T'Other Side: Dewsbury Rams

T’Other Side: Dewsbury Rams

LAST TIME OUT

Head Coach: Lee Greenwood

Lee Greenwood has taken over as Dewsbury Rams head coach following the resignation of Neil Kelly at the end of last season. In the community game he has coached Siddal ARL and he was coach of Gloucestershire All Golds during the 2015 and 2016 seasons.

During his playing career he played predominantly on the wing but also played at centre. His career started at Sheffield Eagles in 1999 and he moved to Halifax where he played from 2000 to 2003. After that he played for London Broncos, Huddersfield Giants and Leigh Centurions before returning to Halifax for two more seasons in 2007. He ended his career with one season at Oldham and his last year at Batley in 2010.

In 2004 he was picked for England in matches against Russia and Ireland.

Captain: Paul Sykes

Having begun his career with the Bradford Bulls in 1999, after two seasons Paul Sykes moved to London Broncos and stayed with them for 7 seasons. In 2008 he returned to the Bulls and then moved onto Wakefield in 2012. After 16 seasons in the Super League he came to Featherstone Rovers in 2015 and then signed for Dewsbury Rams in 2016. Now 37 years old his long career has so far given him a total of 440 appearances, 140 tries, 844 goals and 15 drop goals. That’s a total of 2,263 points. At representative level Paul has played for England, England A, Northern Union and Great Britain.

New Signings for 2019

The Fev connection

There is a long tradition of players who have played for both Dewsbury and Featherstone.

The seven former Fev players in the Dewsbury squad this year are Sam Day, Daniel Igbinedion, Michael Knowles, Jode Sheriffe, Paul Sykes, Kyle Trout and Robbie Ward. Charlie Martin who has signed this year had a short loan spell with Fev, but never got to play for the first team.

In the current Fev squad are 4 players who played for Dewsbury. They are John Davies, Macauley Hallett, James Lockwood and Jordan Tansey.