Fergus Wallace
Birth name | Fergus Donald Wallace | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | [1] | 2 February 1965||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 95 kg (14 st 13 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | Kelvinside Academy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notable relative(s) | Murray Wallace, brother | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Fergus Wallace (born 2 February 1965) is a Scottish former rugby union player for Glasgow Rugby, now known as Glasgow Warriors. He played as a flanker.
Rugby Union career[]
Amateur career[]
Wallace's playing career straddled the amateur and professional era.
He began his club career with Clarkston before moving on to Glasgow High Kelvinside, Boroughmuir, Hamilton and Glasgow Hawks.
Provincial career[]
He captained the amateur Glasgow District in season 1989-90 when they famously won the Scottish Inter-District Championship that season, and were unbeaten the entire season, also beating the touring Fiji international side.[2] He captained the Glasgow District side for 6 years.[3]
He played for the professional Glasgow side in the Heineken Cup in 1997-98. Glasgow got to the European Cup's quarter-finals that year; which remains the Glasgow Warriors best performance in that competition.[3]
International career[]
Fergus narrowly missed out on a full Scotland international cap. He has stated "Not getting a full cap was disappointing and I think I might have got in if they had selected the team differently in 1994. I was in the Scotland A side that beat South Africa at and had a good game, scoring our try, but strangely they had picked the Scotland team for the Test match before the A game."[4] However he now jokes about this; he told the St. Andrews Sporting Club: "I was often compared to the Lions great, Willie John McBride. Yes, folk would say to me: 'Compared to Willie John McBride, you're rubbish!'" [5]
Wallace did however get capped by Scotland A and Scotland Sevens and also captained a Scotland XV against Zimbabwe.[3] He also played for a veteran British and Irish Lions side in 2001.[6]
Administration[]
He moved back to rugby becoming the Business Development Manager of Glasgow Warriors in November 2011.[3]
Outside of rugby[]
On leaving rugby Fergus became a painter and decorator, then a chartered surveyor.[3] He also worked with networking companies Laads Consultancy and Klas International.[7]
In December 2014 he moved to become the Head of Sports Partnerships at House of Fraser.[7]
External links[]
References[]
- ^ "Fergus Wallace - Rugby Union - Players and Officials - ESPN Scrum". ESPN scrum.
- ^ "HAWKS COACH FERGUS WALLACE LOOKS BACK". glasgowhawks.com.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e "Fergus Wallace Joins As Business Development Manager". scottishrugby.org.
- ^ "Former Glasgow flanker and captain ready to help the Warriors capture more silverware". Herald Scotland.
- ^ The Herald Diary: Fur Goodness' Sake! By Ken Smith
- ^ "BBC SPORT - RUGBY UNION - Veteran Lions roar to victory". bbc.co.uk.
- ^ Jump up to: a b https://uk.linkedin.com/in/fergusdwallace
- 1965 births
- Living people
- Rugby union flankers
- Glasgow Warriors players
- Glasgow District (rugby union) players
- Glasgow Hawks players
- Glasgow High Kelvinside RFC players
- Clarkston RFC players
- Scotland 'A' international rugby union players
- Scotland international rugby sevens players
- Male rugby sevens players