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9 May 2023 - Scotland Men

Scotland announce training squad for Rugby World Cup 2023

The group will be led by captain Jamie Ritchie and will be trimmed to the requisite 33-player list ahead of the tournament itself, which gets underway in France in September. Of the 23 forwards selected by Townsend, flanker Rory Darge returns to the international set-up having missed the Guinness Six Nations through injury, with winger […]

9 May 2023 - Clubs & Schools

Inter-district Championship Round 1 teams confirmed

The South will make their home at Netherdale tonight as they host the Edinburgh side in the opening round of the competition, kicking off at 7pm in Galashiels. Starting with the Borders outfit, fresh from his Scottish Cup win with Hawick on Saturday, head coach Matty Douglas has selected 11 Hawick men for his side, […]

9 May 2023 - Scotland Men

Gregor Townsend signs contract extension

Townsend began his term in 2017 and has since become the longest serving head coach of the Scotland national team in the professional era. After securing third place in the Guinness Six Nations this year – their best finish since 2018 – Scotland now have their sights set on the 2023 Rugby World Cup where […]

5 May 2023 - Scotland Women

Scotland travel to South Africa for inaugural WXV competition

The three-tiered WXV comeptition aims to raise the profile and competitiveness of women’s 15s by providing the global platform between Rugby World Cups to increase the reach, impact and value of the sport, growing the game as a whole. Wins against Italy and Ireland in the final two rounds of the 2023 TikTok Women’s Six […]

4 May 2023 - Clubs & Schools

Scottish Rugby confirms broadcast details for Silver Saturday

Teams booked their places in their respective finals via a knock-out competition played across the year. Seven games will be featured across the National Finals event for adult rugby including: The Scottish Cup: Hawick v Marr (6pm) The Sarah Beaney Cup: Watsonians v Corstorphine Cougars (3.10pm) Men’s National Shield: East Kilbride v Stewartry (10am) Women’s […]

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2 May 2023 - Obituary

Ray Megson

Ray Megson was a trailblazer both professionally and in his pastime to which he devoted so much, rugby. Born in Sheffield, his family moved to Australia, where he spent his childhood. He came to Scotland when his parents’ marriage was over and began schooling at Douglas Ewart High School in Newton Stewart in Dumfries & […]

28 Apr 2023 - Scotland Men

Tickets for Italy, France and Georgia on sale now

The three-match series will be played at BT Murrayfield this July and August and will help fine tune the Scotland squad for this year’s Rugby World Cup in France – which kicks off on 10 September. The first game is against Italy on Saturday 29 July (kick-off 3.15pm) and then the number 2 team in […]

27 Apr 2023 - Scotland Teams

One change for TikTok Women’s Six Nations finale

Having recorded an impressive bonus-point victory against Italy last weekend, Scotland go into the “Super Saturday” fixture with only one change to the starting line-up, with Emma Orr returning to start at outside centre, having progressed through the graduated return to play protocol after sustaining a concussion during the game against France. The ticket sales […]

Scotland players celebrate at the final whistle 22/4/2023

27 Apr 2023 - Scotland Teams

Record crowd for Scotland Women

Even before last weekend’s bonus-point win over Italy, more tickets had been snapped up by fans for this match than ever before. Now the crowd is over 4,000 for Saturday’s game, breaking the previous record of 3,988 against England last year, with two days still to go. Captain Rachel Malcolm looks ahead to running out […]

26 Apr 2023 - Obituary

Dave McDonald: Obituary

Dave was a well-known all-round sportsman who had a passion for rugby, American football and judo, gaining black-belt status. In his life outside of sport, in the 1970s Dave was a hotelier, running the now vanished Sullom Voe Hotel. Whilst in Shetland Dave founded the Sullom Voe Wanderers RFC also known as ‘The Oil Blacks’, […]