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| Full name | Joshua Hardcastle | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 28 August 1992 Featherstone, West Yorkshire, England | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 14 st 7 lb (92 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Centre, Wing | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Joshua Hardcastle (born 28 August 1992) is a professional rugby league footballer who plays as a centre [3] or on the wing [4] for Featherstone Rovers in the Betfred Championship.
Hardcastle was born in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England.
Hardcastle was in the Wakefield Trinity Wildcats junior system and played in the Challenge Cup for the Featherstone Lions. [5] [6]
He has also played in Australia [7] for the Whitsunday Brahmans in an amateur Queensland competition. [8]
Hardcastle played for Featherstone in their 2021 Million Pound Game loss against Toulouse Olympique. [9]
Featherstone Rovers are a professional rugby league club in Featherstone, West Yorkshire, England, who play in the Championship. Featherstone is a former coal mining town with a population of around 16,000 and Rovers are one of the last "small town teams" which were common in rugby league in the early 20th century. The club has produced many junior players who have gone on to play for Super League clubs. Their local rivals are Castleford and Wakefield Trinity, and in the Championship, Halifax.
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Thomas "Tommy" Smales was an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, and coached in the 1960s and 1970s. He played at representative level for Great Britain and England, and at club level for Castleford, Huddersfield (captain), Bradford Northern, North Sydney Bears and Wakefield Trinity as a scrum-half, i.e. number 7, and coached at club level for Castleford and Featherstone Rovers.
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Vincent Farrar was an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, and coached in the 1980s. He played at representative level for Great Britain, England and Yorkshire, and at club level for Featherstone Rovers (captain), Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks, Hull F.C. and the Sheffield Eagles (captain), as a prop, hooker or loose forward, i.e. number 8 or 10, 9, or 13, during the era of contested scrums, was captain of Hull during the 1978–79 season and 1979–80 season, and coached at club level for Featherstone Rovers.
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