Matt Banahan

Matt Banahan
Matt Banahan
Personal information
Full name Matthew Andrew Banahan
Date of birth 30 December 1986 (1986-12-30) (age 24)
Place of birth St Helier, Jersey
Height 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in)
Weight 116 kg (18 st 4 lb) [1]
Club information
Position(s) Wing/Centre
Current club Bath
Youth clubs
Years Club
London Irish
Bath United
Senior clubs*
Years Club Apps (points)
2006– Bath 99 (235)
Representative teams**
2008–
2009–
England Saxons
England
3 (25)
16 (20)
Sevens National teams**
England

* Professional club appearances and points
counted for domestic first grade only.
** Representative team caps and points correct
as of 25 October 2011.

Matthew Andrew Banahan (born 30 December 1986 in Jersey) is a Jerseyman who plays rugby union for Bath in the Aviva Premiership and England in international rugby union. His main position is wing, and he can also operate as an outside centre.

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Early life

Banahan grew up playing field hockey, earning selection to the Jersey and West of England junior representative sides before he decided his hockey career was stalled and switching to rugby union.[2] Banahan went to La Moye school and Les Quennevais School.

Club career

Banahan moved to Bath, after previously appearing for the London Irish Academy and was brought to the Recreation Ground as a lock.[3]

Banahan joined Bath Rugby from the London Irish Academy in the summer of 2006. The giant wing, took up rugby after deciding that he was not going to get any further in his hockey career (he had represented Jersey and the West of England). He has also been involved with the RFU’s Junior National Academy set-up and, England's sevens set up.

Unsurprisingly given his physical attributes, he started as a lock but switched to wing where his powerful combination of size, strength and speed made him a potent weapon in the Bath United and Development sides, for whom he scored ten tries in fourteen games last season.

Quickly promoted to the first team from the Academy set up, Banahan made 26 first grade appearances and finished the 2007/08 season as the club’s top try scorer (16) and the Guinness Premiership regular season’s second highest (10) behind Leicester’s Tom Varndell (13).

International career

Banahan was selected for the "wider" England Sevens squad in the 2007-08 IRB Sevens World Series, which refers to a pool of players who supplement the 11 core squad members. As a member of the wider squad, he was eligible for selection for up to four of the eight events in the tournament.[2] He was also selected for the England Saxons squad to play in the 2008 Churchill Cup.[4] He celebrated his Saxons debut by scoring a hat trick in a 64–10 victory over the USA in the opening round. He then scored two tries against Ireland A and one in the final against Scotland A.

Banahan played for England on Saturday 30 May 2009 against the Barbarians at Twickenham in an uncapped game where he scored a try. He was called up to the England squad for their summer tour replacing David Strettle who was ruled out through injury. He made his full England debut on 6 June 2009 in a comfortable win over Argentina at Old Trafford where he also scored a try and was named 'Man of the Match'. He retained his place for England's 2009 Autumn series against Australia, Argentina and New Zealand, and scored his third international try in the win against Argentina.

Banahan made his first start in the centre for England during their 2010 Autumn series, playing at outside centre in the game versus Samoa on 20 November 2010. He scored a try when England were trailing 6–8, and set up England's second through an intercepted pass.[5] On the back of this performance, he was named on the bench for England's final game of 2010 against South Africa.[6]

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