Billy George Searle (born 25 March 1996) is an English rugby union player. His most common position is fly-half. Searle has previously played for

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, Bristol Bears,

Plymouth Albion Plymouth Albion Rugby Football Club are a rugby union club who play in Plymouth, England. The present club was founded in 1920 from a merger between Plymouth RFC (founded 1876) and Devonport Albion RFC (founded 1876). Since 2003 they have pl ...

, Launceston, Worcester Warriors and the Cornwall county side.

Career

Searle started playing junior rugby at Okehampton whilst at school at

Okehampton College Okehampton College is a co-educational secondary school and sixth form located in Okehampton in the English county of Devon. History Previously a foundation school administered by Devon County Council, in January 2018 Okehampton College con ...

. He left Okehampton to start his senior career at nearby Launceston in the fourth division (

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). After impressing for Cornwall in their

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win he moved onto third division side

. After one season in Plymouth Searle moved up to Premiership side Bristol to join their academy. On 11 May 2018

announced Searle would join them that summer. On 8 January 2020, Searle signs for Premiership rivals Worcester Warriors from the 2020-21 season. He has since signed a contract extension until the end of the 2022–23 season. On 5 October 2022 all Worcester players had their contacts terminated due to the liquidation of the company to which they were contracted. In October 2022, Searle and former Worcester teammate

Jamie Shillcock James Robert Shillcock (born 1 August 1997) is an English rugby union fly-half for Bath in Premiership Rugby. Shillcock began playing rugby for Warwick School at the age of 7. He made his debut for Worcester Warriors at the age of 17 agai ...

joined

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on short-term loan.

Rugby union season-by-season playing stats

Club

County

Honours

Bristol * RFU Championship champions: 2017–18 Cornwall *Tamar Cup winners: 2015 *

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winners:

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References

External links

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