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 ...
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 ...
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Stuart Barnes
Stuart Barnes (born 22 November 1962 in Grays, Essex) is a former English rugby union footballer, and now rugby commentator for Sky Sports. Barnes played fly-half for Newport RFC, Bristol, Bath; and represented England at international level ...
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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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Gareth Chilcott
Gareth James Chilcott (born 20 November 1956 in Bristol) is a former rugby union player, who played at prop for Bath and England.
He made his England debut against Australia in 1984. He toured with the British Lions in Australia in 1989, toget ...
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Maurice Colclough
Maurice John Colclough (2 September 1953 – 27 January 2006) was an international rugby union player. He was selected for the 1980 British Lions tour to South Africa and the 1983 British Lions tour to New Zealand, playing in all four inte ...
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Fran Clough
Fran Clough is a retired England rugby union player who played as a centre four times for England in the period 1986-7, including the 1987 Rugby World Cup. He was born November 1, 1962, in Wigan. Clough initially studied at Durham University, w ...
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 ...
Simon Halliday
Simon John Halliday (born 13 July 1960 in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales) is a former English rugby union international. He also played nine first-class cricket matches. He was educated at Downside School, Somerset and St Benet's Hall, ...
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.
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John Palmer John Palmer may refer to:
People
Politicians
* John Palmer (fl. 1377–1394), English politician
*Sir John Palmer, 5th Baronet (1735–1817), British politician
*John Palmer (1785–1840), U.S. congressman from New York
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Nigel Redman
Nigel Charles Redman (born 16 August 1964) is a former professional rugby union player who played as a lock (rugby union), lock for Bath Rugby, Bath and the England national rugby union team, England national team.
Born in Cardiff, Redman left ...
Jamie Salmon
James Lionel Broome Salmon (born 16 October 1959) is an English rugby union centre who uniquely appeared in international matches for both New Zealand and England.
Career
He became a Wellington player in 1980 and first appeared for New Zealand ...
Peter Winterbottom
Peter James Winterbottom (born 31 May 1960 in Otley, West Yorkshire), is a former England rugby union footballer who played as an openside flanker. He was England's most-capped openside (with 58 caps) until being overtaken by Neil Back in 20 ...
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 ...
Pierre Berbizier
Pierre Berbizier (born 17 June 1958) is a French former rugby union footballer and a current coach. His usual position was at scrum-half. He played 56 times for France.
Biography
Berbizier was born in Saint-Gaudens. He made his international deb ...
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 ...
Denis Charvet
Denis Charvet (born 12 May 1962 in Cahors) is a former French rugby union player. He played as a centre.
Denis Charvet played for Stade Toulousain and Racing Club de France. He earned his first national cap on March 1, 1986 against Wales at Ca ...
Daniel Dubroca
Daniel Dubroca (born 25 April 1954) is a former French national rugby union player and coach. He played as a prop and as a hooker.
Biography
Dubroca was born at Aiguillon.
He played all his career at SU Agen, starting at 1969/70. He was promote ...
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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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 ...
Jean-Luc Joinel
Jean-Luc Joinel (born September 21, 1953, in Saint-Vincent-de-Cosse) is a retired French international rugby union player. He played as a Flanker for CA Brive.
He earned his first cap with the French national team on 11 November 1977 against Ne ...
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Guy Laporte
Guy Laporte (15 December 1952 – 28 January 2022) was a French rugby union player and a sports executive. He played as a fly-half.
Career
Laporte was born in Beaufort, Haute-Garonne, Beaufort, French Fourth Republic, France. He first played for ...
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Jean-Baptiste Lafond
Jean-Baptiste Lafond (born 29 December 1961 in Bègles, France) is a former French rugby union footballer. He played for the French national team on over 30 occasions. His usual position was either on the wing or at fullback.
He made his debut f ...
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Philippe Marocco Philippe Marocco (born 14 June 1960 in Cintegabelle) is a former French rugby union player and a current coach. He played as a prop and as a hooker.
Marocco did his career at Montferrand, where he won the Challenge Yves du Manoir Cup in 1985/86 an ...
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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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Des Fitzgerald
Desmond Fitzgerald (born 20 December 1957 in Dublin) is a former Irish rugby union international player who played for the Irish national rugby union team. He played as a prop forward.
He played for the Ireland team from 1984 to 1992, winning 34 ...
Paul Kennedy
Paul Michael Kennedy (born 17 June 1945) is a British historian specialising in the history of international relations, economic power and grand strategy. He has published prominent books on the history of British foreign policy and great pow ...
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
Brian Allen McCall (born January 25, 1943) is an American former professional baseball player, an outfielder who appeared in seven Major League Baseball games for the Chicago White Sox in –. McCall batted and threw left-handed, stood tall and w ...
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 ...
Alex Brewster
Alexander Kinloch Brewster (born 3 May 1954) is a former rugby union player who gained six caps for the Scotland national rugby union team. He played as a prop for Stewart's Melville RFC.
Early life
Brewster was born on 3 May 1954 in Dechmont, ...
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Finlay Calder
Finlay Calder OBE (born 20 August 1957) is a Scotland international former rugby union player.
Rugby Union career
Amateur career
Born in Haddington, East Lothian and educated at Stewart's Melville College,
Calder played at open side fla ...
Jeremy Campbell-Lamerton
Jeremy Robert Edward Campbell-Lamerton (born 21 February 1957 in Gibraltar
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...