Ben Cockayne

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Ben Cockayne
Personal information
Born (1983-07-20) 20 July 1983
Pontefract, Yorkshire, England
Playing information
Position Fullback, Wing
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
2004 Hunslet 2 0 0 0 0
2006– Doncaster 22 17 6 0 80
2006–11 Hull Kingston Rovers 138 57 2 0 232
2012– Wakefield Trinity 45 27 1 0 110
Total 207 101 9 0 422

Ben Cockayne (born 20 July 1983 in Pontefract, England) is an English rugby league player. He plays for Wakefield Trinity in the Super League. He is also an assistant coach at his former amateur club, Normanton Knights.

Career

Ben started his Rugby League career with his local amateur club Normanton Knights. He had some trials with Super League sides such as Wakefield Trinity and Castleford. He was then given a chance to play for Doncaster in National League 1 on a trial basis by St. John Ellis who was then the coach of Doncaster.

After impressing for Doncaster, especially against Hull KR in 2005 at Craven Park, Cockayne signed for Hull Kingston Rovers whilst they were in National League One. During the 2006 season, Cockayne was a first team regular in the squad, playing 29 games and helping his side to promotion by scoring 27 tries. He came second in the ranks for top try-scorer for Hull KR in 2006, and was Man-of-the-Match in the Robins' memorable game that saw them be promoted to Super League.

In the 2006 season, Hull Kingston Rovers won the Rugby League National League One competition and were promoted to the Super League competition for the 2007 season.

Hull Kingston Rovers played their opening Super League match on 10 February 2007 against Wakefield Trinity. The scores were level at eight-all when Jamie Rooney converted a drop goal in the final ten minutes of the match to give Trinity the lead by just one point. In the dying stages of the match, James Webster looked like he was going to attempt a drop goal but due to the pressure put onto him by the Wakefield defence, he passed the ball to Chris Chester. Chester then slipped the ball inside to Cockayne who ran through to score a try. There was no time left for Wakefield and on the opening game of the season Cockayne had scored a try that gave the Hull Kingston Rovers a fourteen to nine victory on their Super League début. He scored another try in Rovers' second match, a 17–10 away win at Huddersfield, and bolstered a sterling defensive display in Rovers' shock 26–16 away win at Wigan which made them joint top of the Super League.

Facebook

In April 2011, Ben Cockayne allegedly posted the racist remark "p*** c***" on his friend's Facebook Wall. It is thought the Hull KR fullback wrote on a friends profile page: "u owe me a quid an the p*** c*** that has got my wallet in his car owes me about 100". It is believed Cockayne was referring to a wallet which he had lost in a taxi. But 53 minutes later Cockayne, who was given a 12-month suspended sentence in 2009 for an assault, wrote on Facebook: "Found it :) thank f***". Cockayne's Facebook profile was removed within hours of the Mirror newspaper contacting his club and the Rugby Football League. A Hull KR spokesman said: "The club will be carrying out a full internal investigation into comments allegedly made on a website by Ben Cockayne. Nobody will be commenting further until that has concluded." The Rugby Football League, which has a Kick Racism into Touch campaign, said: "We will be speaking to Hull KR about a potential social media matter." [1]

Ben Cockayne has now left the Hull Kingston Rovers following an incident involving clubmate Liam Watts.[2]

Moving on from the 2011 Co-operative Champions

Ben Cockayne signed for Wakefield Trinity for the 2012 season, his hometown club after winning the League Leader's Shield and the Championship Grand Final in 2011 with Featherstone Rovers. On 4 July 2013. Wakefield Trinity rejected a bid from Cockayne's former club Hull KR.[3]

Super League tries

Scores and results list Ben's try tally first.[4]
Date Venue Opponent Result Tournament Scored
10 February 2007 Craven Park, Wakefield Trinity 14–9 Super League 1
18 February 2007 Galpharm Stadium Huddersfield 10–17 Super League 1
5 May 2007 Millennium Stadium, Hull 10–14 Super League 1
24 February 2008 Craven Park Warrington 28–29 Super League 1
15 March 2008 Craven Park Castleford 20–4 Super League 1
5 April 2008 Twickenham Stoop Harlequins 35–16 Super League 2
13 April 2008 Craven Park, Bradford 20–18 Super League 1
29 June 2008 Odsal Bradford 40–20 Super League 1
20 July 2008 KC Stadium, Hull 44–18 Super League 1
1 August 2008 Craven Park, Catalans Dragons 30–16 Super League 1
17 August 2008 Halliwell Jones Stadium, Warrington 34–36 Super League 1
7 September 2008 Craven Park Hull 36–8 Super League 1
4 July 2009 Stade Aime Giral Catalans Dragons 23–12 Super League 1
17 July 2009 Headingley, Leeds 24–14 Super League 1
27 February 2010 The Jungle Castleford 24–28 Super League 1
2 April 2010 Craven Park Hull 14–18 Super League 1
11 April 2010 Craven Park Warrington 36–16 Super League 1
25 April 2010 Grattan Stadium Bradford 40–4 Super League 1
16 May 2010 Craven Park Crusaders 54–10 Super League 1
9 July 2010 Craven Park Leeds 25–6 Super League 1
17 September 2010 JJB Stadium Wigan 42–18 Super League 1
15 April 2011 Craven Park Wigan 16–28 Super League 1
22 April 2011 KC Stadium Hull 36–18 Super League 1
1 May 2011 Belle Vue Wakefield Trinity 26–24 Super League 2
12 June 2011 Headingley Carnegie Leeds 44–14 Super League 1

References

  1. Rugby League star Ben Cockayne faces probe over alleged racist comments on Facebook. mirror.co.uk (21 April 2011). Retrieved on 11 October 2011.
  2. "Club Statement Regarding Ben Cockayne". web page. Hull Kingston Rovers RLFC. 15 July 2011. Retrieved 13 August 2011. 
  3. "Super League: Wakefield Wildcats reject Hull KR offer for Ben Cockayne". Sky Sports. 4 July 2013. Retrieved 4 July 2013. 
  4. Ben Cockayne. SLStats (30 July 2003). Retrieved on 11 October 2011.


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