Mat Gardner

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Mat Gardner
Personal information
Full name Mat Gardner
Born (1985-08-24) 24 August 1985
Barrow-in-Furness, England
Height 6 ft 4 in (193 cm)
Weight 15 st 6 lb (98 kg) [1]
Playing information
Position Wing
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
2004 Barrow 4 3 0 0 12
2004 Castleford 1 1 0 0 4
2006–2007 Huddersfield 26 8 0 0 32
2008 Salford 32 23 0 0 92
2009 Harlequins RL 9 2 0 0 8
2010–2011 Widnes 54 15 0 0 60
2012 Leigh
Total 126 52 0 0 208
As of 1 January 2012

Mat Gardner (born 24 August 1985) is a rugby league player, who currently plays for Leigh.[2] He is the younger brother of St Helens winger Ade Gardner

Gardner made his Super League début in a match against Wakefield Trinity on 4 March 2006 for Huddersfield. He enjoyed a solid début season with the Huddersfield in 2006, which included a memorable hat-trick against the Catalans Dragons and also played several games, which saw him line-up against his brother Ade.

He performed better than most people expected in the 2006 season and many people hoped he pushed hard for a place in the Huddersfield line-up in 2007.

He played in Huddersfield's first seven games and scored 2 tries, although a long run in the reserves followed before he was recalled for the game against Harlequins RL.

With Huddersfield signing David Hodgson from Salford and Rod Jensen being established on the other wing Mat Gardner left Huddersfield and signed for Salford for the 2008 season.

Mat became a key member of Salford’s successful 2008 squad, claiming 23 tries in 32 games, Mat was snapped up by Harlequins RL for the 2009 Super League season. Quins coach Brian McDermott stated "He and few others have made a decision to give it a go in London and we are looking forward to working with him."

For the last two seasons, Gardner has been a regular with Widnes and made 23 appearances last season, scoring three tries.

Leigh have signed up Mat Gardner for the 2012 season

Mat also scrapes into the starting nine of the Raven Hotel darts team in the St. Helens Interbrew Darts & Doms League.

References

  1. "RLFANS.COM Super League Statistics". web page. RLFANS.COM. Retrieved 13 August 2011. 
  2. "Leigh sign up Gardner and Bracek". BBC News. 


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