Ryan McGoldrick

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Ryan McGoldrick (born January 12, 1981 in Cairns, Queensland, Australia) is an Australian rugby league player for the Castleford Tigers in the National League One competition. He has previously played for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks (2002, 2004-2005) as well as representing the New South Wales Waratahs (2003) in rugby union. His position of choice is in the Centres or in the halves, playing Stand Off.

In late 2005, Ryan was one of 12 of the hottest players in the NRL that posed for the League Of Their Own 2006 calendar that was produced in the style of the famous Dieux du Stade calendars to raise money for the Koori Kids foundation. In early 2006, Ryan was involved in a tug of war between SL club Castleford Tigers and NRL club West Tigers. In the end, he arrived in Castleford a few days before their first match. He battled to keep Castleford in the top flight. But, unfortunatly they fell out of the elite competition on Sep 16 with 19 points. Ryan showed amazing loyalty by sticking by the Tigers and has just signed a 2 year contract to stay with them untill 2008 26/10/2006