Talk:John Birch (rugby league)

Jim Birch

You created an article for Jim Birch, and I have a Wales international RU player of the same name. I thought it must be the same bloke, ...but he played RL first. My James Birch, was also known as Jim Birch. English by birth and from Northampton, played in England until coming to Wales, playing in two matches in 1911. He was a prop forward. This is very coincidental, do you have any more details? FruitMonkey (talk) 12:53, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

It does seem a coincidence, particularly with them both being Props. Everything I know is in his article. It’s a shame that the WRU and Scrum websites don’t have a middle name or initial. Do you know whether he played for Wales whilst at Northampton, or had he moved to a Welsh club? Northampton is an unusual place for a Rugby League player to have come from, or moved to, with there being no coal mines. If he had been RL player, I would have thought the RU/RL antagonism would have prevented him from going on to play RU. If it is the same guy, i.e. born on the 30 December 1889, if he played for Great Britain RL on the 15 February 1908, or for England RL against Wales on either 20 April 1908, or 28 December 1908, he’d have only been 18, which seems very young for international prop, particularly in those days (Though Andy Farrell was only 18 years, 5 months, 7 days when he first played for Great Britain, though not at prop), but saying that even if it’s a different guy he’d have only been 21 when playing for Wales RU, the fact that his England RL game came against Wales also seems odd, so maybe it’s a coincidence and they are different guys. DynamoDegsy (talk) 21:41, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

See Below. Best Regards. DynamoDegsy (talk) 12:13, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

John Wilkinson Birch

John Wilkinson Birch apppears to be erroneously named 'Jim' on both the englandrl.co.uk and rugbyleagueproject.org websites. Best Regards. DynamoDegsy (talk) 12:13, 9 April 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bilorv (talk • contribs)

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