Heriot's Rugby Club

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

Heriot's Rugby Club
UnionScottish Rugby Union
Founded1890 (1890)
LocationEdinburgh, Scotland
Ground(s)Goldenacre Sports Ground (Capacity: 3,000+[1])
PresidentIain Duckworth
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
1st kit
2nd kit
Official website
www.heriotsrugbyclub.co.uk

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
Heriot's Rugby Super 6 squad

Props

  • Scotland Struan Cessford
  • Scotland Dan Gamble
  • Scotland Chris Keen
  • Scotland Euan McLaren
  • Scotland Josh Scott

Hookers

  • Scotland Cammy Fenton
  • Scotland Michael Liness

Locks

  • Scotland Jamie Campbell
  • Scotland Fraser Hastie
  • Scotland Sean Johnstone
  • Scotland Ruairidh Leishman
  • Scotland Ronan Seydak

Back row

Scrum halves

  • England Alex Ball
  • Scotland Jed Gelderbloom
  • Scotland Dan Nutton
  • Scotland Andrew Simmers

Fly halves

Centres

  • Scotland Robbie Chalmers
  • Scotland Cammy Hutchison
  • Scotland Ross Jones
  • Scotland Robert Kay
  • Scotland Scott King
  • Scotland Scott Robeson
  • England James Spencer

Wings

Fullbacks

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

Edinburgh Rugby players drafted:

Table
2022–23 Super 6 Table
Team P W D L PF PA PD TBP LBP PTS
1Watsonians (CH) 10901338154+1849146
2Ayrshire Bulls (RU) 10901347133+2148044
3Boroughmuir Bears 10505206260-542022
4Heriot's Rugby 10307232250-183217
5Southern Knights 10208166275-1092111
6Stirling Wolves 10208139356-217109

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

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

Sevens tournament

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

Notable players

Honours

References
  1. "Rugby Union | Edinburgh News". www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com.
  2. Bath, p89
  3. "Fusaro handed Scotland A chance". 18 May 2010 – via news.bbc.co.uk.
  4. "Heriots Sevens". 26 August 2022.
  5. Jones, p44
  6. "Edinburgh Northern Sevens". 7 June 2019.
  7. "Register". Retrieved 17 March 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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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