Super League X and XI.
Paul successfully converted during 2005 to the centre position where his powerful running and strong tackling are seen to their best advantage.
Super League XI saw Paul Sykes ruled out for much of the season after damaging his kidneys in February. However he made a comeback towards the end of the season after initially being ruled out for the entire campaign
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