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Full name | Andrew Fisher | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 17 November 1967 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Andrew Fisher (born 17 November 1967) is a former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, and coached in the 2000s. He played at club level for Featherstone Rovers, Castleford, Dewsbury Rams (two spells), Hull FC, Wakefield Trinity (Wildcats) and the Barrow Raiders, [2] as a prop or second-row, and coached at club level for the Dewsbury Rams, Sharlston Rovers and the Eastmoor Dragons. [2]
Andy Fisher appeared as a substitute (replacing second-row Glen Booth) in Featherstone Rovers' 14-20 defeat by Bradford Northern in the 1989 Yorkshire Cup Final during the 1989–90 season at Headingley, Leeds on Sunday 5 November 1989.
Andy Fisher was a substitute in Wakefield Trinity's 24-22 victory over Featherstone Rovers in the 1998 First Division Grand Final at McAlpine Stadium, Huddersfield on Saturday 26 September 1998. [3]
In 2000, at the height of a financial crisis at Wakefield Trinity Wildcats, the contracts of all players aged over 24 were terminated during September 2000. The players affected were; Andy Fisher, Bobbie Goulding, Warren Jowitt, Tony Kemp (player-coach), Steve McNamara, Francis Maloney, Martin Masella, Steve Prescott, Bright Sodje, Francis Stephenson, and Glen Tomlinson. [4]
Andy Fisher made his début for Featherstone Rovers on Sunday 3 September 1989.
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