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2006–07 Glasgow Warriors Season
The 2006–07 season saw Glasgow Warriors compete in the Celtic League and the European Challenge Cup. Season overview After impressive preseason displays, Glasgow Warriors played its first game in the new Celtic League against Newport Gwent Dragons, losing 23–24 after a last minute penalty. Glasgow then did not lose another home game until Ulster came to Hughenden in January 2007. Glasgow drew away to English side Saracens in the European Challenge Cup, en route to a quarter-final berth, but was drawn against Saracens and lost 23–19 at Vicarage Road. The Warriors defeated both Scottish rivals, Edinburgh and Border Reivers, just a week apart, and at the start of April title hopefuls Leinster arrived at Hughenden. Glasgow won the game 26–20, before following it up with a good away win against Irish side Connacht. The next game saw Glasgow travel to Ravenhill to face Ulster, one of only 2 sides to beat them at Hughenden, and the team stunned the home crowd by winning the game ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glasgow Warriors
Glasgow Warriors are a professional rugby union side from Scotland. The team plays in the United Rugby Championship league and in the European Professional Club Rugby tournaments. In the 2014–15 season they won the Pro12 title and became the first Scottish team to win a major trophy in rugby union's professional era. The side is known for its fast, dynamic and attacking style of play, using offloads and quick rucks. Defensively the club prides itself on its 'Fortress Scotstoun' where the club play at home. History Glasgow Warriors are a continuation of the amateur Glasgow District side founded in 1872. For the history of Glasgow as an amateur district side see: Reshaped as a professional club in 1996, Glasgow Warriors were originally known as Glasgow Rugby before rebranding as Glasgow Caledonians in 1998 by a merger with the Caledonian Reds. They dropped the Caledonians to become Glasgow Rugby in 2001 again and finally rebranded as the Glasgow Warriors in 2005. Origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Border Reivers (rugby)
Border Reivers, originally known as Scottish Borders Rugby, and also known as The Borders, were one of four professional rugby union teams in Scotland, alongside Edinburgh, Caledonia Reds and Glasgow Warriors. Border Reivers were active in the Scottish Inter-District Championship from 1996 to 1998 and in the Celtic League, Celtic Cup and Heineken Cup from 2002 until 2007, when, as part of the Scottish Rugby Union's cost-cutting measures, they were disbanded. They played their home matches at Netherdale (capacity circa 6,000) in Galashiels in the Scottish Borders region. History The Border Reivers were a continuation of the amateur South of Scotland rugby union team, reshaped as a professional side in 1996. District sides Scotland had four district sides: North and Midlands, South, Glasgow District, and Edinburgh District. The district sides capped the best amateur players from their areas' club sides to play inter-district matches and matches against touring sides. Unlike t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justin Va'a
Justin Va'a (born on 26 July 1978 Wainuiomata, New Zealand) is a former prop for the Samoan national rugby team and the Scottish club Glasgow Warriors in the Celtic League. He has earned 9 caps for Samoa. He was a member of the Pacific Islanders rugby union team The Pacific Islanders was a combined international rugby union team that played from 2004 to 2008. It represented Fiji, Samoa and Tonga; Niue and the Cook Islands also supplied players to the squad for their tour in 2004. The team did not play at R ... for the 2006 tour of Europe. In 2012 he played his 100th game for Wainuiomata. References External linksGlasgow profile Samoan rugby union players 1978 births Living people Rugby union players from Lower Hutt New Zealand sportspeople of Samoan descent Samoa international rugby union players Pacific Islanders rugby union players Samoan expatriate rugby union players Expatriate rugby union players in Scotland Samoan expatriate sportspeople in Scotland Gl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Tkachuk
Kevin Tkachuk (born September 11, 1976 in Thompson, Manitoba) is a former prop for the Canada national rugby union team and the Glasgow Warriors in Scotland. After completing his studies at Kellogg College, Oxford University,Sport at oxford '''', Retrieved 2 March 2009 he played rugby for numerous clubs, joining in 2004. He has earned 34 caps for Canada ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Prescott
Ben Prescott (born 31 July 1978 in Tripoli, Libya) is a Libyan born Scottish former rugby union player for Glasgow Warriors at the Tighthead Prop position. Amateur career Prescott played for Aberdeen GSFP. He also played for Blackrock College RFC when based in Ireland with Leinster in 2010. Professional career Prescott started playing for Glasgow Warriors in the 2001–02 season under Richie Dixon. His first match was the pre-season friendly against Northampton Saints where he came on as a substitute on 14 August 2001. He also played in competitive matches. His first competitive appearance was against Cardiff RFC in the Heineken Cup replacing Dave Hilton on 4 November 2001 at Hughenden Stadium. He played in the Welsh-Scottish League against Edinburgh Rugby, coming on as a temporary replacement for Steve Griffiths on 22 February 2002 He didn't play for the Warriors again until season 2004–05. He signed full-time for the Warriors in 2005. The following season 2006 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Euan Murray
Euan Murray (born 7 August 1980) is a retired Scottish rugby union footballer, whose last club was Pau in the French Top 14. He started his career with Glasgow Warriors before playing for a number of clubs including Northampton Saints, Newcastle Falcons and Worcester Warriors. He also played for the Scotland national team. His usual position was tighthead prop and he was known as a strong scrummager. He is a fundamentalist Christian and throughout his career has decided not to play on Sundays. Career Club Murray played most of his club rugby with Glasgow Southern (now known as GHA after amalgamation with Hutchesons' Aloysians) before he went on to join Glasgow Hawks and then a professional contract with Glasgow Warriors. He was named in the Pro12 Dream Team at the end of the 2006/07 season. Murray joined Northampton Saints in 2007. In December 2010, it was announced that Murray would be leaving Northampton by mutual consent and with immediate effect. He subsequently join ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuart Corsar
Stuart Corsar (born 28 March 1984 in Inverurie, Scotland) is a former rugby union player for Glasgow Warriors at the Loosehead Prop position. Corsar was a member of Glasgow Warriors Elite Development Players (Academy squad) was promoted to a full-time professional contract in 2006. He then moved to England to play with the Rotherham Titans. From there he moved on to play for the Doncaster Knights. Corsar was capped by Scotland at various age grades and finally earned a Scotland 'A' cap. After concussion forced him to quit playing, he moved into coaching, first with Aberdeen GSFP Aberdeen Grammar School FP RFC, also known as Aberdeen Grammar, are an amateur rugby union club based in Aberdeen, Scotland. They currently compete in the . The club plays its home games at Rubislaw in the city's west end. Honours *Scottish Na ... before moving onto coach Garioch RFC, his first amateur club. Left in 2017. External links Trend magazine Profile*The Herald Profile [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fergus Thomson
Fergus Matthew Andrew Thomson (born 18 September 1983) is a Scottish rugby union hooker who plays for Glasgow Warriors. He was a member of the Scotland squad for the 2007 Rugby World Cup in France. Thomson made his Celtic League début in November 2004 for Glasgow Warriors against the Border Reivers. He won his first international cap, aged 23, on 11 August 2007 against Ireland at Murrayfield Murrayfield is an affluent area to the west of Edinburgh city centre in Scotland. It is to the east of Corstorphine and north of Balgreen and Roseburn. The A8 road runs east–west through the south of the area. Murrayfield is often conside ...; Scotland won the match 31–21. In 2012 it was announced that Thomson would be leaving the Warriors at the end of the season alongside others, such as Rob Dewey, Richie Gray and Johnnie Beattie. References External links Glasgow Warriors profileScotland profile 1983 births Living people Glasgow Warriors players Howe of Fife RFC p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Lawson
Scott Lawson (born 28 September 1981 in Lanark) is a Scottish rugby union player who plays club rugby for Newcastle Falcons. Lawson started playing rugby with Biggar RFC he went through the youth system and all the way to the first XV. He then moved to sign and play for the Glasgow Pro' team. He played for Gloucester Rugby after moving from Sale Sharks in September 2008. After four years, Lawson left Gloucester in 2012 and joined London Irish on a two-year contract. But on 22 April 2013 it was announced Lawson would join newly promoted Newcastle Falcons in the Aviva Premiership for the 2013–14 season. He plays internationally for Scotland. He plays as a hooker. Lawson scored a try during his 12th cap for Scotland Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the ... in 2007, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Milligan (rugby Union)
Eric Milligan (born 28 September 1981 in Scotland) is a Scotland, Scottish former rugby union player who played for Glasgow Warriors. He normally plays at Hooker (rugby union), Hooker but can also play Prop (rugby union), Prop. He studied to be a teacher at Edinburgh University. Milligan is now a teacher at St Columba's School, Kilmacolm. He is the Director of Sport and Physical Education and coaches the school rugby team. Amateur career He represented Glasgow District (rugby union), Glasgow District U16 at provincial level. He played for Kilmarnock RFC, Kilmarnock and Currie RFC before joining Glasgow Hawks RFC, Glasgow Hawks He went on to captain the Hawks side. While with the Warriors he played for Hawick RFC, Hawick. He left the Warriors for a career as a teacher in 2009. That year he re-joined Glasgow Hawks RFC, Glasgow Hawks. Professional career In 1997–98 Glasgow Warriors season, 1997-98 season he was picked as one of the Glasgow Thistles to go to New Zealand and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Mercer
Gary Ivan Mercer (born 22 June 1966) is a New Zealand rugby league and rugby union coach and former professional rugby league footballer. A New Zealand international representative player, he has spent most of his career in Britain both playing and coaching. He is a former defence coach of Glasgow Warriors and a former coach at the SRU working in their Scottish Rugby Academy. As of March 2016, he was the head coach of Biggar RFC. Playing career In his long career he has represented the New Zealand national rugby league team within rugby league and New Zealand Māori sides and has played for the Leeds Rhinos, Bradford Northern, Warrington Wolves, Castleford Tigers ( Heritage № 789) and Halifax. Challenge Cup Final appearances Gary Mercer played right- in Warrington's 14-36 defeat by Wigan in the 1990 Challenge Cup Final during the 1989–90 season at Wembley Stadium, London on Saturday 28 April 1990, in front of a crowd of 77,729. County Cup Final appearances Gary Mercer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graeme Morrison
Graeme Morrison (born 17 October 1982 in Hong Kong) is a retired Scottish rugby union footballer. He played for Glasgow Warriors and Scotland as a Centre. Rugby Union career Amateur career Morrison played as a schoolboy for, Dollar Academy, where he captained the first XV. Professional career He played for Glasgow Warriors for 10 years, making 176 appearances and 110 points. On 20 May 2013, after a successful season for Glasgow, third in the Pro12 and Semi-finals of the play-offs, Graeme announced his retirement from rugby on medical advice, struggling with persistent knee problems. International career He has represented Scotland at under-21 level. Morrison played in all four tests against Australia in 2004. He scored his first international try in the win over Japan at McDiarmid Park in the same year. Since then, he has gone on to win more than 30 test caps for Scotland. He was recalled to the Scotland team for the first time in four years, for the Calcutta Cup tie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
