- #
- 13
- Name
- Gareth Longley
- Position
- Non-Playing Member, Centre
- Height
- 5'11"
- Year Joined Spartans
- 2007
- Awards
- Player of the season 2007/2008 and Chairman’s award 2014/2015
- 1st Game
- Macclesfield away
- Favourite Team
- Sale Sharks
- Best thing about Spartans
- Lifelong friendships and amazing international tours
- Benefit of being a Spartan
- I joined in 2007 after moving to Manchester from Leeds. I had pretty much no gay friends when I moved here and hadn’t played rugby since before university. When I joined the Spartans, I instantly made friends with a handful of other players, who I now consider amongst my best friends. After a string of injuries, I took up more administrative tasks and became club PR and Communications secretary, a role I carried out for 8-9 year before becoming a Director and was voted in as club Chairman in 2019. I also met my fiancé, 1XV captain, Simon Gammon at the Spartans and we hope to get married at the club in 2020.
- Advice
- Do it. It’s the best decision I’ve ever made.
- Current Team
- Spartans 2nd XV
