Alan Tait

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Alan Tait (born 2 July 1964 in Kelso) is assistant coach at The Borders Rugby Club and a former rugby union footballer who played outside centre for Scotland and the British & Irish Lions.

Between 1988 and 1996 he switched codes to rugby league and appeared for Widnes and Leeds playing in challenge cup finals in '94 & '95 (memorably getting skinned by Martin Offiah in the '94 final). He also gained representative honours for Great Britain and Scotland.

[edit] Coaching

Though he was dismissed as defence coach of the Scottish national team by Matt Williams he has since been restored to that role by Frank Hadden and Scottish tackling has improved greatly, virtually overnight.

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