Steve McNamara

Steve McNamara
Personal information
Nickname	Macca
Born	(1971-09-18) 18 September 1971 Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England
Playing information
Position	Second-row, Loose forward
Club
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
1989–96	Hull F.C.	120	14	16	3	91
1996–00	Bradford Bulls	110	14	349	7	761
2000	Wakefield Trinity Wildcats	17	2	32	0	72
2001–03	Huddersfield Giants	50	3	133	1	279
	Total	297	33	530	11	1203
Representative
Years	Team	Pld	T	G	FG	P
1992–99	Great Britain	+4	0	0	0	0
Coaching information
Club
Years	Team	Gms	W	D	L	W%
2004–06	Bradford Bulls Academy
2006–10	Bradford Bulls	104
	Total	104	0	0	0	0
Representative
Years	Team	Gms	W	D	L	W%
2010–15	England	27	16	0	11	59
Source: ^[1]

Steve McNamara is an English professional rugby league football coach and former player. He is a Great Britain international player and a former coach of the England national team. Current he is an assistant coach at the New Zealand Warriors.

Early years

McNamara attended South Holderness Technology College in Preston, Hull.

Playing career

Hull

McNamara joined Hull from local amateur side Skirlaugh at the age of 17 and he was selected to go on the 1992 Great Britain Lions tour of Australia and New Zealand. McNamara won caps for Great Britain while at Hull in 1992 against France (sub), in 1993 against France (sub), won caps for England while at Hull in 1995 against Wales (sub), and France. He'd spent seven years with Hull, before moving to Bradford in 1996.

Bradford

While at Bradford in 1996 he also played for England against France.^[2] He played for Great Britain while at Bradford in 1997 against Australia (SL) (2 matches) (sub).^[3] McNamara played for Bradford Bulls at loose forward in the 1999 Super League Grand Final which was lost to St Helens RLFC. In 1999 he represented England against France (2 matches). At Bradford he was the main goal kicker and kicked over 319 goals.

Wakefield Trinity

McNamara was released from the Bulls in 2000 and joined Wakefield Trinity Wildcats (captain) (Heritage #1160). In 2000, at the height of a financial crisis at Wakefield Trinity, the contracts of all players aged over 24 were terminated during September 2000. The players affected were; Andy Fisher, Bobbie Goulding, Warren Jowitt, Tony Kemp (player-coach), Steve McNamara, Francis Maloney, Martin Masella, Steve Prescott, Bright Sodje, Francis Stephenson and Glen Tomlinson.^[4]

McNamara joined Huddersfield before joining the coaching staff at Odsal at the end of the 2003 season.

Coaching career

He coached the Bradford Senior Academy to Grand Final success in his first year as a coach at the club. Since joining the coaching staff at Bradford, he has been named as Bradford coach following the departure of Brian Noble. Bradford fans became increasingly frustrated with his team's lacklustre performances since taking over the reins in 2006 and following defeat by Harlequins RL (the 8th defeat in a row, the Bulls worst run in Super League history) his Bradford career came to an inglorious end as his contract was mutually terminated on 13 July 2010.

On 20 April 2006 Steve was promoted to head coach of Bradford^[5] following Brian Noble's departure to Wigan. At the time he was the youngest coach in Britain.

In his first season in charge, he guided Bradford to the Super League playoffs before the club were knocked out of the grand final eliminator by Hull

McNamara was appointed Great Britain assistant coach on 30 April 2007.

His coaching career while at Bradford contains several unwanted records, such as being the first Bradford coach in Super League to fail to guide his team to the end of season play-offs and being in charge for the worst losing streak the club has seen in 20 years.

His time as Bradford head coach came to an end on 13 July 2010 as the Bradford board ended his contract by mutual consent and allowed him to become full-time England coach.

As of April 2010 he was part-time England coach until the end of the 2010 Super League season. He became full-time England coach afterwards. He won his first game as England coach against France 60–6. This game was played at the Leigh Sporting Village on Saturday 12 June 2010.

He coached England to the 2013 Rugby League World Cup semi-final.

On 12 December 2013, McNamara was appointed the assistant coach of the 2013 National Rugby League (NRL) premiers the Sydney Roosters. The Roosters head coach Trent Robinson was looking for a new assistant coach because his previous assistant Paul Green took up the head coaching position of the North Queensland Cowboys.

He joined the New Zealand Warriors for the 2017 season.^[6]

Representative coaching record

Four Nations record
Year	Round	Position	GP	W	L	D
Australia/New Zealand 2010	Third place	3/4	3	1	2	0
England/Wales 2011	Second place	2/4	4	2	2	0
Australia/New Zealand 2014	Third place	3/4	3	1	2	0
Total	0 Titles	3/3	10	4	6	0

World Cup record
Year	Round	Position	GP	W	L	D
England/France/Ireland/Wales 2013	Third place	3/14	5	3	2	0
Total	0 Titles	1/1	5	3	2	0

International Origin
Year	Round	Position	GP	W	L	D
2011 match	Second place	2/2	1	0	1	0
2012 series	Second place	2/2	2	1	1	0
2013 match	Champions	1/2	1	1	0	0
Total	1 Title	3/3	4	2	2	0

Autumn International Series
Year	Round	Position	GP	W	L	D
2012 series	Champions	1/3	3	3	0	0
Total	1 Title	1/1	3	3	0	0

Other Test matches
Year	Round	Position	GP	W	L	D
2010^[7]	Winners	1/2	1	1	0	0
2015 vs France	Winners	1/2	1	1	0	0
2015 series vs NZL	Winners	1/2	3	2	1	0
Total	3 Wins	1/2	5	4	1	0

Overall record

	Coached	Won	Lost	Drawn	% Won
Total	27	16	11	0	59.26%

As of 14 November 2015

References

↑ http://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/coaches/Steve_McNamara/summary.html
↑ "England Statistics at englandrl.co.uk". englandrl. 31 December 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
↑ "Great Britain Statistics at englandrl.co.uk". englandrl. 31 December 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
↑ "Goodway calls for aid package". BBC. 24 April 2001. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
↑ "PMcNamara is Bulls new head coach". Bradford Bulls. 20 April 2006. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
↑ Media, NRL Digital. "McNamara confirmed as assistant coach".
↑ http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2010/jun/12/england-france-rugby-league

External links

England squad – 2010 Rugby League Four Nations

Morley (c) Atkins T. Briscoe Brown Clubb Cudjoe Goulding Hall Robinson S. Tomkins Shenton Widdop S. Burgess Crabree Ellis Fielden Graham (Replacement (c) for Morley) Griffin Harrison Lunt O'Loughlin Roby J Tomkins Westwood Carvell (Replacement for Morley) Coach: Steve McNamara

England squad – 2011 Rugby League Four Nations

Ablett Bailey Briscoe Carvell Chase Cudjoe Ellis Graham Hall Heighington Jones-Bishop Jones-Buchanan McGuire McIlorum Morley Peacock Reed Roby Sinfield Tomkins Westwood Widdop Wilkin Yeaman Coach: Steve McNamara

England squad – 2013 Rugby League World Cup

Hardaker Tomkins Briscoe Charnley Hall Cudjoe Watkins Chase Sinfield Widdop Burrow G. Burgess S. Burgess T. Burgess Graham Hill Mossop McIlorum Roby Ablett Farrell Ferres Westwood O'Loughlin Coach: McNamara

England squad – 2014 Rugby League Four Nations

G. Burgess J. Burgess T. Burgess Clark Cooper Farrell Ferres Graham Hall Hardaker Hill Hodgson O'Loughlin Ratchford Sarginson Shenton Smith J. Tomkins S. Tomkins Watkins Westerman Whitehead Widdop Coach: McNamara

Bradford Bulls coaches

Dai Rees (1936–60)
Trevor Foster (1960–61)
Doug Greenall (1961)
Jimmy Ledgard (1961–62)
Harry Beverley (1962–63)
Jack Wilkinson (1963)
Gus Risman (1964–71)
Harry Street (1971–72)
Ian Brooke (1973–75)
Roy Francis (1975–77)
Peter Fox (1977–85)
Barry Seabourne (1985–89)
David Hobbs (1989–89)
Ron Willey (1989–90)
David Hobbs (1990–93)
Peter Fox (1993–95)
Brian Smith (1995–96)
Matthew Elliott (1996–00)
Brian Noble (2001–06)
Steve McNamara (2006–10)
Lee St Hilaire (2010)
Mick Potter (2011–12)
Francis Cummins (2013–2014)
James Lowes (2014–present)

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