Laurie Fisher

Super Rugby coach

2025 ACT Senior Australian of the Year Nominee

Laurie Fisher has been a prominent member of the ACT rugby community for more than 40 years.  

He first joined the Brumbies Runners in 1999, moving up the ladder to head coach of the Australian under 21s before becoming head coach of the Brumbies in 2005, finally leaving in 2008 for a stint with Munster in Ireland.  

Laurie returned to Canberra in 2012, helping to build a new team that was beaten in the Super Rugby final in 2013 and semi-final in 2014. After another UK stint, this time to Gloucester, he returned for the 2018 season. The team he moulded with head coach Dan McKellar reached the semi-finals of Super Rugby on three occasions, took out the Super Rugby AU title in 2020 and were runners up in 2021. 

Having retired at the completion of the 2023 season, Laurie was asked to join the Wallabies coaching staff through to the end of 2025. He remains closely connected and the heart and soul of the Brumbies, the most successful province in Australian Super Rugby.