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Full name | Thomas Holmes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | [1] Castleford, West Yorkshire, England | 2 March 1996 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.77 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 13 st 5 lb (85 kg) [2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Position | Scrum-half, Stand-off, Hooker | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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As of 16 July 2023 |
Tom Holmes (born 2 March 1996) is an English rugby league footballer who plays as a scrum-half or stand-off for Bradford Bulls in the Betfred Championship.
He played for the Castleford Tigers (Heritage № 959) in the Super League, enjoying loan spells to the Batley Bulldogs in the Kingstone Press Championship and Oxford in League 1. He spent the 2018 season at Featherstone in the Championship, before moving to the Huddersfield Giants in the Betfred Super League, returning to Post Office Road on loan from Huddersfield in 2019.
Holmes was born in Castleford, West Yorkshire, England.
Holmes was diagnosed with an extremely rare form of cancer on 5 January 2023, after noticing a rapid decline in health towards the end of last season.
He joined the Castleford Tigers from Castleford Lock Lane ARLFC in 2014 and made his Super League début in 2015 against the Catalans Dragons. During three years with the Tigers he was loaned out to League 1 side Oxford RLFC and Championship side Batley.
On 9 September 2017 it was announced Holmes would leave Castleford for Featherstone Rovers at the end of the 2017 season. [5]
On 17 December 2020, it was announced that Holmes had left the club to pursue options in the Championship. [6]
On 22 December 2020, it was announced Holmes would return to Featherstone Rovers. [7]
He played for Featherstone in their 2021 Million Pound Game defeat against Toulouse Olympique. [8]
In 2022 Holmes joined Championship side Sheffield Eagles [9] on loan in the search of regular first-team minutes.
On 11 September 2022, Holmes signed a two-year deal to join Bradford starting in the 2023 season. [10]
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