Edinburgh Rugby and Glasgow Warriors will have their last pre-season hit-outs tomorrow [Friday] before they start firing live ammunition when the Guinness Pro14 campaign gets under way next weekend. Edinburgh entertain Newcastle Falcons at The …
MATT FAGERSON might be the youngest player in the 41-man Scotland training squad which has congregated in St. Andrews during the early part of this week, but you would never guess it from the way …
DAVE RENNIE’S feet have barely touched the ground since arriving in Glasgow on Sunday. There has certainly been no time to draw a leisurely breath and take in his new surroundings. With less than three …
by DOUGLAS ROSS AFTER taking three years to become eligible for Scotland, you would think that Josh Strauss would be a lot more anxious about the plethora of exciting young backrows emerging at the moment …
by MATT VALLANCE WITH internationalists Adam Ashe, Simone Favaro, Chris Fusaro and Tjiuee Uanivi, plus stage three development player Matt Smith, all on the injured list, the last thing Glasgow Warriors needed was another breakaway …
THEIR failure to make it through to the knock-out stages in Europe is a long standing itch which has got harder to bear with every passing year. In Gregor Townsend’s last season as Glasgow Warriors coach, …
GREGOR TOWNSEND has made six personnel changes and four more positional alterations to his Glasgow Warriors team for tonight’s away clash against Cardiff Blues, including a first competitive start for the club for centre Nick …
GROUNDHOG DAY comes round for a third time this evening when Glasgow Warriors face Connacht at the Galway Sportsground. Gregor Townsend’s men lost the previous two meetings between the sides at the tail-end of last …
SHARED captaincy is not new concept in Scottish rugby. Andy Robinson first ran with that approach back in 2007 when he named the injury prone but endlessly positive Simon Cross as club captain, in order …
MEDDLING with a successful formula is always dangerous, so it was inevitable that a few eyebrows would be raised on Wednesday afternoon when the Guinness Pro 12 fixture schedule was launched, and it was revealed …
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