Scotland stand-off Dan Parks today announced his retirement from international rugby with immediate effect. In his eight year international career, Parks won 67 caps for Scotland, scoring 266 points, including a Scottish record 17 drop-goals. He was the pivotal figure in Scotland’s successes in 2010, winning a host of Man of the Match awards...
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England Women ran in nine tries in their opening RBS 6 Six Nations clash of the championship against Scotland on Sunday night at Lasswade RFC, with Michaela Staniford and Katherine Merchant touching down for braces of tries. The defending champions, gunning for a record seventh title, braved freezing cold conditions to dominate their Scottish...
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England today named three new caps in the starting team to face Scotland in Saturday’s RBS 6 Nations match at Murrayfield. Saracens Brad Barritt and Owen Farrell will form a new centre pairing at international level, while Northampton Saints’ Phil Dowson makes his debut at No 8. The match 22 sees five more uncapped...
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Thomas Waldrom (Leicester Tigers) and Matt Banahan (Bath Rugby) joined up with England tonight to prepare for Saturday’s RBS 6 Nations match against Scotland at Murrayfield. Waldrom and Banahan, part of the England Saxons side that beat Irish Wolfhounds 23-17 at Exeter on Saturday, take over from Luke Narraway (calf) and Henry Trinder (ankle)...
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Peter Horne today became the latest highly rated rising star to be secured on a long-term contract by Glasgow Warriors. The 22-year-old centre has put pen to paper on a new deal that will see him play a pivotal role in the club’s progress until at least the end of May 2015. Currently a...
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Ed Kalman, the uncapped 29-year-old Glasgow Warriors prop, has been called into the Scotland squad for the opening two games of the RBS 6 Nations Championship. Kalman, who had a fine game for the Warriors against Leinster in the Heineken Cup yesterday, will join up with the squad for a training camp in St...
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Head coach Andy Robinson has selected six uncapped players in Scotland’s 36-man squad for the opening two matches of the 2012 RBS 6 Nations Championship. They are Lee Jones, the 23-year-old Edinburgh Rugby wing; Stuart Hogg, the 19-year-old Glasgow Warriors full-back; his team-mates, stand-off Duncan Weir, 20 and flanker/lock Robert Harley, 21; Sale Sharks’...
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Current State: Poor. I suppose there’s a certain irony in Johnson presiding over such a weak second row but it’s going to be a while before it’s particularly funny. The classic second row formula calls for a solid lump with a bad temper and a lanky streak of piss who runs around making a...
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England will face two familiar opponents and one wildcard side on the opening day of this season’s HSBC Sevens World Series. They have been drawn against Scotland, Wales and Tonga in Pool D of the Gold Coast Sevens in Australia on November 25-26 – the first stage of the nine-event global campaign. Last season’s...
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Edinburgh Rugby were today celebrating securing the contract extensions of three frontline players considered key to the future of the club. David Denton and Stuart McInally, both 21, and 24-year-old Steven Turnbull all put pen to paper on deals that will keep them at Murrayfield until 2014; the news follows the recent contract extension...
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