Jamal Ford-Robinson

Jamal Ford-Robinson (born 11 September 1993) is a rugby union player who plays for Premiership Rugby side Gloucester.[1] Jamal can also be found live streaming on the popular gaming platform Twitch under the username Makinui_.

Jamal Ford-Robinson
Birth nameJamal Ford-Robinson
Date of birth (1993-09-11) 11 September 1993
Place of birthBristol, England
Height1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight115 kg (18 st 2 lb)
Rugby union career
Position(s) Tighthead Prop
Senior career
Years Team Apps (Points)
2012–2014
2014
2015–2017
2017–2019
2019–		 Cambridge
Cornish Pirates
Bristol
Northampton Saints
Gloucester		 35
19
48
25
16		 (20)
(0)
(20)
(0)
(0)
Correct as of 30 August 2020
National team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)
2017- England 1 (0)
Correct as of 7 May 2020

Jamal has also spent time wrestling under the ring name 'Krisys' before returning to play for Bristol Rugby.

Club career

Beginning his rugby career in Leicester Tigers's Academy structure, Ford-Robinson then moved to National League 1 club Cambridge for two seasons before progressing to RFU Championship side Cornish Pirates in 2014.[2][3]

Ford-Robinson then switched to Bristol Rugby for the 2015/16 season and aided in their promotion into the Aviva Premiership that season.[4] The prop made 48 appearances in a Bristol shirt and suffered with the club as they were relegated back to the Championship at the end of the 2016/17 campaign.[5] The young prop left his hometown of Bristol to join Northampton Saints for the 2017/18 season after signing for the Midlands club on February 2, 2017.[6] In March 2019, Ford-Robinson signed a 2-year deal with Premiership Rivals Gloucester Rugby.[7] Following the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, Jamal started making humourous videos on the video-sharing website TikTok. The videos gained wide attention from the rugby community which lead to Ford-Robinson winning Premiership Rugby's Community Player of the Month.[8]

International career

Before joining Northampton, Ford-Robinson was noticed by England and was first called into the international team that defeated the Barbarians at Twickenham on May 28, 2017, before being added to the touring squad that traveled to Argentina in the summer of 2017 as injury cover for Worcester Warriors' Nick Schonert.[9][10]

References
  1. "Squad Player". Premiership Rugby. 10 March 2016.
  2. "Jamal Ford-Robinson joins The Cornish Pirates crew". www.cornish-pirates.com.
  3. "Jamal Ford-Robinson". Statbunker.
  4. "Bristol Rugby secure promotion despite defeat on home turf". ITV.
  5. "It's official: Bristol Rugby have been relegated to the Championship". 6 May 2017.
  6. "Northampton Saints to sign Bristol's Mitch Eadie and Jamal Ford-Robinson". BBC. 2 February 2017.
  7. "Jamal Ford-Robinson: Gloucester to sign Northampton prop in summer". BBC. 27 March 2019.
  8. "Gloucester Rugby's Jamal Ford-Robinson wins public vote to be named first Gallagher Community Player of the Month". Gallagher. 22 April 2020.
  9. "England defeat Barbarians to win Old Mutual Wealth Cup".
  10. "England call up Singleton and Ford-Robinson".
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.