So that’s it. All wrapped up. We know who are League Champions. We know who are Cup Champions. We know who is in next season’s B&I Cup. We know who is relegated and we know who is coming up. Prem One is in the can for another season.
Since Melrose won their own 7s Ayr have beaten them to the Scottish Cup 25-21. Highlights here.
However, Melrose are still chasing the Treble of the 7s, the Borders League and the Premier One title while Ayr are looking to come from behind in the title race and claim a Double. This means that Saturday’s match at the Greenyards is a huge one. Can Melrose hang on and avenge the Cup defeat? Kick-off is at 3pm.
In other news, keep your eyes on SRB for our own ‘End of Season Awards’ and a series of ‘interesting’ interviews as we build-up to the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand.
On an unfeasibly warm Scottish Saturday a few South African’s were overheard complaining about a tanned backside…
At this point in time we know who is playing in Premier One next season, but we still don’t know who will start that season as the title holders.
The 6 Nations are over and the hard slog towards New Zealand begins. But before we kick-off against Romania on the 10th of September in Invercargill there are a lot of things that will happen on our own shores.
While we round up the various Six Nations bits, here’s a piece from a new writer David regarding one of the unheralded success stories in Scottish rugby. Over to David:
A major rugby match will take place at Mansfield Park on Tuesday 11th October between the cream of the South of Scotland’s club players and the legendary rugby club The Barbarians in aid of the Bill McLaren Foundation.
Sent to me from the satellite phone aboard the Gulfstream G4 winging him and his fellow club internationalists across to froggy land for the OTHER game vs France this weekend, A.D reports in with the full team announcement for the Club International side.
Scotland Club International head coach Ally Donaldson has selected a squad of top club players for their match against France in Orleans next weekend (Friday 4 February, kick-off 6pm GMT).
Like an overheard conversation, we all have some nagging doubts in our mind about how Edinburgh and Glasgow are going to progress next season.
As Welsh legend Gareth Thomas tells all in America there have been a few revelations on our own soil. Brace yourself for the Scottish rugby version of the New Years honour list…
The weather continues to taunt us all. Edinburgh played a game in the twilight zone; club games are piling up for the new year; and social networking sites have become painfully, boringly predictable. “Awww I hate this snow!” Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz……..
However, there is a shining light
When you talk to cricket fans they will normally say the same thing: “I love tweed…”However, when you ask them about the smash-mouth, less drawn-out affair of 20/20 cricket they acknowledge the excitement but regard it as the warm-up.
In Scotland 7s rugby is considered in much the same way.
As everyone in Scotland is petrified of snowballs and the club game looks set to go into cold storage (awful, awful pun…) I suppose it is time to have THE debate. One that rages on, almost as passionately as the debate old bufties still have about pro rugby “being a terrible idea.” Yup, it’s that time; should we have Summer Rugby?!
Things round here are getting almost as combustible as a Fedex parcel on the 5th of November. Not to mention fairly complex. The Scotland squad have no idea how easy they’ve got it! Sure they have had to do days of “minging bosh” (Jim ‘The Bear’ Thompson) on a windswept park in St. Andrew but, then, they have everything neatly set out for them.
Unlike the Scottish Premier Clubs.
