Colin Fisher
| Birth name | Colin Fisher | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 27 December 1949 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Colin Douglas Fisher (born 27 December 1949) is a Scottish Rugby union player and administrator.[1]
He was capped five times between 1975 and 1976 for Scotland.[1] He also played for Waterloo R.F.C.[1] He is the son of Alastair Fisher, who was also capped for Scotland.[1]
He played 7 times for the Scotland, but two of those games were versus Japan and that time that didn't count for a full cap, his other caps came in matches against Australia, England, Ireland, New Zealand and Wales.[2]
After an injury to his left knee cartilage he never returned to training. After retiring he became involved in administration of Rugby and was involved in controversial incidents involving sponsors[3] and drunken behaviour in 2005.[4] he has also been president of Waterloo R.F.C. of Liverpool.[5] He is a chartered surveyor by profession.[6]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d Bath, p139
- ^ "Colin Fisher Scotland". ESPN. Retrieved 20 May 2018.
- ^ "Sponsors grouse at slurring SRU boss". The Scotsman. 6 March 2005. Retrieved 20 May 2018.
- ^ "SRU must meet again to decide Fisher's fate UPDATE". The Herald. 13 May 2005. Retrieved 20 May 2018.
- ^ "Former England coach Joe Lydon joins Liverpool's Waterloo Rugby Club as performance consultant". ResponseSource. 4 July 2007. Retrieved 20 May 2018.
- ^ "SCOTTISH RUGBY UNION LIMITED". Companies House. Retrieved 20 May 2018.
- Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ISBN 1-905326-24-6)
- Colin Fisher's profile at ESPN Scrum
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