Tommy Bishop (born 15 October 1940 in St Helens, Lancashire) is an English former rugby league footballer and coach of the 1960s and 70s. He played for the St. Helens rugby football club in the English Rugby League Championship and the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in the New South Wales Rugby League competition in Australia. He also represented Great Britain on several occasions during his career, captaining them on two occasions, his position of c...
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Tommy Bishop (born 15 October 1940 in St Helens, Lancashire) is an English former rugby league footballer and coach of the 1960s and 70s. He played for the St. Helens rugby football club in the English Rugby League Championship and the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in the New South Wales Rugby League competition in Australia. He also represented Great Britain on several occasions during his career, captaining them on two occasions, his position of choice was at half-back. Now long retired from competitive rugby league Bishop now resides at Robina on the Gold Coast, Australia.
He originally played for St. Helens club in the 1968 and '69 seasons. Before that he had started his professional playing career at Blackpool Borough where he became club captain and Player of the Year before being transferred to Barrow and then to St. Helens.
Bishop was bought in by the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks for the next few years (1969-1974) which was somewhat the norm for Australian clubs to bring in British...
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