Stuart Gallacher - Second row
Wales RLHeritage No | 291 |
Date Of Birth | 22/05/1946 |
Place Of Birth | Llanelli |
Height | 192 |
Weight | 100 |
Education | Llanelli Grammar School |
Clubs | Keighley Cougars, Bradford Bulls, Felinfoel |
Regions | Scarlets |
Honours | Wales RL, Other Nationalities, Wales, Wales B, Wales Youth RU |
Invitational | Barbarians |
Born in Llanelli, Stuart Gallacher starting playing rugby union for Felinfoel RFC before joining Llanelli RFC in 1965, playing almost 200 games for the club. Whilst at Llanelli, he won his only international RU cap for Wales, against France on 4 April 1970. He also played for Barbarians. He turned professional with Bradford Northern in 1970 before moving to Keighley in January 1975, which is when he won all of his Wales RL caps, two in the 1975 World Cup where he was part of the last Wales rugby side to ever beat New Zealand. After retiring, he returned to Wales and eventually became involved in rugby union administration. He was appointed chief executive of Llanelli RFC in 1996, seeing them through to the regional era after they rebranded as Scarlets, before being appointed as chief executive of Regional Rugby Wales in 2009. He stood down from the post in June 2014 because of poor health. He was also a member of the board of the European Rugby Cup. He died on October 19 2014 aged 68.
Note: The statistics tab shows all of the player’s known appearances for this particular Wales side against international sides or other non-capped recognised first class matches. To see exactly how many full test rugby league caps for Wales (or any other country) that this player has, please click the “Test Summary” tab. Nines individual player records are not shown, please click here for full details about Nines. Please also note that clubs’ current names are used throughout this website, due to the database only being able to feed one name per club (e.g. Wigan will also be known as Wigan Warriors throughout all player profiles).