John Beattie (rugby union)

For his son, see Johnnie Beattie.

John Beattie

Personal information

Full name

John Ross Beattie

Date of birth

27 November 1957

Place of birth

North Borneo

Relatives

Johnnie Beattie
Jennifer Beattie

Representative teams

1980–1987

Scotland

John Ross Beattie (born 27 November 1957) is a Scottish former international rugby union player.^[1]

Playing career

North Borneo-born Beattie earned a total of 25 caps playing for Scotland as No. 8, and toured twice with the British Lions.

Coaching

John has coached Biggar along with Gary Parker, and West of Scotland from Premier 3 to 1 in Scotland, and for a brief period Glasgow Academicals.

Broadcasting career

John hosts the lunch time news on BBC Radio Scotland Monday to Thursday from 12 to 1.15, and is the co-host of the sports magazine programme Sport Nation on both radio and TV. He also writes a rugby blog on the BBC's rugby union website in which he comments on regional, national and international rugby and is match day commentator or presenter on international rugby games for either TV or Radio.

This is a link to his page on BBC Radio Scotland http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vkn0l

This is a link to his BBC Sport Nation page for TV and Radio http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/scotland/sport_nation/

He tweets @johnrossbeattie

Personal life

Beattie's son, Johnnie, is also a Scottish international rugby union player, winning his first cap in a victory against Romania. His daughter, Jenny, plays football for both the Scottish and Manchester City Women's.

In 2004, Beattie was a candidate for Rector of the University of Glasgow, and holds a degree in Civil Engineering from that institution. After retiring from rugby when injured at Twickenham in 1987 he retrained as a Chartered Accountant and left that profession in 1995 to concentrate on broadcasting.

Articles by John Beattie

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/johnbeattie/2011/09/scotland_blew_world_cup_game_t.html BBC blog, and this takes you to his other blogs.

References

↑ "John Beattie - Rugby Union - Players and Officials - ESPN Scrum". ESPN scrum. Retrieved 10 July 2015.

External links

John Beattie on the Sporting Heroes database
John Beattie's biography at the BBC
John Beattie's blog

British and Irish Lions – 1980 South Africa tour

Forwards	Beattie Beaumont (c) Blakeway Colclough Cotton Lane Martin O'Driscoll Orr Phillips Price Quinnell Squire Stephens Tomes Tucker Wheeler C. Williams G. Williams

Backs	Campbell Carleton Davies Dodge Gravell Hay Holmes Irvine Morgan O'Donnell Patterson Rees Renwick Richards Robbie Slemen Smith Ward Woodward

Coach	Murphy

British and Irish Lions – 1983 New Zealand tour

Forwards	Bainbridge Beattie Boyle Butler Calder Colclough Deans Fitzgerald (c) Jeavons Jones Lenihan McLoughlin Milne Norster O'Driscoll Paxton Price Squire Stephens Winterbottom

Backs	Ackerman Baird Campbell Carleton Evans Hare Holmes Irwin Kiernan Laidlaw MacNeill Melville Ringland Rutherford Smith Woodward

Coach	Telfer

British and Irish Lions – 1986 IRFB Centenary Match vs The Rest

Forwards	Nigel Carr (Ire) John Beattie (Sco) John Jeffrey (Sco) Donal Lenihan (Ire) Wade Dooley (Eng) Des Fitzgerald (Ire) Colin Deans (Sco) (c) Jeff Whitefoot (Wal) Iain Paxton (Sco) (bench) Iain Milne (Sco) (bench)

Backs	Gavin Hastings (Sco) Trevor Ringland (Ire) Brendan Mullin (Ire) John Devereux (Wal) Rory Underwood (Eng) John Rutherford (Sco) Robert Jones (Wal) Malcolm Dacey (Wal) (bench) Richard Hill (Eng) (bench) Michael Kiernan (Ire) (bench) Steve Brain (Eng) (bench)

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