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The Rugby Piper March 2021 The Rugby Piper March 2021 EdiNon WHEN WILL IT EVER END? CALCUTTA CUP CLASH Welcome to the March edi/on of The Rugby Piper. It seems ages since we last saw any real Rugby or were able to meet in person to share memories of games, tries, players or tours. Let’s hope that it won’t be too long before we can do all these things again. Well done to Hawick and Linlithgow for keeping the online mee/ngs going. ST. DAVID’S DAY 2021 Not a sponsor’s logo in sight. Another classic scrum half pass. Who is he and who are This issue was wriCen before the outcome of affording him protec/on? Saturday’s Wales v England match was known, so let’s hope it was a good game and we saw LIONS V BAA-BAAS something like real Rugby. Many of us are geGng fed up with aspects of the modern game, especially scrums that take a lunar year to set, players who increasingly resemble NFL automatons and laws that seem to be willingly disregarded by referees. Rant over. ONE OF THE BEST Will we be seeing The Lions on home soil this summer? Who is the player on the leO up in support? 1950s LIONS TOUR UnforgeCable- in every way, as someone once sang. Trademark headband to the fore. MUD, MUD, GLORIOUS MUD Who is the player being held and what was his usual posi/on? WHICH ONE? Which of the Quinnell family played for Wales at both Rugby Union and Rugby League? Recognise the scrum half? The old dive pass. HEADING FOR THE CORNER THE LAST TIME- 1997 The last Interna/onal at the old Arms Park ground (Na/onal Stadium)took place on March 15th, 1997. It ended in a 34-13 win for the visi/ng team. Who were playing Wales? Which member of the losing side scored the last ever Interna/onal try at the old ground? GUEST SPEAKER Who is the winger giving the hand-off? He played in 10 Lions Test Matches and 30 Barbarian games. ONE FROM THE ARCHIVES Who is this on the right at an E.R.O.S. lunch with Howard HasleC? AYRSHIRE MAN Who is this England winger and what was his club side? He scored 16 tries in 14 games on the 1959 Lions tour to New Zealand. THE WAY WE WERE Who is he and at which English club was he Director of Rugby? PROP FORWARD Where did you head for when you got into the ground? BRONZE MEDAL POSITION Which country finished in third place in the 1987 Rugby World Cup? Who is he and which ScoGsh District side did he play for? ENGLAND 3. Which centre was chosen for five Lions tours? 1. Who were England playing in the first ever floodlight game at Twickenham 4. Who is Ireland’s most-capped full- in November 1995? back? 2. Nine players from the same side 5. Where do garryowen R.F.C. come turned out for England against Canada from? in August 1999. Which side? SCOTLAND 3. Who captained England on most 1. A Scotland back row played together occasions- Will Carling, Bill Beaumont, on 17 occasions un/l their re/rement or Mar/n Johnson? in 1991. Who were they? 4. Which England player scored a try, a 2. Who beat Scotland 30-18 in a 1999 conversion, a penalty, and a drop goal World Cup quarter-final /e? in the same game on two separate occasions? 3. Which Rugby League team did Alan Tait play for when he first changed 5. What was bought for £5,572.12.6. in codes? 1907? 4. Which Leicester player became the WALES 1,000th player to represent Scotland 1. What happened for the first /me in when he played against England in the 1905 match against New Zealand 2007? aOer the tradi/onal Haka? 5. Which ScoGsh Interna/onalist has 2. The bookies had Wales as 50/1 played for Natal Sharks? outsiders and allegedly lost £1m when FRANCE Wales won which grand Slam this century? 1. In which year did France join the Five Na/ons Tournament- 1910, 1920 or 3. Which Bridgend and London Welsh 1930? player played in 24 winning Welsh sides at Cardiff Arms Park out of his 29 2. In 2007, France won the appearances? championship on points difference. Who did they pip to the /tle? 4. Which former winger was the Wales coach from 1982 to 1985? 3. Who was the French coach during their great run in the 1980s? 5. Who won more caps- Richard or Paul Moriarty? 4. “A Modern Corinthian” was the /tle of the autobiography of which French wing forward? IRELAND 5. Who did France beat to claim the 1. Why was the Ireland v New third -place spot in the 1995 Rugby Zealand match in December 1967 World Cup? never played? ITALY 2. Which Irishman scored 18 points 1. What is the nickname of the Italian in the first Lions Test against team? South Africa in 1980? 2. When did Italy first play in the Six Na/ons tournament? 3. Who did Italy play in their first match in the Stadio Olimpico in 2012? 4. 81,018 watched Italy lose 20-6 to which team in November 2009? 5. In which Italian city was that game staged? .
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