Will Oakes
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| Full name | William Oakes | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Oakesy | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
22 02 1999 Halifax | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 6′ 0″ | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 94 kg (207 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Wing, Fullback | |||||||||||||||||||||
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As of 29 May 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Will Oakes is a rugby league player who plays for Hull Kingston Rovers in the Super League. He plays as a winger.
Oakes started playing Rugby for King Cross Park Junior RLFC at 6 years old, he played at King Cross Park until he was 13 years old, he played every position possible whilst there and won Player of the Year and Players Player of the year six times each.
At 13 Oakes decided that he wanted to step up to the top division of the Yorkshire League and moved to Eastmoor Dragons. During his time at Eastmoor he won several individual accolades including Players Player and Man of Steel. He played mostly at full back for Eastmoor and was the top scorer each season he spent there, he even scored 9 tries in a Yorkshire Cup quarter final versus Dewbury Moor.
At 14 years old Oakes was scouted in to the Wakefield Wildcats Scholarship Academy, this is where he began playing on the Wing. He hit the ground running and was selected to play at Under 16's level in his first year, he scored a myriad of tries and showed that he was an established goal kicker, he finished the season as top scorer and also won the Players Player of the year award. In his second year with Wakefield he experienced the same success as the first and was seen regularly scoring hat tricks, Wakefield went the season unbeaten that year. This success culminated in him getting selected for the England Youth Rugby League team, he represented his country in tests against France that year.
At the end of his scholarship he was offered contracts with no fewer than nine super league clubs.
Oakes decided that he liked the vision that Hull KR showed and decided that he would join them on a first team contract at the age of 16.
Oakes played for the City of Hull Academy in their inaugural year and again showed that he was a lethal finisher and finished the season as top points scorer even though he missed half of the season due to international commitments. He was also called up to the first team where he enjoyed his début away to Wigan Warriors the month after his seventeenth birthday, he was in and around the first team several times but this was to be his only first team appearance that year. Oakes was selected as the youngest member of the England Academy squad that toured Australia in 2016, he represented them at test level on this tour.[3]
References
- ↑ RLP
- ↑ loverugbyleague
- ↑ "Hull KR's Will Oakes tipped for success as James Webster sees Tom Briscoe comparison". Hull Daily Mail. 2016-06-23. Retrieved 2016-09-10.