Double cross codes?

According to scrum.com, Craig Gower is going back to league, which got me thinking. How many other players have swapped codes twice? The only other that I can think of is Jonathan Davies.

JD went back to League after he retired from Union?

Didn't he go from union to league back to union?

Brad Thorn - League to Union to League to Union
Mat Rogers - Union (schoolboy IIRC) to League to Union to League

Utility-forward wrote:Didn't he go from union to league back to union?

Oh sorry I get it.

Well yes loads of Welsh boys did that. Dai Young, Scott Quinell, Alan Bateman, Adrian Hadley, Stuart Evans, Paul Moriarty, Jonathan Evans, Scott Gibbs, Richard Webster, John Deveraux, Kevin Phillips pretty much half the Wales 1988 Triple Crown team actually. They all started in Union left for League, then returned when Union went professional.

Though Iestyn Harries, started in League, came to Union, then went back to League.

Iestyn Harris did and also i think Jason Robinson played a few games for Bath while super league switched from a winter to summer sport.

Henry Paul is another who played for Bath during the summer switch and then went to union again and then back to league.

Ah. Well now I look really silly, I wasn't expecting that many to have done it!

Utility-forward wrote:Ah. Well now I look really silly, I wasn't expecting that many to have done it!

Don't feel bad your not old enough to remember the amateur days of Welsh rugby

Va’aiga Tuigamala is another also, he was poached from New Zealand Rugby, went to Wigan then back to Union and played for Samoa.

Lote Tuqiri. From league to union and now back in League.

Ryan Cross was a schoolboy Union player, made a name in league and is now back in Union.

Rod Davies. Union to league and back to union

Wendell Sailor, Karl Pryce and Chev Walker all went from League to Union and back to League.

Martin Offiah went from Union to League and back to union as did Alan Tait.

mpc28 wrote:Iestyn Harris did and also i think Jason Robinson played a few games for Bath while super league switched from a winter to summer sport.

Henry Paul is another who played for Bath during the summer switch and then went to union again and then back to league.

Gary Connelly and Robbie Paul did the same.

There were a few converts back in the 1920s too - RU issued an amnesty post WWI allowing anyone who'd switched to RL pre-war to return.

Lee Smith, although he was a failure at Wasps and not sure he actually got a start

Jarrod saffey,mark Gasnier, Wendell sailor...............

Mark Ellis went to league then went to orange boy- and made 17million from that one...

JK went to league then went back to coach rugby- nearly there.

That fella at wasps too that was married to Kirsty Gallagher.

Paul Sampson? Didn't he play for Wakefield too?

Ok, probably a better question then:

Did anyone not switch codes twice?

TheGreyGhost wrote:Ok, probably a better question then:

Did anyone not switch codes twice?

Well SBW hasn't yet....

Can't believe I forgot about Brian Carney. Played League for Gateshead/Hull, Wigan, Gold coast, Sydney and Great Britain, then played RU for Munster and Ireland before returning to League with Warrington(?).

Apolo Perrelini went from RU to ST Helens before moving to Sale.

Didn't Mark Cueto used to play RL?

Apparently Ali Lauitiiti may convert to union. He pretty sure played union as a schoolboy for Otahuhu College. I remember the team (huge).

blackcanelion wrote:Apparently Ali Lauitiiti may convert to union. He pretty sure played union as a schoolboy for Otahuhu College. I remember the team (huge).

He has signed for Wakefield in the Super League.

Jiffy,
Bateman
Gibbs
Quinnell

All went from Union to League then back to Union didn't they?

Well I like to call my black backless strappy number "the Cheryl" and my 4 inch killer Laboutin heels "the trip-traps".

Sorry fellas - I was searching on cross dressing codes, my bad.

Two doors down to the left pj...

I have.

Countnefarious wrote:I have.

Me too but I haven't played a game yet on my return to union but did some training, does that count?

Frano Botica did the switch back an fore thing didn't he?

blackcanelion wrote:Apparently Ali Lauitiiti may convert to union. He pretty sure played union as a schoolboy for Otahuhu College. I remember the team (huge).

You should of seen the Auckland U17 RL team he played in! I plated for Wellington and we had no idea who he was as everyone was talking about the million dollar kid..........Lesley Vainikolo (rumours of a massive offer from Wigan at the time) who was a massive lump even then and captain of the Auckland team. We planned to triple team big Les which worked but only as far as leaving acres of space for Ali to announce his arrival - he carved us up that day and was signed to the Warriors out of that tournament!