John Stainburn

John Stainburn (birth unknown), also known by the nickname of "Ginger Whippet", is a former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s, and coached in the 1990s. He played at club level for Shaw Cross Sharks ARLFC, Batley, and Batley Victoria ARLFC, as a left-footed goal-kicking scrum-half, i.e. number 7,[1] and coached at club level for Batley Victoria ARLFC.

John Stainburn
Personal information
Full nameJohn Stainburn
Playing information
PositionScrum-half
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
≤1983–≥93 Batley
Source: [1][2]

Testimonial Match

John Stainburn's Testimonial match at Batley took place in 1993.

Contemporaneous Article Extract

"John Stainburn Scrum-half. A product of the prolific Heavy Woollen Amateurs (Shaw Cross ARLFC), nuggety scrum-half Stainburn has some memorable performances at Mount Pleasant to his name, although he struggled to hold a regular first team place in 1990-91. The previous season he played 33 senior games for Batley, kicking 42 goals, six drops and scoring one try." [3]

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gollark: That's one of those stupid "balance"y proverbs.
gollark: WRONG!
gollark: This seems like more of an argument against killing existing ones than against not having new ones?
gollark: If your children are less likely to do well, just have more of them to increase the probability of one being well off or something? Or so you can have lots of them support you a bit in old age.

References
  1. "Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org". rugbyleagueproject.org. 31 December 2018. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
  2. "Coach Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org". rugbyleagueproject.org. 31 December 2018. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
  3. Merlin (1 August 1991). The Official Rugby league Collection (Card 136 of 160). Merlin. ISBN n/a
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