Anthony Laffranchi

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Anthony Laffranchi
Personal information

Laffranchi while playing for Australia in 2008
Born	(1980-11-16) 16 November 1980 Murwillumbah, New South Wales, Australia
Height	185 cm (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	102 kg (16 st 1 lb)
Playing information
Position	Utility Forward
Club
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
2001–2006	Wests Tigers	102	18	0	0	72
2007–2011	Gold Coast Titans	102	32	1	0	130
2012–	St Helens	55	16	0	0	64
	Total	259	66	1	0	266
Representative
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
2006–2010	Country Origin	4	2	0	0	8
2008–2009	New South Wales	4	1	0	0	4
2008–2009	Australia	5	2	0	0	8
2012–2013	Exiles	2	0	0	0	0
2013	Italy	3	0	0	0	0


As of 22 December 2012
Source: RLP

Anthony Laffranchi (born (1980-11-16) 16 November 1980 in Murwillumbah, New South Wales) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer for Super League club St. Helens. An Australia and Italy international, and New South Wales State of Origin representative forward, he previously played in the National Rugby League for the Wests Tigers (with whom he won the 2005 NRL premiership) and the Gold Coast Titans.

Background

Laffranchi was educated at Mt St Patrick College. He is also of Italian descent and is eligible to represent the Italy national rugby league team.^[1]

Playing career

Wests Tigers

Laffranchi played at prop forward in the Tigers' 2005 NRL Grand Final victory over the North Queensland Cowboys. As NRL Premiers Wests faced Super League champions Bradford Bulls in the 2006 World Club Challenge. Laffranchi played at second-row forward in the Tigers' 30-10 loss.

Gold Coast Titans

At the end of the Titans' first season Laffranchi was named co-winner of the club's inaugural Paul Broughton Medal for best and fairest player of the season with teammate Luke Bailey.^[2] After further solid performance in 2008, he was selected to play for the City vs Country Origin game, representing Country, in which he was awarded Man of the Match.

Laffranchi was named as the 18th man for the Australians for the Centenary Rugby League Test against New Zealand in 2008.

Laffranchi was selected for New South Wales in game I of the 2008 State of origin series. Laffranchi started from the bench and scored the winning try off a Mark Gasnier line break and lead the tackle count (40) for the Blues.

In August 2008, Laffranchi was named in the preliminary 46-man Kangaroos squad for the 2008 Rugby League World Cup,^[3]^[4] and in October 2008 he was selected in the final 24-man Australia squad.^[5]

Laffranchi made his test debut against New Zealand in Australia's opening RLWC 08 game on 26 October playing in the Second-row. He followed this up with a two try effort in Australia's second match of the World Cup. He was selected for Australia in the one-off test match against New Zealand on 8 May 2009.^[6] He was also an Italian international.^[7]

Laffranchi has signed a 2 year deal with St Helens starting in 2012.

St Helens

Laffranchi commenced his Super League career in the 2012 season with St Helens RLFC. He played for the Exiles in the International Origin and also represented Italy in the 2013 Rugby League World Cup.

Highlights

Junior Club: Murwillumbah Colts
First Grade Debut: Round 26, Wests Tigers v Sharks at Leichhardt Oval, 2 September 2001
First Grade Record: 116 appearances scoring 22 tries (Total: 88 points)
First Grade Clubs: 102 appearances for Wests Tigers (18 tries, 72 points) 2001–2006, 30 appearances for Gold Coast Titans (11 tries, 44 points) 2007, 2008
Representative Teams: NSW Blues (State of Origin), 2008 (1 try, 4 points), City Country Match 2006 (1 try, 4 points)

References

↑ Damir Govorcin (30 July 2006). "Curtain-raiser proposal for rugby league minnows". The Catholic Weekly (Australia). Retrieved 3 January 2010.
↑ abc.net.au (2007-10-04). "Bailey, Laffranchi share Titans' top honour". ABC News (Australia: ABC). Retrieved 2010-07-04.
↑ Liam FitzGibbon (1 August 2008). "Surprises in Kangaroos squad". "Fox Sports News (Australia)". Archived from the original on 8 August 2008. Retrieved 2008-08-02.
↑ "Veteran Lockyer named in Australian squad". International Herald Tribune. 1 August 2008. Archived from the original on 16 September 2008. Retrieved 2008-08-02.
↑ "Manly six win Australia call-up". BBC. 7 October 2008. Archived from the original on 10 October 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-07.
↑ Wald, Tom (3 May 2009). "Kangaroos selectors stick by losing World Cup team for New Zealand Test". Fox Sports. Retrieved 2009-05-03.
↑ http://www.angelfire.com/oz/greekrugbyleague/Ionio%20Cup%20History%20Players%20Italy.htm

External links

v t e St. Helens – current squad

1 Lomax 2 Makinson 3 Turner 4 Jones 5 Swift 6 Hohaia 7 Walsh 8 Masoe 9 Roby 10 McCarthy-Scarsbrook 11 Soliola 12 Wilkin 13 Manu 14 Laffranchi 15 Flanagan 16 Amor 17 Wheeler 18 Magennis 19 Wellens 20 Beaumont 21 Gardner 22 Percival 23 Greenwood 25 Walker 26 Dawson 27 Richards 28 Thompson 29 Hand 30 Forster 31 Tilley 32 Charnock 33 Sevelio 34 Dwyer Coach: Brown

Italy squad – 2013 Rugby League World Cup

v t e Australia squad – 2008 Rugby League World Cup finalists

1 Lockyer (c) 2 Boyd 3 Campese 4 Civoniceva 5 Fitzgibbon 6 Folau 7 Gallen 8 Gidley 9 Hunt 10 Inglis 11 Kite 12 Laffranchi 13 Monaghan 14 Perry 15 Price 16 Prince 17 Slater 18 Smith 19 Stewart 20 Tate 21 Thurston 22 Tupou 23 Watmough 24 Williams Coach: Stuart

v t e Wests Tigers squad – 2005 NRL Premiers (1st Title)

1 Brett Hodgson 2 Daniel Fitzhenry 3 Shane Elford 4 Paul Whatuira 5 Pat Richards 6 Benji Marshall 7 Scott Prince (c) 8 Anthony Laffranchi 9 Robbie Farah 10 John Skandalis 11 Ben Galea 12 Mark O'Neill 13 Dene Halatau 14 Liam Fulton 15 Chris Heighington 16 Bryce Gibbs 17 Todd Payten Coach: Tim Sheens

v t e Inaugural Gold Coast Titans side

v St George Illawarra Dragons, Suncorp Stadium, 18 March 2007

1. Preston Campbell 2. Lelea Paea 3. Mat Rogers 4. Jake Webster 5. Chris Walker 6. Matt Hilder 7. Scott Prince (c) 8. Luke Bailey (c) 9. Clint Amos 10. Kris Kahler 11. Anthony Laffranchi 12. Gavin Cooper 13. Luke Swain 14. Michael Henderson 15. James Stosic 16. Mark Minichiello 19. Nathan Friend Coach: John Cartwright

Persondata
Name	Laffranchi, Anthony
Alternative names
Short description	Australian rugby league player
Date of birth	16 November 1980
Place of birth	Murwillumbah, New South Wales
Date of death
Place of death

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