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Birth name | Rodney Davies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Rockhampton, Queensland | 18 May 1989||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Education | Ipswich Grammar School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 90 kg (14 st 2 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Position | Fullback | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rodney Davies (born 18 May 1989) is an Australian international rugby union footballer who plays for the Western Force. He previously played six seasons for the Queensland Reds in the Super Rugby competition. Davies has represented Australia in both fifteen-a-side and seven-a-side rugby. He is also a former rugby league footballer.
Davies attended Ipswich Grammar School, the same school former Reds teammate Berrick Barnes attended. Davies can run 100m in 10.8 seconds. [1] In 2006 he toured New Zealand and Fiji with the Australian Schoolboys. [2]
As an 18-year-old, he said he preferred to play full-back in union, yet expected to play wing in rugby league. [2] In 2007, his first senior year of rugby league, Davies topped his team's try-scoring list in the Queensland Cup. [3]
In 2009 Davies commenced his rugby union career with the Queensland Reds.[ citation needed ] On 28 March 2009, he made his Super Rugby debut against the Chiefs.[ citation needed ] In July 2011, during the Super Rugby semi final, Davies became the first Red to score 3 tries in a match in Super Rugby. [1]
Davies signed with French club Biarritz Olympique in June 2014, [4] playing two seasons. He played for Mitsubishi DynaBoars in 2017, before joining the Western Force in 2018. [5]
In October, 2010, he was in contention for a place in the Wallabies 30-man squad to tour Hong Kong and Europe. This was despite a five-month break without a match up until October, [6] and competition from within the Wallabies squad from outside backs Drew Mitchell and Lachie Turner, James O'Connor and Kurtley Beale. [6] On 17 July 2011, Davies made his Wallabies debut against Samoa. [1]
Davies was selected in the Australia 7s team in 2019 and made his debut at the Canada Sevens tournament in Vancouver. [7]
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