- Dan Lydiate
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Dan Lydiate Personal information Full name Daniel Lydiate Date of birth 18 December 1987 (23) Place of birth Salford, England Height 193 cm (6 ft 4 in) Weight 113 kg (17 st 11 lb)[1] Club information Position(s) flanker Current club Newport Gwent Dragons Youth clubs Years Club Ebbw Vale
PontypoolSenior clubs* Years Club Apps (points) 2006– Newport Gwent Dragons 65 (5) Representative teams** 2009– Wales 19 (0) * Professional club appearances and points
counted for domestic first grade only and
correct as of 19:58, 20 Nov 2011 (UTC).
** Representative team caps and points correct
as of 12:53, 21 Oct 2011 (UTC).Dan Lydiate (born 18 December 1987, Salford) is a Wales international rugby union player. A flanker, Lydiate was raised in Llandrindod Wells and is a product of the Newport Gwent Dragons academy. He was an ever present member of the Wales Under 20 back row along with Lewis Evans and James Harris for their Six Nations campaign in 2006/7 and progressed to the Dragons senior side at the end of that season. Early in the 2007/08 season he suffered a serious neck injury in the Heineken Cup Group match away to Perpignan which ruled him out for the rest of the season.[2][3][4]
On 25 October 2009 Lydiate was named in the Wales national squad for the November 2009 international series, making his debut as a second half replacement against Argentina on 21 November 2009.[5] Following the withdrawal of captain Ryan Jones from the Wales squad to face Australia in the final Autumn International, Lydiate made his first test match start at flanker on 28 November 2009.[6] He was named in the Wales squad for the 2010 Six Nations Championship, however did not play a single game.
In August 2011 he was named in the Wales squad for the 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand. [7]
References
- ^ "Bio information on club website". http://www.newportgwentdragons.com/personnel.aspx?pr=181383.
- ^ Perpignan 23–19 Dragons – BBC Sport
- ^ Lydiate dreaming of Wales debut – BBC Sport
- ^ Dan Lydiate set to cap remarkable comeback – Wales Online
- ^ Wales 33–16 Argentina – BBC Sport
- ^ Wales hit by captain Jones injury – BBC Sport
- ^ "Wales 2011 Rugby World Cup squad". BBC Sport. 22 August 2011. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/rugby_union/welsh/14608533.stm. Retrieved 22 August 2011.
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