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? ROY LAIDLAW. JOHN Saturday’s Wales v England match was known, JEFFREY and IAIN MILNE so let’s hope it was a good game and we saw something like real Rugby. Many of us are LIONS V BAA-BAAS 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 leV up in support? GORDON BROWN 1950s LIONS TOUR UnforgeCable- in every way, as someone once sang. Trademark headband to the fore. MERV DAVIES MUD, MUD, GLORIOUS MUD Who is the player being held and what was his usual posi/on? CLIFF MORGAN. STAND OFF. WHICH ONE? Which of the Quinnell family played for Wales at both Rugby Union and Rugby League? SCOTT QUINNELL. Recognise the scrum half? The old dive pass. DICKIE JEEPS 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? ENGLAND. ROB HOWLEY. GUEST SPEAKER Who is the winger giving the hand-off? He played in 10 Lions Test matches and 30 Barbarian games. TONY O’REILLY ONE FROM THE ARCHIVES Who is this on the right at an E.R.O.S. lunch with Howard HasleC? FERGUS SLATTERY 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. PETER JACKSON. COVENTRY. THE WAY WE WERE Who is he and at which English club was he Director of Rugby? ALASTAIR McHARG.READING. 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? WALES Which ScoGsh District side did he play for? GERRY McGUINNESS. THE SOUTH ENGLAND 2. Which Irishman scored 18 points in the first Lions Test against South 1. Who were England playing in the first ever Africa in 1980? TONY WARD floodlight game at Twickenham in November 1995? SOUTH AFRICA 3. Which centre was chosen for five Lions tours? MIKE GIBSON 2. Nine players from the same side turned out for England against Canada in August 4. Who is Ireland’s most-capped full- 1999. Which side? LEICESTER back? TOM KIERNAN 3. Who captained England on most 5. Where do Garryowen R.F.C. come occasions- Will Carling, Bill Beaumont, or from? LIMERICK Mar/n Johnson? WILL CARLING SCOTLAND 4. Which England player scored a try, a 1. A Scotland back row played together on conversion, a penalty, and a drop goal in 17 occasions un/l their re/rement in the same game on two separate 1991. Who were they? JOHN JEFFREY, occasions? JONNY WILKINSON FINLAY CALDER, and DEREK WHITE 5. What was bought for £5,572.12.6. in 2. Who beat Scotland 30-18 in a 1999 World 1907? TWICKENHAM SITE. Cup quarter-final /e? NEW ZEALAND WALES 3. Which Rugby League team did Alan Tait 1. What happened for the first /me in the play for when he first changed codes? 1905 match against New Zealand aVer the WIDNES tradi/onal Haka? SINGING OF THE WELSH 4. Which Leicester player became the NATIONAL ANTHEM BY PLAYERS- AND 1,000th player to represent Scotland when CROWD he played against England in 2007? JIM 2. The bookies had Wales as 50/1 outsiders HAMILTON and allegedly lost £1m when Wales won 5. Which ScoGsh Interna/onalist has played which Grand Slam this century? 2005. for Natal Sharks? GREGOR TOWNSEND 3. Which Bridgend and London Welsh player FRANCE played in 24 winning Welsh sides at Cardiff Arms Park out of his 29 1. In which year did France join the Five appearances? J.P.R. WILLIAMS Na/ons Tournament- 1910, 1920 or 1930? 1910 4. Which former winger was the Wales coach from 1982 to 1985? JOHN BEVAN 2. In 2007, France won the championship on points difference. Who did they pip to the 5. Who won more caps- Richard or Paul /tle? IRELAND Moriarty? RICHARD 22 PAUL 21 3. Who was the French coach during their great run in the 1980s? JACQUES IRELAND FOUROUX 1. Why was the Ireland v New Zealand 4. “A Modern Corinthian” was the /tle of match in December 1967 never the autobiography of which French wing played? FOOT AND MOUTH forward? JEAN-PIERRE RIVES OUTBREAK 5. Who did France beat to claim the third -place spot in the 1995 Rugby World Cup? ENGLAND ITALY 4. 81,018 watched Italy lose 20-6 to which team in November 2009? NEW ZEALAND 1. What is the nickname of the Italian team? THE AZZURI 5. In which Italian city was that game staged? MILAN 2. When did Italy first play in the Six Na/ons tournament? 2000 3. Who did Italy play in their first match in the Stadio Olimpico in 2012? ENGLAND .