On his return from Connacht with the Glasgow squad this weekend, no matter the result, Glasgow’s new scrum-half, Mark McMillan, will be grinning from ear to ear come Monday morning.The reason for his beaming demeanour is that on Tuesday morning, he received a text message from the national management team informing him that he has […]
After only two competitive games for Glasgow, Mark McMillan has been handed a place in the Scotland training squadUncapped Warriors Max Evans, Mark McMillan, Moray Low and Dan Turner have all been named in Frank Hadden’s squad of 50 who will begin Scotland’s preparations for the busy autumn programme with a training session at Murrayfield […]
Coach Frank Hadden has named seven uncapped players in a squad of 50 who will begin Scotland’s preparations for the busy autumn programme with a training session at Murrayfield next Monday. Of that group, centre Max Evans and prop Geoff Cross were both part of the national squad’s summer tour to Argentina (though neither had […]
The SWRU has announced the successful participants from the Scotland Women’s squad trials held at Lasswade on Sunday (details below). Over 75 players attended the SWRU trials with players taking part in position specific training in the morning, led by the SWRU performance coaching team, and a trial match in the afternoon.From this trial, players […]
Sundays sees the first step along the road to representative honours for the Hilljills girls who are taking part in trials in a bid to be selected for the Scotland Women’s training squad. Lindsey Smith, Charlie Lewis, Hazel Belinski and Susie Brown will take part in the open trials on Sunday. Lindsey, part of the […]
Scottish Rugby honoured 13 of its community coach apprentices at a graduation ceremony led by Scotland back-row forward Ross Rennie at Cochrane Hall, Alva, today. This year’s graduates, which include Scotland under-20 prop Lewis Niven and 2006/2007 Scotland Womens’ player of the season Tanya Griffith, started their vocational programme in August 2006, have all achieved […]
Scottish Rugby today launches an exciting communications and marketing campaign where you can catch the Scotland players in a different yet compelling light. The campaign, named We are Scotland, is planned to last for two seasons and draws on nature and the elements that characterise Scotland’s stunning landscape, linking them to rugby.Scottish Rugby today launches […]
Glasgow Warriors centre Andrew Henderson was at Our Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh today to help launch an exciting new communications and marketing campaign for Scottish Rugby.The campaign enables the Scottish public to catch Henderson and some of Glasgow’s other Scotland players in a different yet compelling light.The campaign, named We are Scotland, is planned to […]
Head coach of the Scotland under-18s, Grant McKelvey, today announced the first training squad of the 2008/2009 Scotland under-18 season. Twenty-four players remain from the Scotland under-17 side that defeated Portugal (36-3) and France (20-11) at the Millfield Festival this spring – Duncan Weir (Cambuslang)* and Chris Bloomfield (Hymers College) missing out on the first […]
Head coach of the Scotland under-18s, Grant McKelvey, today announced the first training squad of the 2008/2009 Scotland under-18 season. Twenty-four players remain from the Scotland under-17 side that defeated Portugal (36-3) and France (20-11) at the Millfield Festival this spring – Duncan Weir (Cambuslang)* and Chris Bloomfield (Hymers College) missing out on the first […]