Name Gordon Pritchard | Role Rugby league | |
Gordon Pritchard is a rugby union, and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s, and 1980s, playing club level rugby union (RU) for Cardiff RFC, and Newport RFC, as a Wing, and playing representative level rugby league (RL) for Wales, and at club level for Leeds, Bradford Northern, Barrow, Huddersfield (twice), Eastern Suburbs (Canterbury, New Zealand), and Cardiff City (Bridgend) Blue Dragons, as a fullback, i.e. number 1, and coaching club level rugby union (RU) for Tondu RFC, and Caerphilly RFC.
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International honours
Gordon Pritchard won caps for Wales while at Barrow, and Cardiff City (Bridgend) Blue Dragons 1978…1981 1(3?)-caps + 2-caps (sub).
Club career
Pritchard played a season with the Eastern Suburbs club in the Canterbury Rugby League competition.
Note
Before the start of the 1984/85 season, Cardiff City Blue Dragons relocated from Ninian Park in Cardiff, to Coychurch Road Ground in Bridgend, and were renamed Bridgend Blue Dragons.