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28 Sep 2024

Match Report: Italy 0-19 Scotland

The opening exchanges were rather chaotic, as both sides were eager to impress with their attacking abilities before the weather gradually deteriorated. Emma Orr made her presence known quickly, ending Italy’s initial attacking platform in the first two minutes with an exceptional low, touch-finding tackle on Francesca Granzotto. Scotland’s first line out of the match […]

14 Sep 2024

Match Report: Scotland 59-10 Fiji

In what was the first meeting of the countries in women’s internationals, Fiji almost threatened an outrageous opener right from the get-go, their winger Adita Milinia scooping the ball up just about on the 10m line and rampaging towards the line, offloading to Sulita Waisega who was bundled out. A warning sign of the earliest […]

13 Sep 2024

Report: Combined Academies 72-31 Ulster Development

Ulster Development started the scoring in the 11th minute. They kicked penalty to the corner, and a phase later Johnny Scott wrestled through to the line. In the 15th minute the scores were level. Euan McVie caught a lineout five metres out and the maul got going once the backs joined, with Joe Roberts getting […]

6 Sep 2024

Match Report: Scotland 40-14 Wales

Two tries from both Francesca McGhie and player of the match Chloe Rollie, plus one each from Evie Gallagher and Meryl Smith sealed the match in style. Scotland kicked off towards the Murrayfield stand and, after some early settling play from Wales, a box kick was caught cleanly by Chloe Rollie who returned for Scotland […]

31 Jul 2024

Olympics: Team GB finish well at Paris 2024

The women’s competition has been incredibly well attended in the opening days of the 33rd Olympiad, with over 65,000 daily fans watching some scintillating sevens rugby in France’s national stadium. Scotland’s representative in the Team GB squad was Lisa Thomson, who appeared at a second Games having been involved in Tokyo’s delayed event three years […]

27 Jul 2024

Match Report: Uruguay 19-31 Scotland

The hosts were offered the first opportunity to get points on the board with Scotland penalised at the breakdown with Ben Healy not releasing inside the 22. Phillipe Etcheverry looked to take a shot at the posts but the ball pulled left and Scotland could exhale some relief [7 mins]. After sustained pressure from the […]

20 Jul 2024

Report: Chile 11-52 Scotland

Scotland had much of the early ball, and in the 5th minute the first line break came from Ben Healy. He charged down the left side of the field, getting tackled just outside Chile’s 22, but two phases later Steyn knocked on. Scotland were presented with a real opportunity when they won a penalty at […]

Six Nations Women’s Summer Series Ireland vs Scotland

14 Jul 2024

Match Report: Ireland U20 37 – 7 Scotland Women U20

Ireland were first on the board, scoring through Sophie Barrett. Kate Flannery converted. [7-0, 7 mins] Scotland continued to press in attack with Ceitidh Ainsworth, Aila Ronald and Holland Bogan all impressing with line breaks and powerful carries, but the Scots were unlucky not to convert their possession and territory into points with unfortunate errors. […]

13 Jul 2024

Match Report: USA 7 – 42 Scotland

It took just six minutes for van der Merwe to edge himself closer to making Scotland Men’s rugby history, scoring his 27th Test match try to level with the record holder, Stuart Hogg. From the line-out, the back line unveiled their magic to put the winger into space and coast over for Scotland’s opener. In […]

12 Jul 2024

Report: Scotland Men U20 46-10 Japan U20

Scotland opened the scoring in the first ten minutes of the match when captain Liam McConnell collected a loose ball. The skipper found stand-off Andy McLean who charged up the midfield and found winger Geordie Gwynn running a lovely inside to bounced off two tacklers to power his way over the tryline for the opening […]