Former Cougar star Nick Pinkney now with Salford City Reds needs one try for a career total of 200 touchdowns.

He has scored 54 for Ryedale-York, 101 the Cougars, 24 Sheffield Eagles, 14 Halifax, three Salford and three for England in 280 appearances.

Pinkney twice broke the Keighley record for tries in a season. The old record of 30 had stood for 60 years when Pinkney broke it in his first season, with 31 in 1993-94. He extended it to 45 the following season when he twice scored a club record five tries in a match, which has since been beaten by Jason Critchley.

He has also scored four tries in a match four times in a total of 13 hat-tricks. Pinkney has played for five clubs and scored at least one try on his debut for each.

A former Hull amateur, Pinkney made his senior professional debut for Ryedale-York when he scored a try in a 28-10 home League defeat of Chorley on 24 November 1989. He moved to Keighley in 1993 for a then club record £40,000 and made another tryscoring debut in a 30-22 win at Barrow.

Sheffield signed Pinkney and Keighley colleague Martin Wood for £95,000 plus Mark Gamson in January 1997. Pinkney scored three tries on his Sheffield debut in a 62-18 Silk Cut Challenge Cup fourth round victory at Leigh Centurions on 9 February 1997.

Two seasons later he moved to Halifax with Sheffield colleague Paul Broadbent in exchange for Simon Baldwin, Daio Powell and Martin Pearson. Pinkney made yet another tryscoring debut with one in the 74-6 Silk Cut Challenge Cup fourth round defeat of Featherstone Lions amateurs at Post Office Road on 13 February 1999.

Pinkney continued his debut tryscoring sequence with two in the 34-18 Silk Cut Challenge Cup fourth round win for Salford at Barrow Border Raiders in February.

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