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Podcast | 2023 Christmas Special

We are delighted to bring you one last chat with hosts Chris Paterson and Caroline Blair as they look back on stand out moments from this year. You’ll hear from Luke Crosbie, Francesca McGhie, Pete Horne, Caity Mattinson, Jamie Ritchie and many more in this Christmas Special.

Podcast | The Auld Acquaintance

Joined by hosts Chris and Caroline, they look ahead to the upcoming 1872 Cup clashes at Scotstoun and with exactly a month to go the deciding ‘Auld Acquaintance’ fixture at Scottish Gas Murrayfield – on Saturday 30th December. Don’t miss this very special episode!

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Podcast | FOSROC Super Series Final Preview

Bobby and Marcus join Caroline to discuss the 2023 season as well as some of their clubs’ best bits throughout this past year – including an infamous song. Tickets are still available for this Saturday’s Final at Hive Stadium, Edinburgh – so make sure to secure your seat now via scottishrugby.org. Alternatively you can watch […]

Podcast | Dan King

Chris and Caroline reflect on the FOSROC Super Series Championship and look ahead to this weekend’s Semi Finals as Heriots take on Stirling Wolves (Friday 10 Nov, kick off 7.35pm) while Watsonians face Ayrshire Bulls (Saturday 11 Nov, kick off 5pm). Dan also talks through his experience within Scotland Under-20’s set up.

Monroe Job – Bagging plenty of experience in 2023

Part of the first trio to experience the MacPhail Scholarship since 2020, Job headed out to the Stellenbosch Academy for Sport in January. But his journey began at Philiphaugh, starting out at Selkirk minis and progressing all the way to their first team. “I started playing minis at Selkirk Rhinos. I just went along with […]

Gregor Scougall – Learning from ‘old heads’ at Watsonians

Gregor first picked up a rugby ball at his local club Currie – now Currie Chieftains – following in the footsteps of his dad who also played for the club in his day. Moving to George Watson’s College in his third year of secondary school Gregor helped the school secure the U16 Schools Cup title […]

Podcast | WXV 2 Champions

The women join Joe Anderson straight off the plane from South Africa to reflect on the inaugural WXV 2 tournament after being crowned champions. Chris and Caroline also catch up on the United Rugby Championship so far and look ahead to this weekend’s fixtures: Glasgow face Stormers on Friday evening and Edinburgh travel to Leinster on […]

Kerr Johnston: Senior rugby success to top tier RWC training

Like many, Kerr started out playing football but was swayed when his friends started playing rugby. The 18-year-old had been a one club man all through his youth, finding his passion for rugby at Gala RFC and playing the way up through their age grades. Kerr decided to progress his rugby career in the form […]

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