SEASON CHANGE   Time for a move to better-weather rugby                       THE WIND blows and the snow snows and once again, Scottish club rugby is facing a mountain of cancelled fixtures and a season extending into late April or May, well beyond the mid-March target date set by the clubs last year.   Since the advent of seasonal bad weather before Christmas, 246 games have been played with 309 cancelled. This winter may have been the harshest on record for 30 years, but all recent seasons have had that in common - they extended into April and May for weather-related              Read more...

Bill McLaren - A personal view Looking forward with nostalgia With the Ospreys in murky water over doing an England and not replacing Sonny Parker in their cup match v Leicester, Matthew Tait explaining that he is a glorified number 7 in the Times and Kelly Brown signing papers with a club that gives away £250k at half time, it’s struck me again just how different life was prior to the game going open in 1995. We didn’t have subs and blood replacements, we had skinny blokes at 13, players didn’t make the headlines for signing for another club and people spent apenny at half time, not become quarter millionaires.  And then it really struck me, of course, as it did everyone in the rugby world, when Bill McLaren departed the scene.   Read more...   Mission     Welcome to FOSRS The Scottish Rugby Union is a professional organisation.  It is dependent on the paying supporter for a significant source of its income.  Without that financial participation, the SRU will not be able to satisfy the professional needs of the sport in Scotland and will not achieve what it exists for – the success of the national team. FOSRS, as a body representing the views of supporters of all levels of Scottish rugby, aims to ensure that its opinions on the direction in which the SRU is headed, and the way it is going there, are received and acted upon by the SRU.  Read more...

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