Graeme Leonard West is a New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

 former rugby league

Rugby league

Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...

 footballer and coach. Standing at six-foot, five inches, he played in the forwards, captaining English club Wigan

Wigan Warriors

Wigan Warriors is an English rugby league club based in Wigan, Greater Manchester. The club's first team squad competes in the engage Super League and the team are the current Challenge Cup holders as of the 27th August 2011....

. West also played representative rugby league for New Zealand and is the father of Super League

Super League

Super League is the top-level professional rugby league football club competition in Europe. As a result of sponsorship from engage Mutual Assurance the competition is currently officially known as the engage Super League. The League features fourteen teams: thirteen from England and one from...

 player, Dwayne West

Dwayne West

Dwayne West is a former rugby league footballer of the 2000s. He competed in the Super League competition, featuring as a winger...

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During the 1987–88 Rugby Football League season, West played for defending champions Wigan from the interchange bench in their 1987 World Club Challenge

1987 World Club Challenge

The 1987 World Club Challenge was only the second game of its kind to be played between Britain's and Australia's respective domestic rugby league champions...

 victory against the visiting Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles

Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles

The Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles are an Australian professional rugby league club based on the Northern Beaches of Sydney. They compete in the National Rugby League's Telstra Premiership, the premier rugby league competition of Australasia...

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In 1994, following the sacking of John Dorahy

John Dorahy

John Dorahy is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer and coach. He played in the Australian New South Wales Rugby League premiership and also represented for NSW Country, New South Wales Origin and Australia. Dorahy later played and coached in the English Rugby Football League...

, West was appointed as coach of Wigan. In his first season as coach, after the 1993–94 Rugby Football League season Monie travelled with defending champions Wigan

Wigan Warriors

Wigan Warriors is an English rugby league club based in Wigan, Greater Manchester. The club's first team squad competes in the engage Super League and the team are the current Challenge Cup holders as of the 27th August 2011....

 to Brisbane, them to in their 1994 World Club Challenge

1994 World Club Challenge

The 1994 MMI World Club Challenge was a replay of the 1992 World Club Challenge, with 1993–94 Rugby Football League season champions Wigan facing the 1993 NSWRL season premiers, the Brisbane Broncos, this time in Australia. Wigan were clearly the dominant club in the English game, having won the...

 victory over Australian premiers, the Brisbane Broncos

Brisbane Broncos

The Brisbane Broncos are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the city of Brisbane, the capital of the state of Queensland. Founded in 1988, the Broncos play in Australasia's elite competition, the National Rugby League premiership. They have won six premierships and two...

. West guided Wigan to the World Club Challenge, league Championship, Challenge Cup, Regal Trophy, Premiership - 'Grand Slam'. Even though Wigan dominated Rugby League from 1985 to 1995, it was the only season the club achieved this feat. He stayed on in that position until February 1997 when he was replaced by Eric Hughes

Eric Hughes

Eric Hughes was a rugby league footballer for the Widnes Vikings, Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs and for the Great Britain national side. He unwittingly added confusion to the Canterbury side as he played at the same time as the three Hughes brothers Garry, Graeme and Mark.Hughes coached Rochdale...

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Sources

• Graeme West Wigan Playing Career Page on the Wigan RL Fansite.
• Graeme West Wigan Coaching Career Page on the Wigan RL Fansite.
• Graeme West at wiganwarriors.com
• Graeme West stats at rugbyleagueproject.com