Edinburgh lothian & borders Archives - Page 7 of 9

3 Feb 2023 - Clubs & Schools

Scottish Rugby appoint Rosy Ryan to new Women and Girls’ role

This new role has been created and funded as part of Scottish Rugby’s Women and Girls’ strategy which launched in June 2022. Rosy, who joined at the start of the year, will now oversee the development and implementation of programmes for women and girls to strengthen existing pathways throughout the community game. This will include […]

24 Jan 2023 - Clubs & Schools

Scottish Rugby to broadcast Tennent’s Women’s Premiership Final

Corstorphine Cougars and Stirling County booked their place in the Premiership final, after defeating Watsonian FC and Heriot’s Blues respectively in the semi-final play-offs earlier this month. The game will be hosted at Bridgehaugh after the County side finished top of the table at the end of the regular season. An all Women refereeing team, […]

18 Jan 2023 - Clubs & Schools

The Scottish Inter-district Championship is set to return in May 2023

The move to bring back the historic competition was made following an amended motion presented by GHA at the Scottish Rugby AGM in July 2021, where 72 clubs to 46 voted in favour to revive the tournament. The competition, which was first established in 1953, used to be competed for annually in the amateur era […]

18 Jan 2023 - Clubs & Schools

Squads announced as Girls’ Regional Game Series gets underway this weekend

Beginning this Sunday (22 January), teams representing Caledonia Midlands, Caledonia North, East, Glasgow North and Glasgow South at U16 and U18 level will now meet over the next five weekends. Each weekend there are two fixtures, with one team having a bye week. The selection process saw more than 600 players nominated by clubs and […]

18 Jan 2023 - Clubs & Schools

Scottish Rugby launches ‘Scrum School’ development programme

Through a series of practical workshops and online resources, ‘Scrum School’ will provide support to coaches and players with the aim of creating stronger, more confident, and skilled front-row players. The programme has been developed to support both youth and senior players in the male and female game, irrespective of their rugby experience. The Scrum […]

10 Jan 2023 - FOSROC Super Series

Stevie Scott appointed Watsonians Rugby Super6 Head Coach

Scott earned 11 International caps for Scotland and represented Edinburgh Rugby on 99 occasions before joining the Border Reivers as a player and brings a wealth of coaching experience with him. Stevie takes over the role from Fergus Pringle, who has taken up the Scotland U20 forwards role. His coaching career began with Selkirk before […]

10 Jan 2023 - Clubs & Schools

Scottish Rugby appoints Dr Karen Barclay as Welfare Manager

The role, which is aligned to the Rugby Development Department, will see Dr Barclay develop and enhance support and guidance for grassroots clubs on both on and off-field welfare matters. Dr Barclay completed her medical degree at Aberdeen University before specialising in paediatric care, where her career in hospital settings spanned more than 25 years. […]

9 Jan 2023 - FOSROC Super Series

Alan Tait Appointed as Southern Knights Head Coach

The former Scotland internationalist joined The Greenyards Super6 team last summer as defence coach and will now lead the part-time professional programme. Tait, a prolific centre, who scored 18 tries in 27 caps for Scotland is a product of Kelso RFC. He went on to feature in two Test matches in the British and Irish […]

21 Dec 2022 - FOSROC Super Series

Southern Knights reveal details of Doddie Weir foundation fundraising match

The Greenyards based FOSROC Super6 outfit will play the Falcons across two fixtures, home and away on 4 and 11 February respectively. Doddie, the former Melrose, Newcastle, Scotland and British & Irish Lions lock, passed away last month aged 52 after a long fight against MND – motor neurone disease – and having raised millions […]

13 Dec 2022 - Clubs & Schools

Scottish Rugby opens nominations for Community Recognition Awards 2023

The 2023 Community Recognition Awards aim to celebrate and recognise the efforts of players, coaches, match officials and volunteers from the domestic game. The format includes six award categories, which will be awarded in each of the five regions – Caledonia Midlands, Caledonia North, East, Glasgow North and Glasgow South. The award categories are: Volunteer […]