Scotland’s newest Test cap Gary Graham has thanked Steve Boden for pushing him to new heights when he was playing for Jersey a few years ago and making him believe he could go on and play at the top level.
In his latest Six Nations column, Italy forward Sebastian Negri talks about the Azzurri’s hopes, facing Scotland at Murrayfield and the challenge of his second tournament.
Scotland head coach Gregor Townsend has handed Glasgow centre Sam Johnson debut for the upcoming Six Nations encounter against Italy to be played at Murrayfield Stadium on Saturday.
Scotland's Finn Russell says he can bring across ideas from his time with Racing 92 to help enhance Scotland's performances in the upcoming Guinness Six Nations.
They call Aberdeen the Granite City - and the University of Aberdeen men’s and women’s rugby teams have certainly been tough to beat so far this season.
Scotland have made three changes to their Six Nations squad ahead of the tournament opener against Italy to be played at BT Murrayfield in the weekend.
Charlie Shiel and Ross McCann grew up in the same street in Edinburgh - and fast forward a number of years and their exciting rugby journeys have continued in South Africa and New Zealand this week.
Scotland will miss the services of Edinburgh flanker Hamish Watson for at least the first half of the upcoming Six Nations tournament following a fracture to his hand.
Scotland assistant coach Mike Blair noticed a definite spring in the step of the Edinburgh Rugby and Glasgow Warriors players - and he believes the good European runs of both clubs can only help Scotland going into the Six Nations.
Scotland head coach Gregor Townsend has challenged the three uncapped hookers named in his Guinness Six Nations squad to show him why they deserve to be the one who earns a place in the matchday 23 for their opener against Italy on February 2.
Edinburgh Rugby head coach Richard Cockerill is not basking in the glory of Saturday’s historic win away to Toulon, but instead he is asking his players to take things up yet another notch when they take on Montpellier on Friday.
Fijian No.8 Viliame Mata is the “talisman” that Toulon have to stop when Edinburgh Rugby visit the Stade Felix-Mayol on Heineken Champions Cup duty this weekend, according to home star Liam Messam.
Scottish Rugby Fosroc Academy players Kristian Kay, Jacob Henry and Thomas Jeffrey will be moving to South Africa for five months to train at the highly-regarded Stellenbosch University.