Scotland

The Up and Under is a weekly feature on Americas Rugby News. It takes a look at the highs and the lows involving the Americas during the past week.   UP South American 4 Nations Locked in for August The 2023 South American 4 Nations is coming in August. Brazil, …

An outstanding performance from Uruguay has seen Los Teritos booking their spot in the Junior World Trophy Final. Uruguay completed an historic 37-26 win over Scotland on Tuesday. Uruguay will face Spain in the final. The teams won their respective pools and will now battle-it-out in the final. Spain defeated …

The USA have fallen to back-to-back losses at the World rugby u20 Trophy. Following their narrow loss to Uruguay first up, the Eagles fell to a heavy defeat against Scotland in their second match in Kenya. Scotland were 40-13 winners over the USA. The outcome is that Tuesday’s matches of …

Facundo Cordero has completed a transfer from the Exeter Chiefs to the Glasgow Warriors. The move sees the 24-year-old making the move from the English Premiership to the United Rugby Championship (URC) and from England to Scotland. Cordero is the latest of a growing number of Exeter Chiefs’ players to …

The cat is at last out of the bag. After repeated World Cup cycles wherein the early draw brings unbalanced pools, World Rugby have admitted the error. Writing for The Mirror, Alex Spink writes that World Rugby are to delay the draw for future Rugby World Cups. The draw for …

World Rugby’s approval of eligibility law changes may bring substantial changes for Rugby World Cup 2023. Players are able to represent a second country following a three-year stand-down period from their last binding representative appearance for their first country. In other words, there are players from both RWC 2019 and / …

The Chicago Hounds have announced the signing of loosehead prop George Thornton for the upcoming Major League Rugby campaign. A former Scotland under-20 representative, the 26-year-old arrives from Australia where he has been playing with Northern Suburbs in the Shute Shield. Thornton is originally from England and is a product …

The 2023 Six Nations sees changes in player eligibility to that from prior years. World Rugby’s eligibility law changes entitle eligible players to represent a second country following a three-year stand-down period from their last binding representative appearance for their first country. The change of nationality saw a variety of players …

The Chicago Hounds have acquired scrumhalf Sean Yacoubian from the New England Free Jacks in exchange for salary cap considerations. A Saint Mary’s Gaels graduate, he has previously represented Scotland u20 before playing with the USA Selects (now Falcons) in 2021. Yacoubian made his Major League Rugby debut with the …

Scotland claimed a home win over Argentina on Saturday at Murrayfield in Edinburgh. The home side won by a record scoreline of 52-29. Los Pumas lost a player to an early red card and three other forwards were yellow carded in the second half. Karl Dickson also handout out a …