Dean Sampson

Dean Sampson
Dean Sampson
Personal information
Nickname Deano, Diesel
Born June 27, 1967 (1967-06-27) (age 44)
wakefield, england
Height 6
Position Prop

Dean Sampson is a former Rugby League player for Castleford Tigers. Sampson played for Castleford from 1987 to 2002 when he retired. He was selected to go on the 1992 Great Britain Lions tour of Australia and New Zealand.

In the 1997 post season, Sampson was selected to play for Great Britain in the first match of the Super League Test series against Australia.

He came back in 2003 when Castleford went through an injury crisis. He scored on his comeback game against Warrington Wolves. He also played once more for Castleford in 2004 against Hull Dockers in the challenge cup. Overall Dean played 431 games for Castleford scoring 68 tries. Dean was a real fans favourite for Castleford and his name was often chanted by the home fans.

After retirement, Sampson became the club's academy coach and won the Junior academy championship in 2004. He left the club in 2005 and moved to Hull KR and became the assistant coach there. He left Hull KR after a brief period and stayed out of the game for a while.

Sampson has rejoined Castleford for the 2009 Super League season and will be the club's academy coach once again.

Honoured at Castleford Tigers

Dean Sampson is a Tigers Hall Of Fame Inductee.[1]

References

  1. ^ "Hall of Fame at castigers.com". castigers. 2008-12-31. https://castigers.powweb.com/cgi-bin/halloffame.cgi. Retrieved 2009-01-01. 

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