Jonny Bentley

Jonny Bentley

Birth name	Jonny Bentley
Date of birth	(1986-07-01) 1 July 1986 (age 38)
Place of birth	Upper Hutt, New Zealand
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	78 kg (12 st 4 lb)
Rugby union career
Position(s) Fly-half Amateur team(s) Years Team Apps (Points) Hutt Old Boys Marist RFC () Senior career Years Team Apps (Points) 2009–2013 Cornish Pirates 57 (292) 2013 Yorkshire Carnegie (loan) 5 (11) 2013–2014 Gloucester Rugby 2 (3) 2014−2015 Jersey 21 (52) 2016 Ealing Trailfinders () 2016– Chinnor () Correct as of 14 July 2015 Provincial / State sides Years Team Apps (Points) 2015− Wellington Lions 12 (51) Correct as of 23 October 2015

Jonny Bentley (born 1 July 1986) is a New Zealand rugby union player who plays at fly-half for Chinnor.

Bentley original club was Hutt Old Boys Marist RFC in New Zealand, where as a Wellington Academy member he played for Wellington U21s and the Wellington XV. In 2007 he was the WRFU Club's 'Rugby Player of the Year'.

After playing for Yokogawa Musashino Atlastars, in Japan, he signed for the Cornish Pirates in the RFU Championship for the 2009–10 season.^[1] He made a total of 57 appearances with the Pirates where he helped them to win the British and Irish Cup in 2010. Unfortunately, he suffered an Achilles tendon tear following abductor muscle trouble and did not play for seventeen months returning for the Pirates during the 2012–13 season.^[2]

On 19 June 2013, it was announced that Bentley would join Gloucester Rugby in the Aviva Premiership on a one-year contract for the 2013–14 season.^[3] On 6 June 2014, Bentley returned to the RFU Championship as he signed a contract to join Jersey for the 2014–15 season.^[4] On 28 April 2015 Jonny Bentley confirmed his departure from Jersey^[5]

On 28 May 2015, Bentley returned to New Zealand to sign for his province Wellington Lions for the 2015 ITM Cup campaign.^[6] Bentley returned to the RFU Championship with Ealing Trailfinders for the rest of the 2015–16 season.^[7]

From the 2016–17 season, Bentley has been playing for Chinnor who compete in National League 2 South.^[8]

References

1. "Jonny Bentley sign for Cornish Pirates". Cornish Pirates. 27 March 2009. Archived from the original on 6 October 2010. Retrieved 5 August 2013.
2. "Gloucester Rugby: Jonny Bentley 'over injury woes' | This is Gloucestershire". Archived from the original on 30 June 2013. Retrieved 5 August 2013.
3. "Gloucester sign Cornish Pirates fly-half Jonny Bentley". BBC Sport. 19 June 2013.
4. "Jersey sign Gloucester fly-half Jonny Bentley". BBC Sport. 6 June 2014.
5. "Jersey: Mark Foster and Jonny Bentley among 11 departures". BBC Sport. 28 April 2015.
6. "Wellington Lions sign first five-eighth Jonny Bentley for ITM Cup campaign". Stuff.co.nz. 28 May 2015.
7. "Jonny Bentley back for Ealing Trailfinders". Ealing Trailfinders. 15 January 2016. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
8. "Jonny Bentley Chinnor Profile". Chinnor RFC. 11 April 2017. Retrieved 11 April 2017.