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Scotland Team to face Springboks

November 11th, 2008 · No Comments

While I was posting that latest magnum opus, the team was announced for the weekend. Brother for brother swap on the wing, the rest stay as is including the bench. Malkovich Webster and the big Stroker stay in the player pool as cover for a few potential injury cases (Hines, Hamilton, Evans). Sadly no recovery [...]

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Categories: Scotland National Team

Can We Beat The All Blacks?

November 1st, 2008 · 3 Comments

After the widely derided World Cup ‘B’ Team played against New Zealand on their last visit to Murrayfield, it will be interesting to test our full XV against the might All Blacks. Your fearless Scottish Rugby Blog correspondent will be in attendance. But can we (unlike Scubbsy) man up, and get a result?
Yes We Can:

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Categories: Laws, Rules and Refs · Player Watch · Rugby World Cup · Scotland National Team

The Heineken Cup starts this weekend

October 10th, 2008 · 2 Comments

So we wouldn’t be serving you, the Scottish Rugby blog reader (there may only be one of you), correctly if we didn’t give you a run-down on where and when you can catch up with all the Scottish players on show this weekend in the world’s biggest and best club rugby tournament. Last night the [...]

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Categories: British and Irish Lions · Heineken Cup · Player Watch · Rugby on TV

A chance for revenge…sort of

June 11th, 2008 · 3 Comments

So, 15 points. Can we really beat Argentina by that much? Without scoring any tries? With Dan Parks at 10? Not having seen the previous game yet, I can’t really comment specifically but from the sounds of it on the radio we were solid in the set piece but bullied at the breakdown, which led [...]

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Categories: Rugby on TV · Scotland A Team · Scotland National Team · World of Rugby

Scottish Players sign on the dotted line

May 2nd, 2008 · 6 Comments

According to BBC news, Kelly Brown, Dan Turner and Thom Evans have all signed new contracts with Glasgow. In slightly more exciting news, Jim Hamilton has finally left Leicester and signed a 3 year deal to bolster Edinburgh’s second row, in a move that has been rumoured for some time. It’ll do him good to [...]

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Categories: Magners League · Player Watch

Scotland Win Calcutta Cup

March 10th, 2008 · 10 Comments

In other news, pig seen taking off from Heathrow…
So the boys did it against all odds and most of the expectations. We drunk rather a lot of beer and ended up in a Chinese restaurant with menus in, well, Chinese. I think we ate Jellyfish. Al is so hungover that he has gone to France [...]

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Categories: Adventures in Rugby · Rugby World Cup · Scotland National Team · Six Nations