Edinburgh coach Andy Robinson has been forced to put flanker Scott Newlands in for the injured Alan MacDonald in the only change to his side away to Leinster in the Magner's League on Friday night.

Edinburgh coach Andy Robinson has been able to name eleven Scotland internationals in his side to play Munster on the opening night of the Magners League at Murrayfield on Friday (7.30pm).

Munster has announced its team to face Edinburgh in Friday's Magners League opener at Murrayfield (kicks off at 7.30pm).

Scotland captain Mike Blair and Alistair Hogg return to competitive action on Friday evening (21 March, kick off 7.30pm) for the Magners League home match against Connacht at Murrayfield.

Edinburgh coach Andy Robinson has been able to select Six Nations internationals Allister Hogg, Gavin Kerr and Hugo Southwell, with Nick De Luca on the bench for the Magner's League clash with Munster at Murrayfield on Friday night.

PAUL O’CONNELL seems set to make his top-class return when appearing for Munster in the Magner’s League against Edinburgh at Murrayfield on Friday night.

Scotland 6 France 27

MUNSTER captain Paul O’Connell will be pushed to make the opening Heineken Cup fixture against Wasps next week as he struggles with a disc injury in his back.

Scotland 0 New Zealand 40

Scotland 42 Romania 0

Scotland head coach Frank Hadden has made four changes to his team for the World Cup Pool C clash against Romania at Murrayfield.

Scotland head coach Frank Hadden has defended his decision to head into the World Cup with three players who will have not played a competitive match since last season.

Several Scotland players are struggling with injury following their historic RBS 6 Nations defeat to Italy at the weekend.

Scotland 17 Italy 37

Scotland coach Frank Hadden has called up four uncapped players for next week’s training sessions at Murrayfield.

Cardiff predictably maintained their 100% Magners League home record with a five-try victory over bottom side Borders, but it took a purple patch just after half-time to break the Scots’ resistance.

Munster 9 Borders 8

South Africa 29 Scotland 15

BRIAN O’DRISCOLL has been named RBS 6 Nations player of the championship after leading Ireland to the Triple Crown.

EXACTLY 128 years ago, Ireland and England played the first international rugby match at Lansdowne Road.

Scotland head coach Frank Hadden has handed Hugo Southwell the number 15 jersey for the Bank of Scotland Corporate Autumn Test against New Zealand on Saturday.

SCOTLAND head coach Frank Hadden insists strength in depth has allowed him to make changes for the second Bank of Scotland Corporate Autumn Test against Samoa on Sunday.

Scotland 17 Australia 31

Matt Williams reflected on his first tour in charge of Scotland today, on the back-to-back defeats to Australia, the victories over Samoa and NSW Country and the development of a host of young players and declared: “I could not have wished for more.”

Scottish international prop Gavin Kerr has agreed a new two-year contract with Leeds.

Scotland coach Matt Williams began a new era today by naming three uncapped players in his team for their opening RBS 6 Nations Championship match against Wales in Cardiff on Saturday.

Scotland coach Ian McGeechan has taken a massive World Cup gamble by naming Chris Paterson at stand-off for Saturday’s make-or-break qualification decider with Fiji.

Scotland team manager Dougie Morgan has admitted Fiji will fancy their chances of ousting his ailing side from the World Cup next Saturday.

Scotland flanker Martin Leslie will go before the World Cup disciplinary appeals committee on Wednesday and attempt to save his international career.

Leeds prop Gavin Kerr has been forced to fly home from Scotland’s World Cup campaign after suffering a neck injury during last night’s 51-9 defeat to France at Telstra Stadium.

Scotland 39 USA 15

Scotland secured a 39-15 win over the United States and also picked up a valuable bonus point with a professional performance in Brisbane today.

Simon Danielli continued his superb start to the World Cup with two tries in three minutes and prop Gavin Kerr also touched down as Scotland opened up a solid 24-9 lead over the United States.

Scotland coach Ian McGeechan identified the United States’ physical strength as his team’s biggest obstacle when the two sides meet in their World Cup Pool B match in Brisbane on Monday evening.

Scotland’s players have moved on from the disappointing performance against Japan and are focused on their up-coming encounter with the USA, says prop Gavin Kerr.

Scotland coach Ian McGeechan today admitted that his players must produce their best performance of the three countdown Tests if they are to finish their World Cup preparations with victory over Ireland.

Scotland coach Ian McGeechan today made wholesale changes to his side for Saturday’s World Cup warm-up with Wales at the Millennium Stadium.

JUST like buses, Geordan Murphy has been waiting for an opportunity to stake his claim in the Ireland team and then two come along at once.

A match-winning performance from David Humphreys saw Ireland cruise to their first victory at Murrayfield for 18 years.

SCOTLAND coach Ian McGeechan has hinted that Andrew Mower will be given the task of replacing Budge Pountney for next week’s Six Nations Championship opener with Ireland.

Scotland coach Ian McGeechan has included two uncapped players in his squad to face Ireland in their opening Six Nations game at Murrayfield on February 16th.

Three men were today due to go on trial for the murder of the father of England international rugby star Ben Cohen.