Jordan Turner

Jordan Turner (born 9 January 1989) is an English professional rugby league footballer who plays as a centre, second-row or loose forward for the Castleford Tigers in the Super League and the England Knights at international level.

Jordan Turner
Personal information
Born (1989-01-09) 9 January 1989
Oldham, Greater Manchester, England
Height6 ft 2 in (188 cm)[1]
Weight16 st 7 lb (105 kg)[1]
Playing information
PositionCentre, Loose forward, Stand-off, Second-row
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
2007–09 Salford City Reds 69 24 15 0 22
2010–12 Hull F.C. 72 34 0 0 136
2013–16 St Helens 117 45 13 3 209
2017–17 Canberra Raiders 0 0 0 0 0
2017–20 Huddersfield Giants 72 10 0 0 32
2021– Castleford Tigers 0 0 0 0 0
Total 330 113 28 3 399
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
2012 England Knights 2 2 9 0 26
2017 World All Stars 1 0 0 0 0
As of 7 July 2019
Source: [2][3][4]

He previously played for the Salford City Reds, Hull F.C. and St Helens in the Super League. He spent time with the Canberra Raiders in the NRL, earning a place in the World All Stars team in 2017.

Background

Turner was born in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. He attended the Radclyffe School.

His mother was born in Wollongong in Australia while his grandparents are Jamaican.[5]

Playing career

Salford City Reds

Turner first joined Salford City Reds at the age of 14 from his amateur club Waterhead A.R.L.F.C. (in Waterhead, Greater Manchester, Oldham). He captained the England Under-18s team and was voted Academy Player and Young Player of the Year in 2007, before establishing himself in the Salford City Reds' first team for 2 seasons.

Turner playing for Hull F.C. in 2010

Hull

Turner joined Hull F.C. from Salford City Reds at the start of the 2010 season. The sought after signing is hoping for some successful years to come with Hull F.C. and has enjoyed runs at centre and stand-off since throwing on the black and white jersey. Twice in 2012 Turner played for the England Knights team. In July 2012, Turner signed a 2-year contract with St. Helens starting from 2013 season.[6]

St. Helens

Turner was voted St Helens Player of the Season for 2013.

After 9 consecutive wins in the 2014 season (1 in the Challenge Cup) the Saints lost 2 consecutive games against Wigan Warriors and Widnes Vikings. Jordan was determined to make the club bounce back from two moral killer defeats. As of 24 April 2014, Jordan has scored three tries this season (all in the Super League) against Wigan, Catalans Dragons and Castleford Tigers.

St Helens reached the 2014 Super League Grand Final, and Turner was selected to play at loose forward in their 14-6 victory over the Wigan Warriors at Old Trafford.[7][8][9][10]

Canberra Raiders

On 14 July 2016 he signed with NRL club the Canberra Raiders for two seasons.[11]

Huddersfield Giants

On 26 May 2017, it was announced that Turner had signed for Super League side the Huddersfield Giants on a three and a half year contract.[12] He made his début on Sunday 4 June against Warrington Wolves, scoring a try in the side's 44-4 home win.

Castleford Tigers

It was announced in November 2020 that Turner had signed for Castleford Tigers on a 1-year deal[13]

References
  1. "Jordan Turner St Helens". www.superleague.co.uk. Rugby Football League. 2015. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
  2. loverugbyleague
  3. Rugby League Project stats
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 9 February 2010. Retrieved 28 December 2009.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. "NRL 2017: Canberra Raiders recruit Jordan Turner background heritage". Foxsports.com.au. 5 December 2016. Retrieved 9 October 2017.
  6. "Jordan Turner". 4 July 2012.
  7. "St Helens 14 Wigan Warriors 6: Moment of madness from Wales international Ben Flower costs Wigan dear". Daily Telegraph. 11 October 2014. Retrieved 15 October 2014.
  8. "St Helens win Grand Final after Wigan's Ben Flower is sent off". Guardian. 11 October 2014. Retrieved 15 October 2014.
  9. "St Helens 14–6 Wigan Warriors". BBC Sport. 11 October 2014. Retrieved 15 October 2014.
  10. Cartwright, Phil (11 October 2014). "St Helens v Wigan as it happened". BBC Sport. BBC. Retrieved 12 October 2014.
  11. "Raiders sign Jordan Turner". NRL.com. 15 July 2016. Retrieved 15 July 2016.
  12. "Huddersfield Giants". Giantsrl.com. Retrieved 9 October 2017.
  13. "Castleford Tigers raid Huddersfield Giants again for Jordan Turner". The Yorkshire Post. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
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