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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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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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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Yesterday sources deep inside the British and Irish Lions camp announced a surprise front runner for the post of Lions coach in the upcoming 2009 test series against South Africa, namely visionary Scotland head coach Frank Hadden. It is believed that his preferred deputies are Brian Ashton to coach the backs, and Ulster Coach Matt [...]

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Found a wee highlights package of the A Team game vs Ireland A in Perth last weekend. Good stuff, and shows all the tries!
Scottish Rugby TV - Scotland A vs Ireland A

(requires Quicktime)
Oh, and I also updated the nicknames page with a few more tidbits.

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I know I was supposed to post something meaningful this week, but I haven’t got round to it yet. Hopefully I’ll have something over the weekend.
In the meantime here’s the rugby you might like to catch on TV over the weekend:
First up, something called the Super 14 kicked off today, and while we don’t usually [...]

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Unless you lose. Not that we endorse wanton gambling or anything, but James at the Rugby Blog has been in touch to say that they’re running an offer in conjunction with Betfair offering you good deals on Six Nations betting. So if you think that Marcus Di Rollo will win the most Man of the [...]

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Just out of interest, I compiled a team of the players in the training squad who are not compatible with a Fortress Scotland type policy. Though it has a glut of 6s and not much else in the back row, in most other areas it looks ok:
FORWARDS
A Dickinson (Gloucester), S Lawson (Sale), E Murray (Northampton), [...]

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World Cup 2007 - phew, what a tournament! The scrummage was intense, the rivalry between two passionate set of combatants, the immense handling skills - all to the backing track of rousing renditions of national anthems. Yup, getting to and fro the bar in Le Glasgow Bar the night before the Scotland v [...]

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