Andrew Sheridan
| Full name | Andrew John Sheridan | ||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 1 November 1979 | ||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Bromley, England | ||||||||||||
| Height | 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 128 kg (20 st 2 lb; 282 lb) | ||||||||||||
| School | Dulwich College | ||||||||||||
| University | University of London | ||||||||||||
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| Position | Prop, Lock, Number-eight | ||||||||||||
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| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| 1998–1999 1999–2003 2003–2012 2012–2014 |
Richmond Bristol Sale Sharks Toulon |
6 70 128 44 |
(0) (25) (40) (0) |
| National team(s) | |||
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| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| 2004–2011 2005, 2009 |
England British and Irish Lions |
40 2 |
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Andrew Sheridan (born 1 November 1979 in Petts Wood, Bromley, England) is a retired English rugby union player and musician, who played as a loosehead prop.
Sheridan is 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) tall, which is unusually tall for a prop, and weighs 128 kg (20 st 2 lb; 282 lb). He is known for his great physical strength – he is a near-elite class powerlifter and able to bench press 225 kilograms (35 st 6 lb; 496 lb) and squat 275 kilograms (43 st 4 lb; 606 lb).
Born on 1 November 1979 in Petts Wood, Bromley, England, Sheridan started playing rugby union at the age of nine with Old Elthamians, where he played for five years, until he went to Dulwich College. There he worked his way through the Surrey age group teams and was capped by both the England U16 and U18 Group Schools teams as a lock.
He joined Richmond in the 1998–99 season and as they folded he won a place in the England U21 squad that played in the 1999 SANZAR tournament in Argentina.
On his return from the SANZAR tournament he joined Bristol, where he made around 80 appearances. His physique also caused problems; slightly short for a lock, he was also too heavy to be lifted in the line-out (a key area of second row play), meaning that if he played there, a tall back row forward (such as Dean Ryan) had to fill in; he was also not mobile enough to play in the back row himself; as a result it was decided to switch him to loosehead prop, despite his being very tall for that position. Sheridan was switched from lock to loosehead prop by New Zealander Peter Thorburn while at Bristol. He showed his versatility by also playing at Number 8.
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