Our Scotland XV: The Half Backs
Continuing our regular series building towards the viagogo Autumn Internationals, Barry P is next up with a look at Scotland’s options for the half-backs, scrum and fly-half.
Glasgow 12-6 Leinster
Rory takes in Glasgow’s narrow win over Leinster in the RaboDirectPRO12 that took them to the top of the league.
Changes at Edinburgh, Chops at Glasgow
Edinburgh have a bit more bite in their pack, and are playing with a sense of fun. Glasgow, meanwhile, are looking unlikely to change. Will it take time, or is it just that they cannot evolve?
Cusiter And Lawson Expect Performance
Alan Dymock caught up with GUINNESS ambassadors Scott Lawson and Chris Cusiter. The message? The entire squad will play against Ireland with the exact same tempo and belief that ran France close and could have beaten England.
World Cup Squad Preview: Backs
The club season is done. The pro-team season is almost over, unless you happen to be challenging for a playoff place (hint: Edinburgh and Glasgow are not). All eyes turn now to the World Cup, at least in this part of the world.
Teams for the Weekend
Mossy returns to the squad for the first time since the Six Nations, and with Hugo Southwell in try scoring form for Stade Francais Chris’ll be looking to reassert his hold on the Scotland 15 shirt ahead of the summer. In-form inside centre James King keeps Nick de Luca on the bench. Edinburgh (to face […]
Wanted: Scotland Captain 2011
Under Andy “Build A Score” Robinson Scotland have improved. Split hairs if you want, but things are certainly looking better than they did only three years ago. Even the most pessimistic of supporters (i.e. any Scotsman) has to admit that. Pressure, then, is steadily mounting for the 6N and the World Cup this summer.
Round-up, Round-up, Wherever You Are
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.
Cus Out
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 […]
A Return To Action
While I was away stuck in the wilderness, it seems quite a lot has happened on the rugby front:
Good Luck Glasgow
Here are the teams for the Magners League semi-final tonight in Wales, k/o 1905 GMT.
Scotland Team for Italy
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 […]
2010 Six Nations: Wales 31-24 Scotland – Everything Left On The Pitch
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. The fact that […]
When you’ve got no one else to turn to..
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 […]
Comfortable if Not Clinical
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 […]