Hugh McMeniman

Hugh McMeniman
Rugby union career

Full name	Hugh McMeniman
Date of birth	(1983-11-01) 1 November 1983
Place of birth	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Height	2.00 m (6 ft 6 ¹⁄₂ in)
Weight	114 kg (17 st 13 lb)
School	St. Joseph's Nudgee College Warwick West
University	Queensland University of Technology
Notable relative(s)	Clare McMeniman (sister)
Playing career
Position	Lock / Flanker
Professional / senior clubs
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
2010–11 2014–	Kubota Spears Honda Heat	4 2	(5) (0)
correct as of 23 July 2016.
Super Rugby
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
2005–09 2013–14	Reds Force	30 13	(0) (0)

correct as of 13 July 2013.
National team(s)
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
2005- 2005 2001	Australia Australia A Australian Schoolboys	22 5	(0) (0)
correct as of 18 August 2013.

Hugh McMeniman (born 1 November 1983 in Brisbane) is an Australian rugby union footballer. He currently plays for Western Force in Super Rugby and has played for Australia. His favoured position is blindside flanker but he can also play lock.

Domestic career

McMeniman made his Super 12 debut for the Queensland Reds in 2005 in a match against the Hurricanes. That season he played nine games at lock and one at blindside flanker. In 2009, McMeniman signed a two-year contract with Japanese side Kubota Spears. In 2013, he returned to Australia to play for the Western Force. However, on 24 February, it was announced that he would leave the Force at the end of the 2014 season to join Japanese club Honda Heat on a two-year stint.^[1]

International career

Following a strong debut Super 12 season, McMeniman was selected for the Wallabies team for a match against Samoa that year in Sydney, the same game Rocky Elsom debuted in. He went on to be included in the subsequent matches against Italy in Melbourne and France in Brisbane. He was elevated into the starting lineup for end of year tests against England, Ireland and Wales. He was then selected to go on the 2006 spring tour of the UK and Italy, but eight minutes into the first match against club side Ospreys he hyper extended his neck. In 2007 he played two Tri Nations test matches against South Africa and New Zealand, he then was selected in the 2007 Rugby World Cup, where he played pool matches against Japan, Fiji, Canada where he went over twice but both were refused by the referee. He also played in the Quarter Final against England where the Wallabies lost 12-10.

References

↑ More Australian talent heading overseas as Hugh McMeniman decides on stint in Japan

External links

Honda Heat squad

Forwards	Youji Akiyama Goki Amano Shunya Goto Kousuke Hattori Yutaro Kamada Wataru Kanemoto Akito Kawamata Hiroto Kawasaki Manabu Kawazoe Ryota Kobayashi Salesi Manu Masayoshi Marumi Hugh McMeniman Kiminori Moto Koji Nakata Tomohiro Nishigaki Tomasi Soqeta Deon Stegmann Koshida Syouri Shota Takizawa Takashi Tanaka Atsushi Tsukamoto Finau Tupa Itsuki Watanabe

Backs	Takahiro Furuya Tomoyuki Harashima Mali Hingano Digby Ioane Hisayoshi Itou Gu Jiyun Tetsuro Kamata Ryota Kayama Daisuke Konishi Lomano Lemeki Lelia Masaga Kaito Morikawa Ryo Morita Naoki Motomura Yushi Nakamura Yuta Nakarai Hiroto Nakata Paku Songi Takahito Takemaru Yuki Taniguchi Nobutaka Ubukata Kenta Yamaji Yang Young-hun Daiki Yasuoka

Coach	Tomoaki Fujimoto

Squads

Australia squad – 2007 Rugby World Cup

Forwards	Baxter Chisholm Dunning Elsom (vc) Freier Hardman Hoiles Holmes Lyons McMeniman Moore Palu Paul B. Robinson (injury replacement) Shepherdson Sharpe G. Smith Vickerman Waugh (vc)

Backs	Ashley-Cooper Barnes Cordingley Gerrard Giteau Gregan (vc) Huxley Larkham Latham Mitchell Mortlock (c) Staniforth Tuqiri

Coach	Connolly

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