RICHIE VERNON
Richard John Vernon was in the Great Britain sevens squad in the 2005 World Games in Duisburg, Germany and, also that year, joined the Scotland sevens squad for the IRB Dubai and George (South Africa) tournaments. Later in 2005 he scored a try against Italy on his under-19 international debut and went on to form a second-row partnership with Steve Turnbull in their four matches in season 2005/06. Richie was also an ever-present in the IRB Under 19 World
Championship in Dubai in April 2006. He was Scotland’s top try-scorer in that tournament with four – two against Japan and one each against Romania and Samoa. He joined Border Reivers as an apprentice in summer 2006 and made his professional debut in January 2007 in the Heineken Cup match against Northampton Saints at Murrayfield. The following month he was at No.8 for Scotland in the under-20 internationals against England and Wales, and in the summer that year he moved from Reivers to Glasgow Warriors where he remained until moving to Sale Sharks in 2011. Richie returned to the sevens squad in the eight tournaments in 2007/08. He scored three of the Scots’ nine tries in the San Diego (USA) tournament and then notched up five in the Twickenham event plus three a week later at Murrayfield before injury forced him to miss the last two ties. In April 2008 he was in the Scottish Thistles’ squad who won the prestigious Melrose sevens and, 10 months later, he returned to the national sevens squad for the IRB tournaments in Wellington (New Zealand) and San Diego (USA). He marked his debut for Scotland A by scoring two tries in the 69-3 win against Georgia at Firhill in November 2008 and had two more Scotland A games seven months later when he played in the IRB Nations Cup in Bucharest, scoring the crucial try in the 22-12 win against France A in the trophy decider. He made his Scotland debut as a replacement in the 2009 Bank of Scotland Corporate Autumn Test win over the Fijians at Murrayfield followed by further replacement appearances in the victory over Australia and the fixture with Argentina. A year later he made his first start, against New Zealand.
Club: Sale Sharks
School: High School of Dundee Born: 7 July 1987 in Dundee
Height: 6ft 5in (1.97m) • Weight: 16st 8lb (105kg) Position: Back row / lock
INTERNATIONAL RECORD: 12 caps 2009 – Fj (rep) A (rep) Arg (rep) 2010 – NZ SA (rep) Sam 2011 – F (rep) W I (rep) E (rep) It (rep) It2
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