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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 […]

3 Apr 2009 - Uncategorized

Appointment Of Scotland Head Coach Will Not Be Rushed – Mckie

Scottish Rugby is embarking on “open and exhaustive process” to identify the successor to Frank Hadden as Head Coach of the Scotland team.That was stressed today by Scottish Rugby’s Chief Executive Gordon McKie following last night’s announcement that it had been agreed with Frank Hadden that he would step down with immediate effect. McKie said: “We […]

3 Apr 2009 - Uncategorized

Scotland A To Compete In Irb Nations Cup

Scotland A will compete in the IRB Nations Cup in Romania this June. The announcement was made by the IRB this afternoon, the game’s worldwide governing body regarding the tournament as a key plank in its strategy to provide targeted Unions, such as Romania, Russia and Uruguay, with an expanded international match programme.Scotland A will […]

2 Apr 2009 - Uncategorized

Scotland Begin 2010 Six Nations At Home

Scotland will begin next year’s RBS Six Nations Championship with the visit of France to Murrayfield and will also welcome England to their home groundThe Six Nations Committee announced the 2010 fixtures this lunchtime.The full Scotland fixture list is as follows: Scotland will begin next year’s RBS Six Nations Championship with the visit of France to […]

31 Mar 2009 - Uncategorized

Edinburgh Rugby And Hearts Visit Local Prison

Edinburgh Rugby chairman Gavin Hastings was joined by_lock Jim Hamilton (pictured)_and Hearts footballer Ryan McGowan to engage with inmates and officers at HMP Edinburgh as part of a ‘sporting Question session staged at the prison last night.The Scottish capital-based sporting celebrities fielded questions from inmates and officers about their respective jobs to shed some light […]