Dundee: a city discovering a love for rugby

The mounting interest and enthusiasm for rugby in Dundee received yet another boost as Scottish Rugby teamed up with Dundee City Council, Morgan and Panmure rugby clubs to appoint the city’s second development officer (DO).

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It’s a Festival of Rugby in All Areas

The season is well and truly up and running and the Development Officers in all four Local Authorities have been busy ensuring the rugby bug is spread far and wide.

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Tayside & Fife host the Scottish Rugby Team

Tuesday 18th August saw St. Andrews taken over by rugby enthusiasts as the Scotland National Team invited Tayside & Fife to join their preseason camp for an afternoon.
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IRB 7’s – Tayside & Fife Rugby Teams take to the pitches at Murrayfield 7s!

As the last leg of the IRB World 7’s series steamed into Edinburgh at the end of May clubs and schools from Tayside & Fife got the opportunity to join in the fun during Scottish Rugby’s Festival of Rugby which ran hand in hand with the events on the main pitch. Click here to read more

Street Rugby

Two coaches and three volunteer coaches have just completed the first of four blocks of Street Rugby in Fife. Click here to read more

Rugby Champions – Focus on Glenwood High School

The Rugby Champions programme has been successfully rolled out in Tayside and Fife with thirty four ‘Champions’ now signed up from across the region.
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Rugby – Coming to a Street Near You

Scottish Rugby's development team has completed its first test of taking rugby to the streets of Scotland at St Aiden’s school in Glasgow’s east-end. Utilising a portion of the £1.4million 'Cashback for Communities’ funding from the Scottish government, Scottish Rugby has created an easy to play and portable version of the game to engage with young people in their neighbourhoods. Young people aged between 10 and 19 have been taking part in the pilots geared towards having fun with rugby for the past eight weeks in key locations across Scotland.

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International Rugby Comes To Tayside & Fife!

As the RBS 6 Nations comes to an end Tayside and Fife can celebrate hosting Scotland in an unbeaten run of International matches. Four matches took place in the area throughout February and March with the Scotland U20 side kicking things off with a fantastic victory (18 – 17) over the much fancied Welsh, last years runners up, in McDiarmid Park Perth. This was followed up by a tight encounter again between the Scotland U20’s and their Italian counterparts with the Scotland boys coming good in the last few minutes of the match to seal a thrilling 14 – 10 victory on front of an ecstatic home ground at Dens Park in Dundee.

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Bell Baxter High School Win the Bell Lawrie Scottish Schools Cup

Congratulations to Bell Baxter High School from Cupar who, on Thursday 25th January, became the first state school to lift the Bell Lawrie Scottish Schools Cup since 1997. In a well-contested match watched by a crowd of 5465 at Murrayfield, the Fife school defeated Dollar Academy by 20 points to 8. Man of the Match was Bell Baxter fullback Peter Horne who was one of several stand-out players on both teams.

Full match report can be found at: http://www.scottishrugby.org