Sean Maitland

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Early life

Maitland was born in Tokoroa, New Zealand, on 14 September 1988. He attended Hamilton Boys' High School where he played in the first XV and competed in athletics, recording a personal best of 11.29 and 22.30 seconds for the 100m and 200m respectively, and threw the discus 45.47m. Maitland is half-Scottish and is of Samoan and Maori descent from his mother's side. He is the cousin of New Zealand born, Australian rugby union player Quade Cooper.[1] Maitland and cousin Cooper also grew up with future Kiwi Rugby League international Isaac John.

Club career

Maitland spent 2005 and 2006 in the New Zealand Schools team and was a member of New Zealand under-19 World Cup winning side in 2007 and the New Zealand under-20 side in 2008 winning the IRB Junior World Championship. Sean scored four tries against teams from Argentina, Ireland and Wales. One of his teammates was John Hardie who he would go on to play with in the Scotland Rugby Team.

Maitland debuted for Canterbury in 2006, and made his Super Rugby debut for the Crusaders against the ACT Brumbies in 2008 and played in every Crusaders match that year. In 2010, he was selected for the New Zealand Maori where he impressed, scoring a try against Ireland.[2] On 11 March 2011 he scored four tries in a game against the Brumbies, equaling the record for the most tries scored in a Super Rugby match.[3] Maitland joined Glasgow Warriors in 2012, and won his first cap for Scotland at the start of the 2013 Six Nations Championship.[4] After 3 years playing for Glasgow Warriors, Maitland moved to London Irish, and in 2016 to Saracens.[5] During his time at Saracens he has won three Premiership titles in 2018, 2019 and 2023, scoring a try in the 2019 final.[6][7][8] He also helped Saracens win the European Champions Cup in 2019, scoring a try in the final.[9] He had previously missed Saracens' victory in the 2017 European Champions Cup final through injury.[10]

International career

On 30 April 2013, Maitland was announced in the British and Irish Lions squad for the tour of Australia later that year. The tour marked a possible first encounter with cousin Quade Cooper in the test arena, having played one another before at Super Rugby level. The two never met in-game as Cooper was controversially left out of the extended Wallaby squad for the series, and Maitland never took to the field in the one test that he was on the bench. Maitland was not selected in the team to play the Queensland Reds mid-week game, in which Cooper captained the Reds for the first time. The two would go on to play against each other in November 2013, when Scotland lost to Australia in the end-of-year-internationals

Maitland played in the Rugby World Cup 2015, in which Scotland reached the quarter-finals. He was controversially sin binned for a supposed deliberate knock-on in the quarter-finals. Scotland eventually went on to lose the match 35–34, ending their Rugby World Cup.

Personal life

Maitland qualifies for Scotland by his Glaswegian grandparents who emigrated to New Zealand in the 1960s. Maitland said "My granddad always reminded me that I was part Scottish and that I should never forget that."[11]

On Maitland's maternal grandfather's side, Sean is also closely related to 'Smoking Joe' Stanley of New Zealand All Black fame in the mid 1980s–1990 on his Samoan side.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". In 2009, Maitland was a finalist in the Cleo New Zealand Bachelor of the Year competition.[12]

In November 2013, Maitland and three other Scottish rugby players were charged with assault following an incident outside a Glasgow takeaway shop in August,[13] although these were ultimately dropped and Maitland faced no further action.

In October 2020 Maitland was charged by the RFU for “conduct prejudicial to the interests of the Union” for breaking COVID-19 regulations whilst on duty with the Barbarians.[14]

International tries

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Try Opposing Team Venue Competition Date Result Score
1 File:Flag of England.svg England Twickenham Stadium, London 2013 Six Nations Template:Dts Loss 38-19
2 File:Flag of Argentina.svg Argentina Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh 2014 Autumn Internationals Template:Dts Win 41-31
3 File:Flag of the United States.svg United States Elland Road, Leeds 2015 Rugby World Cup Template:Dts Win 39-16
4 File:Flag of Argentina.svg Argentina Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh 2016 Autumn Internationals Template:Dts Win 19-16
5 File:Flag of Georgia.svg Georgia Rugby Park, Kilmarnock Template:Dts Win 43-16
6 File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh 2017 Autumn Internationals Template:Dts Win 53-24
7 File:Flag of France.svg France Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh 2018 Six Nations Template:Dts Win 32-26
8 File:Flag of England.svg England Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh Template:Dts Win 25-13
9 File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy Stadio Olimpico, Rome Template:Dts Win 27-29
10 File:Flag of Fiji.svg Fiji Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh 2018 Autumn Internationals Template:Dts Win 54-17
11 File:Flag of Argentina.svg Argentina Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh Template:Dts Win 14-9
12 File:Flag of France.svg France Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh 2019 Rugby World Cup warm-up matches Template:Dts Win 17-14
13 File:Flag of Samoa.svg Samoa Kobe Misaki Stadium, Kobe 2019 Rugby World Cup Template:Dts Win 34-0
14 File:Flag of France.svg France Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh 2020 Six Nations Template:Dts Win 28-17
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