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- Andrew Cotter
- 24 Sep 07, 05:15 PM
This may be the quickest and perhaps least professional blog ever to hit the web but there are valid reasons.
Since I had to check my lap-top in with the rest of my luggage, I am left tapping away at one of those internet kiosks where you pile in coins (which are short).
You have to work as furiously as you can, while your time left, your money and possibly your life quietly slip away in the bottom right hand corner of the screen.
I am also encircled by one of the longest check-in queues I have ever seen, consisting almost entirely of All Black supporters - the army of is on the march again.
Continue reading "Hacked off with the Haka"
- Andrew Cotter
- 21 Sep 07, 06:07 PM
Edinburgh - Murrayfield will be close to capacity, The Haka will will be performed by the (in a nice light grey) and the Scotland team which lines up to face it will be far from full-strength.
is certainly not a surprise but it does offer plenty of talking-points.
Continue reading "Scottish lambs set for slaughter?"
- Andrew Cotter
- 19 Sep 07, 04:25 PM
Murrayfield - Scotland's rugby team has certainly earned pass marks so far in this World Cup, but what about Scotland's national rugby stadium as one of the venues?
I don't think anybody would really disagree that in an ideal world (cup) this whole tournament would be taking place in France. But deals were done and backs were scratched, so how was the Parc de Murray experience for you?
There is a suggestion that Scotland might be considering a bid to host the 2015 Rugby World Cup, so you can imagine that there were concerns over the attendance and atmosphere in the Scottish capital. Everyone remembers with some shame the dreadful Scottish attendances during the 1999 World Cup.
Continue reading "Did Murrayfield get away with it?"
- Andrew Cotter
- 14 Sep 07, 03:44 PM
St Etienne - continue to draw sizeable crowds of locals to their open training sessions at the St Etienne Football Academy.
Most are there purely to collect autographs and have their photos taken with the lads and they generally give the impression that nobody in this little corner of France has any work to go to.
Continue reading "Scotland reveal their hand?"
- Andrew Cotter
- 11 Sep 07, 11:18 AM
St Etienne is a strange place to be at the moment.
The excitement of the first glimpse of the Rugby World Cup at the Stade Geoffroy Guichard (he founded a supermarket chain if you were wondering) has now given way to a general torpor, a hibernation until the next game is staged here and Samoa take on the United States - in just over two weeks' time.
Continue reading "Scotland play waiting game"
- Andrew Cotter
- 7 Sep 07, 06:02 PM
Sportsmen, when being interviewed, fall into three categories.
Firstly there are those who simply have a normal conversation with you, listen to your questions and give an honest and usually entertaining answer. These are dream interviews and rare indeed.
There are also, unfortunately, those who are so wary of saying the wrong thing that they simply decide to let their brains diappear out the door, 主播大秀r Simpson style, and conduct the interview in a semi-catatonic state - bland, pointless utterances and a blank, vacant, deadness behind their soulless eyes. There are quite a few of them about.
But there is a third category - those whose facial expressions and body language betrays their true feelings, no matter how much they try and toe the party-line.
I give you Dan Parks.
Continue reading "Parks in a no-win situation"
- Andrew Cotter
- 6 Sep 07, 05:02 PM
St Etienne - It's official. St Etienne loves Scotland! And the ladies love the Lamont brothers!
Today was Scotland's first full day in this little corner of the Rhones-Alpes region and the dignitaries of St Etienne appeared with their best smiles and hand-shakes at the first press conference which was held in the rather grand Hotel de Ville (Town Hall, according to O-Grade French).
Continue reading "Loving the Lamonts"
- Andrew Cotter
- 24 Jul 07, 09:34 AM
I鈥檓 one of 主播大秀 Television鈥檚 rugby commentators. I come from Troon on the Ayrshire coast (south-west Scotland) but have lived in London for the past seven years - although I make frequent trips north to 鈥渧isit the family鈥 (play golf).
My grandfather J.L.Cotter played stand-off for Scotland in the 1930鈥檚, as far as I鈥檓 aware was the only minister to have pulled on the dark blue jersey.
My own international sporting recognition was far more limited, representing Scottish Schools at golf against England. Scotland lost.
I started commentating on rugby and golf on 主播大秀 Radio in 2000 before a Bosman-style free transfer to TV.
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