ANDY ROBINSON

'Andy Robinson' (born 3 April 1964 in Taunton, Somerset) is a former English rugby union footballer who played openside flanker for Bath and England. He was head coach of England from October 2004 until his resignation on 29 November, 2006 [1].

Contents

Biography

Career as England Head Coach

Career record

External links

References

Biography

Robinson made his England debut against Australia on 12 June 1988, and gained eight caps before playing his last match on 18 November 1995 against South Africa.
Robinson was quite small for a back row forward, being only 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m), and weighing 13 st 12 lb (88 kg), and his career may have suffered from being "too small". Other small opensides, most notably Neil Back suffered from the same problem. (Back later went on to win 66 caps, showing the idea to be wrong.)
Whilst playing rugby for Bath, Robinson taught Mathematics, Physical Education and Rugby at King Edward's School, Bath and later Colston's Collegiate School, Bristol, where he and Alan Martinovic masterminded the school's Daily Mail Cup wins in 1995 and 1996. 'Robbo' then left to play professionally with Bath.
Robinson later went into coaching, and coached Bath before being appointed forwards coach for the England side, deputy to Clive Woodward. When Woodward resigned from the role of England coach in September 2004, Robinson was named as acting coach before being confirmed in the position.

Career as England Head Coach

Robinson won just nine of his twenty two matches in charge after replacing World Cup-winning Sir Clive Woodward in 2004. In November 2006, it was confirmed that Robinson would remain Head Coach with the position reviewed after the two tests against South Africa. Defeat in the second test [2] increased demands from supporters that he should be replaced. The following Monday, November 27th 2006, the BBC reported that Robinson was to resign or face the sack.[3]. On November 29 his resignation as head coach was announced, with Robinson blaming his lack of support from the RFU [4].

Career record

'International'
Career Record (as England "first fifteen" player): Played 8, Won 4, Drawn 1, lost 3^[1]
'International' (as England Head Coach)
Career Record: Games Coached 22 (November 2004 — November 2006)
Won: 9 Lost: 13 Drawn: 0
Biggest Win (all): Canada 70-0 (November 2004)
Biggest Loss (all): Australia 34-3 (June 2006)
Biggest Loss (home): New Zealand 20-41, at Twickenham on 5th November 2006.

External links

★ Rugby Football union

★ Planet-rugby stats

★ Sporting Heroes

References

1. Sporting Heroes http://www.sporting-heroes.net/rugby-heroes/displayhero.asp?HeroID=883