Edinburgh Rugby

Edinburgh Rugby is a rugby union team from the Scottish city of Edinburgh, the Pro12 plays in the international championship and participates in the Heineken Cup. The home games are played at Murrayfield Stadium.

History

The history of Edinburgh Rugby began in 1872, when for the first time held a town meeting between Edinburgh and Glasgow. England and Scotland A year earlier, contributed to today the first international match of the world.

With the professionalisation of sport the Scottish FA (SRU ) began to form 1995 new teams to compete in the Heineken Cup can. This also included the team from Edinburgh, which was called at the time, Edinburgh Rugby. Because of the new building of Murrayfield Stadium, the SRU had financial problems and reduced the hitherto existing four teams to just two. In the course of this development, the team from Edinburgh was merged with the Border Reivers and was renamed later as Edinburgh Reivers.

2001 founded the organizations from Ireland, Scotland and Wales, the Celtic League, which also belonged to Edinburgh. 2002/ 03 they won the Scottish League, which took place only in this one year. Meanwhile, the addition Reivers fell away again in the name and the team was once again Edinburgh Rugby. In the 2003 /04 season they reached the final of the Celtic Cup, Ulster was beaten there, however. The previous best finish in the Celtic League succeeded in Edinburgh in the 2008 /09 season, when they reached the second place.

Achievements

  • Celtic League: 2nd place in 2008/ 09
  • Heineken Cup: Semi-finals 2011/12
  • Celtic Cup: Final 2003/ 04
  • Scottish League: Winner 2002/ 03

Player

Current squad

The squad for the 2013/2014 season:

Front team ( forwards)

  • Scotland Geoff Cross
  • Scotland Scotland
  • Wales John Yapp
  • Scotland Alasdair Dickinson

Hooker

  • Scotland Rossford
  • Scotland Steven Lawrie
  • Tonga Aleki Lutui
  • Scotland Alun Walker

Second - row players

  • Australia Oliver Atkins
  • England Sean Cox
  • Scotland Grant Gilchrist
  • England Perry Parker
  • Scotland Robert McAlpine

Winger / Number Eight

  • Georgia Dimitri Basilaia
  • Scotland David Denton
  • Scotland Roddy Grant
  • Scotland Stuart McInally
  • Scotland Ross Rennie
  • Scotland Hamish Watson

Behind team ( backs)

Scrum half / compound semiconductor

  • Scotland Alex Black
  • New Zealand Grayson Hart
  • Greig Laidlaw Scotland (C )
  • England Chris Leak
  • Scotland Harry Leonard
  • England Piers Francis

Indoor Three Quarter

  • New Zealand Ben Atiga
  • Scotland Ben Cairns
  • Scotland Nick De Luca
  • Scotland Matt Scott

Outer three-quarters / goalkeeper

  • Scotland Tom Brown
  • Scotland Jack Cuthbert
  • Dougie Fife Scotland
  • Scotland Lee Jones
  • Scotland Greig Tonks
  • Scotland Tim Visser
  • Scotland Nikki Walker
  • Scotland Jamie Farndale

Well-known former players

  • Todd Blackadder (New Zealand)
  • Mike Blair
  • Marcus Di Rollo
  • Phil Godman
  • Dougie Hall
  • David Hewett (New Zealand)
  • Nathan Hines
  • Duncan Hodge
  • Allister Hogg
  • Allan Jacobsen
  • Ander Monro (Canada)
  • Scott Murray
  • Chris Paterson
  • Mike Pyke (Canada)
  • Hugo Southwell
  • Netani Talei (Fiji)
  • Simon Taylor
  • Simon Webster
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