The Killers Bs: Legend or Myth?
Campbell Yates takes a dive into the legacy of Scotland’s most lauded back row unit of recent years.
The Beattie Identity
Andy McLellan looks at Scotland’s current issues at Number 8 and the rise and fall of Johnnie Beattie.
Scotland v France Player Ratings
Brodie Smithers gives his opinion on the individual Scotland players performances live from Murrayfield.
Scotland v England Player Ratings
Brodie Smithers runs the rule over the Scotland player performances on a difficult evening at Murrayfield.
Scotland Player Ratings
Brodie Smithers rates the Scottish effort against Australia
Scotland Player Ratings
Brodie Smithers runs the rule over todays Scotland Squad.
Our Scotland XV: Back Row
Cameron Black continues our series looking at Scotland’s selection options with what Scott Johnson claims is a bit of problem area, the back row…The problem must be fitting them in!
France 23 – 16 Scotland
Scotland’s best Six Nations campaign since 2006 ends with a whimper rather than a bang. Cameron Black sums up the match.
Our Team: 6 and 8
Cameron Black goes over the other back row berths for our draft team. Just to make Scott Johnson’s life easier, you understand.
Mac Makes The Warriors
All Black flanker Angus Macdonal signs for the Warriors. Will the spending spree stop, and will others leave now that the pack has been bolstered? Johhnie Beattie has already jumped ship…
Initial Scotland A Team Squad
Michael Bradley has named his initial player pool for the A Team to face England Saxons, to be augmented by members from the senior squad.
How Do You Solve A Problem Like J. Beattie?
There’s an elephant in the room. The kind of elephant that once had the most poach-worthy tusks in the savannah but is now dozing in the shadows of his team mates. Johnnie Beattie is the missing man at Glasgow and no one is pointing out his absence with so much as a hushed murmur.
Free Agent: Rory Lamont
As of Friday Scotland utility back Rory Lamont was released from his French club Toulon by mutual consent. He was citing lack of game time whilst his employers claimed he had distanced himself from the rest of the squad and was just not interacting. It appears that Lamont enjoyed himself very little while he was […]
Contracting But Not Shrivelling
If you are on social networking sites your timeline will currently be clogged. In fact plugged or dammed are probably more fitting descriptions. Everyone is bleating about the weather. Somehow it has come to everyone’s attention that we are entering Scotland’s lengthy rainy season and we are ready to whinge about it as much as […]
The New Scotland Rugby Kit 2011
This week Canterbury (of New Zealand and no longer the Northern Hemisphere) and Scotland launched the new rugby kit that will see our national team through the upcoming World Cup, and beyond. Reaction to it so far seems to be mixed (check out our FB poll to let us know what you think), so I […]