… 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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Scotland National Team'
If you can find them, maybe you can hire…
February 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment
Categories: Player Watch · Scotland National Team
No Paterson but De Luca gets a chance…Scotland Team Announced
January 30th, 2008 · 5 Comments
Franky ‘Baws’ Hadden today named his XV for the game against France on Sunday. My initial thought was that this is a team set up to attack the French, and that seems like a fair plan but the big shock is the omission of Chris Paterson from the XV. [...]
Categories: Scotland National Team · Six Nations
Al’s All-Singing But Hopefully No Dancing Six Nations Preview
January 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Part I - Best Xmas Present….Ever!
I remember Christmas growing up being all about the lead up to the big day and whether or not Santa Claus had paid attention to the letter sent in June with my demands for Christmas presents. Sure, as the years go by this anticipation has faded [...]
Categories: Scotland National Team · Six Nations
Review of the Year
January 1st, 2008 · No Comments
Happy New Year from all here at the Scottish Rugby Blog!
Well, that’s 2007 out of the way. And while we don’t like to dwell in the past much (unless we get to live in 1990 all the time), here’s a look back at some of our personal highlights of 2007.
The Six Nations and the Heineken [...]
Categories: Heineken Cup · Magners League · Rugby World Cup · Scotland National Team · Six Nations
More XV Nonsense, and welcome Al
December 6th, 2007 · No Comments
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), [...]
Categories: Blog · Scotland National Team
Crystal Ball or Crystal Meths?
December 6th, 2007 · No Comments
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 [...]
Categories: Adventures in Rugby · Blog · Scotland National Team · Six Nations
Potential Scotland XV
December 5th, 2007 · No Comments
Frank Hadden announced his training squad yesterday, so here’s my team based on that. A few notes – this is the squad I would pick today based on current form, based on what I have seen/read/heard (so there may be a slight Edinburgh bias until I get a chance to see Glasgow on TV at [...]
Categories: Scotland National Team · Six Nations
