Russell Earnshaw
| Birth name | Russell Dean Earnshaw | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 8 April 1975 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Stockton-on-Tees, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Russell Dean Earnshaw (born 8 July 1975)[1] is a rugby union player who currently plays flanker for English Championship side Birmingham & Solihull Rugby Club.
Club rugby
Earnshaw has player Premiership rugby with West Hartlepool, Bath Rugby and Rotherham Titans, winning the European Cup whilst at Bath. He then joined Worcester in Division 1 and helped them to win promotion to the Premiership before signing for Doncaster where he played the 05/06 and 06/07 seasons. While at university at Cambridge he played for the Blues side in two winning Varsity matches. In 2000 he was selected to play for the Barbarians in their match against Germany.
International rugby
Earnshaw has played for England on the IRB Sevens circuit, at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, and was part of the squad that played in the IRB World Series tournaments in Chile and Argentina in 2001.[2] He was assistant coach to the England 7's team from 2007-2013, retiring after the 2013 World Cup final defeat to New Zealand.
Coaching
While at Doncaster Earnshaw helped to coach the side and joined Pertemps Bees for the 07/08 season as player/forwards coach. He is now head coach of Birmingham and Solihull Rugby Club and assistant coach of the England 7's team.
In 2010, Russell completed the 'Great Escape' for Birmingham & Solihull Rugby Club, leading them to an unexpected resurgence in the relegation playoffs, despite not having won a game for the entire season. Although Earnshaw dislocated his shoulder in the penultimate game; a defeat at home at the hands of relegation-rivals Coventry, Russell lined up on the pitch at Billesley Common two weeks later to help the Bees in their 34-38 defeat of Moseley.
Notes
- ^ "Russell Earnshaw profile". Scrum.com. Retrieved 4 May 2012.
- ^ "England 7s dealt Sanderson blow". Scrum.com. 28 December 2001. Retrieved 4 May 2012.