Career
County Cup final appearances
Dean Carroll played scrum-half/halfback, and scored a conversion and a 2-drop goals in Bradford Northern"s 7-18 defeat by Hull in the 1982 Yorkshire Cup final during the 1981-1982 season at Elland Road, Leeds on Saturday 2 October 1982. Club career
Dean Carroll initially played rugby league for Street John Fisher Catholic School, and Batley Boys ARLFC before joining Bradford Northern, he made his début for Bradford Northern against Blackpool Borough in 1980, following the arrival of Wales international rugby union Scrum-half Terry Holmes from Cardiff Reconstruction Finance Corporation in 1985, Dean Carroll felt his first-team opportunities at Bradford Northern would be limited, and consequently he transferred to Carlisle, in hindsight, the number of injuries sustained by Terry Holmes would actually have meant more opportunities at Bradford Northern than Dean Carroll had envisaged. Dean Carroll was a pupil at Street Mary"s Catholic Primary School in Batley, and Street John Fisher Catholic School in Dewsbury, during his working life he was employed at Fox"s Biscuits, Batley.
