en George Robson (rugby union)

George Robson
Birth name	George Robson
Date of birth	4 November 1985 (age 39)
Place of birth	Stourbridge, West Midlands, England
Height	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)
Weight	113 kg (17 st 11 lb)
School	Old Swinford Hospital; Bromsgrove School
University	Oxford University
Occupation(s)	Businessman
Rugby union career
Position(s)
Position(s)	Lock, Flanker
Senior career
Years	Team
2006–2015	Harlequins
2015–2016	Oyonnax
2016–2017	London Irish
International career
Years	Team
	England U16
–	England U18
–	England Saxons
–	England XV

George Robson (born 4 November 1985) is a retired English rugby union player. His position was Lock. He holds the record as Harlequins most capped lock in the professional era with 203 appearances for the club.

Career

Robson was a student at Bromsgrove School and Old Swinford Hospital and played for England at both Under 16 and Under 18 level and made his first appearance for Quins in the Zurich A League during 2005. He spent a month at the Sharks Academy at Durban during the summer of 2005 ^[2] before going on to make his 1XV debut for Harlequins on 18 February 2006, when he came off the bench in the 52–12 win against Coventry at the Stoop.

Robson quickly became a regular starter and was in the Harlequins team for their 2011 European Challenge Cup final victory over Stade Francais.^[3] A year later he was once more on the winning side as Harlequins secured their 2011–12 Premiership final victory over Leicester Tigers.^[4]

During this period he also began to gain coaching experience, first with KCS Old Boys RFC in the 2010–11 season and later in 2014–15 with Farnham RFC.

After spending his entire professional career to date at Harlequins, in February 2015, it was announced that he would join Oyonnax in summer 2015.^[5] He spent just one year in France before signing a one-year contract with London Irish in Summer 2016, where he helped the Exiles secured promotion back to the Premiership at the end of the 2016–17 season^[6] Robson left London Irish in 2017 retiring from professional rugby to pursue further study and business opportunities.

Robson went on to win a Blue ^[7] for Oxford University in the 2018 Varsity Match as part of the victorious Blues side, beating Cambridge University 38–16.^[8] In doing so he closed the chapter on his rugby playing career.

International career

Robson gained senior international recognition that Summer when touring with England to South Africa in 2012 and captained an England XV to two victories over the a South African Barbarians South team^[9] and SA Barbarians North side.^[10]