About Scottish Rugby Blog

We aim for this blog this to be an irreverent look at the glorious sport of Rugby, as told from a mainly Scottish perspective. We will, however, try not to get too parochial – especially around Calcutta Cup time. We would like to build a community of regular readers, and may look at a forum if demand is sufficient. Mostly we just need somewhere to vent occasionally and would be happy for you to view the comments and vent your own opinions!

“At last, the uncompromised, uncompromising forum Scottish rugby has always lacked. A great place to read and write about the issues of the day, and an opportunity to show the world there’s life in our game yet.” Mark Palmer

About Us

Rory
Editor & Co-Founder
Rory is a keen rugby follower with a fairly minimal rugby career in the backs. An early bloodbath vs Keith Secondary School should have put him off for life, but sitting at full-back and on the wing kept him well out of the action. Since diving into the verbal action with Scottish Rugby Blog, Rory has offered his fan’s perspective/sat on the fence for such respected broadcasters as BBC Five Live, BBC Radio Wales and ESPN’s Scrum.com. When not scouring the web for stories, he moonlights as a web designer and film maker in the North of Scotland.

Al
Senior Correspondent & Co-Founder
With an early spell playing at hooker for the same school that gave rise to fellow blogger Rory (average turnout at rugby training: 5 people including 2 girls), Al has since left the dark arts of the front row behind to blaze a trail through the touch rugby teams of Edinburgh. A keen follower of Aberdeen FC, Al is currently employed as a project manager for the NHS, which should give him plenty of practice for a future career as an SRU blazer.

A.D.
Club Rugby Correspondent
A student from Dundee, our other Alan currently plays his rugby for Heriot’s in Edinburgh. Having played in many far flung places like the U.A.E., South Africa and even Coventry Alan hopes to give an insight into Scottish premier club rugby and the first year of the cross border British and Irish Cup as well as introducing us to the young talent coming through in the Scottish game. Just don’t ask what his other nicknames are…

Gregor
West Coast/Glasgow Correspondent
Gregor is a keen rugby follower and sports fanatic who played the game through his childhood but made a switch to American Football during university where he spent four years explaining why it is sore even with pads on, and thus slow for a reason.  But after years of defending his other sport to the hilt, he has been converted back to rugby. Living in Glasgow, he is a regular at Firhill to watch the Warriors and trying to make his way as a journalist he has done work for the BBC including providing radio features for the Friday night Sportsound rugby programme.

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If you are interested in contributing an article to the blog on a one-off or regular basis please get in touch (as there is still much that we cannot cover that we would like to) or even if you would just like to make a comment or suggestion. We are happy to exchange reciprocal links as well and if you like an article please use the social bookmarking links if you are into that sort of thing.

In particular we’d be interested in hearing from English/Welsh/Irish/French supporters who have exiled Scotland players at their local club eg Northampton, Gloucester, Leinster, Toulon, Stade Francais etc, as well as someone to cover what we hope will be the rise of London Scottish. Anyone interested in covering the woman’s/junior/age-grade/schools game in Scotland would also be more than welcome, as would travelogue pieces relating to Scottish Rugby. We can’t offer any money at this stage I’m afraid as the site barely pays for itself and I don’t really want to plaster it in adverts, but full credit would be given where due, links to your own site etc and you’d be part of a team trying to help Scottish rugby grow! Please only rugby related articles, not thinly veiled advertisements for gambling websites.

In the first instance enquiries etc should be sent to rory{at}scottishrugbyblog.co.uk

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