Background
Lineen was born on 25 December 1961, in Auckland. He is the son of rugby player Terry Lineen.
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He has been awarded the freedom of the city of Edinburgh. Lineen played at centre 29 times for Scotland, and for Boroughmuir Reconstruction Finance Corporation. In the 1985/6 season he made his first journey to the United Kingdom, playing for Pontypool. In October 1988 he came to Scotland and played for Boroughmuir.
Following his international career, Lineen divided his time between coaching Boroughmuir – during which he was involved in both cup and league triumphs – and running the Scottish Rugby magazine.
On 28 March 2006 he was appointed head coach of Glasgow Warriors. He had applied to be head coach of Edinburgh Gunners but the SRU insisted that the new coach of Edinburgh must already have experience as head coach.
Other so-called "kilted Kiwis" apart from Sean Lineen have included:
Brendan Laney
John Leslie
Martin Leslie
Glenn Metcalfe
Gordon Simpson
Cameron Mather
Shaun Longstaff
Sean Maitland.
Membership
He was a member of the notable Scottish Grand Slam team of 1990. Lineen was appointed assistant coach at Glasgow Rugby (now Glasgow Warriors) for the start of the 2003-2004 season and became a member of the Scotland national coaching team under Frank Hadden in the summer of 2005, coaching the backs.
