Tries from wingers Coreen Grant and Rhona Lloyd, coupled with a flawless Helen Nelson display from the tee, saw the Scots record an opening day victory in which they held off a late Welsh rally. An early Wales penalty was replied to in scintillating fashion by the visitors when Saracens flyer Grant produced a moment […]
*This is the second part of this feature. You can access the first here. ON THE TROPHY HUNT IN DUBLIN With Scotland not playing in the third round of matches – France won away in Cardiff and England did for Ireland at Twickenham – it meant a near-month of recovery time with which to plot […]
Those Triple Crown successes in ’33 and ’38 could be considered ‘Slams’, because Scotland beat England, Ireland and Wales, for a full house of victories; the same criteria that to this day represents the pinnacle in international rugby north of the Equator. Irrespective of those championship titles, of the great Ian Smith captaining his country […]