Brian Ashton (rugby player)
| Full name | W. Brian Ashton | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 3 September 1946 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Leigh, Lancashire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spouse | Monica Ashton (divorced) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation(s) | Rugby Coach | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position(s) | Coaching Consultant | ||
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| Current team | Vale of Lune RUFC | ||
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
| 1965– 19??-1973 1973– 197?–1980 |
Tyldesley RUFC Fylde Orrell AS Montferrand Rome Milan |
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| 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 |
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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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