Coaching Career
Vital Statistics
- Full Name
- John William Whiteley
- Born
- Thursday, 20th November, 1930
- Died
- Sunday, 13th February, 2022 (Aged 91 years and 85 days)
Honours & Awards
Based only on data available in the RLP database. This information should be used as a guide only.
- World Cup
- 1960
- The Ashes
- 1958, 1959/1960
- Test Series
- New Zealand vs Great Britain 1958, Great Britain vs New Zealand 1961
- English Hall Of Fame
- 2018
Coaching Career Statistics
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Competitions | ||||||||||||||
Competition | Games | W | L | D | Win % | |||||||||
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The Ashes | 2 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 33.33% | List | |||||||
World Cup | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 75.00% | List | |||||||
Tour Matches | Great Britain | - | 30 | 23 | 5 | 2 | 76.67% | List | ||||||
Tour Matches | Great Britain Under 24s | - | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | ||||||
Test Series | 4 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 50.00% | List | |||||||
European Championship | - | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | |||||||
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Test Matches - By Team | ||||||||||||||
Team | Years | Games | W | L | D | Win % | ||||||||
Great Britain | 1970, 1980-82 | 18 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 55.56% | List | |||||||
England | 1981 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% | List | |||||||
Overall | 1970-1982 | 20 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 60.00% | List | |||||||
International Matches - By Team | ||||||||||||||
Team | Years | Games | W | L | D | Win % | ||||||||
Great Britain | 1970-1982 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List | |||||||
World Cup Matches - By Team | ||||||||||||||
Team | Years | Games | W | L | D | Win % | ||||||||
Great Britain | 1970 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 75.00% | List | |||||||
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England - By Team | ||||||||||||||
Team | Years | Games | W | L | D | Win % | ||||||||
Great Britain U24 | 1980 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | List |
Contributions:
Shawn Dollin, Andrew Ferguson, Greg Fiveash
Your Say
07/06/2011
John Whiteley was the most able loose or second row RL forward that I have seen. His handling was beyond brilliance. He had the pace of a very fast centre or fast winger and the creativity of a world class stand-off,. and incredible fitness and work rate, and phenomenal qualities of generalship and leadership on and off the pitch. He could make the most complicated and thoughtful and exhausting play look simple and easy. He was a complete gentleman who made nasty opponents look stupid by running rings round them with much superior skill and speed, while never saying a bad word about them, and indeed teaching and encouraging them.to improve their abilities. Yet he was quietly tough as well. No-ne dreamed of calling him a pushover or big softy. His running was a delight to watch, original, stylish, combining the mazy and the direct very unprediictably. He gave former fans of his a yardstick to judge all other forwards by. I believed for 40 years after watching him that rugby league was a game of great intellectuality, delicacy, artistry and beauty - which in his capable hads it was!
10/01/2017
John Whiteley was the very best of some very good loose forwards in the 50/60s. He always brought the best out of team mates and was a great captain.
Where today in world rugby would you find two forwards in the same pack that scored over a hundred tries each? Whiteley and Bill Drake
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