Stuart Donlan

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Stuart Donlan
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Personal information
Born (1978-08-29) 29 August 1978 (age 44)
Leigh, Greater Manchester, England
Playing information
Position Wing, Fullback
Club
YearsTeamPldTGFGP
1997–99 Leigh Centurions
2001–03 Halifax 68230092
2004–06 Huddersfield Giants 64150060
2007–08 Castleford Tigers 502800112
2009–11 Leigh Centurions 25100040
Total2077600304
Representative
YearsTeamPldTGFGP
2002 Lancashire 2
Coaching information
Representative
YearsTeamGmsWDLW%
2014 Canada 1100100
Source: [1] [2]

Stuart Donlan (born 29 August 1978) is an English professional rugby league coach and former player of the 1990s and 2000s. He is the current head coach of Canada. A Lancashire representative backline player, he previously played for Super League sides Huddersfield Giants and Castleford Tigers (Heritage No. 862). [1] [2] Donlan began his career with hometown club Leigh Centurions in 1997 before finishing his career with Leigh in 2011 and moving into a coaching role.

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Stuart's father, Steve Donlan, was also a former professional rugby league footballer who played for Great Britain, and was a member of the Leigh team, that won the Championship at the end of the 1981–82 season.[ citation needed ]

Donlan played for Huddersfield in the 2006 Challenge Cup Final on the wing but the Giants lost 12–42 against St. Helens. Having spent the final three years of his career with Leigh, Donlan became the assistant coach to Ian Millward at Castleford Tigers, one of Donlan's former clubs, after the pair previously worked together at Leigh Centurions ahead of the 2012 Super League season. He departed Castleford in 2013 following Millward's sacking, and later became assistant coach under Brian Noble at Salford City Reds, where he served for a year before leaving the club along with Noble in early 2014. He was subsequently named head coach of the Canada national team. [3]

Coaching career

Stuart's first game was the only game of the 2014 Colonial Cup. He led Canada to a famous victory which made them the Colonial Cup champions for the very first time. [4] Despite his success Donlan was replaced by Aaron Zimmerle, the head coach of the Queensland Cup team Tweed Heads Seagulls, in 2015 as he took over the role to coach Canada in the 2017 Rugby League World Cup qualifying campaign. [5]

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  2. 1 2 "Statistics". Rugbyleagueproject.org. 31 December 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
  3. "Stuart Donlan named head coach of the Canada Wolverines". 24 May 2014. Archived from the original on 24 May 2014. Retrieved 4 November 2021.
  4. "Rugby League Planet - Canada 52 smack USA 14 in Rugby League international". Archived from the original on 11 April 2015. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
  5. "Canada announces Aaron Zimmerle as head coach for Qualifiers". CRL. 11 September 2015. Archived from the original on 19 September 2015. Retrieved 12 September 2015.