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2017–18 Glasgow Warriors Season
The 2017–18 season saw Glasgow Warriors compete in the competitions: the Guinness Pro14 and the European Champions Cup. Season overview League expansion With the addition of two South African sides, the Pro12 expanded to become the Pro14 for season 2017–18. The format of the league changed to accommodate the extra teams. It was split into two conferences and matches played in a conference system with the addition of 2 derby fixtures. The play-off system also changed with the winners of the conferences hosting a Semi-Final and each conference runners up and 3rd place teams playing off in Quarter-Final fixtures. For the Pro14's inaugural season, Glasgow Warriors were placed in a conference with the Ospreys, Cardiff Blues, Munster, Connacht, Zebre and Cheetahs. New coach, new captain Dave Rennie was installed as new Head Coach in August 2017. One of his first decisions was to scrap the co-captaincy enjoyed by Jonny Gray and Henry Pyrgos. Ryan Wilson was picked as Warriors c ... [...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] |
Jonny Gray
Jonathan Douglas Gray (born 14 March 1994) is a Scotland national rugby union team, Scotland international rugby union player. He plays at Rugby union positions#Locks, lock for Exeter Chiefs in Premiership Rugby. Rugby union career Amateur career Gray started playing rugby at Cambuslang RFC where he progressed from the mini section (at 7 years old) through to first XV regular at the age of 16. He also played for Calderglen High School in East Kilbride. Gray is the younger brother of Scottish and British and Irish Lions, British and Irish Lion international Richie Gray (rugby union, born 1989), Richie Gray. Gray was drafted to Currie RFC, Currie in the Scottish Premiership (rugby), Scottish Premiership for the 2017–18 season. Professional career In 2013, Gray was offered a full-time contract for three years by Glasgow Warriors Domestically, the 2014–15 Pro12, 2014–15 season saw Gray play a prominent role in Glasgow Warriors, Glasgow Warriors' maiden Pro14, Pro12 tit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Malcolm (rugby Union)
James Malcolm (born 23 September 1994 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish rugby union player who plays for the Seattle Seawolves of Major League Rugby (MLR). He previously played for the Glasgow Warriors at the hooker or prop positions. Rugby Union career Amateur career Malcolm is a product of Glasgow Hutchesons' Aloysians RFC (GHA) and Hutchesons' Grammar School. He played 1st XV rugby for GHA during season 2012/13 and 2014/15. Malcolm joined Ayr Rugby Club at the start of the 2013–14 season. He is also part of the University of Strathclyde's Elite Athlete programme, which enables gifted sportsmen and women to balance training and competition with their academic courses, where he studies Mechanical Engineering. Malcolm was drafted to Marr in the Scottish Premiership for the 2017-18 season. Malcolm has been drafted to Ayr in the Scottish Premiership for the 2018-19 season. Professional career Malcolm secured an Elite Development Programme and was aligned to Glasgow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat MacArthur
Patrick Calum MacArthur (born 27 April 1987) is a former Scotland international rugby union player. He formerly played as a hooker for Glasgow Warriors in the Pro14. He is now a player-coach at Ayr. Rugby Union career Amateur career He has played for West of Scotland MacArthur has turned out for Ayr. He was assigned Ayr in the Pro draft for the Scottish Premiership sides from Glasgow Warriors for the season 2017-18. Professional career MacArthur has made more than 100 appearances for Glasgow Warriors. International career MacArthur represented his country at under-18, 19 and 20 level. He played for Scotland A in 2012, before making his full international debut with Scotland in 2013. Coaching career MacArthur is the Assistant Coach at Ayr Ayr (; sco, Ayr; gd, Inbhir Àir, "Mouth of the River Ayr") is a town situated on the southwest coast of Scotland. It is the administrative centre of the South Ayrshire Subdivisions of Scotland, council area and the historic Shi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fraser Brown (rugby Union)
Fraser James Macgregor Brown (born 20 June 1989) is a Scotland international rugby union player. He currently plays for Glasgow Warriors in the United Rugby Championship. He plays as a hooker or in the back row. Rugby union career Amateur career Brown captained his school rugby union team, Merchiston Castle School in 2006. Dropped by Edinburgh in 2011, Brown worked on the family farm in Carstairs and played for Heriot's Rugby Club. Brown has been drafted to Glasgow Hawks in the Scottish Premiership for the 2017-18 season. Professional career In 2010, Brown was selected to play for Edinburgh in the 2010–11 Celtic League, but did not earn a cap. Glasgow Warriors head coach Gregor Townsend recruited Brown in 2013 following injuries in the squad. He made his debut against Italian side Zebre. International career Fraser Brown has represented Scotland at many levels. He debuted for the Scotland Under 18s in 2007. In 2008, he was selected for the Scotland under-20s squad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alastair Kellock
Alastair 'Al' David Kellock (born 14 June 1981) is the managing director at Glasgow Warriors. He is a former Scotland international rugby union player. He played as a lock for Edinburgh Rugby and Glasgow Warriors, captaining the Warriors to a Pro12 league win in 2015. Rugby Union career Amateur career Kellock began playing rugby union with Allan Glen's in Bishopbriggs. Professional career He played for Edinburgh Rugby before making the switch to Glasgow Warriors. He captained Glasgow from 2006 until 2015. In his last season 2014–15 before retiring, the Warriors won the Pro12, the first major trophy that a Scottish side has won in the professional era. He was named in the Pro12 Dream Team at the end of the 2009/10 and 2012/13 seasons. International career He made his Scotland debut against Australia on 6 November 2004. He captained Scotland to a historic win against Australia in November 2009. On 25 January 2011, it was announced that Kellock would captain Scotland i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Manson
John Manson (born 22 June 1968) is a retired Scottish international rugby union footballer who played with the Caledonia Reds and Glasgow Warriors, two of Scotland's first professional rugby teams. Rugby Union career Amateur career Manson played for Hillfoots, Dundee HSFP, Stirling County, and West of Scotland FC at amateur level. Manson, while with the Dundee side, was one of the original Tillicoultry Trogs who brought the hard edge to Dundee HSFP's pack in the club's heyday in the early nineties. Alongside front row companion Danny Herrington, Manson made sure one of Scotland's future heroes, Prop Tom Smith had a tough fight to see 1st XV action with the club. Manson was part of the historic unbeaten NZ tour of 1992, the first ever by a British club side. Professional career When Scottish rugby turned its district sides professional in 1996, Manson first of all played for Caledonia Reds. When the Reds district was taken over by Glasgow, Manson then played for the Glasg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathan Bombrys
Nathan Bombrys is the Head of International Commercial Projects in the Scottish Rugby Union. He was previously the managing director of the Glasgow Warriors, a professional Scottish rugby union club playing in the Pro14. Business career Bombrys is from the state of Michigan in the United States and grew up in Mendon. He began playing rugby at Syracuse University, where he captained the team."Glasgow Warriors: Michigan man Nathan Bombrys aiming high" BBC Sport, Jamie Lyall, 23 April 2015. Bombrys played rugby for 17 years, and also qualified as a referee."Bombrys swaps SRU for Warriors" ''Herald ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Petrakos
George Petrakos (born c. 1988 in Essex, England) is a rugby union strength and conditioning coach with Italy. Rugby Union Coaching career He started as a Strength and Conditioning Coach for Glasgow Warriors in 2016.https://ie.linkedin.com/in/george-petrakos-910b0920 He previously worked with Leicester Tigers, Edinburgh rugby and 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 .... Football He was a Sports Science intern with Chelsea FC. During a year at the football club he worked under Scolari, Hiddink and Ancelotti. Hockey Petrakos was the Lead Strength and Conditioning Coach for the Ireland national women's hockey team. Academic career Petrakos graduated from the University of Loughborough with a BSc in Sports Science. He then studied at the University of Ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Healey
Phil Healey is a rugby union strength and conditioning coach with the Blues in Auckland, having previously been with Glasgow Warriors. He joined the Glasgow side for the 2017–18 season. Before he was with Glasgow he was previously a strength and conditioning coach for the Chiefs in New Zealand. Rugby union coaching career Healey was the head strength and conditioning coach for Counties Manukau Rugby Football Union from 2003 until 2008. He then joined the Chiefs in 2008 and stayed there until 2017. In 2016 the Chief's Head Coach, Dave Rennie, credited part of the team's success to the strength and conditioning work by Healey and his team. During Healey's time at the Chief's Waikato University's Sport and Leisure Studies students worked as interns with him. He joined Glasgow Warriors for the 2017–18 season along with Dave Rennie. On 23 October 2018 it was announced that Healey would leave Glasgow Warriors for personal reasons to return home to New Zealand. He will take u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Blair
Michael Robert Leighton Blair (born 20 April 1981) is a Scottish rugby union coach who was formerly a professional player. He is the head coach of Edinburgh. He played at scrum-half for Glasgow Warriors, Newcastle Falcons, CA Brive and Edinburgh Rugby. He represented the Scotland national side 85 times, as well as the touring with the British & Irish Lions in 2009. He retired from playing on 21 April 2016 aged 35. He then became an assistant coach with Glasgow Warriors and then an assistant coach of the Scottish national team. He was the first Scottish player to be nominated for the title of IRB World Player of the Year. Club career Blair spent most of his club career at Edinburgh, and was named in the Pro12 Dream team at the end of the 2007/08 season. Blair spent the 2012–13 season playing in France with Brive helping them to gain promotion back to the Top 14. Blair then returned to the UK to play for the Newcastle Falcons in the English Premiership. He joined Glasgow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason O'Halloran
Jason David O'Halloran (born 28 February 1972 in Lower Hutt, New Zealand) is an All Black cap and rugby union coach. He is now the Assistant Coach at Suntory Sungoliath. He was the Assistant Coach of Glasgow Warriors. Before that he was an Assistant coach to the Scotland national team. He was the head coach of Manawatu's provincial rugby union side in New Zealand. He has previously been the head coach of rugby union Top League side, the Kubota Spears. O'Halloran had played 95 games and scored 35 tries for Wellington between 1993 and 2001 and 54 games with 17 tries for the Hurricanes at Super 12 level from the inaugural 1996 season. He was also often the Wellington and Hurricanes captain. He had international experience as well after he received his first and only All Black cap when he went on for the final few minutes of the international against Italy late in the 2000 season. O'Halloran is the grandson of Wellington representative player of the 1930s, Con, was a product of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |