Francesca McGhie will make her Scotland debut on the left wing, fresh from her involvement with Scotland development side ‘The Thistles’ in the recent inaugural Celtic Challenge, with centre Beth Blacklock in line to make her debut off the bench. In the front row, Lana Skeldon starts at hooker with Leah Bartlett, loosehead prop and […]
Scotland will kick off next season’s tournament away to Wales on Saturday, 23 March at 4.45pm. A week later Bryan Easson’s side will take on France in their first home match of the championship at 2.15pm. After a fallow week, England will travel to Scotland for their second successive home match, mirroring the schedule for […]
The 2023 Festival takes place at Wellington College, England and runs from 7-15 April. Head Coach Duncan Harrison has named a 28-player squad for the U18 programme. The selection comes after the Girls’ Regional Game Series in January, where players were split into five regions and played each other weekly. After naming his squad, Duncan […]
The squad, comprising 21 forwards and 15 backs, will be led once again by Rachel Malcolm, with Loughborough Lightning teammate Helen Nelson named as vice-captain.Easson has selected seven uncapped players in the squad, with five of those players recently featuring in the inaugural Celtic Challenge competition.Forwards Erinn Foley and Emma Turner have been rewarded for […]
Combined Provinces were quick off the mark and were first on the scoreboard as Aoife Wafer dotted down behind the posts, with Dannah O’Brien adding the extras [0-7]. The visitors were able to extend their early lead on the 14th minute as hooker Deirbhile Nic a Bhaird crashed down under the posts to score, with […]
Cruikshank has made five alterations to the back division, as Sky Phimister and Ceitidh Ainsworth are promoted from the bench to right wing and stand-off respectively, while Fran McGhie returns from injury to start on the left wing. Shona Campbell joins the fold after being released by GB 7s this weekend and will partner captain […]
Gaffney has enjoyed an illustrious career, making 45 appearances for the senior women’s side, while representing Scotland at both U18 and U20 level and also representing the thistle on the world stage as part of the Scotland 7s set-up. Megan made her international debut off the bench against the Netherlands in Amsterdam in November 2011 […]
Kim Littlejohn was one of the trailblazers that played in that first fixture and eventually went on to make 43 appearances in the Thistle, while captaining her side for 29 of those occasions. While reflecting on the first Scotland Women fixture, the former centre said: “The first game at Raeburn Place was very special for […]
The former Bath and England player has recently worked as a coaching consultant with USA Women’s team during the 2021 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand and will join Bryan Easson’s coaching team as forwards coach. In 2015, he was appointed England U20 Head Coach and led the national age-grade side to success at the […]
A strong start from the Scottish side saw them set up camp in the Welsh half but a resilient defensive effort from the hosts kept them just outside the 22. Still in possession, The Thistles’ Eilidh Sinclair made the clean break to edge her side forward, but the Welsh defence held firm to win the […]