This game was nervvy and tight, but Stuart Lancaster’s new England won at Murrayfield for the first time since 2004. Charlie Hodgson scored the games only try, charging down DanParks on Scotland’s line… Heartbreak all round.
Anyone for some good-natured competition?
Alan Dymock, somewhat bizarrely, argues that Scotland will have more than one captain on the pitch come the Calcutta Cup.
Welcome to the new look site, we hope you like it. It has been designed to allow us to give you more of what you want, which is good writing about Scottish rugby, along with the latest news and competitions.
Wishing all of our readers a Happy New Year from the team here at Scottish Rugby Blog. Here’s to a great year for Scottish Rugby, which kicks off very soon with the resumption of European action and our pro-teams poised nicely, and we’ve got the Six Nations following swiftly thereafter.
We hope you will come along for the rollercoaster ride that is being a Scotland fan!
Rory, Alan and Al
And with that, we’ve decided to take a look at the future of the Scottish Rugby Blog, and how we can use it to help grow interest and awareness of Scottish Rugby, to keep you entertained and all the other things we attempt on a regular basis.
We’ve called in the banners (sorry, reading Game of Thrones at the moment), and the full team are meeting up next weekend to have a bit of a chat before the Edinburgh vs Leinster game.
So if you have any suggestions for ways we could improve this site, what you’d like more of/less of, your thoughts on advertising/sponsorship or even just how you view the site (mobile/RSS/browser/syndicated pages), please feel free to comment below. Or if you’d like to share your thoughts privately feel free to email rory@scottishrugbyblog.co.uk with your comments or ideas.
Feedback is important to us and we are thankful for your continuing support and readership. We’ll probably post again afterwards with some of our ideas to see if anyone likes them.
As for your thoughts on how to improve Scottish rugby itself, we are always glad to see those in the comments on our posts, so keep them coming too. Don’t forget we’ve got a massive back archive of ramblings that might be of interest!
Am very excited at the news about Richie Vernon giving us an exclusive RWC tour diary, great work to the team holding down the fort while I am away. Apologies for the brief downtime of the site yesterday, traffic must have taken a bump but we should be ok from here on in.
Caught bits of the Aus v NZ and Ire v Eng games at the weekend in various Bangkok bars. Didn’t see all of the games so I thought I’d ask you: Australia looking good – or was it just a flash in the pan? Has Genia picked the perfect time to become the best 9 in the world? England’s defence looked solid (only saw second half), are they timing it right? It looked a bit like Ireland’s second team though, so is there nothing to worry about?
In the mean time check out reader Graham’s Rugby World Cup trailer, Lego style!
So the Scotland team are off Down Under and will be 11 hours ahead. You won’t be able to get your Twitter fix from the players and there won’t be press reports every second day.
Don’t worry! We have a way you can keep up with the Scotland squad and have your player fix…
We are pleased to announce that Richard Vernon, Scotland Rugby World Cup 2011 back rower, has joined Scottish Rugby Blog as a tour diarist.
He will be keeping us abrest of all goings on in the camp as well as letting you know about team preperations and group morale leading up to, and following, all the big RWC matches.
Our first post should be up on Thursday and regularly after that.
Keep following the Blog to see what the Scotland boys are up to!
Messrs Lowe, Gemmell and Shiel made it abundantly clear yesterday that Scotland was moving into a new era as the SRU announced a full-time sevens squad.
They unveiled a gaudy new set of shirts and a list of names that would be contracted to the sevens and seconded to the two pro sides between tournaments.
The Sevens Specialists, picture courtesy Scottish Rugby/PA Images
This is slightly experimental, with the emphasis on mental. Below (hopefully) will gather our up to date musings on the day’s rugby…I will probably try and find a better way to do this but it will do for now!
