Jim Dymock

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Jim Dymock (born 4th April 1972 in Sydney, Australia) is a former Australia rugby league international of Tongan heritage who played for Western Suburbs Magpies, Canterbury Bulldogs, Parramatta Eels and London Broncos. His preferred playing positions was either lock (loose forward) or five-eighth (stand-off)

[edit] Career history

Dymock began his first-grade club career in 1991 at Western Suburbs, playing 31 times for the Magpies. He joined Canterbury Bulldogs in 1993. During the 1995 season, Dymock, along with Dean Pay, Jason Smith and Jarrod McCracken announced they would be leaving the Bulldogs. This was because the club had chosen to join the newly-created breakaway Australian Super League competition. Dymock and co decided that they wanted to stay loyal to the established Australian Rugby League (ARL) competition. Dymock stayed at the Bulldogs until the end of the season and helped the club win the Premiership; Dymock won the man-of-the-match Clive Churchill medal in the grand final.

Dymock joined the ARL-aligned Parramatta for the start of the 1996 season. He played for the Eels during the rest of the Super League war and the unification of the Super League and ARL into the current National Rugby League competition. He played 112 games for Parramatta between 1996-2000.

Dymock played representative football for both state and country; he played 6 times for New South Wales between 1996-1998 in the annual State of Origin series between NSW and Queensland. He played also played 6 times between 1995-1996 for Australia, he was part of the successful Australian squad that won the 1995 Rugby League World Cup in England.

Dymock left the Eels and Australia at the end of 2000 season, he joined English Super League club London Broncos in time for the 2001 season. He enjoyed 4 seasons at the Broncos. He ended his playing career at the end of the 2004 season after playing 97 games for London.

Dymock is now an assistant coach with the Cronulla Sharks first grade squad and is also the head coach of the Tongan national rugby league team that has qualified for the 2008 Rugby League World Cup, which is due to be held in Australia.