http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugbyScottish Rugby News | Herald ScotlandenCopyright 2012 Herald & Times Group all rights reservedSat, 26 May 2012 15:40:02 PDTCopyright 2012 Herald & Times Group all rights reservednoScottish Rugby News | Herald Scotlandhttp://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/familiar-foe-stands-between-leinster-and-historic-double.17702150http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/familiar-foe-stands-between-leinster-and-historic-double.17702150Leinster, a team so long defined by failure, are odds-on favourites to beat Ospreys in the RaboDirect PRO12 Grand Final at their Royal Dublin Showground home tomorrow, a result that would clinch an unprecedented Celtic/European double and cement their reputation as the greatest club side of the modern era.http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/robinson-refuses-to-make-cap-promises-to-his-touring-28-x.17692579http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/robinson-refuses-to-make-cap-promises-to-his-touring-28-x.17692579Andy Robinson has made it clear caps cannot be guaranteed for all 28 players in the Scotland squad that set off last night on their three-Test tour of Australia and the South Pacific.http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/australia-v-scotland-match-is-a-favour-not-a-money-spinner.17678621http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/australia-v-scotland-match-is-a-favour-not-a-money-spinner.17678621AUSTRALIAN rugby's chief executive last night denied his officials had squeezed in the one-off Test match with Scotland purely as an emergency money-maker.http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/falcons-to-keep-flying-high-after-rfu-ruling.17682808http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/falcons-to-keep-flying-high-after-rfu-ruling.17682808Newcastle Falcons appear to have again dodged the relegation bullet after the Rugby Football Union's board of directors decreed that London Welsh, the only side still in the frame for promotion from the English Championship – the tier below the Aviva Premiership – had failed to meet the strict criteria that would allow them to move up to the top flight.http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/peebles-find-wright-man-for-the-job.17671189http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/peebles-find-wright-man-for-the-job.17671189Peter Wright, the former Glasgow Hawks head coach, has joined Peebles as head coach for season 2012/13.http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/injury-leads-leamy-to-call-it-a-day.17671223http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/injury-leads-leamy-to-call-it-a-day.17671223Denis Leamy has become the third Munster player this season to announce an early retirement due to injury.http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/games-boosting-series-ends-on-high-for-gha.17671242http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/games-boosting-series-ends-on-high-for-gha.17671242GHA will go into their own Braidholm Sevens on Saturday on a high after beating a number of high-quality teams to win the NCS Glasgow City Sevens to conclude the Legacy Sevens Series.http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/edinburghs-foreign-legion.17671594http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/edinburghs-foreign-legion.17671594It's not that long since media announcements from Edinburgh Rugby trumpeted the fact that all but one of the club's players – around 35 or so – were eligible to play for Scotland.http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/leinster-must-break-hoodoo-if-they-are-to-take-elusive-title.17660597http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/leinster-must-break-hoodoo-if-they-are-to-take-elusive-title.17660597They may be undisputed kings of the Continent but Leinster's Heineken Cup heroes have already switched focus for one last big challenge in seeking to achieve what has so far proved beyond them by winning European rugby's second biggest match.http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/wales-update.17660440http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/wales-update.17660440Rob Howley, the Wales caretaker head coach, remains hopeful Warren Gatland will be able to join the squad at some stage of their three-Test tour of Australia.http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/championship-update.17660449http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/championship-update.17660449There will be a new look to next season's RFU Championship after a change of structure was agreed between the Rugby Football Union and the Championship Clubs Committee.http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/three-new-faces-in-ireland-tour-squad-squad.17660586http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/three-new-faces-in-ireland-tour-squad-squad.17660586Declan Kidney, the Ireland head coach, has named three uncapped players in his 29-man squad for the three-Test summer tour to New Zealand.http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/cooney-a-prime-target-for-scotlands-new-super-scout.17660591http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/cooney-a-prime-target-for-scotlands-new-super-scout.17660591UNLIKELY Heineken Cup hero John Cooney could be one of the first targets for Sean Lineen, Scotland's new "super scout" after his controversial sacking as Glasgow Warriors coach.http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/jed-sevens-update.17652739http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/jed-sevens-update.17652739Heriot's gave a glimpse of what they might have achieved had they opted for greater participation in the Kings of the Sevens competition, after winning the final round at Jed-Forest with an emphatic victory over Melrose.http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/leinster-put-full-stop-on-greatest-debate.17652773http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/leinster-put-full-stop-on-greatest-debate.17652773Ask anyone to list the modern greats of Irish rugby, and the roll-call will rarely get much further than Brian O'Driscoll, Paul O'Connell, Donncha O'Callaghan and Ronan O'Gara.http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/hogg-in-gloucester-frame.17653019http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/hogg-in-gloucester-frame.17653019Carl Hogg, the former Scotland internationalist, is being tageted by Edinburgh, if he fails to become head coach at Gloucester.http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/west-is-best-for-warrior.17634519http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/west-is-best-for-warrior.17634519Ryan Grant reckons the world is too big to stay in one place for too long.http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/leinster-42-ulster-14-immortals-of-ireland.17641114http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/leinster-42-ulster-14-immortals-of-ireland.17641114The door to the rugby Pantheon was always going to swing open if Leinster could secure a third Heineken Cup win in four seasons, but they hurried the process along by kicking the thing off its hinges with this emphatic victory at Twickenham.http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/scotland-pair-win-deals-in-england.17637237http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/scotland-pair-win-deals-in-england.17637237Newcastle Falcons have signed Rory Lawson, the Scotland scrum-half, on a two-year deal, while his international team-mate, Phil Godman, has left Edinburgh and will play for London Scottish next season.http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/jed-sevens-jed-hoping-to-end-on-a-high.17637245http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/jed-sevens-jed-hoping-to-end-on-a-high.17637245What has seemed to be a protracted Borders Sevens Circuit – it started on the first Saturday in April at Gala –concludes at Riverside today when Jed-Forest stage their 111th event, the 10th and final round of the Kings of the Sevens title race.http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/the-great-and-the-good.17637378http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/the-great-and-the-good.17637378Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some put the matter beyond all doubt whatsoever by winning three Heineken Cup finals in the space of four years.http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/warrior-jackson-on-board-with-everything-to-play-for.17626535http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/warrior-jackson-on-board-with-everything-to-play-for.17626535Ruairidh Jackson, who earlier in the week was left out of Scotland's summer tour party, will be part of the Glasgow Warriors squad taking part in the NCS Glasgow City Sevens at Dumbreck tomorrow.http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/robinson-goes-west-for-forward-thinkers.17626553http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/robinson-goes-west-for-forward-thinkers.17626553It's nice to be nice, but Heineken Cup officials were surely over-egging the pudding earlier this week when they revealed a team of the tournament in which no less than four of the eight forwards were drawn from Edinburgh.http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/brown-breaks-through-as-new-guard-take-hold.1337612801http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/brown-breaks-through-as-new-guard-take-hold.1337612801Tom Brown's rugby career has been in fast-forward mode for the past couple of months, and the young Edinburgh full-back has no intention of easing off as he prepares to take his place in the Scotland squad for next month's three-Test tour to Australia, Fiji and Samoa.http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/strokosch-vital-to-coachs-perpignan-plan.17626596http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/strokosch-vital-to-coachs-perpignan-plan.17626596Marc Delpoux, the incoming Perpignan head coach, believes the arrival of Alasdair Strokosch, the Scotland flanker, can be a significant factor in delivering an upturn in fortunes for the Catalan side, who have just finished the season in 11th spot in the French Top 14.http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/robinson-names-five-newcomers-in-scotland-squad-for-tour-to-australia-and-pacific-islands.17618691http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/robinson-names-five-newcomers-in-scotland-squad-for-tour-to-australia-and-pacific-islands.17618691It is probably best not to speculate on the reasons behind Tim Visser's choice of Amsterdam as the venue for his recent stag weekend, but Scottish rugby supporters can be assured that the Dutch-born winger has no hankering for the canals and the tulip fields as far as his sporting affections are concerned.http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/italy-lock-del-fava-joins-macleod-at-newcastle.17618795http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/italy-lock-del-fava-joins-macleod-at-newcastle.17618795Newcastle have announced the signing of the Italy lock Carlo Del Fava.http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/shingler-tied-to-wales-and-thats-final-say-irb.17618804http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/shingler-tied-to-wales-and-thats-final-say-irb.17618804Steven Shingler was yesterday coming to terms with that fact that his prospects of representing the land of his mother's birth had become even more remote after the sport's global governing body upheld their ruling that the 20-year-old fly-half/centre is eligible only for Wales.http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/chance-to-impress.17605195http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/chance-to-impress.17605195Johnnie Beattie has been named in the Barbarians' 33-man squad for the forthcoming fixtures against England, Ireland and Wales.http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/visser-books-ticket-for-trip-down-under.17605560http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/visser-books-ticket-for-trip-down-under.17605560The venture as a whole may have been diminished by a host of injury call-offs and the cancellation of one game, but Scotland's summer tour to Australia and the South Pacific is still an exciting prospect for those who relish the thought of seeing Tim Visser on the international stage.nonadult