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Scotland full-back Meryl Smith joins Caroline and Chris on this week's podcast to chat about the historic win against Wales in Cardiff. Smith, who plays for Bristol Bears, also looks ahead to Saturday's match against France in the Guinness Women's Six Nations at Hive Stadium and talks about some of the differences playing full-back, compared to centre or stand-off.
Scotland women's attack coach Matt Banahan joins Caroline and Chris on this week's podcast. The former England international, who played for Gloucester and Bath, hung up his boots in 2021 and joined Bryan Easson's coaching team in 2023, ahead of their successful WXV 2 campaign in South Africa. Ahead of this year's Guinness Women's Six Nations, which gets underway this weekend, Banahan chats about the growth of the women's game, transitioning from player to coach and what their priorities are for the campaign ahead.
Scottish Rugby’s former Chief Medical Officer and current Scotland Team Doctor, Dr James Robson MBE joins Caroline and Chris on this week's episode of the Official Scottish Rugby Podcast ahead of his final game this weekend. Robson will retire following this weekend's match against Ireland, after 33 years at Scottish Rugby. He reflects on some of the highs and lows of his career, chats about that moment when he lifted the Calcutta Cup last month following Scotland's win over England and looks ahead to life after rugby. This is a wide-ranging and emotional chat with a man who has given so much to Scottish Rugby over the last three decades.
On this week's podcast Chris and Caroline are in the Scotland men's team hotel to speak to backrower, Andy Christie, who has made an impact off the bench during the last couple of rounds of the Guinness Men's Six Nations. Andy talks about coming back from injury, the win over England and looks ahead to this weekend's match against Italy in Rome. He also chats about the work he does for charities, including being a Patron for Show Racism the Red Card. Chris and Caroline then head to Hive Stadium to catch up with Scotland women's captain Rachel Malcolm and centre Emma Orr, ahead of the upcoming Guinness Women's Six Nations, which kicks off in just over two weeks.
Scotland co-captain Rory Darge and hooker Ewan Ashman join us on this week's Official Scottish Rugby Podcast. Chris Paterson and Caroline Blair chat to them about leadership, their friendship and look ahead to this weekend's highly-anticipated Calcutta Cup match against England at Scottish Gas Murrayfield. If selected it will be their first involvement in the historic fixture.
This week our hosts Chris Paterson and Caroline Blair chat about the recent matches in both the U20 Six Nations and Guinness Men's Six Nations. Scotland men are one from two after the first two rounds of matches and next up they host England at Scottish Gas Murrayfield on Saturday 24 February. Meanwhile, Scotland U20 have narrowly lost their first two matches as they get set to welcome England to Hive Stadium on Friday 23 February. Chris and Caroline review both tournaments so far from a Scotland perspective.
Scotland Under-20 Head Coach Kenny Murray joins Chris and Caroline this week to chat about the upcoming home games against France and England at Hive Stadium in Edinburgh. Kenny looks back on the game against Wales and chats about his excitement at helping to develop the next generation of Scotland players.
Award winning British film producer, James Gay-Rees joins Chris and Caroline on this week's Official Scottish Rugby Podcast to chat about his brand new docuseries, Six Nations: Full Contact. The behind the scenes documentary, which is now available to watch on Netflix, follows Scotland, England, Ireland, Wales, France and Italy during last year's Guinness Six Nations. James chats about the process of pitching the series to Netflix, some of the challenges they faced over the last 12 months and what suprised him when he was making the series.
Scotland duo Finn Russell and Blair Kinghorn join Caroline and Chris on this week's epsiode to talk about the new Netflix docu-series, Six Nations: Full Contact, which has been released today. Both players feature heavily throughout and in the first epsiode you see Finn at home in Paris with his family. The pair also look ahead to the Guinness Six Nations and the opening match against Wales a week on Saturday, while Finn talks about being named co-captain for the Championship.
Chris Paterson and Caroline Blair return for the first podcast of 2024 and this week they're joined by four members of Gregor Townsend's Scotland squad for the upcoming Guinness Men's Six Nations. Duhan van der Merwe, Ben Healy, Kyle Rowe and Harry Paterson look ahead to the Championship getting underway in just over two weeks.
We can't believe it but here we are, the final episode of the Official Scottish Rugby Podcast for 2023! We are delighted to bring you one last chat with hosts Chris Paterson and Caroline Blair as they look back on stand out moments from this year. You'll hear from Luke Crosbie, Francesca McGhie, Pete Horne, Caity Mattinson, Jamie Ritchie and many more in this Christmas Special.
On this week's episode of the Official Scottish Rugby Podcast, we are delighted to be joined by Edinburgh Rugby's Ewan Ashman and Glasgow Warrior's Johnny Matthews. Joined by hosts Chris and Caroline, they look ahead to the upcoming 1872 Cup clashes at Scotstoun and with exactly a month to go the deciding 'Auld Acquaintance' fixture at Scottish Gas Murrayfield - on Saturday 30th December. Don't miss this very special episode!
On this week's episode of the Official Scottish Rugby Podcast, we are delighted to be joined by Ayrshire Bulls Bobby Beattie and Stirling Wolves Marcus Holden as we look ahead to this weekend's 2023 FOSROC Super Series Championship Final. Bobby and Marcus join Caroline to discuss the 2023 season as well as some of their clubs’ best bits throughout this past year.
On this week's episode of the Official Scottish Rugby Podcast, we are delighted to be joined by Heriot's Rugby's Dan King. Chris and Caroline reflect on the FOSROC Super Series Championship and look ahead to this weekend's Semi Finals as Heriots take on Stirling Wolves (Friday 10 Nov, kick off 7.35pm) while Watsonians face Ayrshire Bulls (Saturday 11 Nov, kick off 5pm). Dan also talks through his experience within Scotland Under-20's set up.
On this week's episode of the Official Scottish Rugby's Podcast, we are delighted to be joined that by Scotland internationals Rachel Malcolm and Emma Wassell. The women join Joe Anderson straight off the plane from South Africa to reflect on the inaugural WXV 2 tournament after being crowned champions. Chris and Caroline also catch up on the United Rugby Championship so far and look ahead to this weekend's fixtures: Glasgow face Stormers on Friday evening and Edinburgh travel to Leinster on Saturday afternoon.
On this week's episode of the Official Scottish Rugby Podcast, we are delighted to be joined by two special guests: sports commentator and Watsonian's Women's Coach, Bruce Millar and Scotland internationalist, Emma Wassell. Bruce joins Chris Paterson to discuss team performances throughout the FOSROC Super Series championship thus far as well as looking ahead to Round 13 this weekend with competition for a semi-final spot being fierce. Emma then joins Tom Sole from camp in South Africa to review Scotland's WXV 2 performances as well as her thoughts on the trajectory for the women's game.
On this week's episode of the Official Scottish Rugby Podcast we are delighted to be joined by journalist, Gary Heatly, as we look back on Scotland's Rugby World Cup performance and ahead to this weekend's first WXV 2 fixture v South Africa. You can listen or watch at any time to the full episode on the Scottish Rugby website, Spotify, PodBean and more.
On this week's episode of the Official Scottish Rugby Podcast we are delighted to be joined by Scotland Women Head Coach, Bryan Easson. Chris and Caroline get his take on this weekend's final Pool B fixture v Ireland and looks ahead to the new women's competition - WXV - commencing in South Africa. You can listen to the full episode here or watch the best bits on YouTube.
On this week's episode of the Official Scottish Rugby Podcast we are delighted to be joined by Edinburgh Rugby and Scotland international Grant Gilchrist. Joining Chris at the team hotel in Nice, Grant reviews Scotland's performance against Tonga, looks ahead to Romania and reminisces on his time playing alongside Stuart McInally - who has now retired from international rugby. You can listen to the full episode now on the Scottish Rugby website, Spotify, PodBean and more.
On this week's episode of the Official Scottish Rugby Podcast we are delighted to be joined by Scottish former rugby union coach and player, Jim Telfer. Chris and Caroline review Scotland's performance against current champions South Africa, look ahead to Tonga and reminisce on Jim's own Rugby World Cup experiences. You can listen to the full episode now on the Scottish Rugby website, Spotify, PodBean and more.
On this week's episode of the Official Scottish Rugby Podcast we are delighted to be joined by Scotland women stars Chloe Rollie and Lana Skeldon. Caroline catches up with Chloe and Lana on their return to camp as the team continue preparations for their Autumn Test later this month v Spain (30 Sept). Make sure to join us for a very fun episode as they chat all things WXV, Rugby World Cup and spending days off with Highland Cows.
On this week's episode of the Official Scottish Rugby Podcast we are delighted to be joined by Scotland winger Kyle Steyn. Kyle joins Chris and Caroline to discuss his international career to date including the recent Famous Grouse Nations Series, his elation being selected for the Rugby World Cup and excitement of joining the girl dad club soon. Chris and Caroline also preview Scotland's first 2023 Rugby World Cup Pool B fixture v South Africa (Sunday 10 September).
We bring you a special episode of the Official Scottish Rugby Podcast this week with part two of the community game special and the return of club rugby hosts Caitlin Gould and Calum Johnston as they delve into the upcoming men's premiership season.
This week we bring you a very special episode of the Official Scottish Rugby Podcast... We are delighted to be joined by a host of players selected to represent Scotland in the upcoming Rugby World Cup in France – including Matt Fagerson, Zander Fagerson, Jamie Ritchie, Rory Darge, Scott Cummings, Ewan Ashman and Ben White.
We bring you a very special episode of the Official Scottish Rugby Podcast this week with the introduction of club rugby hosts Caitlin Gould and Calum Johnston as they delve into the upcoming women's season.
On this episode of the Official Scottish Rugby Podcast, we are delighted to be joined by a variety of special guests including Dave Cherry, Tommy Seymour, Jamie Ritchie, and Sam Skinner. Chris and Caroline catch up with Dave on last weekend's remarkable victory over France as well as how the team are preparing for their second meet this weekend in Saint Etienne. There is also a special segment from The Famous Grouse Clubhouse, hosted by Tommy Seymour, looking ahead to the upcoming Rugby World Cup - with live audience.
On this week's episode of the Official Scottish Rugby Podcast, we are delighted to be joined by Scotland international and Bath center, Cameron Redpath. Hosts Chris Paterson and Caroline Blair catch up with Cameron on his career to date; including his school and club rugby experiences; his motivation to become a professional rugby player; his dad's influence and his future aspirations.
On this week's episode of the Official Scottish Rugby Podcast, hosts Chris Paterson and Caroline Blair look ahead to the upcoming Famous Grouse Nations Series. They discuss Gregor Townsend's Scotland team selection v Italy, including the return of Darcy Graham and Rory Darge named as captain. Tickets are still available for this weekend's opening match against Italy via scottishrugby.org.
Scotland and Glasgow Warriors full-back, Ollie Smith reflects on his career to date, talks to us about how preparations are going for the upcoming matches against Italy, France and Georgia ahead of the Rugby World Cup in France later in the year and he tells us why his Dad is his biggest supporter.
On this week's episode of the Official Scottish Rugby Podcast, we are delighted to announce the partnership between Scottish Gas, the largest home energy supplier in the UK, and Scottish Rugby to help the rugby community across Scotland reduce their energy bills and carbon footprint. Caroline Blair is joined by a variety of special guests including Scottish Rugby’s Chief Executive Mark Dodson, Managing Director of British Gas Net Zero Andrew Middleton, Scottish Rugby’s Sustainability Ambassador, and current GB 7s player Jamie Farndale, and Scotland women's player Emma Wassell.
