Brown brings Saracen spirit to new role at Scotstoun
set-up at Murrayfield, new Glasgow coach Danny Wilson recognised that Brown would be a good fit, and invited him to join.
“It was sudden,” explained Brown, who will focus on contact and lineout defence in his new role. “I’d been speaking to Danny, because
I’d done a bit of stuff with Scotland over the past two or three years.
“So I’d got to know him and we’d speak every now and again to discuss ideas around contact and that sort of stuff. Then we had a couple of calls over the lockdown period to discuss things we were looking at, at our different clubs.
“And then I got a call from him and he said there was an opportunity and would I be keen? And it’s a club I know and love, and hard as it was to leave Saracens, I was very excited about the opportunity to come back to Scotland.”
Now 38, Brown has always been known for his humility and down-to-earth approach. At Saracens he may have been part of an organisation that won three European crowns and five domestic titles in the past decade, but he is certainly not going to presume that such success makes him uniquely knowledgeable at Glasgow.
“I think every culture is slightly different, and there’s no way I’m going to come up and say, ‘I’ve been at Saracens, I know all this stuff’,” he explained. “There are little bits and pieces I can definitely bring up.
“In Glasgow, when I played there, and speaking to those who have been here in the last 10 years, it’s a club with a great culture and a really good environment. I’m not coming in to try and change everything, but there are little bits and pieces that I do feel we can add and improve, because we are striving to get better. And if there’s something I can add to help us as a group, then I’ll do it.”