Guy Easterby
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Date of birth | 21 March 1971 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Place of birth | Tadcaster, West Riding of Yorkshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 94 kg (14 st 11 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | Ampleforth College | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notable relative(s) | Simon Easterby Sebastian Easterby-Gray | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Guy Easterby (born 21 March 1971) is a former rugby union player for Ireland. He is currently head of rugby operations of Leinster.
His father is English and his mother Irish. He is the brother of Simon Easterby, also an Ireland international and the most capped back-rower to come from Yorkshire.
Easterby made his senior Ireland debut against the United States on 10 June 2000 and marked the occasion by scoring two tries in an 83–3 victory.[1] Easterby made his test debut in the same year as Peter Stringer but has always trailed the Munster scrum-half in the Irish pecking order. 21 out of his 27 appearances before the 2005 Six Nations Championship were made as a substitute. He enjoyed a stint with London Scottish after enjoying his most successful part of his career with Rotherham in the English Premiership and with Leinster in Ireland. He retired after the 2006/2007 season however made his comeback against Edinburgh Rugby on the 15 December 2007[2]
References
- ^ "www.munsterfans.com". Archived from the original on 14 July 2011. Retrieved 21 December 2008.
- ^ "Easterby starts for Leinster". Archived from the original on 7 July 2012. Retrieved 15 December 2007.
- 1971 births
- Blackrock College RFC players
- English people of Irish descent
- Irish people of English descent
- English Roman Catholics
- English rugby union players
- Ireland international rugby union players
- Irish Exiles rugby union players
- Leinster Rugby non-playing staff
- Leinster Rugby players
- Living people
- People educated at Ampleforth College
- People from Tadcaster
- Rotherham Titans players
- Rugby union players from Yorkshire
- Irish rugby union biography stubs