Dan Lydiate
 |
|||||||||||||||||
| Full name | Danny John Lydiate | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 18 December 1987 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Salford, England | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 112 kg (247 lb; 17 st 9 lb) | ||||||||||||||||
| Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||
| Playing career | |||||||||||||||||
| Position | Flanker | ||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||
| Professional / senior clubs | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
|
2008–2009 2013–2014 |
Ebbw Vale Pontypool Racing Métro |
4 19 |
(0) (0) |
| Provincial/State sides | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| 2007–2013 2014– |
NG Dragons Ospreys |
85 24 |
(15) (5) |
|
Correct as of 7 May 2016
|
|||
| National team(s) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
|
2009– 2013 |
Wales U20 Wales British and Irish Lions |
60 3 |
(5) (0) |
|
Correct as of 26 November 2016
|
|||
Dan Lydiate (born 18 December 1987) is a Wales international rugby union player. A flanker, Lydiate was raised in Llandrindod Wells and is a product of the Newport Gwent Dragons academy.
The younger of two sons born to English docker John Lydiate at Hope Hospital, their Welsh mother Lynne raised them in Salford, Greater Manchester. After their father suffered an injury, the family moved to Llandrindod Wells when Dan was aged 4, so that their father could work on his father-in-law's 202-hectare (500-acre) sheep farm in the Cambrian Mountains. Older brother Jack represented Wales colleges at rugby. Dan and Jack have two older brothers John (also born at Hope Hospital) and Steven and an older sister Gillian from their father's first marriage.
He was an ever present member of the Wales Under 20 back row along with Lewis Evans and James Harris for their Six Nations campaign in 2006/7 and progressed to the Dragons senior side at the end of that season. Early in the 2007/08 season he suffered a serious neck injury in the Heineken Cup Group match away to Perpignan which ruled him out for the rest of the season, with doubts raised as to whether or not he would ever play again.
On 25 October 2009 Lydiate was named in the Wales national squad for the November 2009 international series, making his debut as a second-half replacement against Argentina on 21 November 2009. Following the withdrawal of captain Ryan Jones from the Wales squad to face Australia in the final Autumn International, Lydiate made his first test match start at flanker on 28 November 2009. He was named in the Wales squad for the 2010 Six Nations Championship, however did not play a single game. He then broke into the Welsh first XV in the autumn internationals of that year, starting against Australia, New Zealand and Fiji as well as being named in the team to face South Africa before withdrawing with a calf injury. He won the Man of the Match award against the Fijians, where he wore the Number 7 jersey for the first time.
...
Wikipedia