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Mick Aldous
Personal information
Full nameMichael Aldous
Born1960
Playing information
PositionVersatile 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

Mick Aldous is an Australian former Canberra Raiders rugby league player and representative coach of French national team.

Playing career

Aldous attended St Joseph's College, Hunters Hill 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 Josephs, GPS and NSW schoolboy representative cricket XIs in 1978/79 before a career in first grade cricket for the Waverley Cricket 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 and 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 Designing and Technology at selective high school Sydney Boys High School where he was also involved coaching cricket and rugby..[5] [6]

References

Footnotes

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

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