Posted by Rory at 6.16pm
Filed under: Autumn Internationals, Magners League, Scotland National Team, World of Rugby
Categories: Autumn Internationals · Magners League · Scotland National Team · World of Rugby
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.
Posted by Rory at 11.27am
Filed under: Rugby on TV, Scotland National Team
Categories: Rugby on TV · Scotland National Team
Chris Cusiter has all but ruled himself out of at least the first test due to his wobbly knee, in stating he expects not be able to train fully till later in the week. Robbo had earlier said he would need to be training by today to be considered for inclusion. Argentina’s squad contains a [...]
Posted by Rory at 11.55am
Filed under: Magners League, Scotland National Team, World of Rugby
Categories: Magners League · Scotland National Team · World of Rugby
While I was away stuck in the wilderness, it seems quite a lot has happened on the rugby front:
Posted by Rory at 10.42am
Filed under: Magners League
Categories: Magners League
Here are the teams for the Magners League semi-final tonight in Wales, k/o 1905 GMT.
Posted by Rory at 3.08pm
Filed under: Scotland National Team, Six Nations
Categories: Scotland National Team · Six Nations
Scotland team to play Italy in the RBS 6 Nations Championship at the Stadio Flaminio, Rome, on Saturday 27 February, kick-off 1.30pm GMT 15 Hugo Southwell (Stade Francais), 14 Simon Danielli (Ulster), 13 Max Evans (Glasgow Warriors), 12 Graeme Morrison (Glasgow Warriors), 11 Sean Lamont (Scarlets), 10 Dan Parks (Glasgow Warriors), 9 Chris Cusiter (Glasgow [...]
Posted by Rory at 5.33pm
Filed under: Scotland National Team, Six Nations
Categories: Scotland National Team · Six Nations
Wales 31-24 Scotland This weekend the game of rugby itself received a transfusion of energy, as finally the Six Nations lived up to its billing and provided rugby fans with sporting drama of the kind not seen since the second Lions Test last year, and before that not seen at test level for some time. [...]
Posted by Gregor at 7.52pm
Filed under: Player Watch, Six Nations
Categories: Player Watch · Six Nations
Despite the differences between the two sports similar debates are currently going on amongst fans of Scottish football and rugby. In football, Kris Boyd had become accustomed to being left out of big games by Rangers and chose to quit international football because he was not satisfied with being always on the bench. This was [...]
Posted by Rory at 3.10pm
Filed under: Scotland National Team
Categories: Scotland National Team
Scotland 23-10 Fiji But having said that, it was more clinical than we are used to, wasn’t it? How many times have we seen the scrum-half break (usually Mike Blair) with no-one on his shoulder and the move fizzles out? This time when Cus went through the gap, pack-attack-captain Beattie was on his shoulder and [...]
Posted by Rory at 7.04pm
Filed under: Scotland National Team
Categories: Scotland National Team
Well done to Alex Grove on his debut cap, I reckon it’s a good idea to give him a shot against Fiji. More interesting even than that is the suprise absence of Thom Evans from the 22, given that he had been pretty much the creative spark for Scotland all of last season. It does [...]
Posted by Rory at 1.08pm
Filed under: Scotland National Team
Categories: Scotland National Team
Andy Robinson has announced Scotland is to have two captains for the autumn internationals – incumbent Mike Blair and widely touted replacement Chris Cusiter who led the A team to victory in the IRB Nations Cup. Whoever is on the pitch leads the team, presumably with the usual switch around the 60 minute mark (though [...]
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