Stephen Begley

Stephen Begley
Full name Stephen Begley
Date of birth (1975-04-04) 4 April 1975
Place of birth Scotland
Height 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m)[1]
Weight 110 kg (17 st 5 lb)
Rugby union career
Playing career
Position Lock
Amateur clubs
Years Club / team
Glasgow Academicals
Glasgow Hawks
Professional / senior clubs
Years Club / team Caps (points)
1996-98 Glasgow Warriors 9 (0)
Provincial/State sides
Years Club / team Caps (points)
Glasgow District
National team(s)
Years Club / team Caps (points)
Scotland U19
Scotland U21

Stephen Begley (born 4 April 1975) is a Scottish[2] former rugby union player who played for Glasgow Rugby, now Glasgow Warriors at the Lock position.

Begley played in the amateur Glasgow District side at Under 21 grade.[3]

Begley played for the amateur club Glasgow Academicals.[4][5][6][7] When the Accies merged with Glasgow High Kelvinside to form the Glasgow Hawks in 1997, he then played for the Glasgow Hawks.[8][9][10]

For a short spell, Begley played for Old Belvedere RFC in Dublin, Ireland. He was then picked for the Scottish Exiles district team.[11]

After moving back from France, Begley played for Watsonians[12] before moving back to Hawks.[13]

Begley was back with the Glasgow Hawks in 2003[14] via a short spell back at Glasgow Academicals.[15] His try for the Hawks clinched the BT Premiership title for them in 2004 against Heriots. Hawks became the first ever west of Scotland team to win the Scottish title,[16] in 30 years of effort.[17] Heriots had approached Begley to play for them in 1996.[18] The next year 2005 Hawks almost wrapped up the title against Heriots at Goldenacre with Begley again scoring a try.[19] The 2006 title was almost made certain at Currie.[20]

Begley left Glasgow Hawks in 2006.[21]

Begley played several times for the professional side Glasgow in Europe.[22][23]

He played for the Scotland Under 19s[24] and Scotland Under 21s[4][25] and hoped for a call up to Scotland A.[26]

He played for the French rugby clubs Lyon,[27] Strasbourg and Brive.[1][2]

He also played rugby in London and Capetown.[2] The Capetown side was Hamilton RFC, Sea Point. Begley played for them in the nineties and then turned out for them as a guest player when Hamilton, Sea Point entered a Sevens team in the Melrose Sevens in 2011. Begley turned out for them in the precursor Veterans Tens tournament which then the Capetown side went on to win.[28]

References

  1. 1 2 "Player Archive : EPCRugby.com - Official website of European Professional Club Rugby". epcrugby.com.
  2. 1 2 3 "No headline". Herald Scotland.
  3. ↑ "McLeish supplies the killer blow". Herald Scotland.
  4. 1 2 "Murrayfield meeting will decide outcome Silent majority hold key to great debate". Herald Scotland.
  5. ↑ "Kiwi Andy puts life into Accies". Herald Scotland.
  6. ↑ "No giants killed here". Herald Scotland.
  7. ↑ "Accies wilt in the face of a second-half barrage against all the odds GHK's Wallace brothers put on Braveheart show". Herald Scotland.
  8. ↑ "Glasgow Hawks RFC - Club History & Archive". glasgowhawks.com.
  9. ↑ "Heriot's call for a shorter season 'We expect too much from amateur players'". Herald Scotland.
  10. ↑ "Quality shines through as kicks count in a frenzied match Melrose refuse to lie down to defeat". Herald Scotland.
  11. ↑ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/club/3018949/Exiles-in-switch-to-Riverside.html
  12. ↑ Peter Donald (4 January 2003). "Scottish Rugby: Heriot's call in MacRae for crucial encounter". Telegraph.co.uk.
  13. ↑ "BT premiership 1: how they shape up". Herald Scotland.
  14. ↑ "Two tales of one city as Grammar put football club efforts to shame Rugby brigade are cock-a-hoop as soccer brothers fight off demons, says Neil Drysdale". Herald Scotland.
  15. ↑ "Today's action". Herald Scotland.
  16. ↑ "Hawks swoop to historic triumph Coach Wright concedes at last: 'We're the best'". Herald Scotland.
  17. ↑ "BBC SPORT - Rugby Union - Scottish - BT Premiership One round-up". bbc.co.uk.
  18. ↑ "Sick watching Scottish teams that battle bravely and lose". Herald Scotland.
  19. ↑ "Pragmatic victory makes title almost certain". Herald Scotland.
  20. ↑ "High-fliers make their own luck". Herald Scotland.
  21. ↑ dailyrecord Administrator (13 November 2006). "RED-HOT HAWKS TURN IT ON FOR CRAIG". dailyrecord.
  22. ↑ "Capital players are in demand". Herald Scotland.
  23. ↑ "Logan adds to disappointment". Herald Scotland.
  24. ↑ http://old.glasgowhawks.com/cms/history
  25. ↑ http://files.pitchero.com/clubs/35555/hawksrollofhonour_124605.pdf
  26. ↑ http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12169927.No_headline/
  27. ↑ "Small talk with the big Reds enough to make you cry". Herald Scotland.
  28. ↑ http://www.hamiltonsrfc.co.za/news/melrose-7s-2011/

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