Mick Aldous
| Personal information | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Michael Aldous | |||||
| Born | 1960 | |||||
| Playing information | ||||||
| Position | Versatile back | |||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
| 1984–85 | Canberra Raiders | 25 | 9 | 36 | ||
| Coaching information | ||||||
| Club | ||||||
| Years | Team | Gms | W | D | L | W% |
| 2004 | France | 2 | ||||
| Source: Rugby League Project | ||||||
Mick Aldous (born 1960) is an Australian former Canberra Raiders rugby league player and representative coach of French national rugby league team.
Playing career
Raised in Nowra, New South Wales Aldous attended St Joseph's College, Hunters Hill in Sydney and played in the school's rugby union First XV in 1977 & 1978 at five-eighth. He represented at GPS level in both those years and in a New South Wales Schoolboy side in 1978.[1] He was also a prodigious schoolboy cricketer captaining St Joseph's, GPS and NSW schoolboy representative cricket XIs in 1978/79 before a career in first grade cricket for the Waverley club in Sydney, as a wicketkeeper batsman.[2]
His professional rugby league career was with the Canberra Raiders. He made twenty-five first grade appearances between 1984 and 1985 as a versatile back at center, wing & fullback.[3]
Post playing
After playing retirement Aldous became an Australian Schoolboys coach in rugby league and took a job as a Development Officer with the NSWRL.
In 2004, Aldous moved to France as a coaching consultant to the French Rugby League Federation. In November 2004, he coached France to a competitive 52-30 loss to the Kangaroos and a 24-20 loss to the Kiwis in Carcassonne.[4]
He has worked as a Recruitment Coordinator for the Canberra Raiders and in teaching PDHPE, and later Design and Technology at selective high school Sydney Boys High School where he was also involved coaching cricket and rugby. [5][6]
References
Footnotes
- ↑ St Joseph's College Magazine 1978
- ↑ St Joseph's College Magazine 1978
- ↑ Whiticker/Hudson p 4
- ↑ France come in from the cold
- ↑ http://www.sydneyboyshigh.com/publications/high-notes/archive/vol9no27 Coach of the Week: Mick Aldous
- ↑ http://www.sydneyboyshigh.com/publications/document-library/doc_view/7701-high-notes-vol-9-no-1-february-01-2008 Mick Aldous Industrial Arts.
Published sources
- Whiticker, Alan & Hudson, Glen (2006) The Encyclopedia of Rugby League Players, Gavin Allen Publishing, Sydney
- St Joseph's College Annual Magazine Dec 1977
- St Joseph's College Annual Magazine Dec 1978