David Walter Lomax (born 21 September 1970) is a New Zealand

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coach and former player who represented

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. He is the brother of another international,

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Early years

Lomax grew up playing rugby league for the

Wainuiomata Lions The Wainuiomata Lions are a New Zealand rugby league club based in Wainuiomata, Wellington. They compete in the Wellington Rugby League competition. In the early 1990s, prior to the creation Lion Red Cup national league competition based on ...

in the

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competition and also represented Wellington at a provincial level. During the 1992 season he lined up alongside three of his brothers; Tony,

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and Arnold, for Wellington against

Bay of Plenty The Bay of Plenty ( mi, Te Moana-a-Toi) is a region of New Zealand, situated around a bight of the same name in the northern coast of the North Island. The bight stretches 260 km from the Coromandel Peninsula in the west to Cape Runawa ...

.Coffey and Wood ''The Kiwis: 100 Years of International Rugby League'' All four brothers also played for the Lions that year in their 25-18 national club grand final win over the

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. He represented the New Zealand Māori side in 1993.

Playing career

He joined the

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about the same time as his brother

. However he could not break into the first grade team at Canberra and soon found himself moving around, spending seasons at the

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and

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before settling at the

Newcastle Knights The Newcastle Knights are an Australian professional rugby league club based in Newcastle, New South Wales. They compete in Australasia's premier rugby league competition, the National Rugby League (NRL) premiership. Playing in red and blue, th ...

where he played 29 matches. He then moved again, joining the merged

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side before retiring.

Representative career

During the 1993 season, Lomax made the

New Zealand national rugby league team The New Zealand national rugby league team (Māori: Tīma rīki motu Aotearoa) has represented New Zealand in rugby league since 1907. Administered by the New Zealand Rugby League, they are commonly known as the Kiwis, after the native bird of ...

, playing in two test matches.

Coaching career

He later coached the

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in the

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, making sporadic appearances for the side off the bench. In 2006 he was the coach of the

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side that competed in the Trans Tasman Quadrangular Series. In 2007 he was appointed coach of the

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.Stanley set to line up for Junior Kiwis
''NZRL (Press Release)'', 11 October 2007 He applied for the

coaching job in mid-2007 and was shortlisted however the job ultimately went to

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. Lomax then relocated to Wellington where he coached the Te Aroha Eels in 2008 and 2009 before taking over the Porirua Vikings. Lomax is coaching

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in the 2012 National Competition.

References

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