The Road to Re-imagining our Sport

Following their "Shape of the Game" conference in London in November, World Rugby have announced new law application guidelines from 1st January 2023 as a step on the road to "re-imagining our sport".

2019 World Rugby Under 20s Championship

After three weeks of competition, it's down to the Finals in the Under 20s Championship in Argentina.

It'a been a tough old competition for Scotland, starting off with an awkward group, followed up with defeat to Italy in the play-off semi-final, to give us a must win game against Fiji.

Win and it's an 11th placed finish, defeat and we're relegated to the U20s Trophy competition to be replaced by the winners of this year competition which takes place in Brazil, starting 9th July.

Saturday, 22nd June 2019
11th Place Play-off	14:30	Scotland	34	v	59	Fiji
5th Place Play-off	14:30	England	45	v	26	Wales
7th Place Play-off	17:00	Ireland	17	v	40	New Zealand
3rd Place Play-off	17:00	Argentina	16	v	41	South Africa
9th Place Play-off	19:30	Italy	29	v	17	Georgia
Final	19:30	Australia	23	v	24	France

Concussion - If In Doubt, Sit Them Out

"Concussion is a brain injury, which is serious and can be suffered by a Player of any age."

World Rugby Regulation 10

Concussion and suspected concussion must be taken extremely seriously in order to protect the safety, health and welfare of players.

2018 World Rugby Under 20 Championship

After nearly three weeks of competition, this years U20 Championship draws to a close with a day of games.

Scotlands 9th place play-off game against Georgia kicks-off at 12:30, whilst we need to wait to 6pm for the final between France and England (showing live on ITV 4).

Ireland play Japan in the 11th place play-off game (10am kick-off), where the loser will be relegated from the Championship to next seasons Trophy competition.

17th June 2018
Final & Play-offs
11th Place	10:00	Ireland	39	v	Japan	33
9th Place	12:30	Scotland	31	v	Georgia	39
7th Place	15:00	Wales	34	v	Italy	17
5th Place	13:00	Argentina	15	v	Australia	41
3rd Place	15:30	South Africa	40	v	New Zealand	30
Final	18:00	England	25	v	France	33

World Rugbys Training & Education Database Hacked

World Rugby have issued a media statement noting that on 3 May 2018, it detected an unauthorised access to the subscriber database linked to their training and education portal.

The hack affected the database that holds information about a subscribers education and training history including first name, email address and encrypted passwords.