The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish Rugby
Aug 31, 2026 · 29 min · 11 segments
Hello Offside Liners and welcome to season 3! Barney and Burnsy get back on the horse after a restful summer and are fired up and ready to go. This week they discuss the first round of the Arnold…
We have a hell of a season ahead in domestic rugby, the URC, the Celtic Challenge, European Cups, Nations Championship, WXV, the Six Nations, and it all finishes at the 2027 Rugby World Cup.
Yeah, I think maybe it must have been early morning, early morning, early season enthusiasm because I usually send a message out to all our various reporters and then I pick up the game that nobody else you know, opts for.
And by, like I said, it may be out nine o'clock on Monday morning, by half past nine, all the games were taken.
Yeah, so I actually went along and watched the Trinity Ackies versus Leith game that kicked off at two just along the road from Golden Acre, watched that game.
It was a win for Trinity, which was excellent because I am an ex-Trinity schoolboy.
So, as you know, the offside line is totally neutral and you just wanted to watch, but I was quite pleased because, I mean, Trinity, when I was growing up, I'm sure the story was that Leith had never beaten Trinity or something like that.
We have a hell of a season ahead in domestic rugby, the URC, the Celtic Challenge, European Cups, Nations Championship, WXV, the Six Nations, and it all finishes at the 2027 Rugby World Cup.
Yeah, I think maybe it must have been early morning, early morning, early season enthusiasm because I usually send a message out to all our various reporters and then I pick up the game that nobody else you know, opts for.
And by, like I said, it may be out nine o'clock on Monday morning, by half past nine, all the games were taken.
Yeah, so I actually went along and watched the Trinity Ackies versus Leith game that kicked off at two just along the road from Golden Acre, watched that game.
It was a win for Trinity, which was excellent because I am an ex-Trinity schoolboy.
So, as you know, the offside line is totally neutral and you just wanted to watch, but I was quite pleased because, I mean, Trinity, when I was growing up, I'm sure the story was that Leith had never beaten Trinity or something like that.
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