England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...
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Dick Greenwood
John Richard Heaton Greenwood, (born 11 September 1940) is an English former rugby union player and coach. A flanker, he played for Waterloo, Cambridge University, Lancashire and . He later coached Preston Grasshoppers and England.
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Rob Andrew
Christopher Robert Andrew (born 18 February 1963) is a former English Rugby Union player and was, until April 2016, Professional Rugby Director at the RFU.
He was formerly the Director of Rugby of Newcastle Falcons and has been Chief Executiv ...
Steve Brain
Steve Brain (born ) is a retired rugby union player who played hooker for Coventry R.F.C. and represented England in over a dozen international matches, including three Five Nations, now the Six Nations Championship, between 1984 and 1986.
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Paul Dodge
Paul William Dodge (born 26 February 1958 in Leicester, England) is a former English rugby union international footballer who gained 32 caps for his country between 1978 and 1985. His Leicester Tigers career earned him 436 appearances.
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Wade Dooley
Wade Dooley (born 2 October 1957) is a former England rugby union international who played lock forward. He played for his country 55 times and was known as the "Blackpool Tower", as a result of being 6 feet 8 inches tall and a police officer ...
Bob Hesford
Robert Taylor Hesford (13 April 1916 – 15 June 1982) was an English professional footballer who played all his professional career as a goalkeeper for Huddersfield Town.
Biography
Hesford was born in Bolton. In 1950, Robert was teaching at ...
Nigel Melville
Nigel David Melville (born 6 January 1961) is a former England national rugby union team scrum half and captain and currently serves as Director of Professional Rugby for Rugby Football Union.
Melville became the youngest player to captain E ...
Mike Teague
Michael Clive Teague (born 8 October 1960) is a former England and British Lions rugby union footballer.
Early life
Teague was born and raised on a farm a few miles outside Gloucester. He attended Churchdown School.
Personal life
Teague mar ...
France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...
Serge Blanco
Serge Blanco (born 31 August 1958) is a former rugby union footballer who played fullback for Biarritz Olympique and the French national side, gaining 93 caps, 81 of them at fullback. His alternative position was wing. He was generally nicknamed ...
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Éric Bonneval
Éric Bonneval (born 12 November 1963 in Toulouse) is a former French rugby union player. He played as a Centre (rugby union), Centre.
Eric Bonneval played for Stade Toulousain and Racing Métro 92 Paris, Racing Club de France. His usual position ...
Jean Condom
Jean Condom (born 15 August 1960 in Saint-André-de-Seignanx) is a retired France, French international rugby union player. He played as a lock.
He played for Boucau, from 1980/81 to 1985/86, for Biarritz Olympique, from 1986/87 to 1995/96. His ...
Patrick Estève Patrick Estève (born Lavelanet, 14 February 1959) is a former French rugby union player and a current coach. He played as wing. He was nicknamed ''TGV''.
He first played at Carcassonne, which he joined in 1964, aged only 5 years old, and would joi ...
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Jerome Gallion
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Jean-Pierre Garuet-Lempirou
Jean-Pierre Garuet-Lempirou (born 15 June 1953) is a former French international rugby union player. He played as a prop for FC Lourdes.
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Jacques Gratton
Jacques Gratton (born 29 November 1957) is a French former international rugby union player.
Born in Lectoure, Gratton was a flanker and played his early senior rugby with FC Auch.
Gratton joined SU Agen in 1981 and was a member of two Brennus S ...
Laurent Rodriguez
Laurent Rodriguez (born 25 June 1960) is a retired French rugby player.
He made his international debut for France on 5 July 1981 in a test against Australia. Rodriguez was called for the 1987 Rugby World Cup, where France was runners-up to New ...
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Philippe Sella Philippe Sella (born 14 February 1962, in Tonneins) is French former rugby union player. He started as a rugby league junior in his home town before switching to rugby union. As a former French rugby union player, he held the record for most intern ...
Ireland
Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...
Nigel Carr
Nigel Carr (born 27 July 1959) was an Ireland rugby union international whose promising career was cut short due to injuries sustained in an IRA bomb explosion.
Early life
Nigel John Carr was born in Belfast on 27 July 1959. He won Irish U-23 ...
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Keith Crossan
Keith Crossan (born 29 December 1959 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a former Irish rugby union international player who played for the Irish national rugby union team. He played as a winger.
He played for the Ireland team from 1982 to 1992, win ...
Ciaran Fitzgerald
Ciaran Fitzgerald (born 4 June 1952) is an Irish former rugby union player. He captained Ireland to the Triple Crown in 1982 and 1985, and the Five Nations Championship in 1983. Fitzgerald also captained the Lions on their 1983 tour. After t ...
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Mick Fitzpatrick
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Biography
Born in Kilkenny in 1893, Fitzpatrick lived in Dublin and was described as ...
Donal Lenihan
Donal Gerard Lenihan (born 12 September 1959) is a retired Irish rugby union player. He appears regularly as a co-commentator on TV and radio for rugby matches and writes for the Irish Examiner. He also works as a financial consultant in Cork. ...
Brian McCall
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Brendan Mullin
Brendan John Mullin (born Jerusalem, 31 October 1963) is a former Ireland international rugby union football player. He played as a centre.
Profile
Mullin spent his early life in Jerusalem, Israel and attended secondary school in Blackrock Col ...
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 ...
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Derrick Grant
Derrick Grant (born 19 April 1938) is a former international rugby union player.
Grant was capped fourteen times as a flanker for between 1965 and 1968. He scored one try for Scotland.Griffiths, page 2:30-2:31 He was selected for the 1966 ...
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Roger Baird
Roger Baird (born 12 April 1960 in Kelso, Scotland) is a former Scotland international rugby union player.
Rugby Union career
Amateur career
Baird attended St. Mary's School, Melrose and Merchiston Castle School in Edinburgh. Both schools ...
Colin Deans
Colin Thomas Deans (born 3 May 1955) is a former Scotland international rugby union player.
Rugby Union career
Amateur career
He was born in Hawick in the Scottish borders. He played for Hawick Trades and then Hawick.Bath, p133 His nickname w ...
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Peter Dods
Peter Dods (born 6 January 1958) is a former Scotland international rugby union player. His regular playing position was Fullback.
Rugby union career
Amateur career
Dods played for Gala at fullback.
Provincial career
Dods was capped by Sou ...
John Jeffrey
John Jeffrey (born 25 March 1959 in Kelso in the Scottish Borders) is a former Scotland international rugby union player. He is an administrator for World Rugby.
Rugby Union career
Amateur career
Jeffrey was educated at St. Mary's Schoo ...
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Roy Laidlaw
Roy James Laidlaw (born 5 October 1953) is a former Scotland international rugby union player.Bath, pp145, 146
Rugby Union career
Amateur career
Much of his domestic rugby was played with Jed-Forest RFC, who were in the Scottish Second Divi ...
Iain Milne
Iain Milne (born 17 June 1956 in Edinburgh, Scotland) is a former Scotland international rugby union player and British & Irish Lion.Bath, p149
Rugby Union career
Amateur career
Educated at George Heriot's School in Edinburgh, he played prop ...
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Keith Murray
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Iain Paxton
Iain Angus McLeod Paxton (born 29 December 1957) is a Scottish former rugby union player. He won 36 caps for Scotland at number eight and lock between 1981 and 1988, scoring a total of five tries.Bath, p153 He also won four caps for the Brit ...
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Jim Pollock
James Ivan Pollock (July 8, 1930 – October 28, 2021) was a politician in Ontario, Canada.Keith Robertson
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Norrie Rowan
Norman "Norrie" Rowan (born 17 September 1951) is a former Scotland international rugby union player.
Rugby Union career
Amateur career
He played for Forrester and later Boroughmuir.
Provincial career
He played for Edinburgh District.
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Peter Steven
Peter Steven (born 4 July 1959 in Kilwinning) is a former Scotland international rugby union player.
Rugby Union career
Amateur career
Steven played for Heriot's.
Provincial career
He represented Edinburgh District.
He played for Combine ...
Iwan Tukalo
Iwan Tukalo (born 5 March 1961) is a former Scotland international rugby union player. His regular playing position was Wing.
Rugby Union career
Amateur career
The son of a Ukrainian father and Italian mother, Tukalo was educated at the Royal ...
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Douglas Wyllie
Douglas Wylie (born 20 May 1963) is a former Scotland international rugby union player and now coach.
Rugby Union career
Amateur career
Wylie was born in Edinburgh. He captained Stewart's Melville in 1994.
Provincial career
He played for ...
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Wales
Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the Wales–England border, east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the ...
Adrian Hadley
Adrian Michael Hadley (born 1 March 1963) is a Welsh former dual-code international rugby union and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s, and coached rugby union in the 1990s and 2000s. He played representative ...
Bob Norster
Robert Leonard "Bob" Norster (born 23 June 1957) is a former Welsh international rugby union player. He was selected for the 1983 British Lions tour to New Zealand and the 1989 British Lions tour to Australia
In 1989, the British Lions tour ...
Paul Thorburn
Paul Thorburn (born 24 November 1962 in Rheindahlen, West Germany) is a former Neath RFC and international Wales rugby union player who played at full back and also featured in the Welsh international team.
Thorburn was a prolific long-distance ...
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Mark Titley
Mark Titley is a former international Wales national rugby union team, Wales rugby union player. A winger, he played his club rugby for London Welsh RFC, Bridgend RFC and Swansea RFC. He was best known for his spell with Swansea where he scored 1 ...