One of the great strengths of rugby was when the match finished players mixed together in the clubhouse internationalists and club players ,stars and plodders piano shifters and piano players alike --it was a great leveller

Today to speak to a Scot capped for The Lions you would have to go through an army of press officers and media advisers
That is why it was so nice to see Selkirk Vice President John Rutherford in the bar at Old Anniesland after Selkirks long day on Saturday
A man who has played at the highest echelon of our sport Selkirk,The South ,Scotland and The British Lions and a true gentleman

Of whom the well known rugby journalist Richard Bath wrote
"Outside Wales, perhaps only the Irish pair of Tony Ward and Ollie Campbell were able to hold a candle to fly-half John Rutherford, the man who dominated Scottish back play for most of the 1980s... Deceptively quick and a natural athlete, he was able to boot the ball prodigious distances or beat a man one-on-one, seemingly at will. Allied to a keen rugby intellect, Rutherford was Scotland's star turn throughout the 1980s."
He was a major figure in Scotland's 1984 Grand Slam

This article was originally posted on 6-Jan-2013, 10:28 by Hugh Barrow.
Last updated by Hugh Barrow on 6-Jan-2013, 10:52.