Ayr

The first season of Scotland’s new top tier rugby competition, Super 6, will start in early November 2019, following the Rugby World Cup.

Scotland’s Club XV put in a better showing in the second leg of the Dalriada Cup at Energia Park in Dublin last night by grabbing a late draw, but the home side lifted the silverware.

This bonus-point win ensured Ayr of top place in the Tennent’s Premiership, top seeding and a home semi-final in the end-of-season play-offs, with one game still to play.

Ayr proved too powerful for their hosts and scored five tries to move back to the top of the Premiership.

Ayr made things hard for themselves, but in the end 
their magnificent defence enabled them to stifle a powerful second-half Boroughmuir performance to grab four points and stay on top of the Tennent’s Premiership.

2018 proved a topsy-turvy year but then this is Scottish rugby so you probably knew that much already. The political row around the sacking of Keith Russell as the SRU’s head of domestic rugby was undoubtedly the most depressing aspect of Scottish rugby over the past year, with the structure of checks and balances struggling to keep some of the governing body’s bigger personalities at bay. The return of the Calcutta Cup to Murrayfield’s trophy cabinet for the first time in a decade proved the highlight – and there was plenty to ponder between those two extremes.

Ayr answered their critics in the most emphatic way by winning this top-of-the-table clash with a bonus point victory that hoists the Millbrae side to the apex of the Tennent’s Premiership.

Currie Chieftains have wished their coach Ben Cairns well after he was confirmed as the head coach of the Stirling County franchise in the new Super 6 league, which is due to start next season.

The head coaches for the new Super 6 tournament have been announced.

Heriot’s absolutely crushed the league leaders with a devastating display of forward power at a rain-drenched Millbrae.

Scotland centre Alex Dunbar is set to play for Tennent’s Premiership leaders Ayr this afternoon as they host third-placed Heriot’s in the game of the day.

Ayr joined the small band of teams to edge out Stirling on their own ground in a thrilling last-ditch win.

Jed-Forest are the only non-top flight club left in the Scottish Cup and their reward for making it into the quarter-finals is a home tie with Heriot’s.

Hawick and Gala meet in an intriguing Border derby in the Scottish Cup first round this lunchtime.

Co-captain Fergus Scott scored the winning try with five minutes to go as Currie Chieftains defeated Tennent’s Premiership leaders Ayr 24-23 yesterday to honour the memory of Campbell Reynolds in style.

Campbell Reynolds will be on the minds of all the Currie Chieftains players ahead of their Tennent’s Premiership clash with Ayr this afternoon.

Forward dominance was the key to Ayr’s return to winning ways at the expense of basement boys Edinburgh Accies.

Some of Scotland’s leading clubs have called on the Scottish Rugby Union to postpone by a year the introduction of its Super 6 competition which due to start next season.

Watsonians deservedly took Premiership leaders Ayr’s unbeaten record and annexed the Bill McLaren Shield in this tremendous Millbrae match.