Rugby Archive

Stephen Gemmell, the Scotland 7s head coach , will have a final opportunity to look at World Cup squad candidates this weekend in the opening round of the FIRA-AER Euro Sevens at Matmut Stadium in Lyon.

Scotland are today expected to announce their line-up to face Wales in the second round of the IRB Junior World Championship in Nantes.

Richie Gray insists he has not boasted "too much" of last year's win for Scotland against Australia as he prepares to step up his bid for a Test starting jersey when the Lions face Queensland Reds today.

The focus has been on the new boys, the six uncapped players in Scotland's match-day squad for this afternoon's Castle Lager Series encounter with Samoa in Durban, but Al Kellock is well aware those fresh faces will need the guidance of those wizened old hands who have seen it, done it and long since watched the T-shirt fade in the wash.

Ryan Grant has been called up to the British and Irish Lions squad for its Australian tour.

Matt Taylor, the Scotland defence coach, has hit out at the British and Irish Lions management for overlooking Ryan Grant as a replacement for the injured Irish prop Cian Healy, saying he felt "gutted" that the 27-year-old Glasgow Warrior did not get the call to join the Lions squad in Australia.

Sam Warburton will make his debut as British and Irish Lions captain tomorrow and wants to lead his men through the tour unbeaten.

greig Laidlaw believes that bonus points are likely to play a critical part in the outcome of the inaugural Castle Lager Test Series over the next three weekends.

THE British & Irish Lions opened their tour of Australia with a striding win but they still managed to get a few sharp stones lodged in their boots.

Among international coaches, Scott Johnson probably is unique in knowing that his career prospects will not be damaged by a string of bad results.

Three Scots are set to make their international rugby debuts against Samoa this weekend.

Sitaleki Timani has been ruled out of the three-Test series against the British & Irish Lions.

Sean Kennedy, a surprise call-up to Scotland's RBS 6 Nations training squad last season, has secured a full-time deal with Edinburgh until 2015.

August 17, 2006, the Boet Erasmus Stadium, Port Elizabeth.