Topic: Edinburgh
Former champions Ulster kept their hopes of a European Cup quarter-final place alive on Friday with a 21-13 victory over Edinburgh in windswept Belfast. Ulster, champions in 1999, moved into second spot in Pool 4 alongside Stade Francais on 13 points, but ...
Irish province Munster's Celtic League match against Welsh region the Scarlets was called off on Saturday, a day before Sunday's kick-off, due to the freezing weather sweeping Britain and Ireland. The pitch at Leinster's Musgrave Park ground in Cork had been covered ...
Sale threw down the gauntlet to European Cup Pool 5 rivals Toulouse and Cardiff Blues with a 29-19 win on Sunday at Harlequins while French side Biarritz cast aside mediocre league form to batter Newport Dragons to maintain their perfect start. Sale ...
Mike Blair, Scotland's back-up scrum-half, has been ruled out of Saturday's Test against Australia after failing a fitness test on an injured ankle. The Edinburgh number nine suffered the injury in last Saturday's 23-10 win over Fiji after coming on to replace ...
Andy Robinson has selected three uncapped players in his squad for his first Test in charge of Scotland, against Fiji at Murrayfield next month. Former England coach Robinson has called up back-rows Alan MacDonald and Richie Vernon as well as centre Alex ...
Injury-hit Leicester staged a dramatic second half fightback to draw 32-32 with Neath-Swansea Ospreys on Sunday as the opening round of the European Cup threw up some surprises. Last season's losing finalists needed a storming try from Jeremy Staunton in the dying ...
South African fly-half Marius Goosen kicked three penalties to help Italian minnows Treviso stun French champions Perpignan 9-8 here in the European Cup on Saturday. Over four seasons in Europe Treviso have only secured one victory, so this result -- against a ...
South Africa won the IRB Sevens World Series title for the first time on the opening day of the Edinburgh Sevens at Murrayfield on Saturday. They came into this tournament a huge 20 points clear of England in the race for the ...
Scotland coach Frank Hadden on Friday called up five players to bolster his squad ahead of the Six Nations opener against defending champions Wales on February 8 at Murrayfield. Glasgow prop Moray Low and number eight Johnnie Beattie, Edinburgh flanker Scott Newlands ...
Phil Godman, a dozen stitches in a wound around his left eye inflicted by the knee of Jean de Villiers and the elbow of Pierre Spies, staggered from the pitch, his face streaming with crimson. Half the Scotland team ended this agonising ...