Rugby World Cup

Scotland Women Head Coach Bryan Easson today named a 32-player squad for the upcoming Rugby World Cup 2021 in New Zealand.

Easson continued: “We are all incredibly excited for the month ahead. They speak incredibly well on the field but also off the field. Malcolm will be supported in her leadership role by vice-captain and Loughborough Lightning teammate, Helen Nelson.

Scotland Women head coach Bryan Easson has selected his most experienced squad with five players with over a half-century of caps for the Rugby World Cup in ...

Getting the players back from the Commonwealth Games has been exciting for us as well. “Everyone should feel incredibly proud of being selected for the tournament. “I’m hugely honoured to be naming our squad for the Rugby World Cup. The process around that was to make sure we had the right players going. “We are all incredibly excited for the month ahead,” he said. The Scots are coming off a disappointingly winless Six Nations campaign.

Harlequins forward Jade Konkel-Roberts and Sarah Bonar have been named in Scotland Women's squad for the Rugby World Cup set to take place in New Zealand ...

SCOTLAND Women Head Coach Bryan Easson named a 32-player squad for the upcoming Rugby World Cup in New Zealand. And it contains Borders trio Lana Skeldon, ...

Easson said: “We are all incredibly excited for the month ahead. “I’m hugely honoured to be naming our squad for the Rugby World Cup and I’d like to express my gratitude to everyone in the management team who has worked incredibly hard behind the scenes to get us to this point. I think it’s been a long time coming and it was exactly this time last year that we were in Italy trying to qualify for the Rugby World Cup so it’s been a year in the making.

The Highlands will be well represented as Inverness' Jade Konkel-Roberts, Helen Nelson and Caity Mattinson, and Fort William's Katie Dougan have also been ...

[ said](https://www.scottishrugby.org/news/scotland-squad-named-for-rugby-world-cup-2021): “We are all incredibly excited for the month ahead. “I’m hugely honoured to be naming our squad for the Rugby World Cup and I’d like to express my gratitude to everyone in the management team who has worked incredibly hard behind the scenes to get us to this point. I think it’s been a long time coming and it was exactly this time last year that we were in Italy trying to qualify for the Rugby World Cup so it’s been a year in the making.

Geoff Dale's photo of All Black (Sir) Michael Jones flying for the try line during the first game of the first Rugby World Cup in 1987 nearly didn't happen.

Jones was in the right place at the right time and so was Dale. He spoke about the fact that he was told if you score a try in your first game you might be a great All Black,” Dale says. It’s of David Lange, Dr Michael Bassett, Roger Douglas and Mike Moore, eating takeaways in Lange’s office after he lost a caucus vote to lead the Labour Party in the 1981 General Election. Before the 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand, Dale’s daughter, Natalie Stamilla, created a 4.5m bronze sculpture of Jones scoring that first try. “Here’s a Trivial Pursuit question – who scored the first try at the first World Cup? The answer to that question is, it was a penalty try. But instead of returning to New Zealand to shoot the rugby, they found themselves detained and stuck in their hotel room. The All Blacks won 70-6. That first game of the first World Cup was also Jones’ All Black debut. “He (Jones) made a nice speech at the unveiling of the sculpture that my daughter made from my picture. “But the first person to score a try was Michael Jones.” Geoff Dale’s photo of All Black (Sir) Michael Jones flying for the try line during the first game of the first Rugby World Cup in 1987 nearly didn’t happen.

Greece may eventually embrace rugby, a sport not widely followed, as the National Team has qualified for the Rugby League World Cup.

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A FORMER Helensburgh Rugby Club youth player has been named in the Scotland squad for the women's Rugby World Cup next month.

“A lot of discussions have been had, a lot of players have been played over the past year as well, so the process around that was to make sure we had the right players going. Delighted for you." “I think it’s been a long time coming and it was exactly this time last year that we were in Italy trying to qualify for the Rugby World Cup so it’s been a year in the making. “I’m hugely honoured to be naming our squad for the Rugby World Cup and I’d like to express my gratitude to everyone in the management team who has worked incredibly hard behind the scenes to get us to this point. Victoria Fletcher added: "Huge congratulations Anne. A FORMER Helensburgh Rugby Club youth player has been named in the Scotland squad for the women’s Rugby World Cup next month.