Gordon Pritchard


Gordon Pritchard is a Welsh rugby union and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s, and coached rugby union in the 1990s and 2000s. He played club level rugby union for Cardiff RFC, and Newport RFC, as a wing, and representative level rugby league for Wales, and at club level for Leeds, Bradford Northern, Barrow, Huddersfield, Eastern Suburbs, and Cardiff City Blue Dragons, as a, i.e. number 1, and coached club level rugby union for Tondu RFC and Caerphilly RFC.

Playing career

International honours

Gordon Pritchard won caps for Wales while at Barrow, and Cardiff City Blue Dragons 1978…1981 1-caps + 2-caps.

Club career

Pritchard played a season with the Eastern Suburbs club in the Canterbury Rugby League competition.

Note

Before the start of the 1984/85 season, Cardiff City Blue Dragons relocated from Ninian Park in Cardiff, to Coychurch Road Ground in Bridgend, and were renamed Bridgend Blue Dragons.