Ben Cockayne
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Personal information
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20 July 1983 Pontefract, Yorkshire, England |
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| Height | 5 ft 9 in (175 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 13 st 12 lb (88 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Playing information
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| Position | Fullback, Wing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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As of 22 March 2016
Source: RLP
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Ben Cockayne (born 20 July 1983 in Pontefract, England) is an English rugby league player. He plays for Hull Kingston Rovers in the Championship. He is also an assistant coach at his former amateur club, Normanton Knights.
Ben started his rugby league career with his local amateur club Normanton Knights. He had some trials with Super League sides such as Wakefield Trinity and Castleford. He was then given a chance to play for Doncaster in National League 1 on a trial basis by St. John Ellis who was then the coach of Doncaster.
After impressing for Doncaster, especially against Hull Kingston Rovers in 2005 at Craven Park, Cockayne signed for Hull Kingston Rovers whilst they were in National League One. During the 2006 season, Cockayne was a first team regular in the squad, playing 29 games and helping his side to promotion by scoring 27 tries. He came second in the ranks for top try-scorer for Hull Kingston Rovers in 2006, and was Man-of-the-Match in the Robins' memorable game that saw them be promoted to Super League.
In the 2006 season, Hull Kingston Rovers won the Rugby League National League One competition and were promoted to the Super League competition for the 2007 season.
Hull Kingston Rovers played their opening Super League match on 10 February 2007 against Wakefield Trinity. The scores were level at eight-all when Jamie Rooney converted a drop goal in the final ten minutes of the match to give Trinity the lead by just one point. In the dying stages of the match, James Webster looked like he was going to attempt a drop goal but due to the pressure put onto him by the Wakefield Trinity defence, he passed the ball to Chris Chester. Chester then slipped the ball inside to Cockayne who ran through to score a try. There was no time left for Wakefield Trinity and on the opening game of the season Cockayne had scored a try that gave the Hull Kingston Rovers a fourteen to nine victory on their Super League début. He scored another try in Rovers' second match, a 17–10 away win at Huddersfield, and bolstered a sterling defensive display in Rovers' shock 26–16 away win at Wigan which made them joint top of the Super League.
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