Full name | Cameron Little | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 31 August 1968 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 175 cm (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 76 kg (12 st 0 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | High School of Glasgow | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Position(s) | Fly-half | ||
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Amateur team(s) | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
- | () | ||
Senior career | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
1996-99 | Glasgow Warriors | 6 | (15) |
Provincial / State sides | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Points) |
- | Glasgow District | () | |
National team(s) | |||
Years | Team | Comps | |
- | Scotland | ||
Teams coached | |||
Years | Team | ||
2014-present |
Glasgow Hawks Glasgow High Kelvinside |
Cameron Little (born 31 August 1968) is a former Scottish rugby union player and now coach. A Scotland Sevens internationalist, he played for the amateur Glasgow District side and after professionalism played for Glasgow Rugby, now named the Glasgow Warriors.
At amateur level Little started out with Glasgow High Kelvinside at high school. When they formed Glasgow Hawks on their merger with Glasgow Academicals he then played for Hawks. When GHK started again as a separate entity Little again turned out for Glasgow High Kelvinside.
He played for Glasgow Warriors in both the Heineken Cup and the European Challenge Cup.
He was to later offer this perspective on turning professional for Glasgow Warriors in the nineties: "I was 29 when I turned pro, and I loved it," Little recalls. "It was a real dream, but also done in the knowledge that it would be only for two or three years, and I could put my job on hold. It taught me self-discipline because it can be pretty boring. It would have been very easy to go home in the afternoon and fall asleep. It’s not as if you are earning big money like a Rangers or a Celtic player and can go shopping in Princes Square all afternoon.
"The powers-that-be now have to learn that players can’t be left to their own devices. But it was a great experience, and great fun, although I would have liked to have played a bit more. Fraser Stott kept me on the bench most of the time, though. He was a feisty character, and tended to rub people up the wrong way. But pro rugby suited him, because he was very dedicated.
"Weights? I never touched them until I became a pro. We used to train at the David Lloyd Centre in Renfrew during the day with all the housewives, but there was a lot of looking around and not much work being done. So they transported us to the Palace of Arts, in Bellahouston, where it was real basic stuff with power lifters sweating over these enormous weights, and shouting and screaming while we cowered in the corner. Guys like Gordon Bulloch would get stuck in; Fraser and I would spend a lot of time stretching."