Shane Jennings

Shane Jennings
Personal information
Full name Shane Jennings
Date of birth 8 July 1981
Place of birth Rathfarnham, Dublin, Ireland
Height 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Weight 16 st 5 lb (104 kg)
School(s) attended St. Mary's College, Dublin
Club information
Position(s) Flanker
Current club Leinster Rugby
St. Mary's College RFC
Youth clubs
YearsClub
Leinster Academy
Youth representative teams
YearsTeamApps (points)
Ireland Schoolboys
Senior clubs*
YearsClubApps (points)
2002-2005
2005-2007
2007-2015		Leinster
Leicester Tigers
Leinster		42 (30)
60 (60)
160 (105)
Representative teams**
2007–2012
2005-2010
2001
1999
1998		 Ireland
Wolfhounds
Ireland U-21s
Ireland U-19s
Ireland Schools		13 (5) 1t
10 (5)
9
4
4
* Professional club appearances and points
counted for domestic first grade only and
correct as of 9 Feb 2015.
** Representative team caps and points correct
as of 19 February 2014.

Shane Jennings (born 8 July 1981 in Dublin) is an Irish rugby union player for Leinster Rugby in the Pro12 and Rugby Champions Cup who plays as an openside flanker. He is also registered to St. Mary's College RFC who play in AIB League Division 1.

Club Career

Jennings impressed for Leinster in the 2004–05 Heineken Cup when Keith Gleeson was injured, however Gleeson returned from injury for the quarter final with Leicester Tigers, having had no previous game time. Leicester had previously identified Jennings as a threat. After the game which Leicester won 29–13, Leicester's retiring openside Neil Back approached Jennings and offered to open contract negotiations. He signed for Leicester for the 2006 season, along with fellow Leinster forward Leo Cullen winning the English Premiership in 2007. He re-signed for Leinster on a three year contract for the start of the 2007/8 season winning the Magners League in 2008 and European Cup in 2009. In October 2009 he was banned for twelve weeks for making contact with the eye area of Nick Kennedy of London Irish in the first round of the Heineken Cup.[1] On February 19th 2015, Jennings announced he would retire at the end of the 2014-15 season.[2]

International Career

Jennings's international ambitions were hampered largely due to a surplus of quality Irish back row forwards during his playing career. He was named in the Irish squad for the Summer tour of Argentina and earned his first cap on June 2, 2007. Jennings was called into the Ireland A side that was defeated by England Saxons on 1 February 2008.[3][4] Jennings achieved 13 test caps throughout his career, his last coming against Scotland in the 2012 Six Nations.[5]


Honours

Leinster

Leicester

References

  1. ↑ "Jennings handed 12-week eye ban". BBC Sport. 14 October 2009. Retrieved 2009-10-14.
  2. ↑ "Shane Jennings to retire at the end of the season". RTE. Retrieved 19 February 2015.
  3. ↑ "Varndell shines in Saxons victory". BBC. 2008-02-02. Retrieved 2008-02-03.
  4. ↑ "Ireland 'A' Go Down Fighting Against Saxons". IrishRugby.ie. 2008-02-01. Archived from the original on 2008-02-04. Retrieved 2008-02-03.
  5. ↑ "Shane Jennings". espnscrum. Retrieved 19 February 2015.

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