John Dobson (rugby union)
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UCT Ikey Tigers (head coach) Roma (technical director) UCT Ikey Tigers (technical adviser) Western Province U21 (head coach) Western Province (Vodacom Cup team) Western Province (Currie Cup team) |
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John Dobson is a South African rugby union coach, currently the head coach of Currie Cup side Western Province.
As a player, Dobson played as a hooker for Western Province, as well as amateur club sides in the Western Province Super League such as UCT Ikey Tigers, Villagers sand Northerns. He also had spells in Italy and Portugal.
He was the head coach of the UCT Ikey Tigers for their first three seasons in the Varsity Cup competition from 2008 to 2010. He guided them to the final in the inaugural 2008 season, where they lost to Western Cape rivals Maties and helped them reach the play-offs again in 2009, losing 17–19 to NWU Pukke in the semi-final.
Dobson was appointed as the technical director of Italian National Championship of Excellence side Roma for the 2009–10 season. He was due to coach new Italian franchise the Roma Praetorians in the 2010–11 Celtic League, but their inclusion in the European competition never materialised, with Benetton Treviso being included instead. He returned to South Africa to guide UCT Ikey Tigers the final of the 2010 Varsity Cup, where a repeat of the 2008 final also saw the same result, with Maties winning their third title in succession.
In 2010, Dobson was appointed as the coach of the Western Province U21 side and he helped them win the 2010 Under-21 Provincial Championship in his first season in charge, as they beat the Blue Bulls U21s 43–32 in the final in Durban. He returned as a technical adviser to his former assistant Kevin Foote for the UCT Ikey Tigers' 2011 Varsity Cup campaign, which they won for the first time, beating UP Tuks 26–16 in the final.
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