Sean Lineen

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Sean Lineen
Birth nameSean Raymond Patrick Lineen
Date of birth (1961-12-25) 25 December 1961 (age 62)
Place of birth Auckland, New Zealand
Notable relative(s) Terry Lineen (father)
Rugby union career
Position(s) Centre
Amateur team(s)
YearsTeamApps(Points)
Pontypool ()
– Boroughmuir ()
Provincial / State sides
YearsTeamApps(Points)
Edinburgh District ()
- Blues Trial ()
International career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1989–92 Scotland 29 (8)
Coaching career
YearsTeam
- Boroughmuir
2003-06 Glasgow Warriors (Asst.)
2006–12 Glasgow Warriors
2013–15 Scotland U20
2015– Scottish Rugby
2015–16 London Scottish

Sean Lineen (born 25 December 1961) is a former Scotland international rugby union player. He was a former head coach of Glasgow Warriors from 2006 to 2012. He was a director for the Scottish Rugby Union until December 2021. [1]

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Rugby Union career

Amateur career

Lineen played as a Centre.

Originally from New Zealand, in the 1985–86 season he made his first journey to the UK, playing for Pontypool in Wales. In October 1988 he came to Scotland and played for Boroughmuir. [2]

Provincial career

He played for Edinburgh District. [2]

He has been awarded the freedom of the city of Edinburgh.

He played for the Blues Trial side against the Reds Trial side on 6 January 1990. The Blues won the match 45 - 4. [3]

International career

He qualified to play for Scotland through his grandfather and made his international debut on 21 January 1989 against Wales at Murrayfield aged 27.

Lineen played at 29 times for Scotland, He was a member of the notable Scottish Grand Slam team of 1990.

Coaching career

After his playing career ended, Lineen became a coach at Boroughmuir and during his time there he guided the side to cup and league triumphs. From this, Lineen was appointed assistant coach at Glasgow Warriors for the start of the 2003–04 season. He later became a member of the Scotland national coaching team under Frank Hadden in the summer of 2005, coaching the backs.

A previous player for Edinburgh District, Lineen had applied to be head coach of Edinburgh Rugby but the SRU insisted that the new coach of Edinburgh must already have experience as head coach.

However, with Hugh Campbell stepping down as head coach of the Glasgow Warriors in 2006, Lineen was ideally placed as the assistant coach to then make the step up. On 28 March 2006 he was appointed head coach of Glasgow Warriors. He was coach of the Warriors for 6 years and started laying the foundation of the side that Gregor Townsend would later build on.

After coaching the Warriors, Lineen then coached the Scotland Under 20 side; and then moved on to coach London Scottish.

Administrative career

He was made a head of International Age-Grade Rugby at the Scottish Rugby Union. [4]

In 2016 he was made a director of rugby at London Scottish. [4]

He is now the head of player acquisition at the Scottish Rugby Union.

Business career

He ran the Scottish Rugby magazine while coaching with Boroughmuir.

Family

He is the son of rugby player Terry Lineen.

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References

  1. ↑ "Sean Lineen to leave Scottish Rugby". Scottish Rugby Union. 22 December 2021.
  2. 1 2 "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
  3. ↑ "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search".
  4. 1 2 "Club Announcement: Sean Lineen and Roddy Grant join coaching set-up". 11 January 2016.
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