Martin Waite

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Martin Waite
Birth nameMartin Waite
Date of birth (1971-04-17) 17 April 1971 (age 51)
Height6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Rugby union career
Position(s) Flanker
Amateur team(s)
YearsTeamApps(Points)
- Watsonians RFC ()
Senior career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1996-98
1998-2001
Caledonia Reds
Glasgow Warriors
29 (30)
Provincial / State sides
YearsTeamApps(Points)
- North and Midlands ()
National team(s)
YearsTeamApps(Points)
- Scotland A
National sevens team(s)
YearsTeamComps
- Scotland 7s

Martin Waite (born 17 April 1971 [1] in Scotland) is a Scottish former Scotland A international rugby union player who played for Glasgow Warriors and Caledonia Reds at the Flanker position.

Waite began his professional career with Caledonia Reds in 1996 before they merged with the Glasgow side in 1998. Waite then joined Glasgow Caledonians, now Glasgow Warriors for the next three seasons. [2]

He played for amateur side Watsonians RFC, joining them from the professional Glasgow club [3] for the new season 2001-02. [4] Nevertheless, he remained included in the Glasgow side's Heineken Cup squad of 2001-02 while still a Watsonian player. [5]

Waite retired from rugby union in 2002 after a back injury. [3] He became a chartered surveyor [3] in Edinburgh with Barr Brady. [6]

On Waite's retiral from the game, Scott Hastings, then the Director of Rugby at Watsonians, stated that Waite's enforced retirement was a: "loss of one of Scottish rugby’s characters. [Waite] was capable of the improbable. He’d try an audacious reverse pass. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn’t...That’s why he stood out." [3]

Waite played at international level for Scotland A and the Scotland Sevens. [6]

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References

  1. "Statistics - ERC - Martin Waite". ercrugby.com. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 7 January 2016.
  2. "History Martin Waite". Statbunker.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Flanker's departure big Waite off minds of international brigade proponents".
  4. Peter Donald (3 April 2001). "Watsonians ask Callander to revive former glories". Telegraph.co.uk.
  5. "Glasgow Call On Five Club Players". scottishrugby.org. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 7 January 2016.
  6. 1 2 "Rejected Waite counts cost of failure". The Scotsman.