Tom Smith (rugby union, born 1971)

For the Scotland international rugby union lock, see Tom Smith (rugby union, born 1953).

Tom Smith
Birth nameThomas James Smith
Date of birth(1971-10-31)31 October 1971
Place of birthLondon, England
Date of death6 April 2022(2022-04-06) (aged 50)
Height5 ft 10 in (178 cm)
Weight16 st 3 lb (103 kg; 227 lb)
Rugby union career
Position(s) Prop
Amateur team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)
Dundee High School FP ()
Watsonians ()
Senior career
Years Team Apps (Points)
1996–1998 Caledonia Reds ()
1998–1999 Glasgow Warriors 6 (0)
1999–2001 CA Brive ()
2001–2009 Northampton Saints 174 (50)
International career
Years Team Apps (Points)
1997–2005 Scotland 61 (30)
1997, 2001 British and Irish Lions 6 (0)
Coaching career
Years Team
2009–2012 Edinburgh (forwards)
2012–2015 Lyon OU (forwards)
2019–2020 Doncaster Knights

Thomas James Smith (31 October 1971 – 6 April 2022) was a Scottish professional rugby union player who played as a loosehead prop. Born in London and schooled in the Scottish Highlands, Smith began his career with Dundee HSFP and then Watsonians before joining the Caledonia Reds as the game changed from amateur to professional. A brief spell at Glasgow Warriors followed before two seasons at Brive and then eight successful years at Northampton Saints. At international level, Smith earned 61 caps for Scotland and was selected for two tours with the British & Irish Lions, in 1997 and 2001, starting six consecutive tests. After retiring from playing, he went into coaching.[1][2][3]

Education and background

Born to a Scottish mother and an English father, Smith is the great-grandson of Scottish international footballer Jack Bell.[4]

Smith's father died when Tom was six years old. He was first educated at Emanuel School in London before being given a boarder's education at Rannoch School (now closed) in the Scottish Highlands, on the banks of Loch Rannoch.[5] His rugby skills were honed by the school's science teacher. Smith stated: "The things I learnt while playing rugby at Rannoch were work ethic and fitness. Our pitch was covered in snow and frozen solid for three months of the year, so there was a lot of running up and down hills. We were pretty well drilled and were made to work hard. There were times when it was pretty tough and cold out here but at the end of the day rugby is a hard game and you need to be tough to play it".[6]

Club career

Smith's career spanned the amateur and professional game. He started out at the amateur clubs Dundee High School FP and then played for Watsonians prior to the professionalism of the old Scottish District teams. Of these pre-professional times, Smith was to say: "You find out about survival the hard way. When I joined my first senior club in Dundee, there was an old prop called Danny Herrington, a bit of a local legend, who basically shoved my head up my arse in training, twice a week every week for what seemed like years. Now, that's what you call a learning curve. Those training sessions were my classroom."[5]

On professionalism in Scotland in 1996 he joined Caledonia Reds.[7] The Reds won the Scottish Inter-District Championship in the 1996–97 season, the first Inter-District championship of Scotland's professional era. He played in the Heineken Cup with Caledonia Reds and also played in the 1997–98 Scottish Inter-District Championship the following season.

In 1998, the Scottish Rugby Union decided it could not afford to run the traditional four Scottish districts at a professional level. Caledonia Reds and the Border Reivers were disbanded and the districts merged with Glasgow and Edinburgh respectively. Smith was one of the lucky players that moved to the renamed Glasgow Caledonians, now Glasgow Warriors. He played in the 1998–99 Scottish Inter-District Championship - then a Tri-Series between Edinburgh and Glasgow - and played four matches in the European Conference for Glasgow in that season. After one season at Glasgow Warriors, he was taken on at French club CA Brive. He stayed a further two seasons with the club.

Smith returned to the UK in 2001 to join Northampton Saints in the English Premiership making his Northampton debut on 1 September 2001. Over the subsequent eight seasons his appetite for the action never diminished and neither did his popularity with the Saints' fans. His time at Franklin's Gardens included two Powergen Cup finals, a Heineken Cup semi-final and three Heineken Cup quarter finals. He remained at Northampton until his retirement from playing in 2009.[8]

International career

Smith earned his first Scotland cap in 1997 in the Calcutta Cup match versus England at Twickenham. Despite only having three caps to his name at the time he was included by coach Ian McGeechan in the squad for the 1997 British and Irish Lions tour to South Africa. Surprising many, Smith was selected to start all three test matches alongside Paul Wallace and Keith Wood,[9] in preference to the other touring props Jason Leonard and Graham Rowntree. His strong scrummaging and good hands alongside many other great team performances, ensured that the Lions won over their much more highly fancied hosts and won the series 2–1.

Smith was also selected in the 2001 Lions tour of Australia and played all three test matches of that series, to become the only Scot to play the six consecutive Lions tests matches of 1997 and 2001.

For the next eight years, Smith was to be a first choice starter for Scotland and talismanic figure for the team, winning the Five Nations in 1999 and captaining the side throughout the 2001 Autumn Internationals. Smith was also Scotland's Player of the Season in 2000–01. He was included in the Zurich World XV for 2002, a notional team list that was compiled based on ratings from detailed video analysis of performances during the past year.[10] After an international career that included two World Cups and six consecutive Lions tests, Smith's final match in the blue jersey came, appropriately enough, against England in the 2005 Six Nations clash at Twickenham.[11]

Smith was a fan favourite with the Murrayfield faithful, with many[who?] considering him the greatest loose head prop the team had ever had,[citation needed] alongside Grand Slam-winning captain David Sole.

Coaching

Having retired from playing in 2009, he took on the role of forwards coach at Edinburgh under Rob Moffat.[12]

In October 2008, Smith and Craig Chalmers were announced as coaches for the Scotland national under-20 rugby union team.[13]

In May 2012, it was announced that he had been appointed forwards coach with the French club Lyon.[14][15]

Health and death

On 21 November 2019, it was announced that Smith had been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, with tumours in his colon, brain and liver.[16] He died on 6 April 2022, aged 50.[17]

Honours

Caledonia Reds

Northampton Saints

References

  1. ^ "Tom Smith". Rugby World. 17 August 2016. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
  2. ^ "Thomas James Smith". Espnscrum.com. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
  3. ^ "Blues forwards coach Smith leaves region". BBC Sport. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
  4. ^ Union Jack, Rob Sawyer, Everton FC Heritage Society, 8 May 2020
  5. ^ a b "Tom Smith: 'I played right after one seizure – not a good idea'". The Independent. 23 October 2011.
  6. ^ "Lions 2013: Tom Smith's rugged route to rugby excellence". The Daily Telegraph. 12 June 2013.
  7. ^ Bill Leith (22 October 2011). "Glasgow's first steps to Europe". The Independent.
  8. ^ "Ex-Lions prop Smith set to retire". BBC Sport. 22 April 2009. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  9. ^ Davies, Sean (18 May 2005). "History of the Lions: South Africa 1997". BBC Sport. Retrieved 11 June 2022.
  10. ^ "Zurich World XV". The New Zealand Herald. 22 December 2002. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
  11. ^ "Smith ends international career". BBC Sport. 4 May 2005. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  12. ^ "Smith is Edinburgh forwards coach". BBC Sport. 21 July 2009. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  13. ^ "Chalmers and Smith to coach Under 20s". The Herald. Glasgow. 25 October 2008. Retrieved 27 December 2022.
  14. ^ "Tom Smith appointed as forwards coach". Edinburghrugby.org. 21 July 2009. Archived from the original on 26 July 2011. Retrieved 15 December 2010.
  15. ^ "Tom Smith announces retirement from top-class rugby". Northamptonsaints.co.uk. 22 April 2009. Archived from the original on 12 March 2012. Retrieved 15 December 2010.
  16. ^ "Tom Smith: Former British and Irish Lions prop reveals stage four cancer diagnosis". BBC Sport. 21 November 2019. Retrieved 21 November 2019.
  17. ^ "'One of the greats': Tom Smith, former Scotland and Lions prop, dies aged 50". The Guardian. Press Association. 6 April 2022. Retrieved 6 April 2022.

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