Derrick Patterson

Derrick Patterson (born 6 July 1968 in Hawick, Scotland) is a former Scotland international rugby union Scrum-half who played for Glasgow Warriors, Caledonia Reds and Edinburgh.

Rugby Union career

Amateur career

At amateur level in Scotland, Patterson played for Hawick and Edinburgh Academicals.

Signed by amateur club Heriots - the first Scottish rugby union side to pay transfer money - who would use the player when not needed by their provincial professional district Edinburgh Rugby he moved back to Scotland to play not long after the start of the 1996-97 season.

In 2010 he was part of the Xodus Steelers, the Scottish veteran Sevens squad to play in the Dubai Sevens.

Provincial and professional career

He played for provincial Edinburgh District in the amateur era.

After the 1995 World Cup, rugby opened the game to professionalism. In Scotland this happened a year later in 1996. Patterson played for West Hartlepool in England to 1996.

When Caledonia Reds was disbanded in 1998, Patterson moved to play for Glasgow Warriors under its newly merged name Glasgow Caledonians. He played in the European Conference for Glasgow; and in the Welsh Rugby Union's Challenge Cup (in which both Glasgow and Edinburgh were invited, a forerunner to the Welsh-Scottish League) in the 1998 - 99 season. However he was let go by the Glasgow club after only this one season.

Signing for Stade Français in the 1999 - 2000 season, but instead he was signed by Italian side Petrarca Rugby.

He represented Scotland twice; the first cap against South Africa at Murrayfield, the second cap against Tonga in Pretoria, South Africa at the 1995 World Cup. He was a substitute but not used in the World Cup matches against Ivory Coast, France and New Zealand.

Coaching career

He was brought in by Alan Solomons to help coach Edinburgh Rugby in 2014.