Les Holliday

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Leslie W. Holliday
Personal information
Full name	Leslie W. Holliday
Nickname	Les
Playing information
Position	Second-row, Loose forward/Lock
Club
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
1982–87	Swinton
1987–89	Halifax
1989–93	Widnes	84	9	6	3
1993–95	Dewsbury
	Total	84	9	6	3	0
Representative
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
1986	Cumbria
1991–92	Great Britain	3	1	0	0	4
Coaching information
Club
Years	Team	Gms	W	D	L	W%
1995–≥95	Swinton Lions
Source: rugbyleagueproject.org englandrl.co.uk

Leslie "Les" W. Holliday is a professional rugby league footballer of the 1980s and '90s, and coach of the 1990s, playing at representative level for Great Britain, and Cumbria, and at club level for Folly Lane ARLFC (in Pendlebury), Swinton (captain), Halifax, Widnes and Dewsbury, as a Second-row, or Loose forward/Lock, i.e. number 11 or 12 or 13, and coaching at club level for Swinton. Les Holliday was a pupil at Cromwell Road School in Pendlebury.

Playing career

International honours

Les Holliday won caps for Great Britain while at Widnes in 1991 against France, and in 1992 against France (2 matches).^[1]

County honours

Les Holliday represented Cumbria.

Challenge Cup Final appearance

Les Holliday played for Halifax in the second-row in the 32-12 defeat to Wigan in the 1988 Challenge Cup final at Wembley Stadium on Saturday 30 April 1988.

First Division Grand Final appearances

Les Holliday played Loose forward/Lock and was captain in Swinton's 27-10 victory over Hunslet in the 1986–87 Second Division Premiership Final at Old Trafford, Manchester on Sunday 17 May 1987.

Genealogical information

Les Holliday is the son of the rugby league footballer Bill Holliday, and the brother of the rugby league footballer of the 1980s for Swinton and Leigh, Mike Holliday.

References

↑ "Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org". rugbyleagueproject. 31 December 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2012.

External links

v t e Halifax RLFC squad – 1988 Challenge Cup Final Runners-Up

1 Graham Eadie 2 Martin Meredith 3 Tony Anderson 4 Ian Wilkinson 5 Colin Whitfield 6 Bob Grogan 7 Steve Robinson 8 Neil James 9 Seamus McCallion 10 Keith Neller 11 Les Holliday 12 Paul Dixon 13 John Pendlebury 14 Mick Scott 15 Dick Fairbank

Persondata
Name	Holliday, Leslie
Alternative names
Short description	British rugby league player
Date of birth
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