Heriot's Rugby Club

Heriot's
UnionSRU
Founded1890; 134 years ago (1890)
LocationEdinburgh, Scotland
Ground(s)Goldenacre Sports Ground (Capacity: 3,000+[1])
PresidentGav Stevenson
Coach(es)Phil Smith
League(s) Men:  Super 6
 Women:  Scottish Womens Premiership
2021–22 Men:  Super 6, 5th of 6 (6th in Playoff)
 Women:  Scottish Womens Premiership, 5th of 6
Team kit
Official website
heriotsrugbyclub.co.uk

Heriot's Rugby Club, formerly known as Heriot's FP, is one of Scotland's senior rugby football clubs in the Scottish Rugby Union, whose part-timeprofessional team, Heriot's Rugby play in FOSROC Super 6 with the Men's 1st XV playing in the Men's Scottish Premiership. The women play in Scottish Womens Premiership.

The club's home is in the Goldenacre area in Edinburgh.[2] The rugby club, founded in 1890, was originally intended for former pupils of George Heriot's School, but is now an open club, welcoming rugby players of all levels.[2]

Player development starts with a highly successful Mini/Midi Section and moves onto the senior levels. The club has coaching staff that are very well respected in Scottish rugby. Heriot's Rugby club are the only Scottish club never to have been relegated from the first division.

The team had the surprising honour of having a player, Chris Fusaro, called for Scotland A for the IRB Nations Cup, in 2010. He was the only amateur player called and it was announced that he was joining Glasgow Warriors.[3]

Current men's squad

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Heriot's Rugby Super Series squad

Props

  • Scotland Struan Cessford
  • Scotland Chris Keen
  • Scotland Euan McLaren
  • Scotland Josh Scott
  • Scotland Cairn Ramsay


Hookers

  • Scotland Cammy Fenton
  • Scotland Michael Liness
  • Scotland Duncan Hood

Locks

  • Scotland Jamie Campbell
  • Poland Ronan Seydak

Back row

  • Scotland Ben Smith
  • Scotland Ruairidh Leishman
  • Scotland Charlie Jupp
  • Scotland Wallace Nelson
  • Scotland Callum Anderson
  • Scotland Iain Wilson (c)

Scrum halves

  • Scotland Euan McAra
  • Scotland Fin Campbell
  • Scotland Sinjin Broad
  • Scotland Andrew Simmers

Fly halves

Centres

  • Scotland Grant Hughes
  • Scotland Matt Davidson


Wings

Fullbacks

  • Scotland Dan King
  • Scotland Liam Richman
(c) denotes the team captain, Bold denotes internationally capped players.
* denotes players qualified to play for Scotland on residency or dual nationality.

Edinburgh Rugby drafted players:

Former Heriot's Players, signed for professional teams from Heriot's:

  • Scotland Cam Jones - Ospreys
  • Scotland Cameron Hutchison - Edinburgh Rugby
  • Scotland Elliot Young - Exeter Chiefs
  • Scotland Sophie Langford - Exeter Chiefs

Table

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2023–24 Super Series Table view · watch · edit · discuss
Team P W D L PF PA PD TBP LBP PTS
1 Heriot's Rugby 12 10 1 1 478 238 +240 10 0 52
2 Ayrshire Bulls (RU) 12 9 0 3 372 211 +151 8 0 47
3 Watsonians 12 9 0 3 265 231 +34 2 0 40
4 Stirling Wolves (CH) 12 6 0 6 422 286 +136 3 2 33
5 Southern Knights 12 4 1 7 282 369 -87 2 1 27
6 Boroughmuir Bears 12 3 0 9 252 389 -137 1 0 17
7 Future XV 12 0 0 12 206 543 -337 0 3 3

Yellow background indicates qualification for the final.
Green background indicates semi-finalists.

(CH) Champions. (RU) Runners-up.

Sevens tournament

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The club ran an Under 20s Sevens tournament. The teams played for the Goldenacre Cup.[4]

Notable players

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Honours

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Men

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Women

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  • Edinburgh City Sevens[8]
    • Champions (1): 2023

References

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  1. ^ "Rugby Union | Edinburgh News". www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Bath, p89
  3. ^ "Fusaro handed Scotland A chance". 18 May 2010 – via news.bbc.co.uk.
  4. ^ a b "Heriots Sevens". 26 August 2022.
  5. ^ a b Jones, p44
  6. ^ "Edinburgh Northern Sevens". 7 June 2019.
  7. ^ "Register". Retrieved 17 March 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  8. ^ Winners Women's Open
Sources
  1. Bath, Richard (ed.) The Complete Book of Rugby (Seven Oaks Ltd, 1997 ISBN 1-86200-013-1)
  2. Godwin, Terry Complete Who's Who of International Rugby (Cassell, 1987, ISBN 0-7137-1838-2)
  3. Jones, J.R. Encyclopedia of Rugby Union Football (Robert Hale, London, 1976 ISBN 0-7091-5394-5)
  4. Massie, Allan A Portrait of Scottish Rugby (Polygon, Edinburgh; ISBN 0-904919-84-6)
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