What type of details about steve bates can be gathered from the following bio? Bio: steve bates -lrb- born 4 march 1963 in merthyr tydfil , wales -rrb- is a former english rugby union player and current rugby coach . he played at scrum-half for london wasps , where he formed a successful partnership with fly-half rob andrew . he was capped once for england , against in bucharest in 1989 , and toured south africa with england in 1994 . in 1995 , when andrew left wasps to become director of rugby at newcastle falcons , bates followed him , becoming the falcons ' head coach . under bates , newcastle were promoted to the premiership at the end of the 1996 -- 97 season and went on to top the league at the first attempt , in 1997 -- 98 ; they reached the final of the tetley 's bitter cup in 1999 and won the trophy -lrb- by then known as the powergen cup in 2001 . bates left newcastle in march 2003 and , a year later , was appointed as head coach of border reivers , taking over from new zealander tony gilbert , who was returning home . bates successfully guided borders back into the heineken cup in 2006 -- 07 and , during his time with the club , also coached scotland a to the final of the 2006 churchill cup , which they lost to the new zealand maori , after wins against england saxons and . when the scottish rugby football union announced that border reivers was to be disbanded at the end of the 2006 -- 07 season , bates was headhunted by newcastle falcons to become their coaching and technical director and rejoined the club in june 2007 . in january 2008 , the rugby football union announced the appointment of bates as head coach of england saxons on a part-time basis . steve bates is married with two children , lottie and emma . during his days as a player , in the amateur era , bates was a schoolteacher at lord wandsworth college in hampshire , where one of his pupils was the young jonny wilkinson and he was instrumental in attracting the fly-half to newcastle in the summer of 1997 . as of september 2011 bates is now the director of sport at fettes college in edinburgh where he coaches the 1st xv .
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