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4 May 2009 - Uncategorized

Scotland Star Shines In The North

Scotland’s Nick De Luca was the centre of attention on Orkney this past weekend as a reward for the local rugby club’s culinary expertise.De Luca, the 11-times capped Edinburgh back, visited Orkney’s rugby club following the mince and haggis lasagne recipe the club concocted to win Scottish Rugby’s pasta challenge during the most recent RBS […]

28 Apr 2009 - Uncategorized

Scotland V England In Edinburgh 7S Opener

Scotland 7s will open day one of the Emirates Airline Edinburgh 7s Festival against Wellington series winners England before taking on Kenya and Canada on Saturday 30 May.Currently placed second in the IRB World 7s series, England provide a mouth-watering start to the series finale at the home of Scottish Rugby before the Scots take […]

27 Apr 2009 - Uncategorized

Scottish Rugby Mourns Death Of Back-Row Forwards

Two Scotland back-row forwards, who both made a considerable impact in the seven-a-side game, have passed away.Scottish Rugby was saddened to learn of the death of former Scotland captain Pringle Fisher and Borderer Ken Oliver, who followed Fisher into the national team’s back -row. Fisher, who was 70, won 25 caps for Scotland, making his debut […]

24 Apr 2009 - Uncategorized

Scotland Face A Fair Cop

The Scotland Women Development and Academy squad will be staking their claim for a place in the full national team against a formidable British Police side at Hughenden today (Friday 24 April, kick-off 4pm).Four capped Scotland internationals feature in the squad who each played a part in this season’s 6 Nations campaign while the majority of […]

24 Apr 2009 - Uncategorized

Scotland Face A Fair Cop

The Scotland Women Development and Academy squad will be staking their claim for a place in the full national team against a formidable British Police side at Hughenden today (Friday 24 April, kick-off 4pm).Four capped Scotland internationals feature in the squad who each played a part in this season’s 6 Nations campaign while the majority of […]

17 Apr 2009 - Uncategorized

Scotland Rocked Twice By English

Scotland suffered yet another heavy defeat at the hands of England’s under-18 side in the 5 Nations Festival in Viadana, Italy with the Auld enemy running in 11 tries unanswered to win the game convincingly.The young Scots have little time to take stock of the defeat and now look ahead to another tough encounter against […]

17 Apr 2009 - Uncategorized

Scotland Seek Welsh Win

Four changes have been made to the Scotland under-18 team to face Wales at Noceto, Italy tomorrow (Saturday 18 April, kick-off 4pm local time, 3pm BST).Outside backs Jamie Forbes (George Watson’s College), Chris Bloomfield (Hymers College) and Danny Gilmour (Stirling County) come in at full-back, wing and outside-centre while Robbie Boswell (Stirling County) starts on […]

14 Apr 2009 - Uncategorized

Scottish Rugby Appoints Azure

Scottish Rugby has appointed premium catering and hospitality company Azure to become its conference and banqueting providers for the next three years. Azure, founded in 2000, are specialists in the stadia, sports and leisure markets, and already provide that service for Hearts, Hibs and Rangers Football Clubs. They have been appointed following a tendering process and succeed […]

12 Apr 2009 - Uncategorized

Scotland U17 Make It Three-Out-Of-Three Wins At Millfield

Scotland U17 (6) – (5) Wales APerfect conditions on the main pitch at Millfield School saw Scotland’s under-17 development squad make it a perfect three-out-of-three, as they edged to victory over Wales, in their final fixture at the 2009 Millfield Festival this morning.”It was 6-5 at half time, we had all the pressure after that […]

9 Apr 2009 - Uncategorized

Scotland U17 Continue Winning Ways

Scotland U17 (53) – (3) BelgiumScotland’s under-17 development squad made it two wins out of two games played, at this year’s Millfield Festival, with a resounding nine-try win over their Belgian counterparts.Head Coach Bryan Easson made 11 changes to today’s starting line-up, from the opening game, ensuring that all 26 squad members have now begun […]