Personal information | ||||||
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Full name | David Thomas Watson | |||||
Born | 24 May 1966 | |||||
Playing information | ||||||
Position | Fullback, Centre, Stand-off | |||||
Club | ||||||
Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
Waitara Bears (TRL) | ||||||
Manukau Magpies | ||||||
1990–1991 | Hull KR | |||||
1991–1992 | Halifax | |||||
1992–1995 | Bradford Northern | |||||
1994 | Cronulla Sharks | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
1995 | Sydney Tigers | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
1996 | Gold Coast | 16 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 24 |
1997 | South Queensland | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
1998–1999 | Sheffield Eagles | 45 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 16 |
Total | 85 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 44 | |
Representative | ||||||
Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
198?–1993 | Taranaki | |||||
198?–1991 | Auckland | |||||
1986–1990 | New Zealand Māori | |||||
1989–1993 | New Zealand | 15 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 24 |
Source: RLP |
David Thomas Watson (born 24 May 1966) is a New Zealand former rugby league player who represented his country in the 1980s and 1990s.
Watson began his career playing for the Waitara Bears in the Taranaki Rugby League before moving north and playing in the Auckland Rugby League competition.[1] Watson joined the Manukau Magpies and in 1986 won the ARLs most improved back award.
In 1990 he signed with Hull KR for the 1990/91 season. He returned to England the next winter to play for the Halifax RLFC. While playing for Halifax Watson tested positive for cannabis and received a three month ban.[2] In 1992 he began an association with Bradford Northern that lasted three seasons.[3]
In 1993 Watson returned to Taranaki and played in the North Island Second Division.[4] This made him eligible to participate in the Kiwi trials that year and he was selected for the series against Australia.
In 1994 Watson began playing in the Australian competition, spending time with the Cronulla Sharks, Sydney Tigers, Gold Coast Chargers and South Queensland Crushers.
In 1998 he returned to England, joining the Sheffield Eagles. In 1998 Watson, along with fellow 1989 Kiwi Whetu Taewa, was part of the Sheffield Eagles side that upset Wigan to win the Challenge Cup.[5]
Watson was a Taranaki and Auckland representative before being selected to represent New Zealand Māori in the 1986 Pacific Cup.[6] He again represented the Māori against Great Britain in 1990.[7]
Watson was selected for the New Zealand Kiwis in 1989. He went on to make 15 appearances for the Kiwis, his last being in the 1993 test series against Australia.[8]
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