Tommy Bishop Rugby player

Tommy Bishop (born (1940-10-15) 15 October 1940 in St. Helens, Lancashire) is an English rugby league footballer of the 1960s, and '70s, and coach of the 1970s and '80s, playing for Blackpool Borough, Barrow and St. Helens in the English Rugby Football League 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 Robina on the Gold Coast, Australia.

Personal facts

Birth dateOctober 15, 1940
Birth place
England , Lancashire , United Kingdom , St Helens Merseyside
Height (meters)1.5748

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Rugby player

Career start1970
Career end0073
former team
Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks
Blackpool Borough
St Helens RLFC
Barrow Raiders

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Tommy Bishop on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://203.166.101.37/NRL08/playercareer.asp?lplayer=1017
  2. http://sharks.4eva.com/players/Tommy_Bishop
  3. http://www.englandrl.co.uk/statistics/player_records?search=Bishop&submit=Go&c=GB
  4. http://www.eraofthebiff.com/p53a.html
  5. http://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/coaches/Tommy_Bishop/summary.html
  6. http://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/players/Tommy-Bishop/summary.html
  7. http://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/players/tommy-bishop/summary.html
  8. http://www.saints.org.uk/saints.org.uk/home/viewpage.php?page_id=10&num=14908