Alan Tait

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Alan Tait

Personal information
Full name	Alan Tait
Date of birth	9 November 1964 (1964-11-09) (age 43)
Place of birth	Kelso, Scottish Borders, Scotland
Height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Weight	13 st 5 lbs (85 kg)
Club information
Position(s)	Full-back / Centre
Current club	Retired
Number	1
Senior clubs*
Years	Club	Apps (points)
____ ‐ 88 1988 ‐ 92 1992 ‐ 97 1997 ‐ __ ____ ‐ 00	Widnes Leeds Newcastle Falcons Edinburgh Reivers	126 (220)
Representative teams
1987 ‐ 99 2004 ‐ 99 2004 ‐ 99 1997	Scotland RU Great Britain Scotland RL British & Irish Lions	27 (85) 16 (??) 4 (20)
* Professional club appearances and points counted for domestic first grade only.

Alan Tait (born 2 July 1964 in Kelso) is assistant coach at The Borders Rugby Club and a former rugby league and rugby union footballer who played outside centre for Scotland and the British & Irish Lions. He played club rugby for Newcastle Gosforth.

Contents 1 Rugby League 2 Coaching 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Rugby League

Unlike many other cross-code converts of the period Tait had the benefit of growing up in Cumbria, where his father, Alan Snr, was playing for Workington Town. ^[1]

Between 1988 and 1996 he switched codes to rugby league and appeared for Widnes and Leeds playing in challenge cup finals in '94 & '95 (memorably getting skinned by Martin Offiah in the '94 final). He also gained representative honours for Great Britain and Scotland.

Tait won the Harry Sunderland Trophy in both 1989 and 1990. ^[2]

[edit] Coaching

Though he was dismissed as defence coach of the Scottish national team by Matt Williams he has since been restored to that role by Frank Hadden and Scottish tackling has since improved greatly.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Leeds profile
• SCOTLAND RUGBY LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL HONOURS BOARD
• Harry Sunderland Trophy
• When Widnes muscled in on Wigan's Rugby League trophy romp
• Tait becomes Borders coach

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