EDINBURGH kept their European hopes alive with a gutsy win in dreadful conditions in front of a hardy crowd at Murrayfield. With the Stade Francais-Ulster game a casualty of y

GLASGOW'S young forwards are drivingthem to new heights, but willthey stay, asks Iain Morrison

THAT WELL-KNOWN double act of McKie and Robinson did a turn for the journalists last week and played the old bad cop, worse cop routine. The SRU chief executive Gordon McKie w

THE decision by Welsh rugby legend Gareth Thomas to go public about his homosexuality appeared to have been vindicated last night after the player revealed what he called an

SELKIRK'S fight for survival in Division One of the Scottish Hydro Premiership was given a pre-Christmas lift with what was an unexpected draw against third-placed Melrose

DIMITRI Yachvili's 23-point haul all but booked Biarritz's quarter- final place with a hard-fought 26-8 away win against Newport Gwent Dragons yesterday. The scrum-

LEINSTER kept pace with chief rivals London Irish at the top of Pool 6 as they warmed up a chilly RDS with a seven-try dismissal of the Scarlets.

BOROUGHMUIR and Watsonians saw their crucial Scottish Hydro Premier One rugby clash called off an hour before kick-off last night due to an unplayable pitch at Meggetland.