Rugby Archive

A Scotland side is to take the field at the Singapore Sevens this weekend with blanked-out shirts because a conflict has been identified between RBS and Aberdeen Asset Management, two of the major sponsors of teams run by the sport's governing body, the Scottish Rugby Union.

Sale Sharks have confirmed their former rugby director Bryan Redpath will remain at the club as part of a revamped coaching staff.

Dundee High secured their place in the semi-finals of the national schools cup competition at Mayfield yesterday in a tense encounter.

There are flaky days, shaky days and afternoons where it is difficult to locate a cold, let alone catch one, for those in the rugby community.

Sale Sharks last night dismissed reports that Bryan Redpath had been sacked as the club's director of rugby.

For much of last season it seemed that Scott Wight's professional career had come to an end on the evening of September 23, 2011.

THERE was a time when international sides had selectors not coaches.

Driven and dynamic, David Denton delivers damnation and defiance with the same directness he shows on the pitch.

As well as being warmed by a spot of winter sunshine, Rob Harley is looking forward to tasting a dish best served cold in Treviso this evening, and he does not mean a tomato and mozzarella salad.

In the last couple of weeks, Michael Bradley has faced a huge challenge to get the balance right between an apparent willingness to acknowledge failings publicly and the need to avoid being interpreted by his team as kicking them when they are down.

The list of biographies of uncapped players laid out in the press conference room at Murrayfield yesterday provided a tantalising little teaser.

Having led the charm offensive that persuaded Sean Maitland to join his old club, Sean Lineen yesterday explained how a new level of professionalism had paved the way for the recruitment of the Canterbury Crusader.

Ross Ford is not given to exuberant public displays of emotion so his assessment of Edinburgh's performance in this season's Heineken Cup, delivered in his Borders brogue, was characteristic.

with last season's Heineken Cup heroics now a pale memory, a humbled Edinburgh side must set their sights on very different targets after effectively being eliminated this time around in humiliating fashion, according to their head coach.