Rodney Davies (born 18 May 1989) is an Australian international

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footballer who plays for the

Western Force The Western Force is an Australian professional rugby union team based in Perth, Western Australia, currently competing in Super Rugby, Super Rugby Pacific. They previously played in Super Rugby from 2006 until they were axed from the competitio ...

. He previously played six seasons for the

Queensland Reds The Queensland Reds is the rugby union team based in Brisbane for the Australian state of Queensland that competes in the Southern Hemisphere's Super Rugby competition. Prior to 1996, they were a representative team selected from the rugby union ...

in the

Super Rugby Super Rugby is a men's professional rugby union club competition involving teams from Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands. It has previously included teams from Argentina, Japan, and South Africa. Super Rugby started as the S ...

competition. Davies has represented Australia in both fifteen-a-side and seven-a-side rugby. He is also a former

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.

Early life

Davies attended

Ipswich Grammar School Ipswich Grammar School is a historic, independent, non-denominational, day and boarding school for boys, located in Ipswich, a local government region of Brisbane on the Bremer River in South East Queensland, Australia. The school is situate ...

, the same school former Reds teammate

Berrick Barnes Berrick Steven Barnes (born 28 May 1986) is a former Australian professional rugby union footballer. His usual position is fly-half or inside centre. He is previously played with Japanese Top League clubs Panasonic Wild Knights and the Ricoh ...

attended. Davies can run 100m in 10.8 seconds. In 2006 he toured New Zealand and Fiji with the

Australian Schoolboys The Australian Schoolboys refer to junior teams that represent Australia in various sports. The name is mainly used in rugby league, rugby union and baseball. Other popular team sports in Australia such as cricket, basketball, association footbal ...

.Davies faces tough choice
/ref> As an 18-year-old, he said he preferred to play full-back in union, yet expected to play in rugby league. In 2007, his first senior year of rugby league, Davies topped his team's try-scoring list in the

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Rugby union career

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Davies commenced his rugby union career with the

. On 28 March 2009, he made his

debut against the Chiefs. In July 2011, during the Super Rugby semi final, Davies became the first Red to score 3 tries in a match in Super Rugby. Davies signed with French club

Biarritz Olympique Biarritz Olympique Pays Basque (; ), usually known simply as Biarritz, is a French professional rugby union team based in the Iparralde, Basque city of Biarritz in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Pyrénées-Atlantiques department of Nouvelle-Aquitaine ...

in June 2014, playing two seasons. He played for

Mitsubishi DynaBoars also known as Mitsubishi Juko Sagamihara Rugby Club, are a Japanese rugby union team based in Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The owner of this club is Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. The club was founded in 1981. It ...

in 2017, before joining the

in 2018.

International

In October, 2010, he was in contention for a place in the Wallabies 30-man squad to tour Hong Kong and Europe. This was despite a five-month break without a match up until October, and competition from within the Wallabies squad from outside backs

Drew Mitchell Drew Alan Mitchell (born 26 March 1984) is a former Australian rugby union professional player. He played on the wing or as fullback. Up to the 2006 season he played for the Queensland Reds. He played for the Western Force for the 2007–09 Su ...

and

Lachie Turner Lachlan 'Lachie' David Turner (born 11 May 1987) is an Australian professional rugby union player who retired at the end of 2018 season. In his usual position of wing. He has a strong kicking game, which allows him to also play at fullback. T ...

, James O'Connor and

Kurtley Beale Kurtley James Beale (born 6 January 1989) is an Australian professional rugby union representative player who has made over 90 national representative appearances in a ten-year playing career at the world-class level. He is of Aboriginal desce ...

. On 17 July 2011, Davies made his Wallabies debut against

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. Davies was selected in the team in 2019 and made his debut at the

Canada Sevens The Canada Sevens is an annual rugby sevens tournament held every March. It is one of the stops on the World Rugby Sevens Series, and is played the weekend after the USA Sevens. Canada secured a four-year deal to host to event from the 2015� ...

tournament in Vancouver.

References

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Davies, Rodney 1989 births Australian rugby league players Australian rugby union players Australian people of Filipino descent Australia international rugby union players Queensland Reds players Rugby union wings Rugby league wingers Rugby league fullbacks Living people Biarritz Olympique players Mitsubishi Sagamihara DynaBoars players Australian expatriate rugby union players in France Australian expatriate rugby union players in Japan Rugby union players from Rockhampton People educated at Ipswich Grammar School Footballers who switched code Rugby league players from Queensland 21st-century Australian sportsmen