Finlay Calder

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Finlay Calder
Rugby union career
Date of birth	20 August 1957 (1957-08-20) (age 54)
Place of birth	Haddington, Scotland
School	Daniel Stewart's & Melville College
Playing career
Position	Flanker
Amateur clubs
Years	Club / team
	Stewart's Melville FP, Heriots FP
correct as of 5 March 2007.
National team(s)
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
1986-1991 1989	Scotland British Lions	34 3	(8) (0)
correct as of 5 March 2007.

Finlay Calder (born on 20 August 1957) is a Scottish former rugby union player.

Born in Haddington, East Lothian and educated at Stewart's Melville College, Calder played at open side flanker and won 34 caps representing Scotland from 1986-91. He captained the British Lions tour to Australia in 1989. His last international game was against New Zealand in the 1991 Rugby World Cup.

Richard Bath wrote that

"Calder's ability to use his drive, determination and innate knowledge of the game to overcome his undoubted shortcomings - in particular he was always a bit slow for an out-and-out open-side - helped him become one of the most effective back-row operators of the modern era. If he and the other two members of the Grand Slam back row John Jeffrey and Derek White could not impose their own game, they certainly would make sure that the opposition could not impose theirs".^[1]

[edit] Family

His twin brother Jim Calder also played for Scotland and the Lions.^[1] The brothers never played in the same Scotland side; Jim won the last of his caps against Wales in March 1985 and Finlay made his debut against France in January 1986.

He has two children.

[edit] References

Bath, Richard (ed.) The Complete Book of Rugby (Seven Oaks Ltd, 1997 ISBN 1-86200-013-3)

^ ^a ^b Bath, p127-8

[edit] External links

Finlay Calder - tribute by the Scotsman newspaper
Finlay Calder - on the Sporting Heroes database
Fin Calder's Lions - including nine Scottish players (Gary Armstrong, Craig Chalmers, Peter Dods, John Jeffrey, Gavin Hastings, Scott Hastings, David Sole, Derek White and Finlay Calder himself)
Fin Calder looks back on the 1989 Lions tour to Australia

v d e British and Irish Lions – 1989 Australia tour

Forwards	Ackford · Calder · Chilcott · Dooley · Griffiths · Jeffrey · Lenihan · Moore · Norster · Richards · Robinson · Smith · Sole · Teague · White · Young

Backs	Andrew · Armstrong · Chalmers · Clement · Dean · Devereux · Dods · Evans · Guscott · Hall · G. Hastings · S. Hastings · Jones · Mullin · Oti · Underwood · Carling (withdrew - injury)

Coach	McGeechan

v d e British and Irish Lions team captains

To 1910	Apr-Aug 1888: Robert Seddon ^{Note 1} • Aug-Oct 1888: Andrew Stoddart ^{Note 1} • 1891: Bill Maclagan • 1896: Johnny Hammond • Jun 1899: Matthew Mullineux ^{Note 2} • Jun-Aug 1899: Frank Stout ^{Note 2} • 1903: Mark Morrison • Jun-Jul 1904: David Bedell-Sivright^{Note 3} • Jul-Aug 1904: Teddy Morgan^{Note 3} • 1908: Boxer Harding • 1910: John Raphael^{Note 4} •

To present	Jun-Jul1910: Tommy Smyth^{Note 5} • Aug 1910: Jack Jones^{Note 5} • Aug-Sep1910: Tommy Smyth^{Note 5} • 1924: Ronald Cove-Smith • 1927: David MacMyn • 1930: Doug Prentice • 1936: Bernard Gadney • 1938: Sam Walker • 1950: Karl Mullen • 1955: Robin Thompson • 1959: Ronnie Dawson • 1962: Arthur Smith • 1966: Mike Campbell-Lamerton • 1968: Tom Kiernan • 1971: John Dawes • 1974: Willie John McBride • 1977: Phil Bennett • 1980: Bill Beaumont • 1983: Ciaran Fitzgerald • 1986: Colin Deans • 1989: Finlay Calder • 1989: Rob Andrew • 1993: Gavin Hastings • 1997: Martin Johnson • 2001: Martin Johnson • May-Jun 2005: Brian O'Driscoll^{Note 6} • May 2005: Michael Owen^{Note 6} • Jun 2005: Martin Corry^{Note 6} • Jul 2005: Gareth Thomas^{Note 6} • 2009: Paul O'Connell •

Notes	Note 1: Robert Seddon died on tour after a boating accident, Andrew Stoddart, became captain for the remainder of the tour. Note 2: Matthew Mullineux decided that after losing the first test that he should withdraw from further test matches, handing on field captaincy to Frank Stout, but remained tour captain. Note 3: David Bedell-Sivright was injured during the first test. Teddy Morgan took over captaincy on the field but Bedell-Sivright remained tour captain. Note 4: The team that John Raphael captained was not selected by the four Home Nations governing body, but had been organised by Oxford University and billed as the English Rugby Union team. However, it was denoted as the Combined British team by its Argentine hosts because it also included three Scots. Note 5: Jack Jones captained the first test only, but Tommy Smyth remained the tour captain. Note 6: Michael Owen captained the Lions in the first tour game, the test vs. Argentina in Cardiff. Brian O'Driscoll was injured at the beginning of the first test. Martin Corry and Gareth Thomas took over captaincy on the field but O'Driscoll remained tour captain.