Steve Linnane

Steve Linnane

Personal information
Born	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Playing information
Position	Halfback
Club
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
1984–90	St. George	100	23	1	19	113
1991	Newcastle Knights	18	2	0	0	8
	Total	118	25	1	19	121
Coaching information
Club
Years	Team	Gms	W	D	L	W%
1999–00	Rochdale Hornets
2001–02	Halifax Blue Sox
2002–04	Hull Kingston Rovers
	Total	0	0	0	0
Source: stats.rleague.com

Steve Linnane is an Australian former rugby league footballer of the 1980s and 90s, and coach of the 2000s. After playing club football in the Winfield Cup for St. George and Newcastle, he moved to England where he became coach of Rochdale, Halifax and Hull Kingston Rovers.

Playing career

As a young halfback, Linnane was signed to the St. George Dragons in 1985. He was named Dally M Rookie of the year and was also the season's top try scorer with 16 tries.^[1] Also playing in that year's Grand Final, he narrowly missed out on a premiership in his debut season as the Bulldogs beat the Dragons by just one point. In 1987 Linnane was suspended for 20 weeks by the NSWRL judiciary for eye gouging Penrith's Greg Alexander. He stayed with the Dragons until 1990 when he was sacked as a disciplinary action, then moved to the Newcastle Knights for the 1991 NSWRL season.

Coaching career

Linnane was later player-coach with Kurri Kurri from 1992 to 1996 before retiring as player in 1996. He was assistant coach at the Newcastle Knights to Mal Reilly and Warren Ryan from 1997 to 1999, and then became head coach at English club Rochdale in December 1999. He quit in June 2000 to join Super League club, Halifax Blue Sox as assistant coach to Gary Mercer. Following Mercer's resignation in 2001 he was in temporary charge but was later appointed head coach of Halifax on a two-year contract. He was sacked in August, 2002, the morning after a 64-0 loss to St. Helens which came after nine losses from ten games which put the club at risk of relegation. Linnane then became the Hull Kingston Rovers club's first overseas coach. Under him, the club came within eighty minutes of their first grand final appearance in 2002, after a largely successful end to the season. In 2004 he resigned.

Sources

• Steve Linnane at nrlstats.com
• Steve Linnane stats at rugbyleagueproject.com
• Dragons Players at showroom.com.au

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Persondata
Name	Linnane, Steve
Alternative names
Short description	Australian rugby league player and coach
Date of birth
Place of birth	Sydney, New South Wales
Date of death
Place of death