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Fergus Wallace
Birth nameFergus Donald Wallace
Date of birth (1965-02-02) 2 February 1965 (age 59)[1]
Height1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight95 kg (14 st 13 lb)
SchoolKelvinside Academy
Notable relative(s)Murray Wallace, brother
Rugby union career
Position(s) Flanker
Amateur team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)
- Clarkston RFC
Glasgow High Kelvinside
Boroughmuir RFC
Hamilton RFC
Glasgow Hawks		 ()
Senior career
Years Team Apps (Points)
1996-98 Glasgow 18 (5)
Provincial / State sides
Years Team Apps (Points)
- Glasgow District ()
International career
Years Team Apps (Points)
- Scotland A
National sevens team
Years Team Comps
- Scotland 7s

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[edit]

Amateur career[edit]

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[edit]

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]

As the Flanker named for Warriors first match as a professional team - against Newbridge in the European Challenge Cup - Wallace has the distinction of being given Glasgow Warrior No. 6 for the provincial side.

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 joint-equal performance in that competition.[3]

International career[edit]

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 The Greenyards 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[edit]

He moved back to rugby becoming the Business Development Manager of Glasgow Warriors in November 2011.[3]

Outside of rugby[edit]

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[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Fergus Wallace - Rugby Union - Players and Officials - ESPN Scrum". ESPN scrum.
  2. ^ "HAWKS COACH FERGUS WALLACE LOOKS BACK". glasgowhawks.com.
  3. ^ a b c d e "Fergus Wallace Joins As Business Development Manager". scottishrugby.org.
  4. ^ "Former Glasgow flanker and captain ready to help the Warriors capture more silverware". Herald Scotland.
  5. ^ The Herald Diary: Fur Goodness' Sake! By Ken Smith
  6. ^ "BBC SPORT - RUGBY UNION - Veteran Lions roar to victory". bbc.co.uk. 21 November 2001.
  7. ^ a b https://uk.linkedin.com/in/fergusdwallace [self-published source]
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