Tommy Bishop
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Personal information
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15 October 1940 St. Helens, Lancashire, England, UK |
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Playing information
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| Height | 5 ft 2 in (157 cm) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Scrum-half | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Coaching information
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Tommy Bishop (born 15 October 1940 in St. Helens, Lancashire) is an English rugby league footballer of the 1960s, and 1970s, and coach of the 1970s, and 1980s, playing for Blackpool Borough, Barrow and St. Helens in the English Championship and the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in the New South Wales Rugby League competition in Australia. He also represented Great Britain on several occasions during his career, captaining them on two occasions, his position of choice was at Scrum-half. Now long retired from competitive rugby league Bishop now resides at Redcliffe, Queensland Australia.
Tommy Bishop started his professional rugby league playing career at Blackpool Borough where he became club captain, and Player of the Year before being transferred to Barrow, and then onto St. Helens, where he played from the January of the 1965–66 season until the end of the 1968–69 season.
Tommy Bishop played Template:Rlp/Sh-HB in St. Helens' 35-12 victory over Halifax in the Championship Final during the 1965–66 season at Station Road, Swinton on Saturday 28 May 1966, in front of a crowd of 30,165.
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