A Trip Down Murrayfield Lane
Guest poster Graeme takes a look back at his memories of going to see Scotland back in the “good” old days.
Category: Adventures in Rugby
Auld Enemies And A New Generation
On Monday morning I attended a press launch for the Glengoyne Auld Enemies Dinner.
The Event looks like a good one and the charity involvement is great. For everyone there, though, talk inevitably turned to the Heineken Cup…
Changing The Curriculum
Some instances in the last few weeks have got me thinking. Then something that came to my attention last night got me to get it down in script.
Lessons From South America
As I dragged myself out of bed at 6am yesterday to watch the World Cup Quarter finals, splashing warm tea on my face and enjoying a mug of bacon, I was surprised by some of what I saw. Actually, that is technically not true. I was more surprised by something that I heard.
World Cup Round Up
So that’s the trip of a lifetime over, and I’m home and back at the coalface. So what to make of Scotland’s World Cup campaign? Let’s take a look at the good, the bad and the ugly of New Zealand 2011 from our perspective.
Half-Baked at the Cake Tin
Wellington is a brilliant city, and the Westpac Stadium is – despite it’s fat oval shape and exposure to the elements in places – a brilliant place to go and watch a game of rugby. Sadly yesterday we didn’t get the brilliant game that the fantastic (if not capacity) crowd deserved.
England And Scotland Must Follow Northern Hemisphere Rivals To The Party
Sometimes we get a little too Albacentric, here. We can lose perspective. Thankfully, Pete South from RugbyFanCast.com is here to give us some perspective from, um…. down South:
Richie Vernon Rugby World Cup Tour Diary Pt 3
Here’s Richie Vernon’s 3rd installment of his RWC diary:
Welcome to New Zealand
Some pundits *cough Stephen Jones *cough* have a history of winding up the Kiwis, insulting everything from hospitality to weather to their general attitude. But so far the welcome here has been amazing, and ne’re a grumpy kiwi in sight. Although a few eccentrics for sure, like the guy who runs up and down Baldwin St (steepest in the world) every day.
Scotland 34 – 24 Romania
They’re harsh on their team here in New Zealand.
After the All Blacks humped a stoic Tongan side by 6 tries to 1 with clinical counter attacking rugby but failed to score quite so much in the second half, pretty much everyone I’ve spoken to reckons they were truly, truly awful, or words to that effect. Usually ones rhyming with “hit” or “height”. Graham “Ted” Henry only gave them 5/10. So how then to view Scotland’s decidedly mixed performance on Saturday against a fired-up Romanian team?
