| SCOTS IN LONDON - London Scottish Rugby FC - About |
| Written by London Scottish Football Club | |
| Thursday, 01 May 2008 | |
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London Scottish Rugby Football Club - the Origins: The original amateur club rejoined the leagues at the bottom of the pyramid in 2000. We have progressed from Herts/Middlesex 1 through London 4NW, London 3NW, London 2Nand into National League 3.  The London Scottish Rugby Football Club was formed at a general meeting in MacKay's Tavern, 3 Water Lane, Ludgate Hill, London on WednesdayApril 10th 1878.
The club styled itself FC, though strictly all purelyrugby clubs formed after 1864 should be RFCs. The club played its first matches in the 1878-79 season - 15 in all against mainly local sides of whom only Wasps still exists.
And on to great things...
From this beginning the club has gone on to great things; it hasproduced more international players for Scotland and more Scotlandand Lions captains than any other club. The club formed a professional side in 1995, won promotion and for a brief season enjoyed premiership rugby before the professional club was disbanded in 1999 for financial reasons when the Premiership was reduced from 14 to 12 teams Nominally the club merged with Richmond and London Irish, but in practice the old "amateur" club had never died and it is this club which is striving to regain its status in the national leagues. London Scottish Rugby Club is a member of both the Rugby Football Union and the Scottish Rugby Union. Theclub shares the ground in Richmond with Richmond FC - havingdone so since 1894.
The Kit
The London Scottish teams play in a blue jersey with a red lionbadge, white shorts and red socks. (As a concession to the parents who have to wash them, our minis have navy shorts, not white!).
The Teams
The club runs six senior amateur teams:
> 1st XV, who play in the London Division 1 (following promotion four years running)
The Coaches
Headcoach: Terry O'Connor
Junior Rugby
We also run minis, youth and colts at every age group. Various sides have won Middlesex or Surrey Leagues or both is recent years. Our minis start art age 5 or so. Inaddition we have a new development academyfeaturing Under 21 and Under 19 sides. In the past three years the Under 19 Colts were plate finalists in the National Colts Cup, Quarter Finalists in the main Cup and twice Middlesex Cup winners.
London Scottish Academy
In 2005 we launched a community sports programme and wit the help of London Active Partnership we have funded coaches to go into schools on a regular schedule. In addition to this work which we hope will enable us to unearth local talent, we launched a club academy in the autumn of 2006. With funding from the Scottish Rugby Union and the Friends of Scottish Rugby, a key task will be to identify players aged 14 up who have the potential to play professional and international rugby, and placing them on a tailored development pathway. We will work closely with the SRU and the national age group selectors and the pathway coaches as well using guest coaches to deliver specific training and development.
You don't have to be a Scot...
The club is open to players of Scottish descent although in realitywe will welcome anyone with an interest in Rugby Union, and all oursides are mix of Scots, people with southern hemisphere accents andScottish grannies, people who love Scotland, not a few Englishmenand the odd Irishman ... and people who just want to play good rugbyand have fun!
Training
Training for senior sides takes place at Richmond Athletic Ground on Monday and Wednesday nights from 7 30pm. Development, Colts and Youth sides on Wednesdays at 7pm. Contact us > Nick Evans , General Manager on 0208 940 8289.
Further Information
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