Douglas Wyllie
| Birth name | Douglas Stewart Wylie | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 20 May 1963 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Edinburgh, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Douglas Wylie (born 20 May 1963) is a former Scotland international rugby union player and now coach.[1]
Rugby Union career[edit]
Amateur career[edit]
Wylie was born in Edinburgh. He captained Stewart's Melville in 1994.[2]
Provincial career[edit]
He played for Edinburgh District in the Scottish Inter-District Championship.[3]
He played for Combined Scottish Districts on 1 March 1986 against South of Scotland.[4]
International career[edit]
He was capped by Scotland 'B' three times in the seasons between 1984 and 1985.
He was capped by Scotland 'A' six times in the seasons between 1990 and 1993.
He had his full senior international debut, age 21, as fly-half against Australia at Murrayfield on 8 December 1984.[1] He went on tour with Scotland on all but one of the ten that they made since 1984.[2] Some tours, such as the 1988 Scotland rugby union tour of Zimbabwe didn’t award full caps. His last international was against France on 19 March 1994.[1]
He won 18 international caps.
Coaching career[edit]
He coached in New Zealand, then coached Kirkcaldy RFC in 2001.[5]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c "Rugby: players: Douglas Wyllie, Scotland". ESPN. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
- ^ a b Mcmurtrie, Bill (3 February 1994). "Wyllie takes rough with the smooth". The Herald. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
- ^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000445/19921121/040/0005.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ "The Glasgow Herald - Google News Archive Search".
- ^ "Wyllie looking on bright side in Fife despite Kirkcaldy woes". The Scotsman. 6 October 2001. Retrieved 26 September 2015.
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