Les Kiss

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Les Kiss
Personal information
Born	(1964-12-09) 9 December 1964
Playing information
Position	Wing
Club
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
	Fortitude Valley
1986–1993	North Sydney Bears	100	29	38	0	192
	Total	100	29	38	0	192
Representative
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
1986–1990	Queensland	4	3	0	0	12
1986	Australia	4	2	0	0	8
Coaching information
Club
Years	Team	Gms	W	D	L	W%
1999	London Broncos	30	13	2	15	43
As of 16 August 2011
Source: RLP

Les Kiss (born 9 December 1964) is an Australian former professional rugby league player in the New South Wales Rugby League and a former rugby league coach. He is the currently Assistant Coach for the Irish national rugby union team.

Playing career

Kiss was a Past Brothers junior^[1] who went on to play 100 first grade games in the NSWRL Premiership for the North Sydney Bears between 1986 and 1993. A handy goalkicker, he had an injury-restricted career, and retired in 1993. Les Kiss' career is nostalgically linked with the Wendy Matthews song "Let's Kiss", which was released in 1990 at the height of his playing days at North Sydney.

Les Kiss scored only 29 tries for Norths in his 100 games but despite not being the fastest winger, and with a best haul of 9 tries in a season (1986), he was considered to be one of the best defensive wingers in the Sydney competition. He also kicked 38 goals from 64 attempts (59.38%) for the Bears with his best season again being his debut year (1986) when he kicked 23/38 at 60.53%.

Representative career

Les Kiss, originally from Queensland, first gained selection for The Maroons in Game 2 of the 1986 State of Origin series at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Playing on the wing, Kiss scored a try on debut in a losing side (NSW won the 1986 series 3-0) and he scored another in Game 3 at Lang Park.

Kiss was then selected to play for Australia in the second test against New Zealand at the Cricket Ground and retained his spot for the final game in Brisbane. Kiss' good form continued for the Bears and he was an easy selection for the 1986 Kangaroo Tour. Before the actual tour got underway in England, the Australians played a test against Papua New Guinea in Port Moresby. There Kiss scored his only two test tries in a 62-12 win. He was then selected for the first Ashes test against Great Britain at Old Trafford with the Aussie's winning 38-16 before an injury in a tour match put an end to his tour before the 2nd Test.

Les Kiss then had a wait of four years before he tasted representative football again. He was selected for games 1 and 2 of the 1990 Origin series. Queensland lost both games and Kiss was one of the players dropped for Game 3 (replaced by Willie Carne). In what turned out to be a brief representative career, Les Kiss played in 4 games for Queensland (all losses) and 4 games for Australia (all wins) scoring a total of 3 Origin and 2 Test tries.

Coaching career

Kiss was formerely the defensive coach with the Ireland national rugby union team under head coach Declan Kidney until Kindey was sacked on 2nd of April 2013 and was then appointed interim head coach of the Irish team and he will coach Ireland for their 2013 summer tour to North America.^[2]

Kiss previously worked as an assistant rugby league coach for the London Broncos Super League club and then as joint head coach with former North Sydney team mate Tony Rea. In rugby union Kiss was, prior to his current coaching position in Ireland, an assistant coach with the New South Wales Waratahs^[3] and also worked as a defence coach in South Africa.^[4]

In 2008, rugby league in Australia's centenary year, Kiss was named on the wing of the Bundaberg Rugby League's team of the century.^[5]

References

↑ Les Kiss at Past Brothers RLFC website
↑ Les Liss takes over Ireland
↑ "Waratahs Management - NSW Rugby". NSW Rugby. Archived from the original on 2008-02-20. Retrieved 2008-04-14.
↑ "Clients - Les Kiss". The Fordham Company. Retrieved 2008-04-14.
↑ "BRL Team of the Century named". sportingpulse.com. Bundaberg Rugby League Ltd. Retrieved 8 January 2012.

External links

1986 Kangaroo Tour squad

v t e Bundaberg Rugby League Team of the Century (1907-2008)

1. Mick Bolewski 2. Bill Heidke 3. Don Nixon 4. Noel Hazzard 5. Les Kiss 6. Rex McGlynn 7. Stan Norris 8. Col Weiss 9. Bill Richards 10. Vic Armbruster 11. Bill Pearson (Ca./Co.) 12. Noel Gallagher 13. Noel Cavanagh 14. William 'Bill' Spencer 15. Dougall McGregor 16. Bernie Drew 17. Les 'Monty' Heidke

v t e London Broncos

Established 1980 in London, \|England

The Club	History Records Honours International representative players Players Coaches

Home grounds	Craven Cottage Crystal Palace National Sports Centre Chiswick Polytechnic Sports Ground Barnet Copthall The Valley Griffin Park The Stoop The Hive

Hall of Fame	Martin Offiah

League	Super League

Honours	1982-83 Rugby Football League Championship Second Division Champions Super League II runners-up 1999 Challenge Cup runners-up

Seasons	2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

Coaches	Tony Currie (1996–1998) Dan Stains (1999) Tony Rea / Les Kiss (1999) John Monie (2000) Tony Rea (2000–2006) Brian McDermott (2006-2010) Rob Powell (2011-2012) Tony Rea (2012-present)

Captains	Mark McLinden (2005) Rob Purdham (2006–2011) Craig Gower (2012-2013) Tony Clubb (2013) Antonio Kaufusi (2013) Matt Cook (2014-)

Affiliation	Rugby Football League (1980)

Persondata
Name	Kiss, Les
Alternative names
Short description	Australian rugby league player and coach
Date of birth	1964-12-09
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike; additional terms may apply for the media files.