Don’t forget, Edinburgh vs Dragons is on BBC2 Wales (channel 991 on Sky Digital if memory serves) tonight from 7pm. Edinburgh are fielding a pretty decent team (including Rennie, De Luca and Godman) that should be in with a shout of getting a win, although the Dragons are looking for their double over Edinburgh this [...]

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Found a wee highlights package of the A Team game vs Ireland A in Perth last weekend. Good stuff, and shows all the tries!
Scottish Rugby TV - Scotland A vs Ireland A

(requires Quicktime)
Oh, and I also updated the nicknames page with a few more tidbits.

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News is just breaking that a Scotland Rugby Union player has failed a drugs test of some sort. As if things weren’t bad enough… anyway we’ll avoid unhealthy (and possibly actionable) speculation and bring you more news as we get it, so keep an eye out!
UPDATE: The BBC are reporting that a player has been [...]

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Ireland 34-13 Scotland
Okay, so first things first. Scotland were pretty poor on Super Saturday. You all saw it, so there’s not much point in spending the rest of my afternoon telling you what you already know. Feel free to get it off your chest in the comments section below. Italy looked more like scoring tries [...]

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Ireland v Scotland, Croke Park (Dublin), 5pm, Saturday 23rd February
On the day that Fidel Castro decided to retire his Marxist Beard, and spark jubilation amongst the exiled Cubans in Florida, so I also decided to take myself out of my self-imposed rugby exile and started building myself up for the next round of 6 Nations [...]

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Rory Lamont and Simon Webster have been added to the squad to travel to Dublin. We’ll have more on the team announcement tomorrow. Jason White is still not fully training, and John Barclay has a small injury too. Strokosch / Hogg / Brown back row anyone?

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So, Chris Paterson just played over 50 minutes at stand-off for Gloucester. As I type this, he came off the pictch seemingly to be replaced by a streaker. Mossy missed two conversions (that with hindsight would have sealed victory), fluffed a couple of restarts - the commentators review said his performance was “mixed”. Not the [...]

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I know I was supposed to post something meaningful this week, but I haven’t got round to it yet. Hopefully I’ll have something over the weekend.
In the meantime here’s the rugby you might like to catch on TV over the weekend:
First up, something called the Super 14 kicked off today, and while we don’t usually [...]

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Scotland’s 6 Nations campaign staggered further into the abyss on Saturday when Scotland crashed to a decent, but not outstanding, Welsh side. Scotland had arrived in the Welsh capital eager to make amends for last weeks horror show against the French but instead compounded the misery by turning in an abject display that [...]

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Keeping in line with Rory’s Episcopal writings Chris Paterson has risen from his resting place on the subs bench to take his place in the Scotland starting XV for the game against Wales. Paterson has come in at 15 and Kelly Brown (8) has come in to replace David Callum who has dropped [...]

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