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Brian Ashton (rugby player)

Brian Ashton
Full name W. Brian Ashton
Date of birth (1946-09-03) 3 September 1946 (age 70)
Place of birth Leigh, Lancashire
Spouse Monica Ashton (divorced)
Occupation(s) Rugby Coach
Rugby union career
Position(s) Coaching Consultant
Current team Vale of Lune RUFC
Amateur team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)
1965–
19??-1973
1973–


197?–1980
Tyldesley RUFC
Fylde
Orrell
AS Montferrand
Rome
Milan
()
Teams coached
Years Team
2006–2008
2005
1998–2002
1996–1998
1994–1996
1989–1994
1989–1994
1985
1980–1988
England
Bath Rugby
England A
Ireland
Bath Rugby
Bath Rugby (asst.)
King's School, Bruton
England (asst.)
Stonyhurst College
Position(s) Coaching Consultant
Current team Vale of Lune RUFC
Amateur team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)
1965–
19??-1973
1973–


197?–1980
Tyldesley RUFC
Fylde
Orrell
AS Montferrand
Rome
Milan
()
Teams coached
Years Team
2006–2008
2005
1998–2002
1996–1998
1994–1996
1989–1994
1989–1994
1985
1980–1988
England
Bath Rugby
England A
Ireland
Bath Rugby
Bath Rugby (asst.)
King's School, Bruton
England (asst.)
Stonyhurst College

William Brian Ashton MBE (born 3 September 1946) is an English rugby union coach and former player. He has been head coach of the England and Ireland national teams.

Ashton was born 3 September 1946 in Leigh, Lancashire to a textile weaver mother and coal miner father Albert, who played professional rugby league on the weekends for Leigh RLFC in 1940. He earned a place at Lancaster Royal Grammar School – one of the few local schools to teach and play rugby union over rugby league.

After leaving school, Ashton started working for Trustee Savings Bank in their international banking division then Midland Bank at Farnworth, Bolton. Keith Elleray, his old games master from Leigh Grammar, took him to Tyldesley RUFC, where Ashton played fly-half in his first season in 1965-6, before Elleray retired and Ashton took over his preferred position of scrum-half for 1966-67.

Although offered professional terms by various rugby league clubs, Ashton moved to Fylde – where his team-mates included Roger Uttley and Bill Beaumont – and then to Orrell from 1973 to be closer to his Leigh home. On finding his chances limited, he started training as a school teacher, where his first posts were at Ashton High School, brought about by the head master's requirement to introduce rugby, and Hutton Grammar School, Preston.


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