Scottish Rugby make key female appointments

will be part, in 2019-20. “It’s a bit like Brexit, we just don’t know how things are going to go until it happens. There seems to be more questions than answers at the moment,” he said.

“Clearly there will be concerns from the clubs below the Super 6 that they will effectively be feeder clubs and players with the ambition to play at a higher level will move. But that has always happened. I stayed with my club Royal High for as long as I felt I could before I took the opportunity to move down to Selkirk.

“That allowed me to gain from the wisdom of John Rutherford and was a vital step in my career. I just got my petrol money, and that was good enough for me.” l Doddie’5 24hr Spinathon takes place on 7-8 July, 10am start, in aid of the My Name’5 Doddie foundation. To register: Email doddiespinathon@ gmail.com for a spinning time slot. Commit to raising £100 for every hour you intend to spin. Make your donations to www. justgiving.com/fundraising/ iwan-tukalo Scottish Rugby has announced a raft of new coaching appointments for its revamped female age-grade system.

The recently announced Scottish Futures Women’s Programmes will introduce new training and playingopportunitiesfrom August of this year and are aimed at developing talented female age-grade players with the potential to play for Scotland Women in the future.

Former Scotland Women assistant Chris Reid takes charge of the Scottish Futures U20 team and Dumfries Saints coach Rudi Urbach will lead the U18 programme.

The U20 programme will be led by former Hillhead Jordanhill women’s head coach, Thomas Davidson, and former head coach of Perth Rugby, Rory Mckay.

Current Edinburgh University women’s coach, Gordon Lyon, Edinburgh University women’s 2nd XV head coach and former Scotland Women internationalist, Louise Dalgliesh, will join the U18 programme as assistant coaches.