Melrose 16 Ayr 13 DAVID BARNES @ The Greenyards A ROYAL RUMBLE of a rugby match. Lacking, perhaps, in finesse, but compelling because of its brutality – and, of course, because of the tension. Both …
FORMER Glasgow Warriors and Scotland full-back Peter Murchie has been appointed as Ayr’s next head coach, taking over from Calum Forrester at the end of the season. Murchie returned to Scotland from Stade Nicois in …
CALUM FORRESTER will step down as Ayr’s head coach at the end of the season. The former Glasgow Warriors back-row has been in the role since taking over from Peter Laverie in the summer of …
Head coach: Calum Forrester Current league position: 3rd The story so far: They finished last regular season as runners-up in the league but then defeated Melrose in a tense play-off Grand Final to become Scottish club champions. …
DAVID BARNES @ Milbrae QUICKER, smarter and much more accurate, Melrose had this game wrapped up by the break. Ayr did well during a spirited second half to avoid complete humiliation because when they were …
DAVID BARNES @ Millbrae REPORTS of Glasgow Hawks’ demise, which circulated as a raft of key players left the club during the summer, have been shown to be greatly exaggerated. Rather than be knocked back by …
COLIN [email protected] Meggetland A FIVE POINT haul at a venue that has traditionally not been a happy hunting ground for the Millbrae men was an ideal start to the defence of the BT Premiership title …
WINNING championships is not a new thing for Ayr. The club finished top of the heap in 2009 and again in 2013 before making it a hat-trick last April. What the Millbrae men have not …
THIS year’s Charity Shield match between the league champions and the cup winners of last season is in support of Motor Neurone Disease Scotland. “Both Ayr and Melrose wish to support this cause given the …
LORNE sausage and Nando’s are the twin secrets to his team’s success, reckons Heriots’ double winning head coach Phil Smith. “For the last three weeks I’ve been going down to Leith to get a bag …
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