My latest guest piece previewing the Scotland Italy game up now here. There are no pasta puns, for once.

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Harking back to Saturday nights as a loon, eh? The crossover episode we never saw. Captain Ally Hogg = Boss Hogg, geddit? Meanwhile below you will find the newly announced Scotland A team to face Italy A. Could Scott MacLeod use this as a springboard to launch himself back towards the full team and offer [...]

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Don’t forget to change your teams ahead of the next round of matches. Some people (ahem, Al) suffered from making no changes in the last round… Still got Andy Goode in your team? Is Euan Murray worth the gamble? You should have got an email from scrum.com with the latest teams all handily laid out [...]

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Hot (ish) off the SRU press, here is our team: Scotland: Hugo Southwell (Edinburgh), Simon Danielli (Ulster), Max Evans (Glasgow Warriors), Graeme Morrison (Glasgow Warriors), Thom Evans (Glasgow Warriors), Phil Godman (Edinburgh), Mike Blair (Edinburgh, capt), Allan Jacobsen (Edinburgh), Ross Ford (Edinburgh), Euan Murray (Northampton Saints), Jason White (Sale Sharks), Alastair Kellock (Glasgow Warriors), Alasdair [...]

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Mixed news ahead of Scotland’s crunch wooden spoon duel against Italy this weekend. The Good: Tighthead prop Euan Murray played the full 80 minutes for Northampton in their narrow defeat against Wasps yesterday with no news of any adverse affects. In case we need backup, Moray Low had a pretty decent game for Glasgow against [...]

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Edinburgh field a reasonable strength team to travel to Munster this weekend including a number of international squad players released back into Andy Robinson’s care. Although the Munster team has not been announced it will probably make up for a lack of the core Ireland players with the likes of Doug Howlett, and Mafi and [...]

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Michael wrote in today with a link to the following petition to remove Frank Hadden as national coach. http://www.petitiononline.com/Frankout/petition.html While I should point out that here at Scottish Rugby Blog we do not necessarily endorse this viewpoint that Frank Hadden should go – I’m fairly ambivalent to be honest, although considerably more likely to sign [...]

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Scurrilous rumours are circulating in the e-press-o-sphere (new word for you there) that the Springbok franchises are looking for a break-away from the Super 14 next year, with an entry into the Magners League being touted as the replacement. Leaving aside the fact that every one involved seems to deny anything of the sort to [...]

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With two weeks to go until the next round of Six Nations games, we Scotland fans now have a short while to sit back and gather our thoughts. So with that in mind, here are some freshly gathered ones. Frank Hadden has asserted that Scotland will “make an impact” in this tournament, although it remains [...]

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Quick round-up: Scotland U20s were trounced fairly comprehensively by the French, 30-3. The Scotland Club International side lost to their French counterparts by only a point 13-12, so unlucky there guys. No word on the A team score as yet but with Ruaridh Jackson at 10, Cairns as captain the 35-10 scoreline was pretty disappointing [...]

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