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Injured Nick de Luca ruled out of Calcutta Cup match



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SCOTLAND centre Nick De Luca has been ruled out of Saturday's RBS 6 Nations clash with England at Murrayfield.
De Luca sprained his right ankle during Edinburgh's Magners League draw with Newport Gwent Dragons at Rodney Parade at the weekend.

Scotland doctor James Robson said: "The injury is not as bad as first feared but Nick is unavailable for selection for this weekend and will continue his rehabilitation under the care of the Edinburgh medical staff."

Lock forwards Nathan Hines and Scott MacLeod were also unable to train today with knee and shoulder injuries respectively.

Dr Robson added: "Nathan is not taking any part in training today but he should be able to return tomorrow.

"Scott is still receiving treatment from the injury he sustained against Ireland and further discussions will take place tonight and tomorrow to determine whether he is available for selection."

Two locks were added to the squad for training today – Scotland's most capped player, Scott Murray, and Edinburgh's Craig Hamilton.

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  • Last Updated: 04 March 2008 10:55 AM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Six Nations , Video Archive
 
1

AJ Fife,

03/03/2008 14:40:48
Lucky Luca - at least he's gonna be spared the disgrace of being part of the worst Scottish team ever to take on England and getting a record hammering!
2

Leon MacRackpipe, catering and medical manager,

03/03/2008 15:32:47
Poor DL - bad 1st season at this level. I'm sure he'll come good, and hope he doesn't take it too hard. I don't think all the problems have been his though, I think he's been badly managed.

Cairns to get his 1st cap off the bench?
3

snudge,

03/03/2008 15:38:51
Not being too harsh but De Luca’s misfortune is our good luck. Thank god he is not getting another chance to muck up and add to Scotland’s misery. He’s done nothing and is clearly not ready for the step up. Yeah for Edinburgh he apparently out played Jauzian, Mauger and O’Driscoll but frankly he’s not at the international level – although very few Scotland players actually are.
4

Head to toe in freebie SRU gear, at the trough,

A BUFTIE IN MUFTI, on a gravy train 03/03/2008 16:06:06
Match hospitality for all of us "workers" should be good, though!
5

Leon MacRackpipe, catering and medical manager,

03/03/2008 16:08:51
#3 and what level do Youzion, Mauger and O'Driscoll play at then?

You chuck a player in, and in 3 games he gets 4 crap passes, and he drops them or throws the ball away.

You then drop him "to help his confidence"!

That's what I call management! Let's face it, Haddock has his favourites, and DL just isn't one - Haddock has even said so in plain English.

On Saturday we'll be taking the pitch with Webbo, a half decent attacking wing, in the centre. It's not great.
6

Leon MacRackpipe, catering and medical manager,

03/03/2008 16:10:31
#4 aye number 4, and the pre-match ents...you wait....
7

Dan Dare & the Mekon (we're frae ooter space, ken),

Ooter space 03/03/2008 16:45:04
We are not alone here in ooter space, that's for sure!

BUT - what is that gigantic flying object looking for all the world like a massive copy of a weightless, overfed bald, fat SRU-blazered rotund egg-shaped committee man reciting the words of an old Nolan Sisters song, carrying a toy "El Invisible, Wacko-Jacko" uselessly silent little Jack-in-the-Box device, making its meandering wind, wine, wet farts & gin & tonic-powered way north up the British Isles, apparently piloted by a dark demonic version of Biggles, with a cutely squashed nose, flaring nostrils and remarkable sibillant-effecting gap between his front teeth?

Can any other observers based on earth make more sense of this out-of-control SRU drifting danger than we can? Is this an advertising or promotional PR stunt? What under-threat event would stoop to pull a gimmick like this out of the ...'er.... trough of plenty...? No, I thought not - well, you bloody well choose if you are so clever with original words!

We need to know. Really. Soonest. NOW!!!! Come in dark Biggles, your time is almost up.
8

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03/03/2008 17:01:18
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9

Dan Dare & the Mekon (we're frae ooter space, ken),

Ooter space, hovering above Murrayfield wetlands 03/03/2008 17:09:59
#8 - affirmative. A frightening sight!

We can confirm irregular emissions spurting apparently uncontrollably, seemingly in all directions from the nether regions of the gigantic furiously floating freaky feral fun-palace.
10

Dan Dare & the Mekon (we're frae ooter space, ken),

Ooter space, moving around (rolling stone) 03/03/2008 17:19:22
MORE!!!

It looks to be rubbing its engorged & horribly distended dribbling private parts with one of its huge hands - all the while muttering a mantra which sounds like "pre and post-match hospitality, pre and post-match hospitality / several free nights in a 5-star hotel / gottle a geer, gottle a geer, I'm not queir, but I'll tell you who is, Madame Gertie Law / several free nights & bumper feeds / polish my head, polish my dome / Irvine rugby / Semple Cochrane did go bust, if you must / last chance saloon / drinking den / shagging ra burdz and wives of my pals / behind their backs / awful rugby hacks / SRU bufties into the buffers / flickering, searching tongues akimbo / noses brown / on the town.
11

Brigadier Mungo "Spliffer" McSporran Bufton-Tufton,

In a huge Mess, suffering from asthma 03/03/2008 17:33:18
BAH!!!

Pour out a few stiff pink 'uns and bring on the dancing girls, I say....

Always used to work a treat in Poona, in thec old days.

BAH!!!
12

THE GREAT BIG "FLYING BUFTIE IN MUFTI" BALLOON,

UK airspace, Mr Eubank wrestling with the controls 03/03/2008 17:55:52
It's nice up here.

Anyone seen :- www.savescottishrugby.com ????

check out "Directors Emoluments"
13

AJ Fife,

03/03/2008 19:46:25
Will Scotland play a second 15, to save the 'A' Team for a match they might win?

Isn't that the normal management ploy?
14

MT,

03/03/2008 19:50:23
The sooner Andy Robinson takes over from Hadden, the better.
15

Bladerunner,

Still on an overlong lunchtime sesh! 03/03/2008 20:16:26
Lord McKie gets 240K per annum for what exactly ?

Its nearly over chaps!!!
16

Rhodri Map Gruffud ap-Sexpest,

03/03/2008 20:27:45
Oh well...looks like my "flashy" talents may not be required pre-match. Latest sightings confirm the blimp is exposing its outrageous, gross "emoluent" wilfully. The sight of that has made me feel inexplicably inadequate, and somewhat shy, and no wonder given its size.

Incidentally, my movie buff friend has reminded me the Marsh mallow monster in the Ghostbusters was called the "Stay-puffed marshmallow man".

"Stay buft" perhaps? Laying waste to all on its way to the malt whisky cabinet?

When you've got 240K I suppose you need something to spend/ waste it on......

Question - is the SRU and all its constituent clubs being raped in the backside here?
17

Rhodri Map Gruffud ap-Sexpest,

03/03/2008 20:31:42
Any chance JEEP might contemplate hijacking the bufti in mufti and steering it into something at high speed?

I mean, Eubank - he's a tough little guy, but he never refuses a request for an autograph.....

Perhaps an update on progress required?
18

Rhodri Map Gruffud ap-Sexpest,

03/03/2008 20:34:53
Sorry - "Emolument" sic...
19

David Blaine, Mystery magical illusionist,

03/03/2008 20:46:50
I don't say much, but even I would struggle to turn this into a good illusion.

Maybe I could lodge myself in the end of the "flying Bufti in Mufti's" engorged emolument for 3 months without food or drink.

Yeah - a gigantic flying mufti bufti, piloted by an autograph signing Chrith Eubank with David Blaine intractably deposited in its meatus, nosediving towards Muddydefiled HQ with a laughing JEEP at the controls.

That's entertainment........
20

Hobbit5,

03/03/2008 23:40:39
What a crappy video. Badly produced, can't hear the questions and some girl asking them who knows nothing about rugby or presentation. Shoddy and amateurish. Leave the videos to Scottish Rugby TV who know what they're doing
21

Red Dykes,

Highland 03/03/2008 23:41:50
I see the under 18's beat an England "A" xv - Are we reduced to this ?The future is as dire as the present -Where are the A team playing, and is there any tickets left? Or do corporate get all them too?

 

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