Stephen Begley

Stephen Begley
Full name Stephen Begley
Date of birth (1975-04-04) 4 April 1975
Place of birth Scotland
Height 6 ft 4 in (1.93 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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