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British rugby league player
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Biography
Introduction
Colin Standing (birth registered April→June 1942 (age 74–75)) birth registered in Bridgend, is a rugby union and professional rugby league footballer in the 1960s and '70s, playing club level rugby union (RU) for Bridgend RFC, as a Number Eight, and playing representative level rugby league (RL) for Wales and at club level for Wigan Oldham, and Warrington, as a Second-row, i.e. number 11 or 12, during the era of contested scrums.
Playing career
International honours
Standing won two caps for Wales (RL) while at Wigan and Oldham in 1969–1970.
Notable tour matches
Standing played Number Eight for the combined Bridgend-Maesteg XV in the 12-23 defeat by Fiji during the 1964 Fiji rugby union tour of Europe and Canada at Brewery Field on Saturday 12 September 1964.