Posted by Rory at 12.19pm
Filed under: Player Watch, Scotland A Team
Categories: Player Watch · Scotland A Team
Thom Evans has returned to Scotland. Apparently he was even up and moving about last week. What a trooper.
Moray Low is out for the rest of the 6N as he requires knee surgery. Get well soon Moray!
Here’s the Scotland A team for the weekend too:
Scotland A: Colin Gregor (Glasgow Warriors), Mark Robertson (Edinburgh), Alex Grove [...]
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 lo [...]
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 1.22pm
Filed under: Scotland National Team, Six Nations
Categories: Scotland National Team · Six Nations
With two weeks to go until the next round of Six Nations games, we Scotland fans now have a short while to sit back and gather our thoughts. So with that in mind, here are some freshly gathered ones.
Frank Hadden has asserted that Scotland will “make an impact” in this tournament, although it remains to [...]
Posted by Rory at 9.34am
Filed under: British and Irish Lions, Scotland National Team
Categories: British and Irish Lions · Scotland National Team
Today Wasps Director of Rugby Ian McGeechan is expected to be named as the head coach for the next British and Irish Lions tour to South Africa in 2009. The former Scotland coach has become synonymous with Lions tours both as coach and player, and anyone who has seen his midweek team talks on the [...]
Posted by Rory at 2.27pm
Filed under: Magners League, Player Watch
Categories: Magners League · Player Watch
So another season of Magners League rugby comes to an end, another disappointing year for the Scottish pro-teams. Oh, no, wait. That’s not entirely true, is it?
With wins away at Llanelli and Munster respectively yesterday, Edinburgh and Glasgow secured fourth and fifth places in the table, which I am pretty sure are record highs for [...]
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