Scotland 12-8 Ireland
A gritty comeback and a refusal to know when they are beaten saw Scotland record their first back-to-back Six Nations win since 2001. Brodie Smithers reports from a very relieved Murrayfield.
5 Key Points For Beating Ireland
Cameron Black continues his regular series with a look at this weekends opponents, Ireland (includes teams).
Scotland 34 – 10 Italy
A feast of tries, a record win and a solid performance from Scotland saw disaster averted against Italy. Brodie Smithers sums up the match from Murrayfield.
Our Team: Centres
With injuries abound and a number of candidates available Brodie Smithers looks at Scott Johnson’s options at centre.
Our Team: Hookers
With the 6 Nations coming up Brodie Smithers looks at the position of Hooker and the possible candidiates for the number two shirt.
Argentina Talk The Talk
“I’m really looking forward to this game – I think it’s going to be very close and hard to predict. Argentina have played well in both their first two games, and it was very pleasing to show against Romania that there’s more to our game than power and a strong set-piece. We will need to […]
Richie Vernon World Cup Tour Diary Pt 1
Here is the first installment of Scotland Back-rower Richie Vernon’s Rugby World Cup Diary, exclusively for Scottish Rugby Blog:
RWC Build-Up: The Squad
Alan Dymock runs the rule over the Scotland World Cup squad to travel to New Zealand.
RWC Build-Up: Al For One, One For All
With rugby, as with all competitive sport, you see players have to deal with setbacks. Sometimes these setbacks can define a player’s career. Sometimes, just sometimes though, a player can define his career by using those setbacks as opportunities. The key is setting goals and being realistic about what you can, and importantly, need to […]
RWC Build-Up: Multiple Emotions But A Single Focus
As I entered Scotland’s World Cup base yesterday in St. Andrews I felt a strange sort of atmosphere. A tension.
RWC Build-Up: Team for Italy, Omissions For New Zealand
Just when I thought I had figured out the Axis of Anticipated that is Robinson and Townsend they go and mix things up! Here is the Scotland team to face the Italians at Murrayfield on Saturday, 5pm: 15 Rory Lamont (Toulon) 24 caps 14 Max Evans (Castres) 19 caps 13 Nick De Luca (Edinburgh) 25 […]
RWC Build-Up: Cometh The Hour, Cometh The Men
Despite the Scottish cessation of activity at the weekend there was still plenty of rugby being played. We saw Australia show how antiquated South Africa’s rugby may have become in just a few short years. We saw Wales expose England’s lack of skills throughout an entire XV. We saw the French recline and accept gifts from Ireland. […]
RWC Build-Up: Longing For Los Pumas
I don’t think I would like to play cards with Andy Robinson. Sure, when we see the glass box on TV, filled with what looks like all the shiny-headed men in Scottish rugby, it always appears like Robinson is losing the plot. Probably about a breakdown. Behind the eyes, though, I see cool calculation. I […]
RWC Build-Up: Looking At The Game, And Only The Game
At the moment I am beset on all sides with the reality, the spin coming out of Murrayfield and probably some early onset moaning from supposed experts. I have purposely not read any newspapers this morning, but I have watched the game again, re-read some stuff that went out live during the game and have […]
RWC Build-up: Selecting The ‘Home’ Nations
When I was much younger I remember being excited by watching the Scotland team play with its ‘exotic’ stars. I knew very little about the politics or any assumed insult to purists. All I knew was that the ‘Kilted Kiwis’ had a cool nickname and they all seemed to be that little bit sui generis.