William Lloyd (rugby union)

William Lloyd
Personal information
Full name	William Lloyd
Nickname	Will
Born	(1990-05-14) 14 May 1990 Auckland, New Zealand
Height	2.03 m (6 ft 8 in)
Weight	113 kg (17 st 11 lb)
School(s) attended	Orewa College
Club information
Playing position	Lock
Current club	London Irish
Youth career
	Auckland Marist Old Boys Silverdale RFC
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Pts)^†
2014–	Auckland	14	(0)
2015	Blues	3	(0)
2015–	London Irish	11	(0)
* Senior club appearances and points correct as of 7 May 2016. † Appearances (Points).

William Lloyd (born 14 May 1990) is a New Zealand rugby union player who currently plays as a lock for London Irish in the Green King IPA Championship.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Career

Lloyd played his junior rugby in the North Harbour region but moved over the bridge to Auckland in 2012 and played his club rugby with Auckland Marist.^[1] He was called up by the Blues ahead of the 2014 Super Rugby season to train as an apprentice in the absence of the injured Culum Retallick, however he was unable to win a full-time contract.^[4] He was subsequently part of the Auckland side for the 2014 ITM Cup and made 7 appearances which duly convinced the Blues to include him in their wider training group for 2015.^[5]

Lloyd signed for London Irish for the remainder of the 2015/2016 Aviva Premiership season in early December. Lloyd said in a statement "Moving to London Irish presents me with a great opportunity to continue to play in one of the toughest leagues in the world. The facilities at Hazelwood are first class and there is a real ambition to push on in the competition. I’m delighted to be here and I’m looking forward to getting started.".^[6]

On March 1, 2016 it was announced that Lloyd had signed a two-year contract extension which would see him remain at London Irish until the end of the 2017-18 season.^[7]

References

London Irish squad

Forwards	Mike Coman Blair Cowan Tom Court Sebastian de Chaves Gerard Ellis Ben Franks Conor Gilsenan Todd Gleave Jason Harris-Wright Danny Hobbs-Awoyemi Ollie Hoskins Will Lloyd Luke Narraway Max Northcote-Green David Paice Richard Palframan Dave Porecki George Robson Jerry Sexton Jebb Sinclair Tom Smallbone Joe Trayfoot Ofisa Treviranus

Backs	Darren Allinson Tommy Bell Theo Brophy-Clews Tom Fowlie Ciaran Hearn Alex Lewington James Marshall Brendan McKibbin Fergus Mulchrone Topsy Ojo Ben Ransom Scott Steele Asaeli Tikoirotuma Greig Tonks Johnny Williams

Coach	Nick Kennedy

1 2 "William Lloyd Auckland Player Profile". Auckland Rugby. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
↑ "William Lloyd itsrugby.co.uk Player Statistics". itsrugby.co.uk. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
↑ "William Lloyd ESPN Scrum Player Profile". ESPN Scrum. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
↑ "Blues on the hunt for top lock". TVNZ. 14 January 2014. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
↑ "Blues 2015 Squad Naming" (PDF). All Blacks.com. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
↑ http://www.london-irish.com/news/london-irish-sign-will-lloyd-from-auckland/bp602/
↑ "London Irish re-sign Scott Steele and Will Lloyd". Premieship Rugby. Retrieved 1 March 2016.

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