Tommy Saxton

Tommy Saxton

Personal information
Full name	Thomas Saxton
Born	(1983-10-03) 3 October 1983 (age 42) Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England
Height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Weight	14 st 2 lb (90 kg)
Playing information
Position	Fullback, Wing, Centre
Club Years Team Pld T G FG P 2000–04 Castleford Tigers 39 11 0 0 44 2005–06 Hull FC 29 4 0 0 16 2006(loan) → Wakefield Trinity Wildcats 15 2 0 0 8 2007 Castleford Tigers 18 11 0 1 45 2007(loan) → Salford City Reds 5 0 0 0 0 2008–14 Featherstone Rovers 162 70 0 0 280 2014(loan) → Halifax 12 5 0 0 20 2014–16 Halifax 37 16 0 0 64 2016(loan) → York City Knights 13 3 0 0 12 2017 York City Knights 14 2 0 0 8 2018 York City Knights 2 0 0 0 0 Total 346 124 0 1 497
Source: [1] [2] As of 6 May 2018
Relatives	Nicky Saxton (brother) Alan Banks (uncle) Barry Banks (uncle)

Thomas Saxton (born 3 October 1983) is an English former professional rugby league footballer who last played for the York City Knights in Kingstone Press League 1, usually as a fullback, but also as a wing or centre. ^[3]

He has previously played for the Castleford Tigers, Hull FC, Wakefield Trinity Wildcats and the Salford City Reds in the Super League. Also he has represented England A-Team and England Academy. ^[4]

Saxton played for Hull in the 2005 Challenge Cup Final from the interchange bench in their victory against the Leeds Rhinos. ^[5]

He played for six seasons with Featherstone Rovers before moving to Halifax in 2015. In November 2016 he signed for York having joined the club on-loan earlier in the year. ^[6]

Genealogical information

Tommy Saxton is the brother of the rugby league footballer; Nicky Saxton, and the nephew of the rugby league footballer; Alan Banks.^{[ citation needed ]}

References

1. "Statistics at loverugbyleague.com". loverugbyleague.com. 31 December 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
2. "Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org". rugbyleagueproject.org. 31 December 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
3. "Wildcats overpower Tigers". BBC. 26 December 2000. Retrieved 5 May 2008.
4. "Wakefield snap up loanee Saxton". BBC. 31 March 2006. Retrieved 5 May 2008.
5. "Hull stun Leeds in Challenge Cup". BBC News . 27 August 2005. Retrieved 17 August 2013.
6. "Tommy Saxton and Danny Sowerby confirmed in 2017 York City Knights ranks". The Press . 24 November 2016. Retrieved 30 November 2017.

External links

• York City Knights profile
• (archived by web.archive.org) Profile at featherstonerovers.net