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: Wings
Al Kerr takes a look at Scotland’s wing options. Is Visser still the clear cut choice?
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?
Cardiff 19-21 Edinburgh
Edinburgh took Richie Rees and John Yapp back home to visit their old haunts in Cardiff. They decided to nick some stuff, and came away with 4 points.
Going Dutch
They gave us the Vissers, we gave them Ross Thomson, who tells us a bit about life playing rugby in Holland.
Fiji 25 – 37 Scotland
Bodies will be scorched and sore today, but Scotland and Fiji played out an entertaining match. More so than that, though, it is a game that means a lot to the Pacific Islands and their rugby.
Scotland Team Not Massively Surprising
Updated: now with full Scotland and Fiji teams ahead of the Test on Saturday morning.
Scotland Have Chances to Kill Off This Tour
The selections are yet to be announced, but maybe Scotland will go in for the kill rather than risk results in the hands of young players. Such a move would certainly help Andy Robinson’s cause.
5 Uncapped Players to Tour
Scotland coach Andy Robinson today announced a 28-man squad for the tour of Australia and the Pacific Isles including 5 uncapped players.
Ulster 38 – 16 Edinburgh
Rory watched Edinburgh travel to Ravenhill in the faint hope of an away win to boost their dreary RaboPRO12 form.
When The Tough Get Going, The Going Gets Tough
For every Gap Year student there is someone at home Skyping them the question “have you found yourself yet?” Risk is admirable but voyages of fortune hunting can caustically come at a cost. There is a rather famous bumper sticker out there that proclaims “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.” […]
Visser Inspires Edinburgh To Seven
Edinburgh 50 – 10 Treviso Crowds are up, the temperature is down and Tim Visser is doing what he always does: scoring tries.
Friday Night Delights
Rugby can be a silly game sometimes. Months of training, coaching and analysis, games plans formed, key players identified, opposition weaknesses highlighted and set pieces honed. 35 seconds from kick off and that all goes out the window – you end up with 30 grown men playing British Bulldogs with the addition of a ball.
The Heineken Cup’s Comeback Kids
Edinburgh Rugby 48 -47 Racing Metro ‘92 Sometimes it hurts to be proven wrong. In this instance, though, one would take the abuse. Edinburgh book-ended a fantastic handling display by Racing with some heart-stopping tries and the kind of tenacity few on these isles, particularly in the executive suites of major broadcasters, thought the capital […]
Watched From a Western Perspective: Edinburgh 28 – 36 Leinster
On Friday night at Murrayfield the capital side swapped the lead with Leinster seven times. In a free and easy game where tackling was not at a premium it was the hand-over that was evident. You attack; then we’ll attack. You get a head start; then we will cover, and recover. They lost by 8 […]