Rob Andrew
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Born 18 February 1963 in Richmond, Yorkshire), nicknamed "Squeaky" by some locals, is a former English Rugby Union player who served at the RFU until April 2016.
Andrew was formerly the Director of Rugby of Newcastle Falcons and has been Chief Executive of Sussex County Cricket Club since January 2017.
While studying at University and playing for Yorkshire County Cricket Club's Second XI, Andrew had a brief career in first-class cricket.
Rugby career
Andrew was educated at Barnard Castle School, where he was contemporaneous with future teammates Rory Underwood and served as the school's captain in 1981. Both Underwood and Andrew played rugby at Middlesbrough RUFC, although they were living in the northeast. Andrew continued to attend St John's College, Cambridge, and competed for Cambridge University in the Varsity Match.
He played for Nottingham for one season in 1985-86 and then joined Wasps FC, where he was Europe's first choice fly-half for the first time during the eight seasons with the north London club. He won the English League in 1990 and went on to Newcastle Gosforth in 1995 as both a player and as head coach of rugby.
The club had just been bought out by Sir John Hall in the lead-up to the game's turning professional; they were the Falcons of today. He is credited with discovering Jonny Wilkinson while he was in charge of the Newcastle Falcons. When Newcastle Falcons won the 1997-98 Premiership, he was an ever-presenter. After a season of injuries in preparation, his playing career was ended in 1999.
During the Will Carling period, Andrew made his England debut against Romania at Twickenham in January 1985. He was England's regular fly-half for the next ten years, with two of them as captains. He was briefly suspended in 1993 when England first challenged Bath RFC's Stuart Barnes for the fly-half's position, but the fly-half regained his position after two games. He saw out his deal with Wasps and moved to Newcastle Falcons after England finished 4th in the 1995 Rugby World Cup. He made his final appearance for England after being absent for almost two years as a try scoring substitute against Wales in March 1997. He scored 396 international points, won the Grand Slam with England three times, and set the English record for the most points scored in an international - 30, scored against Canada in 1994.
However, England's attack was blamed more on his kicks than passing, with Andrew breaking the Five Nations' record for tries scored and points scored, as well as 1992 and 1995, where he was criticized as a fly-half. England did, however, have a lot of success with him as their Number ten.
Early in his career, Andrew was an inconsistent site-kicker for penalties and conversions, and he often referred to fullbacks Webb and Hodgkinson, but he continued to play well, and was also a reliable source of dropped goals.
He appeared in three Rugby World Cup tournaments, 1987 (making two appearances), 1991 and 1995. The last time Australia lost in the same competition was 1995, just as Wilkinson had defeated Australia in the 2003 Rugby World Cup Final with a drop goal. Andrew was the first player to defeat the Wallabies 25–22 on a year on full throttle, defeating them 25–22. In the semi-final against Scotland, which saw England progress to the final against Australia four years ago, Andrew was another late drop-goal.
In 1989, he had the privilege of captaining the British and Irish Lions against France in a rare "home" match for the Lions. The game was part of the bicentennial of the French Revolution. Andrew came on at centre as a replacement for the injured Brendan Mullen in the Lions' triumphant '89 tour to Australia. In 1993, Andrew went to New Zealand with the Lions, starting at flyhalf over England rival Barnes. The Lions lost the test series to New Zealand 2-1.
After the injury that ended his playing career, Andrew continued as director of rugby at Newcastle Falcons until September 18, 2006. He was appointed by the RFU to handle all aspects of representative rugby in England, from the regional academies to the full senior team.
Andrew's role as director of elite rugby at the Rugby Football Union was shattered in a fundamental reorganization of the Rugby Football Union on January 6, 2011. Andrew was invited to apply for one of the new roles created by this process, that of operations manager, according to the publication. Andrew's role was described as Director of Elite Rugby at a press conference on November 16, 2011, and it was reported that he took several attempts to (inconclusively) identify his duties. In February 2016, he resigned as the RFU's director of professional rugby.
At a lunch held in the Hall's Rugby Hall of Fame on November 10, 2017, Andrew was inducted into the World Rugby Hall of Fame.
Cricket career
Andrew was also a natural cricketer, winning a Cambridge blue for the occasion, and he made 17 first-class cricket appearances for the university cricket team in 1984 and 1985, as well as five times for Combined Universities in one-day cricket. He made one first-class century by defeating Nottinghamshire in July 1984, with a left-handed batsman and right arm off-break bowler. Andrew made a few appearances for the Yorkshire Second XI, and on one occasion, England captain Mike Atherton (then aged 17) was dismissed for a duck.
Andrew was appointed as the club's chief executive in November 2016.