Doddie Weir
Date of birth | 4 July 1970 | ||
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Place of birth | Edinburgh, Scotland | ||
Height | 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) | ||
Weight | 109 kg (17 st 2 lb) | ||
Rugby union career | |||
Playing career | |||
Position | Lock | ||
Amateur clubs | |||
Years | Club / team | ||
1991–1995 1988–1991 |
Melrose RFC Stewart's Melville RFC |
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Professional / senior clubs | |||
Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
2002–2005 1995–2002 |
Borders Newcastle Falcons |
? 97 |
(?) (35) |
National team(s) | |||
Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
1990–2000 | ![]() |
61 | (19) |
George "Doddie" Weir, born 4 July 1970 in Edinburgh, is a Rugby Union player, in the lock position.
Club career
George Weir started playing rugby for Stewart's Melville RFC,[1] his former school, in Edinburgh. He studied at the Scottish Agricultural College, gaining an HND, from 1988–1991. He moved to Melrose RFC in the Borders and was part of the team that won six Scottish club championships. He later moved to England in 1995 to join the Newcastle Falcons and was part of the Premiership winning side of 1997–1998.[2] He moved back to Scotland to join the newly reformed Borders team in 2002 where he remained until his retirement from professional rugby.
International career
Weir was first capped for Scotland against Argentina in 1990.[3] A mainstay of the team throughout the 1990s he was a recognisable figure around the park and fan favourite of the Murrayfield crowd. An excellent lineout specialist he was selected as part of the British and Irish Lions tour of South Africa in 1997. Whilst on the tour he suffered a horrific knee injury, as a result of foul play, while playing against Mpumalanga Province.[1]
His time in the national side dissipated in later years as Scotland began to blood the next generation of locks, with the likes of Stuart Grimes and eventual Scotland cap record holder Scott Murray coming into the team. His final appearance was in the 6 Nations game Scotland v France at Murrayfield, on 4 March 2000.
In all Weir won 61 Scottish caps scoring 19 points from four tries (his first was under the old four points). He finished his playing career together with Gary Armstrong at The Borders in 2004.
After playing career
He now works as commercial director at Hutchinson Environmental Solutions, a waste management company.[4]
Weir occasionally appears on the BBC as part of the half time analysis during Scotland matches.
References
External links
- profile at ESPN
- Use dmy dates from August 2012
- Use British English from August 2012
- Scottish rugby union players
- Newcastle Falcons rugby players
- 1970 births
- Living people
- British and Irish Lions rugby union players from Scotland
- Sportspeople from Edinburgh
- Rugby union locks
- Scotland international rugby union players
- Border Reivers players
- Melrose RFC players
- Stewart's Melville RFC players
- People educated at Stewart's Melville College