Jamie Ainscough

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Jamie Ainscough
Personal information
Full name James Ainscough
Date of birth 1971
Place of birth , Australia
School(s) Elderslie High School
Club information
Position(s) Winger
Current club Retired
Youth clubs
Years Club
1988–1989 Elderslie High School
Youth representative teams
1989 Australian Schoolboys
Senior clubs*
Years Club Apps (points)
1990–1991
1992–1996
1997–1998
1999–2001
2002		 Western Suburbs
Newcastle Knights
St George Dragons
St George Illawarra
Wigan		 35 (56)
87 (196)
37 (34)
69 (110)
Representative teams
1996–2001
1995		 New South Wales
Australia		 12 (8)
1 (4)

* Professional club appearances and points
counted for domestic first grade only.

Jamie Ainscough (born 1972 in Sydney, New South Wales ), is a Australian former rugby league footballer. He played for the Western Suburbs Magpies, Newcastle Knights, St George Illawarra Dragons, New South Wales and for the Australian national rugby league team.

[edit] Club career

Ainscough was an Australian schoolboy representative at rugby league. He played 87 games with the Newcastle Knights from 1992 to 1996.

He joined St George in 1997 and played 106 games with St George or the merged St George Illawarra Dragons up till 2001 at centre or wing. He played in the losing 1999 Grand Final against the Melbourne Storm. The Dragons led 14- nil at half time and were run down by the Storm. He is infamous for the illegal tackle he made on Craig Smith that cost the Dragons the game.

Ainscough concluded his career in England with Super League side Wigan Warriors in 2002 when they won the Challenge Cup. He played in a Wigan team studded with Australians in Brett Dallas, Julian O'Neill, Adrian Lam, Craig Smith, David Furner and coached by Stuart Raper. Following that season he went close to needing to have his arm amputated following an infection that was found to have been caused after one of St. Helens centre Martin Gleeson's teeth was left embedded in Ainscough's arm.

[edit] Representative career

He represented the NSW Blues in nine State of Origin games between 1996 and 2001 (three as a replacement). He made one international appearance for Australia against New Zealand in the 3rd Test of 1995 Brisbane. In that game Ainscough came on as a replacement and scored a try. Josh Wiggins was his first ever coach and taught him how to play football. Jamie was originally going to join a soccer club.

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