2021 Shirt
FIRST TEAM SQUAD
LAST TIME OUT
Head Coach: Craig Lingard
This is Craig Lingard’s second season as head coach of Batley, having taken over in 2020 from Matt Diskin who moved to take over in charge of newly promoted Oldham. Craig has previously been head coach at Keighley from 2017 to May 2019 and he started his career at Bramley Buffaloes where he was head coach in 2012.
Although this will be only his 9th game as Batley coach he is far from being a stranger at Mount Pleasant! Before taking over as coach he was the head of Batley’s community team and his entire playing career (1998-2008), mostly as a fullback, was at Batley. In total he played 205 games and scored 142 tries which remains as Batley’s all-time career try scoring record. He was also for some time the assistant coach at Batley
He was so highly regarded that the terrace opposite the ground entrance was named ‘The Craig Lingard Terrace’.
Star Man: Tom Gilmore
Tom Gilmore made his professional début with his hometown club, Widnes Vikings, in 2012 and remained with them until the end of 2019. While there he also had loan spells with North Wales Crusaders (2014) and London Broncos (2015). In 2020 he signed for Halifax. With the Championship suspended, Salford took him on loan to play a couple of games.
He has played all his games at halfback and League Express named him as their Batley Man of the Match last week.
New Signings for 2021
The Fev connection
There is a long history of players who have played for both Batley and Fev.
There is also a Fev connection with the Batley coach, Craig Lingard, who is related to some former Fev players and Craig himself played for Travellers Saints as a youngster.
Nyle Flynn is the son of Adrian Flynn who played for Fev in 2003 and then for Batley in 2004 and 2005.
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