David Scully (born 7 August 1965) is an English rugby union former player who was part of the England 7's squad that won the

1993 Rugby World Cup Sevens The 1993 Rugby World Cup Sevens was held at Murrayfield in Edinburgh, Scotland, in April 1993. This tournament was the inaugural Rugby World Cup Sevens tournament. The International Rugby Board invited the established rugby union nations but al ...

in which he won th
‘moment of the tournament'
for a crunching tackle on Fijian Mesake Rasari.

Playing career

Dave Scully started his career at his local club of Wheatley Hills before joining

Wakefield RFC Wakefield RFC was an English rugby union club, founded in 1901 and folded in 2004 as a result of poor finances, with a trading loss of £105,000 for the season and unsecured creditors' loans of approximately £640,000. The club's final season w ...

in 1986. It was at Wakefield that he came to prominence, playing for Yorkshire, North of England (captaining them against the All Blacks in 1993), Barbarians, England B and England 7's. However, he never played for the full England side. He left Wakefield in 1998 to join Rotherham before moving onto Otley, then Doncaster and Sheffield Tigers. His current club is Wheatley Hills. He has made over 350 league appearances and is in a small group of players to score 100 league tries. Scully is a full-time fire fighter.

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Scully joins 100 try club

Scully joins Sheffield Tigers
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