REWARDING TIMES

It has been some season for George Horne. Regardless of what happens between Glasgow Warriors and the Scarlets in Friday’s PRO14 play-off semi-final showdown at Scotstoun, the 23-year-old can look back on the last nine months with a huge degree of satisfaction and pride, having grabbed his opportunity to jump from third to first in the scrum-half pecking order at his club with both hands and elbowing his way into contention for a first full Scotland cap in the Americas this summer.

Horne signed his first full professional contract last summer, having lived a fairly peripatetic rugby existence during the previous two years as a level three player in the Scottish Rugby academy set-up, turning out at various times for the Scotland Sevens team on the World Rugby Sevens Series, for London Scottish in the English second-tier Championship and for Glasgow Hawks in the BT Premiership. He did, during that time, manage three appearances off the bench for the Warriors, but with Ali Price and Henry Pyrgos both well established and very much in their prime, it wasn’t a huge surprise when he found himself back turning out for Hawks in the opening weeks of the current campaign.

His big break came during the November Test window when both Price and Pyrgos were required by Scotland. Horne started three games on the bounce against the Southern Kings, Leinster and the Ospreys and scored five tries.

0 George Horne made his breakthrough at Glasgow during the November Test window.

“It was a massive honour to be voted player of the year. I’m just looking forward to the next couple of weeks”

GEORGE HORNE

He has now bagged ten tries from 16 appearances in all competitions so far this season, been called up to the full national training squad during the Six Nations, represented Scotland at the Commonwealth