Edinburgh have announced their team to face the newly Dan Parksified Cardiff Blues on Saturday (available on S4C, k/o 1830):

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Player’s Player of the Year: Tommy Bowe (Ospreys) Coach of the Season: Paul Turner (Dragons) Young Player of the Season: Tim Visser (Edinburgh) Gilbert Golden Boot: Chris Paterson (Edinburgh) Try of the Season: Ken Owens (Scarlets) Best Disciplinary Record: Cardiff Blues Chairman’s Award: Michael Bradley (Connacht) Magners League Dream Team: 15 Ben Blair (Cardiff Blues) [...]

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Is this really the start of the rugby season? We’re a week or two out yet but the uptake of news that one feels obliged to cover seems to be increasing daily. Still, it makes a change from endless football.

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Glasgow have had to pull out of the pre-season tournament they won in France last year due to a lack of fit players – apparently they cannot field a full squad of 22 able to play. Compounding this is the news that Johnnie Beattie and James Eddie both face sizeable layoffs after shoulder surgery. Couple [...]

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In English – BBC Alba are to show Edinburgh and Glasgow Magners League games next season.  Granted it’ll be in a language that only 3 men and their sheep understand and every fifth word will be an English word said in a funny way but it is a damn site better than what has gone [...]

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While I was away stuck in the wilderness, it seems quite a lot has happened on the rugby front:

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Seeing as there is nothing left for the Scottish teams to think about now the season is done, here are some transfer tidbits as attention turns to next season for the pro-teams and everyone else gets to thinking about the summer tours.

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Breathe it all in Glasgow fans….this is probably the highest we’ll ever go. Osprey’s were a class apart from Glasgow in the Friday night semi-final fixture in Swansea. Although the Warriors effort was phenomenal in the first half, when the teams came back out, Ospreys class began to show and Glasgow looked like boys against [...]

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Here are the teams for the Magners League semi-final tonight in Wales, k/o 1905 GMT.

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Edinburgh battled valiantly at the RDS last night – securing 4 tries but not the victory – but were unable to sneak into the play-offs, leaving Glasgow as the sole Scottish representation and confirming that their play-off opponents will be the star-studded Ospreys. The other play-off will feature an all Irish clash between Leinster and [...]

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