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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 Men

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 7s

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 […]

18 Jun 2024 - Scotland Teams

Bob Easson awarded British Empire Medal

Easson, former Director of Rugby at Edinburgh Accies, has always subscribed to the notion that he coaches people, rather than the specific sport and in his roles with sportscotland in recent years, Scotland’s Commonwealth Games boxers have been among the athletes to benefit from his guidance. Educated at Bell Baxter High School in Cupar, Howe […]

George Horne celebrates after the game with Oli Kebble 15/6/2024

17 Jun 2024 - Glasgow Warriors

Glasgow Warriors beat Munster to make the URC Final

Kyle Steyn and Sebastian Cancelliere’s scores, allied to the boot of George Horne, booked Franco Smith’s side’s place in the final, in front of a near sell-out crowd in the south of Ireland. With the backing of over 20,000 red-clad supporters inside Thomond Park, the home side made the brighter start with ball in hand. […]

17 Jun 2024 - Uncategorized

Tickets on sale for World Rugby U20 Trophy

Tickets are now available for the four match days which will see eight teams from across the world battle it out for promotion to next year’s World Rugby U20 Championship. The eight teams in action are Samoa U20, Japan U20, Hong Kong China U20 (who will join hosts Scotland U20 in Pool A), USA U20, […]

12 Jun 2024 - Scottish Gas Murrayfield

Swift smashes records at Scottish Gas Murrayfield

Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour landed in the UK on Friday for three shows at Scotland’s largest stadium in Edinburgh. The much-anticipated concert welcomed fans from across the world to Edinburgh for the 97th, 98th and 99th legs of the highest grossing tour of all time! The tour, which is going to 22 countries […]