Craig Huby (born 27 March 1986) is an English

rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rugby or league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring 68 metres (75 yards) wide and 112 ...

footballer. He has previously played as a for

Wakefield Trinity Wakefield Trinity is a professional rugby league club in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, that plays in the Super League. One of the original twenty-two clubs that formed the Northern Rugby Football Union in 1895, between 1999 and 2016 the c ...

( Heritage № 1379) and the

Huddersfield Giants Huddersfield Giants are an English professional rugby league club from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, the birthplace of rugby league, who play in the Super League competition. They play their home games at the John Smiths Stadium which is sh ...

in the

Super League The Super League (officially known as the Betfred Super League due to sponsorship from Betfred and legally known as Super League Europe), is the top-level of the British rugby league system. At present the league consists of twelve teams, of wh ...

, and spent 11 years with the

Castleford Tigers The Castleford Tigers are a professional rugby league club in Castleford, West Yorkshire, England, that compete in the Super League, the top-level professional rugby league club competition in the Northern Hemisphere. The club have competed i ...

( Heritage № 800), playing in the Super League and the second tier of English rugby league.

Background

Huby was born in

Pontefract Pontefract is a historic market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England, east of Wakefield and south of Castleford. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is one of the towns in the City of Wake ...

West Yorkshire West Yorkshire is a metropolitan and ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and Humber Region of England. It is an inland and upland county having eastward-draining valleys while taking in the moors of the Pennines. West Yorkshire came into exi ...

, England in 1986.

Playing career

He made his début for his hometown club,

, against

Leeds Rhinos The Leeds Rhinos are a professional rugby league club in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. The club was formed in 1870 as Leeds St John's and play in the Super League, the top tier of English rugby league. They have played home matches at Headi ...

as a 17-year-old in May 2003. He established himself as a regular first-team player in the 2005 National League season and his good form of that season continued in the

2006. He suffered a number of injuries in the promotion-winning season of 2007 but was a key member of the side in 2008. In May 2008, Huby signed a three-year extension to his contract, and, in March 2011, by then Castleford’s longest serving player, he signed a further three-year contract. A fractured kneecap, suffered in a match against St Helens in April 2011, ruled him out of the game for almost a year; he made his comeback against Featherstone in April 2012. He was granted a testimonial after ten years in the senior team with a game against Halifax on Boxing Day 2013. He played in the 2014 Challenge Cup Final defeat by the

Wembley Stadium Wembley Stadium (branded as Wembley Stadium connected by EE for sponsorship reasons) is a football stadium in Wembley, London. It opened in 2007 on the site of the Wembley Stadium (1923), original Wembley Stadium, which was demolished from 200 ...

, two weeks after dislocating his elbow in the semifinal against the

Widnes Vikings The Widnes Vikings are an English rugby league club in Widnes, Cheshire, which competes in the Betfred Championship. The club plays home matches at the Halton Stadium. Founded as Widnes Football Club, they are one of the original twenty-two rug ...

. In September 2014, Huby joined the

on a four-year contract. He played in every game for Huddersfield during the 2015 season but suffered a broken wrist in training in December 2015 that required surgery and led to him missing the start of the 2016 season. He was allowed to leave in December 2016 and joined

on a three-year contract. A bad shoulder injury suffered during a match in February 2019 led to a lengthy layoff and Huby left Wakefield Trinity by mutual consent in July 2019.

References

External links

Wakefield Trinity profile
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Castleford Tigers profileSL profile
1986 births Living people Castleford Tigers players English rugby league players Huddersfield Giants players Rugby league players from Pontefract Rugby league props Wakefield Trinity players {{england-rugbyleague-bio-stub