DATE OF BIRTH: 23 August 1984, Northallerton, North Yorkshire.

BRITISH CAREER: (2001) Newcastle; (2002) Newcastle, Newcastle II; (2003) Sheffield II, Coventry, Boston; (2004) Sheffield, Sheffield II, Boston; (2005) Sheffield, Eastbourne; (2006-07) Peterborough; (2008) Scunthorpe; (2009-10) Sheffield.

CLUB HONOURS: League Championship winner: 2006 [Peterborough]; Elite Shield winner: 2007 [Peterborough].

2010 STARTING AVERAGE: 7.37 (PL).

ADDITIONAL INFO: Hall worked his way through the British League system, before gaining a full-time berth in the top-flight with Peterborough in 2006. And what a season it was for the Panthers, as they finished at the top of the final league table, albeit on race-points difference, ahead of Reading, both sides having attained 64 points from their forty matches.

Fittingly, it was the Panthers and the then nicknamed Bulldogs who both battled through to the Play-Off Grand Final, Peterborough getting there by virtue of defeating Coventry 52-40 at the East of England Showground on 25 September. The first leg of the final took place seven days later at Reading on 2 October, when the Bulldogs were only able to claim a hard-fought 49-47 success. The Panthers clearly started the second leg at their pacy home circuit as favourites, but Reading fought like tigers to lead 41-31 after heat twelve. Just when it looked as if the Berkshire side were heading for the League Championship, Hans Andersen took victory in a tactical ride and, with Hall in third place, the resultant 7-2 reduced the Bulldogs' advantage to 43-38. Ryan Sullivan and Hall then combined for a 5-1, setting up an overwhelmingly tense last-heat decider as Reading clung desperately to a 44-43 lead. It wasn't to be for the Bulldogs, however, as Sullivan and Andersen joined forces for a 5-1 over Greg Hancock, giving the Panthers the narrowest of aggregate successes by 95 points to 94.

The Yorkshireman remained with Peterborough for a second term, but he suffered with injury and eventually lost his team spot, before moving back into the Premier League with Scunthorpe in 2008. However, he re-aggravated an ankle injury in his fourth heat of the World Long-track Qualifier at Artigues de Lussac on 17 May, when he made a mistake and fell exiting the first bend.

Thankfully, he wasn't out of action for long and went on to post a solid 7-point average for the Scorpions. Having re-joined Sheffield in 2009, Hall sustained a broken scaphoid during the Tigers' home league fixture versus Edinburgh on 17 September.

This injury occurred in heat seven of the meeting, when he crashed into team-mate Scott Smith. Despite spending the remainder of the campaign on the sidelines, he had done sufficiently well to warrant a recall in 2010, with Sheffield announcing that they had concluded a deal for his services in mid-November.