Mark Conway (born 31 January 1964) is an English former professional

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footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s. He played at representative level for Yorkshire Under-13s, Yorkshire Under-16s, Yorkshire Colts (Under-19s), England Schools Under-16s, Great Britain Colts (Under-19s, including the first ever Colts tour to Australia, and Papua New Guinea in 1982), and Great Britain Under-21s, and at club level for

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ARLFC,

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( Heritage No. 1116),

Wakefield Trinity Wakefield Trinity is a professional rugby league club in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, that plays in the Super League. One of the original twenty-two clubs that formed the Northern Rugby Football Union in 1895, between 1999 and 2016 the ...

( Heritage No. 995) (

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and Doncaster Dragons (Heritage No.) for

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Colin Maskill Colin Maskill (born 15 March 1964) is an English former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s, and coached in the 1990s and 2000s. He played at club level for Wakefield Trinity ( Heritage No. 900), Leeds ( He ...

, as a and occasionally . As of 2017, he still holds Wakefield Trinity's 'most goals in a match' record with 13-

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s scored in the 90–12 victory over

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during the 1992–93 Regal Trophy

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during the 1992–93 season at Belle Vue,

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, on Tuesday 27 October 1992.

Playing career

County Cup Final appearances

Mark Conway played in

's 8–11 defeat by

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in the 1990–91 Yorkshire Cup Final during the 1990–91 season at

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on Sunday 23 September 1990.

Notable tour matches

Mark Conway played , and scored two

s in

' 4–31 defeat by Australia in the

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match at

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on Wednesday 20 October 1982, played in the 10–16 defeat by

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in the

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match at

on Tuesday 29 October 1985, and played , and scored 3-

s in

's 18–36 defeat by Australia in the

1990 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France The 1990 Kangaroo Tour was the seventeenth Kangaroo Tour, where the Australian national rugby league team (known as the XXXX Kangaroos due to sponsorship reasons) travelled to Europe and played eighteen matches against British and French club a ...

match at Belle Vue

on Wednesday 10 October 1990.

Club career

Mark Conway played , and he made his début in

' victory over Bramley in the Lazenby Cup at

in 1981, that was to be his only appearance in the starting line-up during the 1981–82 season as the understudy to

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, Conway spent five seasons with

competing with

and

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for the position, and he produced a number of memorable performances in cup ties. In August 1987, the

players; Mark Conway,

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ip Fox,

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and Keith Rayne, were transferred in exchange for the

players; John Lyons, and

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. Mark Conway is sixth on the all-time Wakefield Trinity goal kicking list, and fourth on the all-time Wakefield Trinity points scoring list.

Outside of Rugby League

Mark was a pupil at Newton Hill Junior School, and Outwood Grange School, and is a former

ARLFC, and as of 2017 he is a

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sales director at 9ROUND Fitness UK. He has a daughter Danielle, (born ), and a son Matt, (born ).

References

External links

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