1. Gareth Edward Widdop was born on 12 March 1989 and is an English professional rugby league footballer who plays as a stand-off or fullback for the Halifax Panthers in the RFL Championship.
33 Facts About Gareth Widdop
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Gareth Widdop won the 2012 NRL Grand Final with Melbourne and has played for the World All Stars.
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Gareth Widdop made 29 representative appearances for England, ranking as the side's second-highest points scorer, and made 4 appearances for Great Britain.
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Gareth Widdop was introduced to the Storm by Dean Lance, and was taken into the Storms Academy U18 program by Paul Bramley the High Performance Manager at the time, he went on to represent Victoria Under 18s team, and the Australian Affiliated U18 Schoolboys and he eventually signed for Melbourne Storm's Under 20s team.
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On 2 September 2009, Gareth Widdop was named on the interchange bench in the 2009 NYC Team of the Year.
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Gareth Widdop was named the Storms' NYC player of the year in 2009.
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Gareth Widdop was put back in the centres for his third and final appearance in 2010 for the Storm, the Round 25 clash against the Wests Tigers.
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On 9 September 2010, Gareth Widdop was named at five-eighth in the 2010 NSW Cup Team of the Year.
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Gareth Widdop finished his debut year in the NRL with him playing in 3 matches, scoring 1 try and kicking 3 goals for the Melbourne Storm in the 2010 NRL season.
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On 14 May 2011, Gareth Widdop re-signed with the Storm until the end of the 2013 season.
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Gareth Widdop appeared in 25 matches, scoring 2 tries, kicking 7 goals and kicking 1 field goal for the Melbourne Storm in the 2011 NRL season.
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Gareth Widdop finished the 2012 NRL season for the Storm playing in 25 matches, scoring 4 tries, and kicking 12 goals.
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On 19 April 2013, it was announced that Gareth Widdop had signed a four-year contract with the St George Illawarra Dragons starting in 2014.
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Gareth Widdop finished his last year with the Melbourne Storm with him playing in 16 matches, scoring 3 tries and kicking 3 goals in the 2013 NRL season.
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Gareth Widdop finished off his first year with the St George Illawarra Dragons as the club's highest point scorer with 137 points from 3 tries, 61 goals and 3 field goals, and played in all of the Dragons 24 matches.
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Gareth Widdop finished the 2015 NRL season as the club's highest tryscorer and point scorer with him scoring 182 points in 24 matches, from 9 tries and 73 goals.
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Gareth Widdop made 22 appearances for St George in 2018 as the club qualified for the finals for the first time since 2015 finishing 7th at the end of the regular season although the saints lead the competition earlier on in the year.
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Gareth Widdop had only just returned to the squad after dislocating the same shoulder a month prior against Parramatta.
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Gareth Widdop was ruled out of the following weeks elimination final against South Sydney.
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Gareth Widdop played a total of 15 games for Warrington in the 2022 Super League season as the club endured a difficult campaign finishing 11th.
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On 6 October 2022, it was confirmed that Gareth Widdop had signed for the Castleford Tigers on a two-year deal.
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Gareth Widdop played 21 games for Castleford in the Super League XXVIII season as the club finished 11th on the table narrowly avoiding relegation.
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On 18 October 2023, the Tigers announced that Gareth Widdop would depart the club by mutual consent, with Gareth Widdop later confirming his retirement from professional rugby league.
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On 23 December 2023, it was reported that Gareth Widdop would come out of retirement and sign for his hometown club Halifax to play in the RFL Championship in 2024.
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On 1 June 2010, Gareth Widdop received a surprise call-up into new England coach Steve McNamara's 19-man squad for the match against France on 12 June 2010.
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Gareth Widdop played in all 4 matches and scored a try in the tournament.
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Gareth Widdop featured in 3 matches and kicked a goal for England in the 2013 Rugby League World Cup.
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Gareth Widdop featured against Samoa, Australia and New Zealand in the group stages.
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Gareth Widdop scored in all three matches with six, two and one goals respectively.
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In October, Gareth Widdop was selected in the England squad for the 2016 Four Nations.
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Gareth Widdop was selected in England 9s squad for the 2019 Rugby League World Cup 9s.
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Gareth Widdop was selected in squad for the 2019 Great Britain Lions tour of the Southern Hemisphere.
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Gareth Widdop made his Great Britain test debut in the defeat by Tonga.