Page 11 – Scottish Rugby

3 May 2024 - Clubs & Schools

Men’s Premiership final: Hawick look to complete double-double

The Men’s Premiership Final will see Hawick defending the Bill McLaren Shield for the third straight match after defeating previous holders Selkirk to win it; and defending it subsequently against Kelso and Currie. Hawick have been Scottish Rugby’s champion club on 13 previous occasions. Meanwhile, Currie – who were only founded four years before Hawick […]

1 May 2024 - Clubs & Schools

Celtic Challenge returns with expanded competition format

The 2024/25 competition continues its expansion as the biggest and best competition yet, with a full league season of 10 rounds, and six teams playing five home and five away fixtures each, before concluding their season in March ahead of the Guinness Women’s Six Nations 2025. The overall winner will be determined based on league […]

1 May 2024 - Clubs & Schools

Community Game Conference: programme, speakers announced

Scottish Rugby have today announced further details regarding the Community Game Conference taking place on Saturday 25 May at Scottish Gas Murrayfield. Over 250 club, school and society representatives have already registered for free so far. In addition to the guest speakers announced in April, Scottish Rugby is delighted to announce Scotland U20 Head Coach […]

30 Apr 2024 - FOSROC Super Series

FOSROC Super Series Sprint Round 3: Fixture update

The match, scheduled for a 7:35pm kick-off and due to be broadcast on BBC ALBA, is unable to be played due Glasgow Warriors having an insufficient number of front row players to play the game. The match between Boroughmuir Bears and Ayrshire Bulls, also scheduled to be played on Friday evening at 7:35pm, will now […]

28 Apr 2024 - FOSROC Academy

Glasgow Warriors and Edinburgh Rugby U16 teams head to Gala for festival with Newcastle Falcons

Edinburgh Rugby U16 are made up of players from the Edinburgh and Borders & East Lothian Regional Academies, while Glasgow Warriors U16 are composed of Glasgow & the West and Caledonia players. Each team will bring two squads to the festival, with each squad playing three 30-minute matches at Netherdale across the grass and 4G […]

**Pics free to use**The Eric Liddell Way Path Unveiling

26 Apr 2024 - Edinburgh Rugby

Legacy in the Links: Path in Bruntsfield renamed to honour Eric Liddell

And one of the country’s current crop of flying wingers, Darcy Graham, was on hand to help. The unveiling was commemorated with a mass community participation event as part of The Eric Liddell 100 – a campaign initiated by The Eric Liddell Community to commemorate the remarkable life, sporting achievements, and community service contributions of […]

25 Apr 2024 - Obituary

Obituary: William (Bill) Smith

Bill grew up in Dunbar and played rugby for the High School and then Dunbar RFC. He worked for a local butcher who also had a shop in Edinburgh. Bill was given the opportunity to work in that shop and it was there that he formed his initial relationship with Forrester. It was also about […]

2024 Guinness Women’s Six Nations Championship Round 4 Italy vs Scotland

25 Apr 2024 - Scotland Women

Scotland team named for Guinness Women’s Six Nations finale in Belfast

In the forwards, there is just one change to the starting line-up with Emma Wassell linking up with Louise McMillan in the second row, returning having had time away after her mother, Pauline, sadly passed away. Molly Wright, Lana Skeldon and Christine Belisle will join forces once more in the front row, anchored by captain […]

23 Apr 2024 - Scotland Women

Independent Disciplinary update: Chloe Rollie

The independent Disciplinary Committee was chaired by Richard Cole (Wales), joined by former international referee Valeriu Toma (Romania) and former international player Stefan Terblanche (South Africa). Having accepted that the act of foul play justified the red card and by applying World Rugby’s sanctioning provisions, the Disciplinary Committee determined that the low-end entry point of […]

23 Apr 2024 - Scotland Men

Brown to retire from rugby at the end of the season

Aged 34, the hooker has opted to call time on his career where he earned 61 caps for Scotland and was a mainstay for Glasgow Warriors. Playing 141 times since his debut in 2013 , Brown was part of the 2015 PRO12 championship winning team and served as co-caption for two of his 12 seasons […]