Good afternoon folks and welcome to Old Anniesland for this Premier 1 game vs Edinburgh Accies and also a warm welcome to Accies coach Ian Barnes

After a 6 week break we finally got the season under way with a good away result against Boroughmuir – after a difficult pre match build up with both George Oommen & Mat Whittleston dropping out at the 11th hour, with Andy Kirkland (having played a half for the 2nds) & Robert Niven coming into the squad. It was a great team performance and a very well deserved victory in what were terrible conditions

And on that point maybe its team we revisit the summer rugby debate again – if we are ever going to improve and go forward I think this is something we have to look at, the last couple of months have been a nightmare with very few games and very little opportunity to play and be all accounts the problems are only going to get worse so is it now time to make the bold step and shift our season, well I for one think it is time as do most coaches and players from throughout the country, the question is do we as a rugby community have the balls to do it?!!

And finally it is sad to see the loss of the great Bill McLaren, a very passionate and professional man when it came to rugby as well as probably rugby’s greatest ambassador. On

This article was posted on 29-Jan-2010, 15:47 by Hugh Barrow.