Sean McGaughey
| Birth name | Sean Kieran McGaughey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 8 May 1962 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Dumfries, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sean McGaughey (born 8 May 1962) is a former Scottish international rugby union player who played for the Scotland national team.[1]
Rugby Union career
[edit]Amateur career
[edit]McGaughey played for Hawick.[2]
Provincial career
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ "Sean Kieran McGaughey". ESPN scrum.
- ^ "Greens greats: Sean McGaughey and the years of dominance". 3 July 2020.
- ^ "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
- ^ "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
- ^ "Rugby Union - ESPN Scrum - Statsguru - Player analysis - Sean McGaughey - Test matches". ESPN scrum.
- ^ "The one-cap wonders". ESPN.com. 27 February 2014.
- ^ Team, The Rugby Paper (20 November 2014). "Brendan Gallagher: The one cap wonders woefully short-changed".
- ^ "Hawick Barbarians".