Hohepa "Hep" Cahill (born 15 October 1986) is a New Zealand former professional

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 who played as a or in the 2000s and 2010s. He played for the

Melbourne Storm The Melbourne Storm are a rugby league club based in Melbourne, Victoria in Australia that participates in the National Rugby League. The first fully professional rugby league team based in the state, the Storm entered the competition in 1998. ...

in the

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, and

Crusaders RL Crusaders Rugby League ( cy, Croesgadwyr Rygbi'r Gynghrair) was a professional rugby league club based in Bridgend and later in Wrexham, Wales. They played for six seasons in the Rugby Football League competitions, including three years in the ...

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 ...

. Cahill also played for 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 the Super League and the

Betfred Championship The Championship, known as the Betfred Championship for sponsorship reasons, is a professional rugby league competition. It is the Rugby Football League Championship Second Division, second-tier competition organised by the Rugby Football Lea ...

Background

Cahill was born in

Hastings, New Zealand Hastings (; mi, Heretaunga) is an inland city of New Zealand and is one of the two major urban areas in Hawke's Bay, on the east coast of the North Island. The population of Hastings (including Flaxmere) is (as of with a further people in H ...

Playing career

Cahill went to Napier Boys' College in New Zealand, and is also a former age grade New Zealand

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champion. Cahill signed with

in 2009. He made his

début in Round 20, 2009. He played in the 2010

World Club Challenge The World Club Challenge is an annual rugby league competition between the winners of the Australasian National Rugby League (NRL) and the European Super League, for the de facto club world championship of the sport. The first such match was pl ...

against

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, being part of the team that lifted the trophy. On Friday 17 February 2012, Widnes announced they had suspended Scott Moore, Hep Cahill and

Simon Finnigan Simon Finnigan (born 8 December 1981) is a rugby league coach and former player who was most recently the head coach of the Widnes Vikings in Betfred Championship and was previously head coach at Newcastle Thunder and an assistant coach at the ...

for an unspecified breach of club discipline, so missing the match against

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on Sunday 19 February 2012.

References

External links

Widnes Vikings profileSL profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cahill, Hep 1986 births Living people New Zealand rugby league players New Zealand Māori rugby league team players New Zealand expatriate sportspeople in England New Zealand expatriate sportspeople in Australia Crusaders Rugby League players Melbourne Storm players Rugby league second-rows Rugby league players from Napier, New Zealand Widnes Vikings players New Zealand expatriate rugby league players Expatriate rugby league players in Australia Expatriate rugby league players in England