- John Jeffrey
John Jeffrey was born
March 25 ,1959 inKelso in the Scottish Borders. He was educated at St, Mary's School, Melrose andMerchiston Castle School . "The Great White Shark" or "JJ" as he was known as won 40 Cap for Scotland between 1984 and 1991, making him, at the time, Scotland's most capped flanker. He was also a British and Irish Lion with Scotland team mate Finlay Calder in 1989.Player
Invariably first to the breakdown point, first with the tackle, or first with an inspired counter, he had the priceless ability to score important tries, of which he scored 11, another Scottish record at the time, shared with back-row colleague
Derek White . He was also a member of theBritish Lions on the tour to Australia in 1989.In 1988, after playing football with the
Calcutta Cup alongPrinces Street inEdinburgh with England's Dean Richards, Jeffrey received a six-month ban from theScottish Rugby Union . Richards received just a one match sentence from theRugby Football Union .During the 1990
Hong Kong Sevens , Jeffrey played for the Scottish side, but when they were knocked out, he went on to play for Wales as they were suffering from too many injuries.cottish Grand Slam (1990)
He was an outstanding performer in the Grand Slam season of 1990 (he was the one who started the move from the scrum that led to
Gavin Hastings 's famous kick toTony Stanger , sealing the victory against the English), Jeffrey had been a British Lion on the 1989 Tour ofAustralia , ironically being kept out of the Test side by his national team-matesFinlay Calder and Derek White, and EnglishmenMike Teague who would suffer for this indignity in the famousCalcutta Cup showdown a year later.Coach and Commentator
Recently he has been involved in coaching the Scotland youth teams and commentating at rugby games on
BBC Radio Scotland 's [http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/sportscotland/sportsound/ Sportsound] programme.When interviewed he came up with the memorable comment: "Scoreboards do not lie!"
External links
* [http://www.sporting-heroes.net/rugby-heroes/displayhero.asp?HeroID=1476 John Jeffrey on Sporting Heroes]
* [http://sport.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=325&id=474212002 A tribute to John Jeffrey in "The Scotsman" newspaper]
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