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Should rugby be played in the summer?

  • John Beattie
  • 25 Jan 07, 10:38 AM

John BeattieGlasgow - I got into the trusty Saab today on a bright, crisp morning and thought: “What a flaming lovely day. It feels good to be alive.”

This was just before I started chittering and grabbed a cd cover to scrape the ice off the front windscreen. Inside the car the temperature gauge registered -3 degrees. Minus three! Is this really rugby-playing weather?

Now, I write this because I coach West of Scotland rugby team up here North of Hadrian’s Wall, and we shall be training tonight on a surface that will, at best, be described as “crispy”.

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