Rugby Archive

A few old friendships will be renewed at Dumbreck on Saturday, but it will certainly not be a place for the faint-hearted as Cartha Queen's Park and GHA battle it out in a "winner takes all" contest for the RBS Championship A title.

Alex Duncan could be forgiven for thinking that danger lurks around every corner, such has been the litany of woes which have befallen his Aberdeen GSFP charges during the current RBS Premiership campaign.

Scotland must learn to attack with the same ferocity as they defend if they are to establish themselves as contenders for next year's RBS 6 Nations, according to winger Tim Visser.

A funny thing happened on the way to L'Opera.

Saturday's pre-match arithmetic indicated that things could go badly wrong for RBS 6 Nations Championship organisers if Wales had won their final match by fewer than seven points, so leaving a beaten side to lift the trophy.

Ireland coach Declan Kidney is to consider his future after Ireland slumped to their first RBS 6 Nations defeat by Italy.The loss at the Stadio Olimpico may well be deemed unacceptable by the Irish Rugby Football Union, which will soon decide whether to renew Kidney's contract, which expires in the summer.

Hands up, anyone who saw this coming.

France finally collected their first win of the RBS Six Nations campaign as two quickfire tries proved decisive against Scotland in Paris.

BETTING on France may always be dangerous but only true clairvoyants and unreconstructed contrarians would have considered putting money on the scenario that confronts Les Bleus this evening.

KELLY BROWN has urged Scotland to continue the rebuilding of their rugby reputation by ending their RBS 6 Nations campaign with victory over France in Paris this evening.

The same 23 players who were involved as France avoided an RBS 6 Nations

As a rule, you want your blindside flanker to be immune to pain – especially other people's – yet even by the standards of that profession, Al Strokosch is a class apart.

Scott Johnson has accused Wales of football-style simulation, claiming his team were "conned" at Murrayfield on Saturday, and called for the sport's administrators to address the scrummage problems that are blighting the sport.

Rugby might have changed beyond all recognition in some regards, but when the Scotland skills coach Steve Scott claimed he was looking forward to a fair fight at scrum time when Scotland visit Paris this weekend, it was tempting to wonder if the poor fellow had taken too many bumps to the head during his own time as a player.