Jérôme Guisset

Jérôme Guisset
Personal information
Full name Jérôme Guisset
Date of birth 19 August 1978
Place of birth Perpignan, France
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight 100 kg (15 st 10 lb)
Club information
Position(s) Prop, Second-row
Current club Catalans Dragons
Youth clubs
YearsClub
AS Saint Estève
Other clubs
YearsClub
2004–2005CA Brive
Senior clubs*
YearsClubApps (points)
1999
2000–2004
2005
2006–		Canberra Raiders
Warrington Wolves
Wigan Warriors
Catalans Dragons		4 (0)
125 (84)
22 (12)
141 (44)
Representative teams
France
France Sevens		33 (28)
* Professional club appearances and points
counted for domestic first grade only.

Jérôme Guisset (born 29 October 1978) is a former French professional rugby league player. He recently played for Catalans Dragons as prop or second row, but he retired at the end of the 2010 season, and is now the assistant coach at the club.

He started his career with AS Saint Estève, then as a 16-year-old centre with the Canberra Raiders in the National Rugby League, where he played five times for the first grade, before bulking up and moving up to the front row. He was part of the 1997 and 1998 French senior championship winning St Estève sides.

In 1999 Guisset played a season with Australian National Rugby League club, the Canberra Raiders.[1]

He spent six seasons with Warrington, making 124 appearances, but he left at the end of 2004 when he was not offered a new deal. He spent some time in 2005 playing rugby union for CA Brive, and toured with the France Sevens squad in New Zealand and the United States.

At the start of the 2005 season, Wigan were suffering from a prop crisis after a career-ending injury to newly signed Luke Davico. Chairman Maurice Lindsay moved to fill the gap by bringing Guisset to Wigan on a two-year contract. Jerome made 25 appearances for Wigan in 2005 and was one of the most consistent performers in an injury-ravaged season.

Mid-way through 2005, Guisset had agreed a deal with new Super League outfit Catalans Dragons and, in September, the club confirmed that he would be released from the second year of his contract.

He has been named in the France training squad for the 2008 Rugby League World Cup.[2]

He had been named in the France squad for the 2008 Rugby League World Cup.[3]

References

  1. ↑ JOHN-PAUL MOLONEY AND DAVID JEAN (28 October 2008). "The real deal or a standing joke?". The Canberra Times (Australia: Fairfax Digital). Retrieved 2010-01-07.
  2. ↑ "France dominated by Dragons". Sky Sports. 7 August 2008. Retrieved 2008-08-08.
  3. ↑ "France name official squad". RLWC2008. 24 September 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-03.

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