Coaching Staff

• Director of Rugby – Donald Reid

Donald joined the coaching set up in the latter stages of the 2007/08 campaign, working successfully with the late Gordon Mackay to help the 1stXV climb out of the relegation zone. Donald & Gordon worked well as a partnership and set out clear goals for the club in the coming seasons. With Gordon’s untimely death in July 2008….Donald looked to maintain the values and goals he & Gordon had put in place and agreed to take up the role of Director of Rugby. He remains involved in the coaching of the backline and provides vital leadership for all players at the club.

Donald is an Accie through and through….having played and coached at the club in recent decades. He brings an ‘old school’ approach in terms of discipline and leadership which helps players both in training the build up to and preparation for match days.

• 1stXV Coach – John Beattie

John was born in Borneo and lived in Malaysia, where his father was a rubber estate manager, until the age of eleven.

He played rugby for Glasgow Schools,Glasgow Accies and Heriots

At university he studied Civil Engineering he was capped by Scotland 25 times, once as captain.

During John's rugby career, he toured with the British Lions to South Africa in 1980, New Zealand in 1983 and played for the Lions against the Rest of the World in 1986. He was in the last Scottish team to beat England at Twickenham (1983) and the team that beat England by a record score (33-6 in 1986).

When injury forced John out of the game in 1987 he began summarising with BBC radio, and started writing for Scotland on Sunday. After changing career from Civil Engineer to Chartered Accountant, he decided to give that up for an easier life, writing for The Herald, Scottish Rugby Magazine, the Sunday Herald, and BBC Online, as well as continuing his radio and television broadcasting.

John is married and lives in leafy suburbia with his wife and three children, where he tries to train every day and where he maintains a very unhealthy interest in all things sporting.

• Weight Training and Conditioning Coach – Duncan Beattie

Duncan has been associated with the Rugby Club as a player, then as 1stXV Coach and now as the Weight Training and Conditioning Coach for over 20years. When the Sports Club identified the need for a more purpose built weights room back in 2006, one of the squash courts was converted into a weights facility which has been extensively used by all sections of the Sports Club.

However in the last year Duncan has been working closely with the SRU to obtain equipment and assistance to develop a facility which is now used by club, district and national players in the game. Duncan has obtained the necessary coaching standards and can offer advice on training schedules to any interested parties.

Please visit the Facilities section of the site to find out more……


• 2ndXV Coach – Ewan Smith

2nd xv Manager- Nigel Campbell