The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish Rugby

Hello Offside Liners and welcome to this week’s show. Barney and Burnsy review their exclusive interview with Sean Everitt from last week before diving into the latest action in the URC, the Women’s Six Nations and the Kings of the Sevens.

As mentioned in the show, tickets for the Edinburgh leg of the Kings of the Sevens are on sale now. The tournament is being held in conjunction with the NeighbourGood Market so it’s going to be a fantastic event with amazing food and drinks and live music. 

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Hello Offside Liners and welcome to this week’s show. Barney and Burnsy sit down for an exclusive chat with Edinburgh head coach Sean Everitt. This is an episode you do not want to miss. 

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Hello Offside Liners and welcome to this week’s show. Barney and Burnsy take a look back at all the action from Silver Saturday, the Kings of the 7s, the URC and the Women’s Six Nations, plus they take a surprise deep dive into university rugby.

As mentioned, tickets for the Edinburgh leg of the Kings of the Sevens are on sale now. The tournament is being held in conjunction with the NeighbourGood Market so it’s going to be a fantastic event with amazing food and drinks and live music. 

There are two...

Hello Offside Liners and welcome to this week’s show. Barney and Burnsy clutch at some straws to dredge some positives from the weekend (well done, Edinburgh – both on and off the field) but then they have to delve into the disappointing performances from Scotland Women in the Six Nations and Glasgow in the URC. Still, there are lots of laughs along the way . . .

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Hello Offside Liners and welcome to this week’s show. Burnsy has to drag himself off the floor to dive into Glasgow’s no-show against Toulon in the Champions Cup quarter-final, but in happier sections of the show, he and Barney examine Scotland’s victory over Wales in the Women’s Six Nations, saunter through the Scottish Cup semi-finals and look at Edinburgh's new back-room appointment.

Come and see us live! We’re at the Greenyards in Melrose on Friday night (17 April) with special guests Scott Wright, James Flemming and Lisa Thompson.

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Hello Offside Liners and welcome to this week’s show. Barney and Burnsy dive into the last 16 round of the Champions Cup as Glasgow triumph over the Bulls and Edinburgh make a show of it in Dublin against Leinster – but are still left asking: what now for the capital team? They also cast an eye over the men and women’s Six Nations U18 festivals, and preview the opening round of the Women’s Six Nations, the Scottish Cup semi-finals and Glasgow’s quarter-final against Toulon.

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Hello Offside Liners and welcome to this week’s show. Barney and Burnsy dive into the quarter-finals of the Scottish Cup, pick over the latest Edinburgh surrender before cheering themselves with Glasgow’s latest triumph, then they preview the last-16 of Europe games coming this weekend and discuss Mike Blair’s appointment as All Blacks’ assistant coach.

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Hello Offside Liners and welcome to this week’s show. Barney and Burnsy dive into Glasgow’s glorious demolition of Leinster and Edinburgh's timid dismantling by the Lions, discuss the Arnold Clark Men’s Premiership final, Edinburgh Accies promotion triumph and a secret Scotland fixture.

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Hello Offside Liners and welcome to this week’s show. Barney and Burnsy pick over the wreckage of Scotland’s Triple Crown hopes in Dublin and review the tournament as a whole (much more positively than this sentence suggests!).

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Wow, wow, wow . . . what just happened at Murrayfield and in Rome this weekend? Barney and Burnsy dive deep into it all on this week’s show.

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The teams are out for Saturday’s top of the table clash in the Six Nations between Scotland and France and Barney gives us his immediate feedback after the Scotland press conference (apologies for the sound quality in this part of the show!).

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After a rollercoaster of a game in Cardiff, Scotland’s Championship and Triple Crown hopes are still alive. In the words of Dafydd Ivaan, 'Ye-ama o Heed' – we are still here.

Barney and Burnsy deep dive into the match, the Under 20s, domestic rugby, the other Six Nations action from the weekend and preview this weekend’s fixtures.

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Hello and welcome to the Offside Line Pod. After a very gloomy pre-match pod, the boys are in fine fettle as they take a deep dive into the 2026 Calcutta Cup and an all-round Scotland performance for the ages (scrum aside) and preview the round three challenge ahead in Cardiff.

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While Scotland’s Six Nations hopes look as stable as Lindsey Vonn’s knee, Barney and Burnsy are here to pick over the bones of the washout in Rome. They also talk Scotland A’s draw a and the U20s win over Italy, dive into domestic matters and preview the Calcutta Cup.

We are thrilled that this week’s episode is sponsored by the WRU, who are excited to be hosting Scotland at Principality Stadium on Saturday 21st February. Don’t miss your chance to be at this epic clash in one of the best stadiums i...

Hello Offside Liners, welcome to a bonus episode with our intrepid men on the ground in the Eternal City ahead of Scotland versus Italy on Saturday at 2.10. Mark Palmer and Craig Watson join Barney pitch-side at the Stadio Olympico to give their insights ahead of the game.

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David and Pete dive deep into Scotland’s chances in the 2026 Six Nations, look back on Edinburgh and Glasgow’s latest round of action in the URC and cast an eye over clubland.

We are thrilled that this week’s episode is sponsored by the WRU, who are excited to be hosting Scotland at Principality Stadium on Saturday 21st February as part of the Guinness Men’s Six Nations 2026. Don’t miss your chance to be at this epic clash in one of the best stadiums...

Hello Offside Liners, welcome to this week’s show. It’s just a short episode this time around as Barney reports back from the Six Nations launch in Edinburgh and he and Burnsy cast their eyes over the lasts round of action in the URC, the Celtic Challenge and the Arnold Clark Men’s Premiership.

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Hello Offside Liners, welcome to this week’s show. Barney is fresh out of Gregor Townsend’s press conference announcing the Six Nations and Scotland A squads for 2026 and he and Burnsy catch up to pick over the key selections. They also discuss Edinburgh and Glasgow’s weekends in Europe as both progress to the Round of 16, with Glasgow finishing as second seeds overall. 

Then it’s into the main part of this week’s episode – a long sit down with Scotland great, Bryan Redpath, to discuss his playing, coaching and business careers, with a major focus on Lond...

Hello Offside Liners, welcome to this week’s show. Barney and Burnsy review the latest round of action in the European Champions Cup as Edinburgh and Glasgow secure bonus point wins, they pick over the Celtic Challenge and domestic club action and debate potential selection headaches for Gregor Townsend ahead of the Six Nations

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Hello and welcome to the Offside Line Pod. Barney and Burnsy are delighted to be joined by the pod’s favourite regular renegade guests, Mr Mark Palmer of the Tjmes and Sunday Times and photographer extraordinaire Mr Craig Watson. The quartet pick over the bones of the 1872 Cup second-leg at Murrayfield, round up 2025 and look forward to what awaits us in 2026. 

We hope our listeners have had a wonderful festive period. Here’s to 2026. Happy new year when it comes. 

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Barney and Burnsy get together for a quick pre-Christmas pod to discuss the 1872 Cup first leg, the Celtic Challenge and the Inter-District Championship. Merry Christmas to all our listeners, we hope you have a wonderful time.

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Hello Offside Liners, welcome to this week’s show. Barney and Burnsy bask in the glory of Glasgow’s extraordinary comeback win over Toulouse, delve into Edinburgh’s loss to Castres, go over the result of the National Youth Cup finals, the Grand Final of the Arnold Clark Women’s Premiership, the results from the Arnold Clark Men’s Premiership and chat to Eric Jones about the upcoming Celtic Challenge.

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Hello Offside-liners, welcome to a special women’s rugby bonus pod ahead of the play-off Grand Final between Stirling County and Watsonians. In this episode, Barney and Burnsy sit down with Eric Jones, until recently the head coach of last year’s champions Corstorphine Cougars to talk about the Arnold Clark Women’s Premiership, the pathway, the Celtic Challenge and Test rugby as well as his own coaching career. We hope you enjoy it. If you have any questions or comments, please get in touch with us via our social media channels or you can email us at contact@theoffsideline.com

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Hello Offside Liners, welcome to this week’s show. Barney and Burnsy get tucked into some delicious humble pie after writing off Glasgow and Edinburgh’s chances in the opening round of the Champions Cup, only for both sides to record famous bonus-point victories. They analyse these two games and dive into the usual examination of domestic rugby. 

And don’t forget, we have a whole new range of Offside Line merch which you can now purchase from the site, along with a selection of brilliant rugby books – a one-stop-shop for all your Christmas presents. https://www.theoff...

Hello Offside Liners, this week Barney and Burnsy dive into Scotland’s draw for the 2027 Rugby World Cup, pick over the bones of a disappointing round of URC fixtures, delve into clubland and preview this week’s game – including Edinburgh and Glasgow’s Champions Cup round 1 matches.

And don’t forget, we have a whole new range of Offside Line merch which you can now purchase from the site, along with a selection of brilliant rugby books – a one-stop-shop for all your Christmas presents. https://www.theoffsideline.com/shop/

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Barney and Burnsy get together to pick over the bones of the autumn Test series and analyse where Scotland are ahead of the Six Nations. They also dive into domestic rugby and preview this weekend’s coming games.

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Hello Offside Liners, this week Barney and Burnsy go down to Breadalbane Finance’s HQ to pick over the bones of the Scotland-Argentina match with Jamie Lindsay and Roddy Grant. The quartet discuss everything from supporting grassroots rugby and rugby charities to moving into Prestonfield for fundraising season, as well as diving into domestic results and analysing this month’s autumn Tests. It’s a bumper episode which we know you’re going to love.

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Hello Offside Liners, welcome to this week’s show. The curse of the All Blacks continues for another year. Barney and Burnsy dive into an analysis of the game, go over domestic fixtures and other autumn Test and preview Scotland versus Argentina this weekend. Enjoy (if you can)!

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This week, things go a little bit off kilter as Barney and Burnsy delve into the Curse of the All Blacks, pick over Scotland’s victory over the USA and dredge up old nightmares of Barney Snr’s Hawick scarf.

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Barney was meant to be having a thoroughly well-deserved day off – but he couldn’t stay off the pod. This week the boys delve into a preview for Scotland-USA, Lee Radford’s teeth, Gemma Fay’s appointment as first Managing Director of Women’s Rugby, Border clubs boycotting the Scottish Cup, a tribute to the late, great Terence Froud, and a round-up of last weekend’s fixtures.

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Barney is joined by Mark Palmer and Craig Watson at Oriam to pick over Gregor Townsend’s squad selections for the 2025 Autumn Tests.

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Apologies there was no show last week, but Burnsy forgot that he was away on holiday. He and Barney catch up to discuss the resurrection of the Scotland/GB Men’s Sevens squad, cast an eye over the Scotland squad ahead of Gregor Townsend’s announcement on Tuesday, and delve into the latest URC and domestic Premiership action.

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This week Barney and Burnsy eventually get the podcast over the line at the third attempt – and they delve into the latest results in the men and women’s Scottish Premierships, the URC and the Rugby Championship before taking a deep dive into R360 while also scrutinising Gregor Townsend’s new role with Red Bull and the appointment of Lee Radford as Scotland defence coach. It’s all a bit of a shambles – but a fun one!

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This week Barney and Burnsy get into the Ryder Cup, celebrate Porty’s prop power and dig into the Womens’ Rugby World Cup final, the latest URC action and the Rugby Championship.

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This week the boys dive into Barney’s trip to Mull, the new the Scottish Women’s contracts, match cancellations and fixture reviews and previews, plus they sit down with Currie head coach Mark Cairns to discuss his time at the club, how the season is going and the way he and his company Coach Logic are forging new frontiers with AI.

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Hello Offside Liners! This week Barney and Burnsy are sitting down with Edinburgh Rugby 2025/26 Captain Magnus Bradbury and Scottish Building Society CEO, Paul Denton to discuss the season ahead as well as Scottish Building Society’s extension as Main Club Partner of Edinburgh Rugby. A huge thank you to Magnus for chatting to us and to Edinburgh Rugby for setting this up. The boys also dig into the Women’s World Cup, club land and some of the controversy surrounding the roll out of the new National Talent Pathway programme.

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Hello and welcome to a special bonus pod with David Jordan. Jordan became Glasgow Rugby’s chief executive in 1997 and was therefore right in the eye of the storm during the wild west days of early rugby professionalism. He went on to become the Celtic League’s first tournament director in 2005, running the competition out of his dining room in Bearsden. He has been at the vanguard as the league has morphed into the Pro12, Pro14 and now United Rugby Championship and he has some incredible insights to share on these years. We hope you enjoy.

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Welcome to the Offside Line, the first for Scottish rugby. Barney and Burnsy are delighted to be joined by Stuart Bathgate to chat about the Women’s World Cup before the boys get into the latest injury news coming out of the Edinburgh and Glasgow camps; they then run an eye over the latest goings on in the men and women’s Premierships and preview this weekend’s games.

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This week Barney and Burnsy head down to Oriam in Edinburgh for a press conference with Alex Williamson and David Nucifora as Scottish Rugby announces new contracts for Gregor Townsend, Franco Smith and five high-performance coaches. The boys are joined by Mark Palmer from the Sunday Times to pick over everything that was discussed. They also reflect on Scotland Women’s victory over Fiji, preview their final pool game with Canada and discuss the latest action in the men and women’s domestic Premierships – plus Barney delves into the Offside Line’s new subscription model. Enjoy!

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This week Barney and Burnsy are joined by Eve McTiernan, who is part of the Offside Line team working on the ground in Manchester covering the Women’s World Cup, to discuss Scotland’s record-breaking win over Wales. The guys also review the first round of action in the Men’s Prem and Barney heads to Murrayfield to chat to Neil Graham, Gavin Scott, Stuart Edwards and Pat MacArthur about the new schools Open Conference competition.

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