… the Scotland A team to play Italy in Venice on the 3rd Feb. The back division looks a bit weaker than the first XV - with the exception of the half-backs - but the pack looks like they’d give the full team a run in an old-fashioned probables vs possibles type match. It is [...]

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Here’s to the Scottish teams doing well this weekend. This means a win for Edinburgh on the Saturday against Leinster, and a decent game (bonus point) for Glasgow on Friday. If Parks kicks his touch and Biarritz forget to turn up again though, it could be the shock of the tournament. Both games are on [...]

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Leinster 28 -14 Edinburgh
Another dogged performance from Edinburgh which suggests that given a vocal support in the return fixture at Murrayfield next weekend they might grab a result at home. Once again Ross Rennie put his hand up and waved a big number 7 shaped sign at Frank Hadden as he showed up all over [...]

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Slim updates all rolled into one this week - I had a busy weekend! I also got a chance to watch STV’s new rugby programme imaginitively titled “Scotsport Rugby” which happens on a Sunday around 6, for those of you that have missed out so far. While I’m still not sure who Richie Gray is, [...]

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Who got a game, and who didn’t.
Chris Paterson – came on for 5 minutes in the convincing win against Ulster.
Al Strokosch – played well for most of the Ulster game as part of a Gloucester pack building in confidence.
Rory Lawson played most of the game for Gloucester in an assured performance that allowed [...]

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No, not him, the older one. The one you would have worried about if it had been this time last year. Sean “Monty” Lamont has picked up a knee ligament injury at Northampton which will keep him out for the rest of the season. Seems to be cruciate ligament damage from some of the articles [...]

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