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GREATEST the | FINNRUSSELL RUGBY’S | DAVID EDGE SHOW RICHIE GRAY | TOM SMITH | FINN RUSSELL | DAVID EDGE The ISSUE #4 SCOTTISH RUGBY’S NEW DIGITAL MAGAZINE RUGBY’S GREATEST SHOW TEASER EDITION #AsOne Why binge on a series, if your broadband leaves you on a cliffhanger? The list of contents in the full Issue #4 of “The Front Row” are listed below. If you like what you see in this sample and want to see the full edition, please join our Scotland Supporters Club. Richie Gray 5 Back in the international mix and raring to go for 2021 David Edge 17 Scotland Team Manager discusses his role and lockdown Tom Smith 25 Former British & Irish Lion on the road back to health Finn Russell 33 An experienced head seven years on from his first cap Editor Stuart MacLennan Guinness Six Nations 2021 39 Design A glance at Scotland’s opposition Gemma Law Graphics Laura Chessar, Rory MacColl Commercial Test your rugby knowledge with our 49 Mhairi McComish Guinness Six Nations quiz! Emma Rogers, Anna MacLeod Only BT gives you reliable Photography SNS Group wi-fi in every room or £100 CONTENTS money-back guarantee SCOTTISH RUGBY with Complete Wi-Fi. BT Murrayfield, Edinburgh EH12 5PJ Why choose anyone else? 0131 346 5000 | scottishrugby.org | @scotlandteam With Complete Wi-Fi: BT guarantees 10Mbps wi-fi connection in every room, with up to 3 discs and an engineer visit if needed, or claim £100 bill credit. Terms apply. THE FRONT ROW AUTUMN NATIONS CUP 2020 3 RUSSELL RARING TO GO It was the summer of 2014 when a fresh-faced Finn Russell took to the field for his first Scotland cap, starting in a 24-6 success against the USA in Houston on Scotland’s summer tour to North America and Argentina. In what seems like the blink of an eye, the Part of Russell’s role going forward will crowd-pleasing pivot has represented his be to help integrate newcomers into the country over 50 caps, during which time he international fold, a notion that brings back has won a PRO12 title with Glasgow Warriors a few memories. “I was chatting to Cammy and moved on to play with distinction for Redpath and obviously it’s his first inclusion French Top14 side Racing 92. and he’s only 21, and that’s the age I was when I got my first cap,” said Russell. A British & Irish Lion in 2017, Russell is well- placed to repeat that particular trick for “Myself and Hoggy are 28 years old so in this year’s planned tour to South Africa, rugby you’re getting on, but in life you’re his now considerable experience placing not that old. We’re seen to be some of the him amongst the game’s most exciting more experienced guys and it does go by fly-halves. really quickly. If I’m lucky I’ve got another It has gone by fast; you “don’t really think about it like that. It’s one of those that when you’re playing with young guys, it makes you realise that I’m probably one of the more experienced here. In full flight against France, 2019 THE FRONT ROW AUTUMN NATIONS CUP 2020 5 During training at Oriam ahead of the 2021 Guinness Six Nations three, four, five years playing for Scotland depending on who’s coming through. It’s making me appreciate more being in the squad and playing for my country whereas before it was the excitement of being still I feel I’m having more young and after seven years it’s given me a of a say in how we want slightly different view on it.” “ Specialists in His rugby journey has taken him from to play and how we Scotstoun to the bright lights of Paris with can maybe drive the Constructive Solutions a swashbuckling Racing team who earn constant plaudits born out of Russell’s team. I feel a lot more orchestrating. He made the move to the comfortable now and I Fosroc, a leading international manufacturer and supplier French capital in 2018 and reckons change of high performance chemicals for the construction of scenery helped his develop as a player always want to be the industry, are proud to be supporting grass roots rugby and person, explaining: “It was a big best I can be. in Scotland. challenge in terms of moving club, having to almost establish myself again. I think when Racing narrowly missed out on winning I left Glasgow, you knew your comfort zone, last season’s European Champions Cup, The Fosroc Scottish Rugby Academy represents the you knew every system we had in place, you eventually losing out to an Exeter Chiefs nation’s most promising male and female rugby knew every player and coach as well. players, with a national academy structure designed to side containing fellow Scotland stars Stuart “For me to go to France and have to try and Hogg and Jonny Gray, and Russell believes give Scotland’s young rugby stars a pathway into the work French-speaking coaches and players, the collective experience of winning professional game. that was a challenge. The first year was more trophies can only serve the national team difficult for me as the Attack Coach didn’t in a positive way: “It’s great to have players speak much English and he would chat like Hoggy, Jonny, Sean and Duncy, they more with the 9s or Henry [Chavancy] at 12 have a lot of experience of knock-out stages on how we wanted to play and the more I’ve and these big games and winning them,” picked up French and got to understand and added Russell. built relationships, it’s been much better for me. www.fosroc.com constructive solutions THE FRONT ROW AUTUMN NATIONS CUP 2020 7 With us going into “the Six Nations, it’s a sprint there’s only five games, so to have that experience and to treat each game like a final and a knock-out game it’s going to help us out, having more guys like Racing away to score a try at that in the squad. Twickenham in 2019 Scotland will aim to be firing on all cylinders was a game we could have won. But then if this Saturday as they get their Guinness you think about that at half-time no one Six Nations campaign underway against would have expected that result so we had England at Twickenham, a ground which to be happy with a draw, whereas looking of course served as the scene for the back when we had five minutes to go and remarkable 38-38 draw two years ago. we were seven points up, it was tough to take but that’s sport and you can’t really Reflecting for a moment on that outrageous say that we should have won that game spectacle, Russell recounted: “The first-half because England should have won it after England got out quickly, we were nowhere that first-half.” near where we needed to be and I think that showed in the score line. When Rambo As he aims to lead the attack once more, [Stuart McInally] scored that try just before Finn Russell will be aiming to pull the half-time it gave us a little bit of belief of strings for Scotland to go one better in the ‘right okay, we can try get back and show 2021 Calcutta Cup. something here’ but it was still 31-7 at half- time, you are still up against it down at Twickenham against England. “The second-half we had nothing to lose as we had already been beaten, we had been written off. Speaking to fans and friends after it, they turned off, they knew we had lost. We had that freedom to play ‘it didn’t matter on the result now, we’ve lost’ we can just play our rugby and have a go at them. “It was a great game to be part of and there was a lot of learning in that game, but I was Assistant Coach Mike Blair watches still so disappointed at the end thinking that on in a recent training session OFFICIAL SOFT DRINK PARTNER OF SCOTTISH RUGBY THE FRONT ROW AUTUMN NATIONS CUP 2020 9 ENGLAND v SCOTLAND Saturday 6 February 2021 | Twickenham Interestingly, only one Englishman has been Head Coach Eddie Jones named as the Player of the Tournament since that particular award was created in Captain Owen Farrell 2004, the honour going to former full-back Mike Brown in 2014. Current Squad Scotland come into this game off the back Most capped Ben Youngs (104) of a defeat to Ireland in their final match of Most tries Jonny May (31) 2020 – the Autumn Nations Cup third/fourth place play-off in Dublin. Gregor Townsend’s All time side did beat Georgia at home and Wales and Italy away in November, with their only home Most caps Jason Leonard (114) defeat coming in a narrow loss to France. Most points Jonny Wilkinson (1179) Most tries Rory Underwood (49) GUINNESS SIX NATIONS CURRICULUM VITAE Having won last year’s Guinness Six Nations, England are perennial contenders for this year’s title and have notched up seven Huw Jones experiences an Owen championship wins since 2000. Farrell/Jonathan Joseph sandwich Should’ve gone to Specsavers England also come into this year’s championship after winning the inaugural Lions Watch Autumn Nations Cup at the tail end of last year. Of the current England squad, no fewer than 13 were either initially A bruising defeat by France put paid to selected or called up as injury cover for the British & Irish Lions’ England’s Grand Slam hopes last year, but 2017 tour to New Zealand.
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