Matthew "Matt" Daylight (born 2 March 1974) is a former

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rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as rugby league in English-speaking countries and rugby 13/XIII in non-Anglophone Europe, is a contact sport, full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular Rugby league playin ...

footballer who played on the . A speedy outside back, he played for five different clubs throughout his career in both Australia and England.

Career

Australia

Daylight began his rugby league career with the

Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks The Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks are an Australian professional rugby league club based in the Sutherland Shire of Southern Sydney, Southern Sydney, New South Wales. Cronulla compete in the National Rugby League (NRL), Australasia's premier rugb ...

in 1995, playing two games for the club in his debut season. In

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, Daylight made the move to the

Western Reds The Western Reds were a rugby league football club based in Perth, Western Australia. Founded in 1992 as the Western Reds, they entered into the Australian Rugby League competition in 1995 before defecting to the rival Super League (Australia), ...

, who were competing in the Australian Super League at the time. His most successful stint in Australia was in the inaugural season of the

National Rugby League The National Rugby League (also known as the NRL Telstra Premiership for sponsorship reasons) is a professional rugby league competition in Oceania which contains clubs from New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria (state), Victoria, the Austral ...

when he played for the

Adelaide Rams The Adelaide Rams was an Australian professional rugby league football club based in Adelaide, South Australia. The team was formed in 1995 for the planned rebel Super League competition. The Rams lasted two seasons, the first in the Super Lea ...

. Daylight played 20 games for the Rams, scoring 7 tries. Daylight's last season was again with Cronulla in

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, where he played just three games and scored one try.

England

After the Rams were dissolved prior to the

1999 NRL season The 1999 NRL season was the 92nd season of professional rugby league football in Australia, and the second to be run by the National Rugby League. With the exclusion of the Adelaide Rams and Gold Coast Chargers, and the joint venture of the S ...

, Daylight linked with the Gateshead Thunder in 1999, scoring 25 tries in 30 appearances for the club. He then left the Thunder to join

Hull FC Hull Football Club, commonly referred to as Hull or Hull F.C., is a professional rugby league club based in Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. Hull play their home games at the MKM Stadium and compete in Super League, the t ...

in 2000, scoring 12 tries in 22 games.

Representative career

Daylight was also selected as a

international and played at the

2000 Rugby League World Cup The 2000 Rugby League World Cup was the twelfth Rugby League World Cup, World Cup for men’s national rugby league teams, held between 28 October and 25 November and hosted between the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, Ireland and France. ...

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1974 births Living people Adelaide Rams players Australian people of Scottish descent Australian rugby league players Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks players Gateshead Thunder (1999) players Hull F.C. players Rugby league players from Sydney Rugby league wingers Scotland national rugby league team players Western Reds players {{Scotland-rugbyleague-bio-stub