John Jeffrey

John Jeffrey

John Jeffrey was born March 25, 1959 in Kelso in the Scottish Borders. He was educated at St, Mary's School, Melrose and Merchiston 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 the British Lions on the tour to Australia in 1989.

In 1988, after playing football with the Calcutta Cup along Princes Street in Edinburgh with England's Dean Richards, Jeffrey received a six-month ban from the Scottish Rugby Union. Richards received just a one match sentence from the Rugby 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 to Tony Stanger, sealing the victory against the English), Jeffrey had been a British Lion on the 1989 Tour of Australia, ironically being kept out of the Test side by his national team-mates Finlay Calder and Derek White, and Englishmen Mike Teague who would suffer for this indignity in the famous Calcutta 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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