Six Nations

Drinks manufacturer Guinness has been announced as title sponsor of the Six Nations on a six-year deal.

Scotland coach Gregor Townsend is confident that Gary Graham is committed to Scotland despite the fact the flanker will remain eligible for England heading into the new year.

Sean Maitland’s dive over the line in Scotland’s Six Nations victory over England has been nominated as one of the four finalists for Try of the Year.

Carl Hogg has been named head coach of the Scotland Under-20 side and will take charge for next year’s U20 Six Nations Championship.

Richie Gray will not feature for Scotland in the Autumn test series after suffering an injury relapse, and he faces a battle to be fit for the NatWest Six Nations in the spring.

The old game has changed a bit in the last few years. Whether by accident or conscious copying of Super Rugby, the European game has become much more open, with a tsunami of tries turning the game on its head.

Glasgow Warriors coach Dave Rennie says the club is conducting a worldwide search to find emergency cover at tighthead prop following the news that Zander Fagerson is out for up to six months after breaking his ankle against Cheetahs.

Scotland prop Zander 
Fagerson is likely to miss next year’s Six Nations after undergoing surgery on his broken ankle, which is set to rule him out for “five to six months”.

The SRU has expressed sadness at the death yesterday of ex-Scotland back-row forward and former national coach Nairn MacEwan at the age of 76.

Richie Gray has been ruled out of Scotland’s Summer Tour of the Americas through injury.

Four men have been summonsed to appear in court after England head rugby coach Eddie Jones was subject to a barrage of foul-mouthed abuse.

Do you ever ask yourself what the future of rugby might look like? It’s a tricky one to answer but the obvious thing to point out is that it will almost certainly be markedly different from today’s game.

Two kicks by Johnny Sexton and one pass by Finn Russell will be remembered for a long time. Sexton’s drop-goal against France deep into what we used to call injury time not only won that match; it set Ireland on the way to their Grand Slam. His second kick was that steepling Garryowen which enabled Gary Ringrose to touch down for Ireland’s first try at Twickenham. The pass was, of course, Finn Russell’s audacious one against England which set Huw Jones off on a run which a moment later saw Russell put Sean Maitland over in the corner for a 
second Scottish try.

Darryl Marfo makes his long-awaited return from injury as Edinburgh head to Galway to face Connacht.

Scottish Rugby have launched an investigation after supporters were filmed using sectarian language during the recent trip to Rome.

Marks out of 10 for every player who made an appearance for Scotland in the 2018 NatWest Six Nations tournament...

Despite a third-place finish, and Stuart Hogg winning the award for the last two years running, no Scots have been shortlisted for the 2018 Six Nations Player of the Tournament award.

Scotland finished the Six Nations in third place with three wins to their credit, although that didn’t look likely for much of Saturday’s game in Rome. The Scots ended this tournament as they had started it, playing badly, and
it took two tries in the final quarter, the first by Sean Maitland, the 
second by Stuart Hogg, to secure 
victory.

Gregor Townsend can be justifiably proud of his first Six Nations season finishing above England and France even if two of Scotland’s three victories owed little to his running rugby philosophy. Certainly Townsend would have bitten your arm off if you’d offered him three wins after the final whistle in Cardiff.