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• SCARLET REIVER HEINEKEN CUP HEINEKEN CUP The Borders will always be

  - 2007-04-15

  IT is part of the folklore of football that Denis Law refused to celebrate the goal he scored for Manchester City which sent his former teammates at Manchester United into the second division in 1974, so at least there was a precedent for the sort of mixed emotions Scott MacLeod...

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• Basic damage limitation HEINEKEN CUP

  - 2006-12-10

  Borders 0 Biarritz 25 Tries: Couzinet, Gobelet, Traille, Harinordoquy. Conversion: Yachvili. Penalty: Yachvili. THE scoreboard did not record the rout that many had feared, but the gulf in class between these two sides was still stark. Biarritz never lived up to their billing...

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• WRONG SIDE OF THE BORDERS HEINEKEN CUP HEINEKEN CUP His team are

  - 2006-10-15

  IF there is any truth in the old aphorism about being strengthened by that which does not destroy you then Bruce Douglas' opponents should brace themselves to expect some extra oomph from the Scotland prop in the weeks and months ahead. For if a year in which he participated in...

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• Rugby Union: TODAY'S GAMES

  - 2005-10-30

  HEINEKEN CUP (3.0) - Pool 3: Clermont Auvergne v Ospreys. Pool 5: Glasgow v Leinster (1.0). Pool 6: Wasps v Toulouse. European Challenge Cup - Pool 1: Bristol v Northampton. Pool 2: London Irish v Overmach Parma (at Parc des Sports et de L'Amitie). Pool 4: Borders...

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• Rugby Union: EUAN CRY!

  - 2004-12-05

  GLASGOW boss Hugh Campbell has begged SRU disciplinary chiefs to resort to common sense over the Euan Murray legal wrangle. The prop will appear again before the Murrayfield beaks this weeK after appealing against the 12-week ban imposed for an alleged stamping incident. Murray...

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• Rugby Union: HADDEN'S HEINEKEN PLEDGE

  - 2004-04-04

  EDINBURGH supremo Frank Hadden yesterday insisted his team's latest Celtic League defeat was a POSITIVE result. Thick-skinned Hadden's Gunners faded in the dying minutes to be pipped 19-14 by Gwent Dragons at Meadowbank. But he claimed the game had been the perfect workout ahead...

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• RUGBY UNION: Stuart and Vili combine to overhaul Connacht

  - 2004-03-06

  BORDERS GAVE their fans a roller-coaster ride as they bounced back from what looked like another Celtic League slip at Netherdale last night, beating Connacht 40-29. The home side started well, scoring 13 points in as many minutes, with winger Craig Moir crossing after a mere 90...

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• Uphill battle to change perceptions; Iain Morrison believes that the

  - 2004-02-15

  There was always at least one annoying child at school whose father supposedly had a better house/car/garden/TV than anyone else did and the superiority complex is still alive and well in England, where the rugby scribes habitually write off the Celtic League as an irrelevance compared to their own set-up....

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• Rugby Union: GILBERT: WE CAN'T CUT IT

  - 2004-02-01

  BORDERS boss Tony Gilbert expects his strugglers to be on the receiving end of another European caning today. After five defeats on the trot, the coach admitted he has no real hope of them ending their Heineken Cup campaign on a high note against the French tough-guys of Agen. Gilbert...

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• Rugby Union: Scarlets are Quin the mood

  - 2004-01-25

  WITH Scott Quinnell in their ranks, anything is possible for the Scarlets this year in Europe. Scott was magnificent once again on Friday night as Llanelli put Borders to the sword in their penultimate group stage match in the Heineken Cup. With Northampton winning...

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