Paul Clough

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Date of birth	27/09/1987
Height	6' 0
Weight	92kg

In November 2006 Paul Clough was promoted to train full time with the St Helens RLFC first team squad. He had also been training with the squad in the 2005 season, but his performances have seen him included in Saints elite 25 man squad for th upcoming season.

He is expected to compete for a regular first team spot over the next few years and was given the number 24 shirt once again for the 2006 season.

Paul Clough will offer Daniel Anderson a young local British feeling to the Saints pack. This is another example of St Helens RLFC continuing to invest in local talent.

19 year-old Paul Clough was promoted from the Academy set-up to the first-team squad for the 2006 season. He has been officially announced as a squad member for Super League XII.

Paul Clough is perhaps a victim of St Helens success with their Treble winning season in 2006. Clough is also the victim of having to try andd break into a team that already has three Great Britain internationals in the back row with Paul Sculthorpe, Jon Wilkin and Lee Gilmour

Paul’s performances for the Saints Academy have shown great potential and he has represented and captained England throughout his junior career.

The back-rower made his Super League debut in July 2005 against Hull FC, and will be looking to feature more prominently during Super League XII.

He played at local amateur club Blackbrook, and gained a number of representative honours throughout his junior career. Paul played for the North West Counties and Lancashire at under-13, under-15, and under-16 age groups and captained the latter two sides, and went on to captain England Schools at under-15 and under-16.

Paul Clough has also played for Lancashire in the academy Origin Series.

Paul, who like all his family are St Helens supporters, signed a four-year contract with the club at the age of fifteen. Aged 16 he was named Saints under-18 Player of the Year in a squad that reached the Grand Final.

His other highlight of that season was going with the St Helens under-16 side on the tour of Australia were they won their three games on tour including a win against the highly-rated Penrith Panthers side that weeks earlier had beaten the New Zealand under-16’s.