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Scottish based rugby, and occasional NFL, writer, covering Scottish (club and international) rugby and Super Rugby Pacific. Brought to you by Sean Black
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The URC is Back and a Disappointing Series for Scotland’s Women (opens the original)
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It’s getting much colder and the nights are drawing in. That means one thing; it’s rugby season in Scotland.While the club game has been back for over a month now, the 2026-27 URC season began this weekend with both Scottish clubs in action.And while Edinburgh and Glasgow are just getting going, Scotland’s women have just finished a three match home series facing Canada, New Zealand and Australia. Unfortunately, they lost all three games and with potentially more questions than answers heading i
The New Season is Upon us (opens the original)
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Hello Substack subscribers. It’s been a minute.August has been both quiet and busy. Quiet on the Scottish rugby front as both professional teams have been deep in pre-season training, while the women’s squad have recently started their preparations, albeit heavily disrupted after the departure of Sione Fukofuka, for the upcoming WXV Series which starts this weekend. But it has been equally busy. The new club rugby season started in the last two weeks here in Scotland and this season I’ll be work
How not to Start a Series (opens the original)
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It has been a busy week for Scotland’s women. As they build up to the Vodafone Scotland WXV Series, where they will host Canada, New Zealand, and Australia on the 12, 19 and 26th September respectively at The Hive, not much of the news has been positive.Fukofuka outAfter a short and ultimately disappointing time in charge of the national squad, Sione Fukofuka stepped down on Monday, citing personal reasons.In an in-house interview with the SRU, Fukofuka explained that the strain on his family an
Some of Rugby's Most Memorable Cheating Moments (opens the original)
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Many of you may have seen the recent grassroots cricketing scandal, comically dubbed “Clicky Ponting”, concerning the devilish actions from Saltburn second XI in a recent match against Norton in Division 2 of the North Yorkshire and South Durham Cricket League. The basics for those you haven’t seen the story; video footage from that fixture showed Brian Devine, playing at first slip, appearing to click his fingers as the ball passed the bat of the Norton batsman in order to deceive the umpire, a
Scotland's Summer - Positives and Negatives (opens the original)
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Three games played in the summer section of the Nations Championship for Scotland with two wins and a single loss to the world champion Springboks. The Scots sit second in the Northern Hemisphere standings, just a single point behind France.This summer was as much as the performances, the connection, and the development of the squad as it was about the results, especially with the World Cup looming in just over a year in Australia.So, looking back across the summer games, what were the positives
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