Brad Thorn

Bradley Carnegie Thorn (born 3 February 1975) is a New Zealand Australian rugby union coach and former rugby league and rugby union footballer. Born in New Zealand, he represented Australia in rugby league and New Zealand in rugby union in a twenty-two year career as a player, starting at age nineteen and finishing at age forty-one. He was the head coach of the Australian Super Rugby Pacific team, the Queensland Reds. Thorn is their second longest-serving coach in history and their longest serving coach in the professional era.

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Brad Thorn

Personal information
Full name	Bradley Carnegie Thorn
Born	(1975-02-03) 3 February 1975 (age 49) Mosgiel, Otago, New Zealand
Playing information
Height	195 cm (6 ft 5 in)[1]
Weight	114 kg (17 st 13 lb)[1]
Rugby league
Position	Second-row, Prop
Club Years Team Pld T G FG P 1994–00 Brisbane Broncos 130 22 0 0 88 2005–07 Brisbane Broncos 70 10 0 0 40 Total 200 32 0 0 128 Representative Years Team Pld T G FG P 1996–05 Queensland 11 1 0 0 4 1997 Queensland (SL) 3 0 0 0 0 1997 Australia (SL) 5 1 0 0 4 1998 Australia 3 2 0 0 8
Rugby union
Position	Lock
Club Years Team Pld T G FG P 2001–04, 08–11 Crusaders 92 11 0 0 55 2001–04, 08–10 Canterbury 30 4 0 0 20 2008 Tasman 1 0 0 0 0 2011–12 Sanix Blues 10 0 0 0 0 2012 Leinster 8 0 0 0 0 2013–14 Highlanders 16 1 0 0 5 2014–15 Leicester 12 1 0 0 5 2016 Queensland Country 2 0 0 0 0 Total 171 17 0 0 85 Representative Years Team Pld T G FG P 2003–11 New Zealand 59 4 0 0 20
Coaching information
Club Years Team Gms W D L W% 2017–2018 Queensland Country 10 8 0 2 80 2018–2023 Queensland Reds 93 42 1 50 45 Total 103 50 1 52 49
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Thorn played rugby league for the Brisbane Broncos in the Australian National Rugby League (NRL) competition for a total of ten seasons in two spells, and represented Queensland in the State of Origin series. He played eight times for Australia – five for the Kangaroos, and three games for the Super League Australia team. His preferred position in rugby league was in the second-row, though he was equally effective as a prop. In 2000 Thorn was awarded the Australian Sports Medal for his contribution to Australia's international standing in rugby league.

He first moved to rugby union in 2001 and, over two spells in the sport, became one of the most successful rugby union players. A lock, he was the first player to win a World Cup, a Super Rugby title and the Heineken Cup, despite only moving to the sport in his mid-twenties.^[5] He won fifty-nine international caps for New Zealand, and was part of the team that won the 2011 Rugby World Cup. Thorn holds the world record for the oldest player to play in the final of a World Cup match and win it, aged 36 years, 262 days vs France 23 October 2011.