Finlay Calder

Finlay Calder
Rugby union career
Date of birth	(1957-08-20) 20 August 1957
Place of birth	Haddington, Scotland
School	Stewart's Melville College
Notable relative(s)	Jim Calder (brother) Lewis Calder (nephew)
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 20 August 1957) is a Scottish former rugby union player.

Calder played at open side flanker and won 34 caps representing Scotland from 1986-91. He captained the British and Irish Lions tour to Australia in 1989.

Early life

Born in Haddington, East Lothian^[1] and educated at Stewart's Melville College,

International career

His international debut was against France in 1986. His last international game was against New Zealand in the third-place play-off match 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".^[2]

In 1989 Calder captained the Lions, the first Scottish player selected to do this since Mike Campbell-Lamerton in 1966 and the first captain to lead the side to victory since Willie John McBride in 1974.^[3]

Family

His twin brother Jim Calder also played for Scotland and the Lions.^[2] 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.

References

↑ "Rugby: Player profile: Finlay Calder, Scotland". ESPN. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
1 2 Bath, Richard (ed.) (1997). The Complete Book of Rugby. Seven Oaks Ltd. pp. 127–8. ISBN 1-86200-013-1.
↑ "Finlay Calder". The Scotsman. 2 May 2002. Retrieved 3 October 2015.

External links

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

Scotland squad – 1987 Rugby World Cup

Forwards	Calder Campbell-Lamerton Deans (c) Jeffrey Laidlaw Milne Oliver Paxton Rowan Sole Tomes Turnbull White

Backs	Cramb Duncan G. Hastings S. Hastings Robertson Rutherford Tait Tukalo Wyllie

Coach	Grant

Scotland squad – 1991 Rugby World Cup

Forwards	Sole (c) Allan Burnell Gray Weir Jeffrey Calder White Rowan Milne Marshall Watt

Backs	Armstrong Chalmers Tukalo Lineen S. Hastings Stanger G. Hastings Wyllie Dods Oliver Shiel

Coach	Telfer

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

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 2013: Sam Warburton

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.

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