Brian Smith (rugby league)

Brian Smith

Personal information
Full name	Brian Smith
Born	14 March 1954 (1954-03-14) (age 56)
Playing information
Club
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
1974	St. George	14	1	0	0	4
1975–79	South Sydney	17	0	0	0	0
	Total	31	1	0	0	4
Coaching information
Club
Years	Team	Gms	W	D	L	W%
1984–87	Illawarra Steelers	96	32	0	64	33
1988–90	Hull FC
1991–95	St George Dragons	118	69	3	46	58
1996	Bradford Bulls	22	17	0	5	77
1997–06	Parramatta Eels	244	138	7	99	57
2007–09	Newcastle Knights	48	21	0	27	44
2010–	Sydney Roosters	0	0	0	0
	Total	528	277	10	241	52
Representative
Years	Team	Gms	W	D	L	W%
2001–03	Country	2	1	0	1	50

Brian Smith (born 14 March 1954) is an Australian coach and former player of rugby league football. He played for St. George and South Sydney Rabbitohs (1975-1979), appearing in a total of 31 first grade games. However, Smith is best known as a coach, having been at the helm of Illawarra Steelers, where he took over for the 1985 season,^[1] before moving to Hull FC, St. George Dragons, Bradford, Parramatta Eels and, most recently, at the Newcastle Knights. He is the older brother of former England national team coach, Tony Smith and is father of Rohan Smith the coach of Tonga.^[2][3]

Contents 1 Playing career 2 Coaching career 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Playing career

In the NSWRL competition, Smith played 14 first grade games for St. George in 1974, and 17 games for the South Sydney Rabbitohs (1975-1979), appearing in a total of 31 first grade games.

[edit] Coaching career

Smith began coaching in 1978, coaching the Newtown Jets under-23's team. He then joined the South Sydney Rabbitohs in 1980, also as under-23's coach. He stayed there until the end of 1981.

Smith began coaching first grade rugby league in the NSWRL competition in 1984, where he became coach of the Illawarra Steelers, where he remained until the end of 1987 season. From 1988 until 1990, he was coach of Hull FC in England's Super League. He returned to Australia to coach the St George Dragons from 1991 until 1995. He returned to England for one year (in 1996) to coach the Bradford, before returning to Australia where he stayed since. From 1997 until mid 2006, Smith coached the Parramatta Eels, becoming the longest serving coach for the club. He joined the Newcastle Knights In 2007, and left mid 2009. He is signed to coach for the Sydney Roosters in 2010.

He resigned as coach of the Parramatta Eels on 15 May 2006, with assistant coach Jason Taylor taking over as caretaker coach for the remainder of the season.

Smith had a short spell with the Bradford Bulls in an advisory role during the summer of 2006.

In 2007, Smith took up coaching duties with the Newcastle Knights. On Saturday, 18th of July, 2009, Brian Smith has signed a deal for 2010 with the Sydney Roosters and is seeking a release from his present club the Newcastle Knights.^[4] On 15 August 2009 Smith quit the Knights effective immediately, with understudy Rick Stone to act as caretaker coach for the remainder of the season.

He is the older brother of former Great Britain and Warrington coach Tony Smith.

Finals coaching record in Australian Rugby League

Coach of Illawarra

1984 Did not make finals

1985 Did not make finals

1986 Did not make finals

1987 Did not make finals

Coach of St George

1991 Did not make finals

1992 Major Preliminary Semi 06-Sep-1992 Lost

Minor Semi 2-Sep-1992 Won

Preliminary Final 20-Sep-1992 Won

Grand Final 27-Sep-1992 Lost

1993 Major Preliminary Semi 04-Sep-1993 Won

Major Semi 12-Sep-1993 Won

Grand Final 26-Sep-1993 Lost

1994 Did not make finals

1995 Quarter Final 02-Sep-1995 Lost

Coach of Parramatta

1997 Minor Qualifying Final 07-Sep-1997 Lost

Major Qualifying Final 13-Sep-1997 Lost

1998 Major Preliminary Semi 29-Aug-1998 Won

Major Semi 06-Sep-1998 Won

Final 20-Sep-1998 Lost (after leading 18-0)

1999 Qualifying Final 04-Sep-1999 Won

Preliminary Final 18-Sep-1999 Lost

2000 Qualifying Final 05-Aug-2000 Won

Semi Final 12-Aug-2000 Won

Preliminary Final 20-Aug-2000 Lost

2001 Qualifying Final 09-Sep-2001 Won

Preliminary Final 23-Sep-2001 Won

Grand Final 30-Sep-2001 Lost

2002 Qualifying Final 14-Sep-2002 Lost

2003 Did not make finals

2004 Did not make finals

2005 Qualifying Final 11-Sep-2005 Won

Preliminary Final 25-Sep-2005 Lost

2006 Parramatta resigned mid season.

Coach of Newcastle

2007 Began coaching Newcastle. Did not make finals

2008. Did not make finals

2009 left Newcastle mid season.

2010 Went to the Sydney Roosters, results pending but promising.

Grand Finals: Hull 1988-89 (lost to Widnes), St George 1992 (lost to Brisbane), St George 1993 (lost to Brisbane), Parramatta 2001 (lost to Newcastle). Winning Perecentage 0%

No club has ever won a first grade Australian NSWRL/ARL/NRL premiership, or English Rugby League/Super League Championship, during or after Brian Smith has coached the said Club in any grade.

Representative teams coached:

• Country — 2001-03

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Sydney Roosters profile
• Newcastle Knights profile

Preceded by Allan Fitzgibbon 1982 - 1983	Coach Illawarra Steelers 1984-1987	Succeeded by Terry Fearnley 1988
Preceded by Craig Young 1989-1990	Coach St. George Dragons 1991-1995	Succeeded by David Waite 1996-1998
Preceded by Peter Fox	Coach Bradford Bulls 1995-1996	Succeeded by Matthew Elliott
Preceded by Ron Hilditch 1993-1996	Coach Parramatta Eels 1997-2006	Succeeded by Jason Taylor 2006-?
Preceded by Michael Hagan 2001-2006	Coach Newcastle Knights 2007-2009	Succeeded by Rick Stone 2009-

v • d • e Sydney Roosters - current squad Captain: Anasta • Arona • J. Aubusson • M. Aubusson • Baitieri • Blair • Carney • Cherrington • Conn • Cordner • du Plessis • Fepuleai • Foran • Ford • Graham • Guerra • Jones • Kennedy • Kenny-Dowall • Kouparitsas • Leilua • Linnett • Masoe • Minichiello • Myles • Naughton • Nu'uausala • Paea • Pearce • Perrett • Ryles • Symonds • Takairangi • Towers • Tuigamala • Waerea-Hargreaves • Coach: Smith

v • d • e Bradford Bulls coaches Dai Rees (1936–60) · Trevor Foster (1960–61) · Doug Greenall (1961) · Jimmy Ledgard (1961–62) · Harry Beverley (1962–63) · Jack Wilkinson (1963) · Gus Risman (1964–71) · Harry Street (1971–72) · Ian Brooke (1973–75) · Roy Francis (1975–77) · Peter Fox (1977–85) · Barry Seabourne (1985–89) · David Hobbs (1989–89) · Ron Willey (1989–90) · David Hobbs (1990–93) · Peter Fox (1993–95) · Brian Smith (1995–96) · Matthew Elliott (1996–2000) · Brian Noble (2001–06) · Steve McNamara (2006–)