Brad Johnstone

Brad Johnstone

Full name	Bradley Ronald Johnstone
Date of birth	(1950-07-30) 30 July 1950
Place of birth	Auckland, New Zealand
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight	102 kg (16 st 1 lb)
School	Takapuna Grammar School
Rugby union career
Playing career
Position	Prop
Provincial/State sides
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
1971-1981	Auckland	122
National team(s)
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
1976-1979	New Zealand	13	(8)
Coaching career
Years	Club / team
1996-1999 2000-2002	North Shore L'Aquila Fiji Italy

Bradley Ronald Johnstone (born 30 July 1950), known as Brad Johnstone, is a former New Zealand rugby union footballer and a current coach. He used to play as a prop.

He first played for Auckland, in 1971, and went on to play 122 matches for them including captaining them between 1977 and 1981.

Johnstone had 13 caps for New Zealand, from 1976 to 1979, scoring 2 tries, 8 points in aggregate. During the 1978 New Zealand rugby union tour of Britain and Ireland, he completed a "Grand Slam" with the four Home Nations.

He was the head coach of Fiji at the 1999 Rugby World Cup finals. He was assigned subsequently to Italy, where he stayed from 2000 to 2002. The team won his very first match in the new Six Nations, inaugurated in 2000 with the admission of Italy into the previous Five Nations, against Scotland; however, Italy failed to score a victory in the following 14 matches. Problems with the Italian Rugby Federation led to Johnstone's dismissal in 2002.

External links

• Brad Johnstone International Statistics

Sporting positions
Preceded by Meli Kurisaru	Fiji National Rugby Union Coach 1996-1999	Succeeded by Greg Smith
Preceded by Massimo Mascioletti	Italy National Rugby Union Coach 2000-2002	Succeeded by John Kirwan