Ambitious Leeds Rhinos prop Tom Holroyd has represented England at Academy and Knights level – and admits he would love to win a first senior cap. The homegrown product came through the vaunted Academy at Headingley before making his first-team debut against Catalans Dragons in June 2018.
He went on to make a career-best 16 appearances in blue and amber during the 2021 season before injury and suspension wrecked the majority of the 2022 season. Now fully fit, though, the Halifax lad has played in all four games so far this season and escaped the ‘nudey run’ by scoring his first try of 2023 during last Friday’s 26-0 home win over Wakefield Trinity.
The 22-year-old is showing the kind of quality which saw him help England to a 2-0 Test series win over the Australia Schoolboys in December 2018 in a team which featured the likes of Harry Newman, Sam Walters, Jack Welsby and Harry Smith. Holroyd has since represented the second-tier England Knights against Jamaica and is now hoping to catch Shaun Wane’s eye with a mid-season Test against France looming on April 29.
