12 Aug 2016 in Heritage
A new honours board listing the names of Rangers amateur internationals has been unveiled ahead of it taking pride of place in the new clubhouse.
There are 43 players, a coach and a physio and it covers the various ages from U18s upwards as well as the different representative teams, beginning in the pre-BARLA days right up to the modern RFL Community Lions teams.
It begins with Denis Pickering in 1950 while the latest is current player Josh Bradbury who has just played against Jamaica for BARLA U23s. We’ve also had internationals representing Norway and Jamaica.
THE NAMES ON THE BOARD
1950 – Denis Pickering – Open Age
1963 – Jimmy Russell – U19s
1965 – Pete Bamford – Open Age
1966 – Alan Taylor – Open Age
1973 – Peter Reeves – BARLA U19s
1977 – Nicky Kiss – BARLA U19s
Two players who were amateur internationals and went on to play for the full Great Britain team in the professional game, Terry Flanagan and Nicky Kiss, had the honour of unveiling the new board at the last home match in the old clubhouse on July 30th 2016.
1979 – Terry Flanagan – BARLA U19s
1981, 1982 – Mark Rowbottom – BARLA U19s
1982 – John Henderson – BARLA U19s
1982 – Steve Walsh - BARLA U19s
1984 – Brin Parfitt - BARLA U19s
1991 – 94 – Steve Mawdsley - BARLA Open Age
1991 – 94 – Neil Wiseman – BARLA Physio
1992 – Martin Maders – BARLA U19s
1992 -93 – John Fleming – BARLA Open Age
1994 – Gary Dobbs – BARLA Open Age
1997, 1999 – Emmerson Jackman – BARLA Open Age
1997 – Danny Tyrrell – BARLA U23s
1997 – Sean Whitehead – BARLA U23s
1997, 1998 – Paul Ashton – BARLA U18s, U21s, U23s
1997 – David Best – BARLA U18s
1998 – 2005 – Mick Swift – BARLA Coach
1998 – Kevin Fitzpatrick – BARLA U23s
1998 – Michael Coates – BARLA U23s
1998 – Stuart Fraser – BARLA U23s
1999 – Jason Wilkes – BARLA Open Age
2000 - 2009 – Jimmy Rogers – BARLA U21s, U23s, Open Age
2002 - Chris Garforth - BARLA Open Age
2007– Jimmy Rogers – ‘BARLA International Player of the Year’
2007 – Adam Kirwan – BARLA U23s
2007 – Fraser Coley – RFL GB Community Lions
2008 – Danny Turner – BARLA U21s, U23s
2009, 10, 12 – Anthony Morrison – RFL GB Community Lions U18s, England Community Lions U18s, BARLA Open Age
2009 – Ethan Langhorn – England Lionhearts Open age
2009 – Dave Orwell – England Lionhearts U18s
2009 – Steven Kiss – England Lionhearts U18s
2009 – Josh Brown – England Lionhearts U18s
2010 – Gareth Morgan – RFL GB Community Lions U18s
2010-12 – Lars Haigh – Norway
2010 – Junior BraNdford - Jamaica
2011 – Shaun Robinson – BARLAU21s, RFL GB Community Lions Open age
2011-14 – Nils Haigh - Norway
2011, 12 – Tom Hilton - Norway
2012 – Jack Connors – BARLA U17s, England Community Lions U18s
2016 – Josh Bradbury – BARLA U23s