Playing Past the Present
With the EMC tests looming and the daily press releases telling us how our players are “harder, faster, stronger” than ever before whilst the players assure us the group has never been so tight-knit, I must ask: how will the warm up games pan out? The reason I ask this is that everything in training, […]
Honey, Let’s Back the Kids
The Scotland under-20s have already left for their World Cup in Italy. In their ranks they have Duncan Weir, Mark Bennett and Stuart Hogg. They also, it must be said, go with mixed expectations.
2011 Rugby World Cup: Fun Facts
New Zealand has long been famed for it’s iconic national rugby team, the All Blacks. It’s appropriate that the upcoming Rugby World Cup is to be staged there. To get you in the mood, here are some fun facts about the Rugby World Cup…
Risking A Change
Humans are fairly simple creatures. If you compliment someone enough they will believe what you tell them.
Scotland World Cup Dates for Your, umm, 2011 Diary
So here are the dates of Scotland’s World Cup games and locations for 2011. At least it allows us to start planning already! It looks like we get to go all over, to Invercargill, Dunedin, Christchurch and then Auckland for the biggie…and perhaps beyond? Although it means back to back matches with the two top […]
Scotland Land Dream World Cup 2011 Draw
Perhaps the 9th ranking was all part of Frank Hadden’s master plan. Pool A: New Zealand France Tonga Canada (Americas 1) Asia 1 (Japan?) Pool B: Argentina England Scotland Europe 1 (Romania?) Play Off Winner (your guess is as good as mine) Pool C: Australia Ireland Italy Europe 2 (Portugal, Spain, Russia, Georgia?) Americas 2 […]