Brad Thorn

Bradley Carnegie Thorn is an Australian and New Zealand rugby union coach and former rugby league and rugby union player, born in New Zealand in 1975, whose playing career ran for twenty-two years from age nineteen to forty-one. In rugby league he played for the Brisbane Broncos in the National Rugby League and the Super League across ten seasons, winning four grand finals, and represented Queensland in State of Origin and Australia eight times, five for the Kangaroos and three for Super League Australia. He moved to rugby union in 2001 as a lock, won 59 caps for New Zealand and was part of the 2011 Rugby World Cup winning team, and later coached the Queensland Reds.