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Scotland co-captain Rory Darge and hooker Ewan Ashman join us on this week's Official Scottish Rugby Podcast.  Chris Paterson and Caroline Blair chat to them about leadership, their friendship and look ahead to this weekend's highly-anticipated Calcutta Cup match against England at Scottish Gas Murrayfield. If selected it will be their first involvement in the historic fixture.  

This week our hosts Chris Paterson and Caroline Blair chat about the recent matches in both the U20 Six Nations and Guinness Men's Six Nations. Scotland men are one from two after the first two rounds of matches and next up they host England at Scottish Gas Murrayfield on Saturday 24 February. Meanwhile, Scotland U20 have narrowly lost their first two matches as they get set to welcome England to Hive Stadium on Friday 23 February. Chris and Caroline review both tournaments so far from a Scotland perspective.

Scotland Under-20 Head Coach Kenny Murray joins Chris and Caroline this week to chat about the upcoming home games against France and England at Hive Stadium in Edinburgh. Kenny looks back on the game against Wales and chats about his excitement at helping to develop the next generation of Scotland players.

Award winning British film producer, James Gay-Rees joins Chris and Caroline on this week's Official Scottish Rugby Podcast to chat about his brand new docuseries, Six Nations: Full Contact. The behind the scenes documentary, which is now available to watch on Netflix, follows Scotland, England, Ireland, Wales, France and Italy during last year's Guinness Six Nations. James chats about the process of pitching the series to Netflix, some of the challenges they faced over the last 12 months and what suprised him when he was making the series.

Scotland duo Finn Russell and Blair Kinghorn join Caroline and Chris on this week's epsiode to talk about the new Netflix docu-series, Six Nations: Full Contact, which has been released today. Both players feature heavily throughout and in the first epsiode you see Finn at home in Paris with his family. The pair also look ahead to the Guinness Six Nations and the opening match against Wales a week on Saturday, while Finn talks about being named co-captain for the Championship.

Chris Paterson and Caroline Blair return for the first podcast of 2024 and this week they're joined by four members of Gregor Townsend's Scotland squad for the upcoming Guinness Men's Six Nations. Duhan van der Merwe, Ben Healy, Kyle Rowe and Harry Paterson look ahead to the Championship getting underway in just over two weeks.

We can't believe it but here we are, the final episode of the Official Scottish Rugby Podcast for 2023! We are delighted to bring you one last chat with hosts Chris Paterson and Caroline Blair as they look back on stand out moments from this year. You'll hear from Luke Crosbie, Francesca McGhie, Pete Horne, Caity Mattinson, Jamie Ritchie and many more in this Christmas Special.

On this week's episode of the Official Scottish Rugby Podcast, we are delighted to be joined by Edinburgh Rugby's Ewan Ashman and Glasgow Warrior's Johnny Matthews. Joined by hosts Chris and Caroline, they look ahead to the upcoming 1872 Cup clashes at Scotstoun and with exactly a month to go the deciding 'Auld Acquaintance' fixture at Scottish Gas Murrayfield - on Saturday 30th December. Don't miss this very special episode!

On this week's episode of the Official Scottish Rugby Podcast, we are delighted to be joined by Ayrshire Bulls Bobby Beattie and Stirling Wolves Marcus Holden as we look ahead to this weekend's 2023 FOSROC Super Series Championship Final. Bobby and Marcus join Caroline to discuss the 2023 season as well as some of their clubs’ best bits throughout this past year.

On this week's episode of the Official Scottish Rugby Podcast, we are delighted to be joined by Heriot's Rugby's Dan King.  Chris and Caroline reflect on the FOSROC Super Series Championship and look ahead to this weekend's Semi Finals as Heriots take on Stirling Wolves (Friday 10 Nov, kick off 7.35pm) while Watsonians face Ayrshire Bulls (Saturday 11 Nov, kick off 5pm). Dan also talks through his experience within Scotland Under-20's set up. 

On this week's episode of the Official Scottish Rugby's Podcast, we are delighted to be joined that by Scotland internationals Rachel Malcolm and Emma Wassell. The women join Joe Anderson straight off the plane from South Africa to reflect on the inaugural WXV 2 tournament after being crowned champions.  Chris and Caroline also catch up on the United Rugby Championship so far and look ahead to this weekend's fixtures: Glasgow face Stormers on Friday evening and Edinburgh travel to Leinster on Saturday afternoon. 

On this week's episode of the Official Scottish Rugby Podcast, we are delighted to be joined by two special guests: sports commentator and Watsonian's Women's Coach, Bruce Millar and Scotland internationalist, Emma Wassell. Bruce joins Chris Paterson to discuss team performances throughout the FOSROC Super Series championship thus far as well as looking ahead to Round 13 this weekend with competition for a semi-final spot being fierce.  Emma then joins Tom Sole from camp in South Africa to review Scotland's WXV 2 performances as well as her thoughts on the trajectory for the women's game.