Page 9 – Scottish Rugby

The Glasgow Warriors lift the trophy and celebrate as URC Champions 22/6/2024

22 Jun 2024 - Glasgow Warriors

Championship Glory For Gallant Glasgow Warriors

As impressive as their semi-final win away to Munster was last weekend, Warriors needed to find even more to compete and ultimately defeat a much-fancied Bulls side in their own back yard, in what will surely go down as one of the greatest club displays in Scottish history. Bulls charged out of the gate in […]

22 Jun 2024 - Obituary

Obituary: Donald Scott

Donald Macdonald Scott was born on 15 April 1928 in Langholm. He went on to win ten caps for Scotland between 1950 and 1953 out of the Langholm and Watsonians clubs. Five of the caps on the wing, five in the centre. He made his debut on the wing against Ireland in Dublin in February […]

22 Jun 2024 - Obituary

Obituary: Bill McMurtrie

During Bill’s 28-year tenure as rugby correspondent of, at the outset, the Glasgow Herald, he blazed a trail in enhancing coverage of the game and relationships between the rugby press and the SRU. In all, he was with The Herald for 38 years. He reported on Scottish club, district and international rugby, as well as […]

21 Jun 2024 - Uncategorized

Scotland squad announced for World Rugby U20 Trophy

Scottish Rugby will host the age-grade tournament and welcome seven teams from across the world to Hive Stadium, home of Edinburgh Rugby. Scotland have been drawn in Pool A, where they will compete against Samoa, Hong Kong China and Japan. Pool B will see Netherlands, USA and Kenya compete for their spot in the play-offs. Murray […]

21 Jun 2024 - Scotland U20

BBC ALBA to broadcast Scotland World Rugby U20 Trophy matches

The announcement comes ahead of the annual competition kicking off at the start of July in which seven teams from around the world will travel to Edinburgh to participate. Scotland U20 – who were drawn in Pool A – will compete against Samoa, Hong Kong China and Japan. Pool B will see under-20 teams from […]

20 Jun 2024 - Scotland Teams

Top honours for Scotland stars

Harry Paterson, 22, who made his Scotland debut at full-back during the 2024 GUINNESS Six Nations Championship match against France, and 21-year-old centre Emma Orr, who was a star of Scotland’s success in the WXV2 competition, have been named as winners of the Sir Willie Purves Quaich and Lady Jean Macpherson Trophy respectively. The trophies […]

19 Jun 2024 - Scotland Teams

Team GB Women’s Rugby Sevens squad named for Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Welsh flyer Joyce, 28, who competed in both Rio and Tokyo, is joined by fellow Tokyo 2020 Olympian Scotland’s Lisa Thomson in Head Coach Ciaran Beattie’s squad. Scotland’s Lisa Thomson is in line for a second Olympic Games after being named in the Team GB Women’s Rugby Sevens squad for next month’s event in Paris. […]

19 Jun 2024 - Corporate

Drumming up support for cancer charity

Alex Nevard, a sixth-year pupil at the city’s George Watson’s College, began drumming to raise funds for the charity during the 2018 Autumn Test matches and has become something of a fixture in the Roseburn area as fans flock to the turnstiles pre-match. Under the banner of the “Wee Drummer Boy”, he began his mission […]

19 Jun 2024 - Clubs & Schools

First aid mobile skills unit provides CPD opportunity in off season

Scottish Rugby’s Welfare Manager Dr. Karen Barclay will be leading first aid and CPD sessions across the country from early July until mid-August. Sessions for health care professionals will use the simulation suite in a mobile skills unit, provided by the NHS’ Clinical Skills Managed Educational Network. “Simulation is used a lot in training in the […]

18 Jun 2024 - Obituary

Obituary: Iain Ross

Iain Anderson Ross (Hillhead HSFP) won four caps for Scotland in the 1951 Five Nations Championship. He won his first cap against France at Colombes in Paris on 13 January 1951 – one of nine Scotland debutants that day – and it was a match not without controversy as an unsuccessful conversion attempt from France […]