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Scottish rugby union player (born 1962)

Rugby player
Sean McGaughey
Birth nameSean Kieran McGaughey
Date of birth (1962-05-08) 8 May 1962 (age 62)
Place of birthDumfries, Scotland
Rugby union career
Position(s) Flanker
Amateur team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)
Hawick ()
Provincial / State sides
Years Team Apps (Points)
South of Scotland District ()
International career
Years Team Apps (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.

Rugby Union career

Amateur career

McGaughey played for Hawick.

Provincial career

He played for South of Scotland District in Scottish Inter-District Championship. 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.

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.

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

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.

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.
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  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".
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