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Biography
Michael Aldous (born 1960) is a former Canberra Raiders rugby league footballer and representative coach of French national rugby league team.
Playing career
Raised in Nowra, New South Wales Aldous attended St Joseph's College, Hunters Hill in Sydney and played in the school's rugby union First XV in 1977 & 1978 at five-eighth. He represented at GPS level in both those years and in a New South Wales Schoolboy side in 1978. He was also an excellent schoolboy cricketer captaining St Joseph's, GPS and NSW schoolboy representative cricket XIs in 1978/79 before a career in first grade cricket for the Waverley club in Sydney, as a wicketkeeper batsman.
His professional rugby league career was with the Canberra Raiders. He made twenty-five first grade appearances between 1984 and 1985 as a versatile back at centre, wing and fullback.
Post playing
After injury, caused an early retirement Aldous became an Australian Schoolboys coach in rugby league and took a job as a Development Officer with the NSWRL.
In 2004, Aldous moved to France as a coaching consultant to the French Rugby League Federation. In November 2004, he coached France to a competitive 52-30 loss to the Kangaroos and a 24-20 loss to the Kiwis in Carcassonne.
From 2006 to 2017 he worked as Recruitment Coordinator for the Canberra Raiders whilst teaching PDHPE, and Design and Technology part-time at the selective high school Sydney Boys High School. Aldous is currently a coach for cricket and rugby.