"Andy Long" is a former English rugby union player who played at Rugby union positions#2. Hooker/Hooker. He has 2 caps for England national rugby union team/England.

Originally a product of Bournemouth and the Bath academy, where he came to the attention of Bath coach Clive Woodward, having captained England U19 and U21. Woodward was appointed England coach in 1997 and picked the 20-year old on potential for his first match in charge against Australia. However, Long played poorly and was replaced at half-time by Richard Cockerill, who then started the subsequent matches against New Zealand with Long on the bench. Long however did not again enter the field of play. He thus seemed destined to become a "one cap wonder" until gaining a second cap against the United States in 2001 when most of the regular England players were away with the 2001 British Lions tour to Australia. He also played for England in a non cap international against Barbarian F.C./The Barbarians in 2003.

Meanwhile, Long spent 7 years at Bath, before joining Irish province Munster during the 2003 Rugby World Cup/2003 World Cup, after which he returned to England with Rotherham R.U.F.C./Rotherham, who were relegated in 2004 and he travelled further north to join Newcastle Falcons.

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I knew we were playing tough enough defense, that if we could handle Southern Valley's press and shoot well, we could pull off the upset.

There is a really positive and ambitious feeling around the club at the moment, and everyone is committed to continuing that improvement and pushing for silverware.

I think it's a great move putting another person in there on the convention side.

If we can handle their press, make our shots and make it a half-court game, we have a chance. We play a schedule that prepares us for anyone in the playoffs and now all we need is one more win to get us to state.

We just couldn't buy a bucket and do the things we wanted to do. Their size intimidated us a little bit. It seemed like when we'd score they'd have an answer for us coming back.

The Lexington guards had two or three shots in the first half that were basically in and out. If those would have gone in, I think it would have been a little different ball game.

On offense, they like to get quick shots and they have a lot of good shooters.

It was a good team effort. We had some young players step up tonight.