Name: Andy Gosling
Nickname: Goz
Born: 1963
Weight: 15st
Height: 5ft 10"
Position: Tight Head Prop
Job: Builds Conservatories
Education: Woodgreen School, Witney
First Season 1979/80
No of Games 352
For 1st XV 286
Number of Tries 35
Tries for 1st 26
Captain 1st XV Captain : 93/94, 94/95, 95/96
Match Day Superstitions Always out the Changing Room last.
Most Admired International Player Sean Fitzpatrick, aggressive but honest Rugby Player
Favourite Rugby Tour Hungary
Most Embarrassing moment on the Pitch
Most Embarrasing moment off the Pitch

 

Best Match for Witney

Witney v Henley in the County Cup 4th Feb 96.

Witney visited Henley as huge underdogs and ended up drawing 20 points each. For a moment, as the away side, Witney thought they would go through but the deciding factor was tries and Henley went through. WHY ? – "Witney played about as well as they ever have and showed great character in the match".
Witney XV : Gibbons, Brearey, Snow, Dunbar, Herbourn, Grant, Wilsker, Aldridge, Hoyle, *Gosling, Serle, Chatterton, Bennett, Rawlings, Godfrey(M)
Repl : Bowmer, Strutt, Townsend, Davies(G) Scores : Dunbar(T), Brearey(T), Grant(2C, 2P)

Worst Match for Witney

Witney v Didcot in the Oxon/Bucks 1 Relegation decider 28th April 90

Witney visited Didcot and the looser was destined for relegation. Witney failed to perform and a hungrier Didcot side scraped a win. WHY ? "We played badly, lost and got relegated to Oxon/Bucks Div 2".
Witney XV : Cannons(A), Strutt, Williams(C), Hugo(N), Wicks, *Lewis(G), Ward, Rose, Hoyle, Gosling, Mills, Brown, Campbell, Holliday, Godfrey(M)
Repl : Bennett(J), Gardner
Scores : Strutt(T), Hugo(T), Cannons (C, P)

How to improve training More hard work, especially scrummaging.
Remaining Rugby Ambitions To win the County Cup with Witney
Miscellaneous Shouldn’t mention: For two seasons, Goz, played at Grove who then were in a higher League than Witney