Jon Brennan

Jon Brennan

Jon Brennan (born 19 May 1981) was a Jersey rugby player who played at prop for Jersey Reds for 12 seasons, with 200 appearances. As of 2013, he was the club's longest-serving player, playing in his tenth season, while also teaching at De La Salle College.Brennan first joined the Jersey Reds in 2003, when they were playing in the London Division 3 South West. Over an eight-year period, the club was promoted five times. He was named man of the match in the 2011 play-off against Loughborough Students, when Jersey secured promotion to National League 1.In May 2013, Brennan was named to the RFU Championship Dream XV as tight-head prop, recognised as "the cornerstone of an impressive forward effort" during the season. He was described as "An old-fashioned out-and-out scrummager who takes no prisoners in the set piece."During the 2013/14 season, the club's first as a full-time professional side, Brennan was one of the few Jersey-born players, along with hooker David Felton, winger Ed Dawson, and back-rower James Voss.Brennan ended his first team rugby career at the end of the 2014/15 season. In 2015, he returned to play his final first-team match against Guernsey RFC in the Siam Cup, which Jersey won for the seventh consecutive year.

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