HEAD COACH
ANDY ROBINSON OBE – Head Coach Born: 3 April 1964 in Taunton, Somerset
Andy Robinson was formerly a maths and PE teacher at Colston’s Collegiate in Bristol and also King Edward’s, Bath. In his playing career he captained Loughborough University before joining Bath in 1986. He went on to enjoy a lengthy and successful association with Bath, captaining the club to Courage League and Pilkington Cup success.
On the international stage he won eight caps with
England as an openside flanker and was also selected for the 1989 British and Irish Lions tour to Australia. At the end of his playing days, Robinson became head coach at Bath, with Sir Clive Woodward as his assistant, and guided the club towards Heineken Cup success in 1998 before linking up again with Woodward as part of the England coaching set-up in May 2000. As assistant coach, England won 41 of their following 50 games and his expertise as forwards coach led to capturing the game’s biggest prize, the World Cup, in Australia in 2003.
In September 2004, Robinson was named as acting
England coach before being confirmed in the position which he held until November 2006. Robinson was also involved as assistant coach on the 2001 and 2005 British and Irish Lions tours.
Robinson was appointed as head coach of Edinburgh in
October 2007 and proceeded to make a positive impact on the squad’s fortunes. In his debut season in charge of first team affairs, Edinburgh recorded their highest ever finish in the Magners League – fourth – and in the next, they finished second.
He was appointed head coach of the national team
in June 2009 and has steered Scotland to victory over southern hemisphere opposition including Australia and South Africa, away to Ireland in the RBS 6 Nations and was at the helm for the historic two-Test victory over Argentina in the 2010 summer tour.
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