Our current scrum half coach was also long serving scrum half during the nineties and the early part of this millennium. Jamie fell into the solid and dependable category of scrum halves. Not spectacular, but you would always trust him to shore us up if the scrum was going backwards.
Jamie first came to prominence in a bizarre match at Bath when Tony Underwood was caught up in bad traffic on his way to the ground and arrived 20 minutes after kick off, leading to Jamie playing as an emergency winger. As substitutions were only permitted in cases of injury in those days, Jamie remained on the field and picked up a superb late try to snatch a draw after captain Dean Richards had refused to make him feign injury to get tony on the pitch.
After a spell at London Scottish Jamie returned and displaced Aadel Kardooni as scrum half, but spent a lot of his time then playing second fiddle to Austin Healey, but when Austin started to play more on the wing or at fly half, Jamie was to become the regular scrum half.
The emergence of Harry Ellis signalled the beginning of the end for Jamie, and in the summer of 2003 he hung his boots up to concentrate on his new role as scrum half coach.
Players Who Shook the Crumbie #37: Jamie Hamilton
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