Debut: Vs Salford City Reds (H) 6th June 2001

Leeds Honours: Grand Final (Winner: 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2017; Finalist: 2005); Challenge Cup (Winner: 2014, 2015, Finalist: 2003, 2005, 2010, 2011, 2012); World Club (Winner: 2005, 2008, 2012, Finalist: 2009, 2010, 2013, 2016); League Leaders' Shield (Winner: 2004, 2009, 2015)

Inducted into the Leeds Rugby Hall of Fame in 2025.

Danny McGuire is the greatest try scorer in the summer era and is the only player to have scored over 200 Super League tries.

Very few players have the ability, determination, dedication and talent to reinvent themselves during their career.

Out of necessity, one of the greatest support players of the modern era, a try scoring revelation and predatory threat that mesmerised defences – the first player in the summer era to post 200 tries - became the creator rather than purely a finisher, and with equal triumph.

He followed a traditional path; from his local amateur club at East Leeds, to being a Leeds schools’ representative, then pulling on the Rhinos shirt he craved in an academy side that swept all before it, before cementing a first team place as part of the Golden Generation.

Even in those junior ranks, he looked the real deal; his pace and instinctive, natural awareness bringing him a hatful of tries and marking him out as one of the most outstanding emerging talents.

Given his senior debut at home to Salford in 2001, by 2003 he was laying down his marker culminating in an extraordinary performance off the bench in arguably the best Challenge Cup semi final of all time, when his two spectacular tries – the second in injury time - helped salvage the game against St Helens.

Bizarrely dropped for the decider, he set a Super League record of 39 touchdowns the following season as Leeds took out the title, scoring the winning try in the Grand Final, sparking Old Trafford euphoria, and being voted the Rugby League Writers’ Association ‘Player of the Year’.

In 2005, as Leeds became World Club Champions for the first time, he scored one of his most memorable solo touchdowns and had a hand or foot in four of their others that night at his beloved Elland Road.

Internationally, he made a big impact on his Tri-Nations debut for Great Britain in 2004 as they reached the final and toured down under in 2006, and for the World Cup two years later.

Producing some of his most glittering performances on the biggest stages, he is a twice Harry Sunderland winner for player of the match in Grand Finals; in 2015 when the treble was attained and, fittingly, in his final performance in blue and amber - as skipper - two years later, when another two try performance and masterclass kicking game decimated favourites Castleford.

He also crossed twice in the 2008 season finale when St Helens were downed, while at Wembley in 2014, with the squad desperate to put their Challenge Cup final heartache behind them, he was once more on the scoresheet fielding long time half back partner Rob Burrow’s kick, and adding a drop goal.

That Leeds were able to win the treble in 2015 was significantly down to a moment he recalls as one of his favourites in a Rhinos’ shirt.

With the helicopter carrying the League Leaders’ Shield on its way to Wigan, he produced a sublime chip with ten seconds to go at Huddersfield for Ryan Hall to post the winning try, such was his vision and precision execution.

Of his first team bow as a teenager, he recalled: “I remember it well, on my first run - supporting Jamie Mathiou - I got absolutely mullered and dropped the ball. I recall thinking it couldn’t get any worse and anything on top of that would be a bonus!”

His contribution to Rhinos’ history thereafter with seven Super League titles, three World Club Challenges, three League Leaders’ Shields and two Challenge Cups to his name, ranks him as one of the very best.

McGuire announced in July 2017 that he intended to take up a new challenge from 2018 after spending his entire career at Headingley Carnegie and Hull KR won the race for his signature after fending off interest from a number of rival clubs to secure his services on a two-year contract.