Hope you like the new look and header. I am working on separate headers for each section, first up being an archive header featuring some golden oldies… feel free to comment below.

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Off topic a little, but we’ve just started up for the year and are looking for numbers for our Inverness Touch Rugby group. It’s pretty informal, a good laugh and a good way to keep fit/practice your Toony flip. Mine is pretty rubbish but it’s been a good laugh so far.
Anyone in Inverness, Dingwall, Nairn [...]

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Last Monday saw the inevitable spilling of blood at SRU HQ with Frank Hadden managing to cling onto his job.  After a woeful last 6 months that saw Scotland throw away a chance at a World Cup Semi-final and struggle to make any sort of positive impact on 2008’s 6 Nations it was inconceivable that [...]

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Edinburgh 15 - 13 Leinster
Leinster turned up in Edinburgh needing “only” 4 tries and the victory to clinch the title. Despite Edinburgh’s best efforts to throw it away in the dying minutes, the home lads clung on against heavy pressure from the Leinster forwards to grab the points and move up to fourth in the [...]

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Bit of rhyme for you there, folks.
So, what we all knew would happen, did. Martin Johnson is to be appointed in some sort of honcho role (”team manager”) by the RFU this week. Brian Ashton will be let go as England coach, and offered some token development posts that he will almost certainly reject. Despite [...]

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Al’s moving house this weekend, and I’m off on a course on Saturday so it seems likely that we’ll miss the bumper crop of rugby stuff on the TV this weekend, mostly on Saturday. However here’s a list, so you don’t have to miss a thing.
The Glasgow - Edinburgh Magners League derby takes place [...]

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I see my esteemed colleague Rory has ‘Tagged’ me and I’m compelled to give you an insight into my mind.  Its a scary place so you’ve been warned….
What was I doing 10 yrs ago?
Was at Uni and was making an effort to eat all the packets of Rib ‘n’ Saucy Nic Naks that I could [...]

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London Irish 20 - 9 USAP / Perpignan
Hines and Cusiter had a good start, with Cusiter in particular rescuing Percy Montgomery from a few classic Percy moments under high balls etc, but Irish piled on the pressure as the match wore on, and consequently ran out the winners. Hines kept his discipline, indeed what could [...]

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I’ve been “tagged” by TotalFlanker in some kind of bizarre blog-led game of tag. At the risk of baring my sensitive soul to the world, I shall enter into the spirit of teamship (© Andy Robinson) and complete the tasks assigned. The rules are:

The rules of the game get posted at the beginning.
Each player answers [...]

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aka The Five Thingies of Journalism. We do have a round table in the house though seriously, so Al and I sat at it post Six Nations and had a chat as we lay cringing in the rubble of Scotland’s wooden spoon near miss.
What should be done?
RB:I think we need to look at a new [...]

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