Jon Welsh

Jon Welsh
Welsh playing for Newcastle Falcons, 2018
Birth name Jon Welsh
Date of birth (1986-10-13) 13 October 1986
Place of birth Glasgow, Scotland
Height 1.87 m (6 ft 1 1⁄2 in)
Weight 124 kg (19 st 7 lb)
Rugby union career
Position(s) Prop
Current team Newcastle Falcons
Amateur team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)

2004–2008		 Whitecraigs RFC
GHA		 ()
Senior career
Years Team Apps (Points)
2008–2015
2015–		 Glasgow Warriors
Newcastle Falcons		 109
38		 (20)
(5)
Correct as of 25 January 2015
National team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)
2012– Scotland 12 (5)
Correct as of 3 February 2018

Jon Welsh (born 13 October 1986) is a Scottish rugby union player currently playing for Newcastle Falcons. Welsh was previously at Glasgow Warriors. Welsh is a former Junior boxing champion, in the end choosing to play rugby professionally.

Club Career

Welsh begun playing professionally for Glasgow Warriors around 2008 and was named in the Pro12 Dream Team at the end of the 2011/12 season. One of the high points of Welsh's club rugby career came at Glasgow Warriors. He was a key member of the 2015 Pro12 Grand Final winning squad and played for Glasgow in the playoff final against Irish side Munster.[1]Glasgow had a year previously, lost the 2014 final against Leinster. Welsh also featured in that final, making it second time lucky in 2015. Welsh signed for Newcastle Falcons later the same year. [2]

International career

On 1 September 2015 Welsh was named in Vern Cotter's Scotland squad for the 2015 Rugby World Cup. On 18 October 2015 he was involved in a controversial incident in the final minutes of Scotland's quarter final against Australia. Scotland were defending a 34–32 lead going into the final minutes when a penalty was given by referee Craig Joubert for an apparent offside offence committed by Welsh. The ball had been knocked forward by John Hardie and was also touched by Australian scrum-half Nick Phipps before Welsh picked the ball up. Had Joubert deemed Phipps' touch to be intentional then the penalty would have been downgraded to an Australian scrum. Bernard Foley kicked the resulting penalty and sent Australia through.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Pro12 final: Glasgow Warriors 31-13 Munster". BBC Sport. 30 May 2015.
  2. ↑ "Jon Welsh: Newcastle Falcons sign Glasgow Warriors prop". BBC Sport. 24 March 2015.
  3. ↑ "Scotland belie their 100-1 odds but are doomed by a cruel twist of fate". guardian.com. 18 October 2015. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
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