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15 Mar 2023 - FOSROC Super Series

Stirling Wolves Coaching Team confirmed ahead of the FOSROC Super Series Sprint

The Bridgehaugh side have announced that club stalwart Eddie Pollock will see the Wolves through the FOSROC Super Series on an Interim Head Coach basis. He will be assisted by Sean Kennedy who returns to the coaching group from last year and joined by former Scotland International Duncan Hodge. All three are well known to […]

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6 Mar 2023 - Scotland U20

Super6 set to return as FOSROC Super Series

The new name for the part-time professional league signals a structural change with the addition of new teams into two competitions. Furthermore, title sponsor FOSROC will continue their support of the campaign this year. These additions provide more high-performance focused environments for players and increases high-level performance game time opportunities for the current cohorts of […]

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2 Mar 2023 - Corporate

Scottish Schools squad of ’88 pay tribute to teammate and raise funds for My Name’5 Doddie Foundation

The challenge will see Doddie’s former teammates from the 1988 Scottish Schools tour to New Zealand take on an 88km adventure over two days in the hope of raising £88,000 towards research into MND. On Thursday 16 March the group of 22 former players (plus the original coaching staff) will set off on the 65km […]

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10 Jan 2023 - FOSROC Super Series

Stevie Scott appointed Watsonians Rugby Super6 Head Coach

Scott earned 11 International caps for Scotland and represented Edinburgh Rugby on 99 occasions before joining the Border Reivers as a player and brings a wealth of coaching experience with him. Stevie takes over the role from Fergus Pringle, who has taken up the Scotland U20 forwards role. His coaching career began with Selkirk before […]

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9 Jan 2023 - FOSROC Super Series

Alan Tait Appointed as Southern Knights Head Coach

The former Scotland internationalist joined The Greenyards Super6 team last summer as defence coach and will now lead the part-time professional programme. Tait, a prolific centre, who scored 18 tries in 27 caps for Scotland is a product of Kelso RFC. He went on to feature in two Test matches in the British and Irish […]

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8 Jan 2023 - Obituary

Obituary: Ken Scotland

Kenneth James Forbes Scotland was a player ahead of his time, a true trailblazer. He was also an absolute gentleman, as keen a student of the game today, to which he brought crystal-clear but kind thinking, as he was in his playing pomp. To spend time in his company while watching his beloved Heriot’s at […]

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6 Jan 2023 - Obituary

Obituary: Doug Ward CBE

Douglas John Ward served on the Scottish Rugby Council from 2013 until 2017 as a national league representative and he was long associated with the Biggar club and many developments at their playing fields and clubhouse at Hartreemill. He was club president from 2011-2013, having served as vice-president in the two preceding years. In his […]

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4 Jan 2023 - Clubs & Schools

Trinity Accies president awarded MBE

We also send our best wishes to Currie Rugby Board Chairman, Sean Scott, former North & Midlands representative who, in his role as divisional commander for the City of Edinburgh for Police Scotland, received the King’s Police Medal. Carol, 70, received the award for services to the local community in the north of Edinburgh. It […]

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16 Dec 2022 - Scotland U20

Scotland U20 play development fixture in Wales

A 26-player squad, made up of 15 forwards and 11 backs, will travel down to Cardiff this afternoon ahead of a match tomorrow at Cardiff Arms Park. The game will be played under conditioned rules as both Wales and Scotland will use the game as a development tool to look at a wider group of […]

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28 Nov 2022 - Corporate

Douglas Steele banned for three years

On 27 January 2022, UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) collected an Out-of-Competition urine Sample from Mr Steele at a Marr Rugby Football Club training session. Analysis of Mr Steele’s Sample returned an Adverse Analytical Finding (AAF) for a metabolite of dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (DHCMT) and metabolites of oxandrolone. DHCMT and oxandrolone are both anabolic agents, listed under S1.1 of […]

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