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2014 Super Rugby Media Guide

SUPER RUGBY MEDIA GUIDE 2014 FORCE 49 ZACK HOLMES @z_holmes Position: Flyhalf Physical: 175cm/87kg Date of Birth: 30 May 1990 Place of Birth: Perth, AUS Super Rugby Caps: 10 Super Rugby Points: 79 Super Rugby Debut: Round 4, 2012 vs Chiefs, Hamilton Test Caps: 0 Test Points: 0 Test Debut – Zack Holmes returns to Western Australia this year after beginning his Super Rugby career with the Brumbies in 2012. Holmes, a former Aquinas College student, advanced through the rugby pathway Perth, representing the West Australian schoolboys in 2007 before being selected in the RugbyWA Academy in 2009. He was also a member of the Australian Rugby Sevens side that finished third in the 2009-10 IRB Sevens World Series before returning to the 15-a-side game with the Brumbies in 2012. Holmes made just two appearances in a highly-competitive Brumbies outfit last season, scoring one try for the Super Rugby runners-up. KIERAN LONGBOTTOM @kmanlongbottom Position: Prop Physical: 181cm/113kg Date of Birth: 20 December 1985 Place of Birth: Perth, AUS Super Rugby Caps: 41 Super Rugby Points: 0 Super Rugby Debut: Round 12, 2008 vs Chiefs, Perth Test Caps: 0 Test Points: 0 Test Debut – Kieran Longbottom enters his seventh Super Rugby season with the Force and is closing in on 50 caps with the West Australian club. He played 11 matches in 2013 – both at loose and tighthead – six of them in the starting XV. The prop is one of three Perth-born players in the squad this year – along with new recruits Luke Burton and Zack Holmes – while Longbottom is the first born-and-bred player to progress directly through the local rugby pathway to the Force.


2014 Super Rugby Media Guide
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