Inverness Caledonian Stadium will host the opening match of Scotland’s U20s Six Nations campaign against France, and there is even a possibility of a “local” lad being in the frame in the form of a Caithness player:
Scotsman Article
Friday 5th Feb at 7.30, free entry. Wrap up warm. Very warm.
Also, the IRB have announced the ticket [...]

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Anyone else find the Argentina game a bit dull? Okay so we were beaten and probably deserved it on the basis of the utterly forgetful second half. But for me the most exciting things about the match were the following:

Being able to move along three sections, thereby getting a decent West stand seat for a [...]

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…for not spouting any of my rubbish lately, I was down in London with Al checking out the Boss at Hyde Park – awesome show. However we did find time to take in the second Lions test in a pub in Putney, an area riddled with South Africans it seems. Good times were had by [...]

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After a statistical error, it appears my co-blogger Al should actually have come first. Apologies to all those who entered in the hope of defeating his rugby magnificence.
Okay, that’s April 1st out of the way.
Congratulations are due to all who played, but after pretty much leading from the front in week 1, legendary Scottish Rugby [...]

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“And now the end is near…”
I ain’t no Las Vegas crooner, able to sweet talk the ladies and the local Mob in equal measure, but just like Ol’ Blue Eyes even I can see that the end is near for Frank Hadden.  After another frustrating afternoon at “Fortress” (more like a soggy cardboard box crumbling under [...]

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In Inverness, from our old school, saying this would have been the equivalent of saying something like “that Laurence Dallaglio is a nice chap”. Oh wait. But still, props of the non-front-row variety go to Milburn rugby team members Andrew Kellock (aged 12, no relation, one imagines) and John Clark (age 13) who managed to [...]

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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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Just a quick post to let you know that BBC Wales have very kindly/foolishly asked me to present the armchair Scottish pundit’s viewpoint on the team announcements and Six Nations in general on their Good Evening Wales show this evening. Listen out if you can!
UPDATE: You can listen to it here for I’m not sure [...]

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Hey people, we’d love you to join us playing Six Nations fantasy rugby to pit our amateur punditry skills against one another. It’s a free game, you can sign up here:
http://scrum.fantasyleague.com/
The deadline for teams is (I think) Saturday the 7th before the first game kicks off. Once I’ve set up a mini-league I’ll post the [...]

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A bit of actual news reporting for you here! Your faithful correspondent was up at the crack of dawn today to try and snare a couple of the last few cheap seats for Scotland’s Six Nations Clash with Ireland. By the end of the waiting process the following was clear: no “cheap” ie £30 pairs [...]

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