Sean McGaughey

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Sean McGaughey
Birth nameSean Kieran McGaughey
Date of birth (1962-05-08) 8 May 1962 (age 63)
Place of birth Dumfries, Scotland
Rugby union career
Position(s) Flanker
Amateur team(s)
YearsTeamApps(Points)
Hawick ()
Provincial / State sides
YearsTeamApps(Points)
South of Scotland District ()
International career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
1984 Scotland 'B' 1 (0)
1984 Scotland 1 (0)
1984 Barbarians 1 (0)

Sean McGaughey (born 8 May 1962) is a former Scottish international rugby union player who played for the Scotland national team. [1]

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Rugby Union career

Amateur career

McGaughey played for Hawick. [2]

Provincial career

He played for South of Scotland District in Scottish Inter-District Championship. [3] He won the 1983–84 Scottish Inter-District Championship with the South team.

International career

He was capped by Scotland 'B' once, on 19 February 1984 against France 'B'. Scotland 'B' won the match 13-10. McGaughey was replaced by his club captain Billy Murray in the match. McGaughey was injured and taken to hospital, but luckily he was only diagnosed with a bruised back. [4]

He was capped once by the full senior Scotland side in 1984. He played against Romania. Romania won 28-22 and it was McGaughey's only senior cap. [5]

Prior to the match he got bored and did 21 pull ups from his hotel balcony to celebrate his 21st birthday. [6] He was 9 floors up. [7]

He went on the 1985 Scotland rugby union tour of North America and 1988 Scotland rugby union tour of Zimbabwe, but these were non-cap matches.

He played for the Barbarians in 1984. [8]

References

  1. "Sean Kieran McGaughey". ESPN scrum.
  2. "Greens greats: Sean McGaughey and the years of dominance". 3 July 2020.
  3. "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
  4. "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
  5. "Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Statsguru - Player analysis - Sean McGaughey - Test matches". ESPN scrum.
  6. "The one-cap wonders". ESPN.com. 27 February 2014.
  7. Team, The Rugby Paper (20 November 2014). "Brendan Gallagher: The one cap wonders woefully short-changed".
  8. "Hawick Barbarians".