Mark Beels, who also held the same role on the British & Irish Lions tour this summer, saw a promotional opportunity in the empty space on front of the team’s matchday warm-up shirts and got to work.

Pictured: Zander Fagerson, Ewan Ashman and Pierre Schoeman with My Name’5 Doddie Foundation tops during a Scotland team run at Scottish Gas Murrayfield on 31 October 2025.

The autumn Test matches connect closely to former Scotland international Doddie Weir who memorably presented the match-ball in 2017 for the game against New Zealand and put his MND diagnosis in the spotlight, which went on to generate millions of pounds for research.

Pictured: Doddie Weir with sons Angus, Hamish and Ben for match ball delivery against New Zealand in October 2017.

The charity itself is one very close to Scottish Rugby hearts and with Doddie having been present during the last two visits of the New Zealand Rugby Union it felt even more significant to use the opportunity this year again as a way of continuing Doddie’s legacy and relationship with the New Zealand fixture.

Speaking on the idea Mark Beels said: “We wanted to highlight the amazing work the charity does in light of the recent news surrounding Lewis Moody’s diagnosis and in the hope that it also sends a message to him and his loved ones that Scottish Rugby are standing with him in his fight, as was the case with Doddie.

“The buy in from both the charity and Scottish Rugby was instant and we are delighted and proud to be providing another platform to champion the work being done by the Foundation.”

Continue Doddie Weir’s legacy and support life-changing MND research by visiting myname5doddie.co.uk.