Will Green (rugby union)

For the California pioneer, see Will S. Green.

Birth name	William Robert Green
Date of birth	(1973-10-25) 25 October 1973 (age 51)
Place of birth	Littlehampton, West Sussex, England
Height	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	256 lb (18 st 4 lb)[1]
Rugby union career
Position(s) Prop Current team Retired Senior career Years Team Apps (Points) 1995–2005 2005–2007 Wasps Leinster 164 44 (45) (10) International career Years Team Apps (Points) 1997–2003 England 4 (0)

William Robert Green (born 25 October 1973 in Littlehampton) is a retired rugby union footballer who played at prop for Wasps and Leinster.

Club career

Green began his career at Wasps, making his debut in 1995[2] and remained there until 2005. Whilst at Wasps he won the Heineken Cup in 2004,[3] the Challenge Cup in 2003[4] and the domestic Anglo-Welsh Cup (currently known as the LV Cup) in 1999[5] and 2000.[6] He was also part of the Wasps team which won the Premiership in 1996/97[7] and a further hat-trick of Premiership titles in 2003,[8] 2004[9] and 2005.[10] In the summer of 2005 he joined Leinster[11] where he remained until his retirement from the game in 2007.[12]

International career

Green had previously played for various England youth teams alongside the likes of Will Greenwood, Matt Dawson, Simon Shaw and Richard Hill.[13] After making his England debut against Australia in November 1997, Green went on to make 4 appearances for the national team. He was considered an outside candidate to be part of Clive Woodward's ultimately victorious 2003 Rugby World Cup winning squad.[14] However, he was overlooked in the end, despite getting his 4th and final cap against Wales in one of England's warm up games prior to the World Cup,[1] and being in the wider 43-man squad.[15]

Honours

• English Champions titles: 4
  • 1996/97, 2002/03, 2003/04, 2004/05
• RFU Tetley's Bitter Cup & Powergen Cup / Powergen Anglo Welsh Cup titles: 2
  • 1998/99, 1999/2000
• Heineken Cup titles: 1
  • 2003/04
• Parker Pen Challenge Cup titles: 1
  • 2002/03

References

1. "Will Green". ESPNscrum. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
2. "Will Green Exclusive Interview". rugbynetwork.net. 17 July 2003. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
3. "Wasps rule Europe after sting of all stings". The Guardian. London. 24 May 2004. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
4. "Bath Rugby 30 v 48 London Wasps". ercrugby.com. 25 May 2003. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
5. "Wasps win Cup at last". BBC. 16 May 1999. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
6. "Wasps deny Saints cup double". BBC. 13 May 2000. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
7. "London Wasps Squad 1996/1997". wasps.co.uk. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
8. "Melville rails against loss of title deeds". The Guardian. London. 2 June 2003. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
9. "Double-up Wasps are seven-day wonders". The Guardian. London. 31 May 2004. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
10. "Will o' the Wasps proves too tough for Tigers". The Guardian. London. 15 May 2005. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
11. "Green leaving Wasps for Leinster". BBC. 14 April 2005. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
12. "Leinster sign Le Roux and Gomez". BBC. 15 May 2007. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
13. "Rugby Union: A prop for the hard places". The Independent. London. 1 November 1998.
14. "Woodward eyes World Cup options". BBC. 22 July 2003. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
15. "Woodward names squad". The Daily Telegraph. London. 9 July 2003. Retrieved 12 March 2012.

External links

• Will Green at ESPNscrum