Robert Miller (born 5 August 1989) is an English former

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player who most recently played for

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. He plays at fullback. Miller was brought up in

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Career

In the 2007/8 season, Miller was

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's top try-scorer as they won promotion to National Division Two. Miller made his

Newcastle Falcons Newcastle Falcons is a rugby union team that play in Premiership Rugby, England's highest division of rugby union. The club was established in 1877 as the Gosforth Football Club. Around 1882 the club merged with the Northumberland Football Cl ...

first team début in 2008, in a man-of-the-match winning performance against

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. In June 2010, Miller signed a three-year deal with

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, where he has made a number of appearances, earning man-of-the-match status in two games. Sale had to compete with

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for Miller's signature and Falcons had been keen to hang on to him. Miller has won England Caps at Under-16s, Under 18s and Under 20 levels, helping England Under-20 to the Grand Slam in 2008, and the final of the IRB Under-20s World Cup in Wales. In 2009, Miller appeared in the Under-20s World Cup final in Japan. On 6 February 2014, Miller signed for the

from the 2014-15 season.

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Sale Sharks Player ProfileDetails Robert Miller
1989 births Living people Alumni of Northumbria University English rugby union players Newcastle Falcons players People educated at Keswick School Rugby union fly-halves Rugby union players from Carlisle, Cumbria Sale Sharks players Tynedale R.F.C. players {{England-rugbyunion-bio-1980s-stub