Open main menu
Home
Random
Recent changes
Special pages
Community portal
Preferences
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
Incubator escapee wiki
Search
User menu
Talk
Dark mode
Contributions
Create account
Log in
Editing
Rob Andrew
(section)
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
===Domestic=== Andrew attended [[Barnard Castle School]], where he was contemporary with future teammate [[Rory Underwood]] and was captain of the school 1st XV in 1981. Whilst in the northeast, both Underwood and Andrew played their rugby at Middlesbrough RUFC. Andrew then attended [[St John's College, Cambridge]], and played for [[Cambridge University Rugby Football Club|Cambridge University]] in [[the Varsity Match]]. He joined [[Nottingham R.F.C.|Nottingham]] for one season in 1985/86 and then joined [[Wasps FC]] where he was first choice fly-half throughout most of the eight seasons he spent with the north London club. At [[Wasps FC]] he won the English League in 1990, eventually leaving to join [[Newcastle Gosforth]] in 1995 as both a player and as director of rugby.<ref>[http://www.newcastlefalcons.co.uk/188_190.php Newcastle Falcons history]</ref> The club had just been bought out by Sir John Hall in the lead-up to the game turning professional; they became the Falcons of today. During his time in charge of [[Newcastle Falcons]] he is credited with discovering [[Jonny Wilkinson]]. In 1991 he joined the famous Stade Toulousain (France) for one season. He was an ever-present when Newcastle Falcons won the [[1997β98 English Premiership (rugby union)|1997-98 Premiership]].<ref>{{cite news | url = http://stats.espnscrum.com/scrum/rugby/records/player/records.html?id=2529;team=249;type=tournament | title = Allied Dunbar Premiership, 1997/98 / Newcastle Falcons / Player records | publisher = espnscrum.com | access-date = 7 September 2016}}</ref> His playing career was ended in 1999 after an injury in training.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/rugby/rugby-union/injury-ends-andrews-playing-career-739297.html|title=Injury ends Andrew's playing career|date=21 September 1999|work=The Independent}}</ref>
Edit summary
(Briefly describe your changes)
By publishing changes, you agree to the
Terms of Use
, and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the
CC BY-SA 4.0 License
and the
GFDL
. You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license.
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)