Helen Nelson will be playing with Ealing next season, I think the only current Scotland contracted players who's club was not officially confirmed

Christine Belisle has confirmed over on Instagram that the Barbarians match was her last game of pro rugby

Scots in action this weekend: Emma Wassell starts for Ealing in the PWR final, with Rachel Malcolm returning from injury to the bench. Caity Mattinson, CB, Sarah Bonar and Jenny Maxwell are in the Barbarians 23 v Wales. RugbyPass have an interview with Maxwell www.rugbypass.com/news/it-feel...

Molly Wright has announced her retirement from international and professional rugby, after 27 caps for Scotland, more information here scottishrugby.org/news-and-fea...

"Nadine Griffiths, the WRU's director of women's rugby, says Wales, Scotland and Ireland are each keen to enter two teams into a new cross-border competition."

Glasgow have announced that Lindsey Smith has left her post as head coach at Warriors. No word she's moved to a new role, but given limited player resources, really liked the way she got Glasgow playing in attack + she was doing some good stuff at age grade too glasgowwarriors.org/news-and-fea...

Orla Proctor signs for Bristol Bears Women www.bristolbearsrugby.com/bristol-bear...

Molly Poolman's awesome dummy and try is up for W6N Try of the Tournament 😍😍😍😍 You can vote here (you know you want to!) www.sixnationsrugby.com/en/w6n/news/...

Walked past Scotland front row Molly Wright on the way into Old Trafford in a Scotland shirt, hopefully she enjoyed Scotland's first even win in a women's cricket world cup!

Finally we have the contract details. 47 players will be contracted, including 10 academy players. 12 players will continue to play in PWR / Elite 1, the remaining 35 are split between Edinburgh and Glasgow The full details are here: scottishrugby.org/news-and-fea...

Nope, there were 9 signings! Elliann Clarke has also signed for Glasgow, joining her sister

Glasgow have also completed their signing announcements for the week. Rhea Clarke returns from Bristol and Holly McIntyre joins the Warriors after a year at Montpellier Full details on their 8 signings here: glasgowwarriors.org/news-and-fea...

Emma Orr is Edinburgh's final signing of this week 🥳🔥 She'll be likely rehabbing for a good chunk of the season but hopefully we'll see her in the new year at some point!

A big signing for Edinburgh, Chloe Rollie will return from a stint in Elite 1 with Toulon to join the club

More signings, Leia Brebner-Holden has signed for Edinburgh and Becky Boyd and Gemma Bell have signed for Glasgow. The latter was with the squad for last year's Celtic Challenge but was also on the Hartpury College / Gloucester-Hartpury books

Coreen Grant and Fi McIntosh have both left Harlequins with Grant joining Edinburgh and McIntosh signing for Glasgow. Quins confirmed it's because they have been offered Scotland central contracts, notable because neither had one last season, so am hoping this is a sign that the number is increasing

ICYMI, Evie Wills, Anne Young and Lucia Scott were announced as new Glasgow signings today, while Elis Martin and Rachel Phillips also returned to Scotland from the PWR, signing for Edinburgh with Emily Couborough also moving through to the east

Meanwhile, lifelong Glasgow fan Anne Young will be turning out in the Warriors blue and black next season

Lucia Scott is the latest addition to the Warriors as she signs for Glasgow

Christine Belisle, Caity Mattinson and Jenny Maxwell are all included in the Baabaas squad for their match with Wales 😍

Probably not the biggest surprise since she has been posting about doing up a house in S Queensferry but Edinburgh Rugby have announced the signing of Elis Martin 👑

And Glasgow are also in the signing business. Evie Wills has joined the Warriors, one of eight signings they will be announcing this week glasgowwarriors.org/news-and-fea...

Just after posting this I saw that Sale had announced Rachel and Evie Wills are leaving (presumably their other Scots are staying) and that this is one of 7 signings from Edinburgh to be announced soon, part of a new contracting model which will be announced soon edinburghrugby.org/news-and-fea...

Edinburgh Rugby have announced the signing of Rachel Phillips from Sale. I think this is the first time one of the Scotland CC teams have announced a signing like this (proper vid and all!) Usually it's just a list of which players are going to which teams a few weeks before the tournament starts

Scotland's W6N match against Ireland next season will be played inside Murrayfield, with all other matches to be played at the Hive. Times for WXV matches also confirmed (as per the article)

'Hugely important' Skeldon pens new deal to stay with Bears www.rugbypass.com/news/hugely-...

Jade Konkel will captain Harlequins tomorrow, and with Ealing beating Gloucester-Hartpury, Quins can no longer make the playoffs so this will be her last match for the club (fingers crossed she plays in the Baabaas game and it's not her last match)

So it seems Scotland players are now being asked to return to Scotland to keep their central contacts but we're finding out about this decision through press releases from Loughborough and Bristol rather than an announcement (could easily have been tied with the pathways news this week....)

Bristol's turn to announce 11 leavers: www.bristolbearsrugby.com/bristol-bear...

Looks like the entire Scottish contingent is leaving Loughborough, an Insta post from the club says that Christine Belisle, Becky Boyd, Anne Young, Leia Brebner-Holden, Elis Martin and Lucia Scott in their group of leavers (Helen Nelson previously announced as leaving too)

My personal opinion is that (regardless of gender), committing a serious crime like domestic violence should preclude someone from being selected to represent their country in a team sport. So I was really disappointed to see GB7s have selected Hannah Bluck in their squad announced today.

Claire Cruikshank is moving from her role as Head Coach of Edinburgh to National Academy Manager. More details about this and the new pathways in the TOL article below and in the Scottish Rugby release here scottishrugby.org/news-and-fea...

Scottish Rugby have a compilation of every Scotland try from the W6N on their YouTube for you to enjoy youtu.be/VZYgKXyrDVg?...

Scottish Rugby have opened a fan vote for standout moment, player and try of the tournament You can vote here: bit.ly/4nakh5a

Loughborough have announced that Helen Nelson will leave the club at the end of the season to take up a new playing opportunity, hopefully her new destination will be announced soon!

'We've got to be honest with ourselves': Scotland pledge to close Six Nations gap www.rugbypass.com/news/weve-go...

Scheduling the second leg of the men's 1872 cup for the same day as W6N France v Scotland seems a strange way to grow the game between the different fan bases (assuming that is something they want to do....)

Listening to the England commentators going on and on about their injury list 🙄

TBF, that second half was something of an improvement!

We got a 22 entry!

The only way this could be going worse is if we'd also got a yellow (which was also looking likely at one point)

Is that the fourth game in a row that Scotland have conceded at least 5 tries in the first half?

Ahead of tomorrow's W6N finale, Rugby Pass has an interview with Rachel Phillips www.rugbypass.com/news/rachel-... And GH Media has the thoughts of Becky Boyd gh-media.co.uk/blog/w6ns-ir...

Wrote a few thoughts about Scotland v France over on @scottishrugbyblog.co.uk and definitely found some positives but may have ended up on a bit of a downer www.scottishrugbyblog.co.uk/2026/05/2026...

Post press conference update in this article - Francesca McGhie is injured, Alex Stewart was back fit but they decided to go with a bigger back row. I'm just gonna go with hmmmmm as a reaction to the last one (not a shade on those playing, just a fan of specialist opensides....)