Allan MacDonald

Shane Christie, rugby concussion campaigner who wanted to donate his brain, found dead at 39 Former Maori All Blacks player Shane Christie, who had wanted his brain to be studied after suffering from multiple concussions, has died aged 39

This is desperately sad. Only 39.

We need to take brain injuries seriously.

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@patriciavieira.bsky.social @rhigarthjones.bsky.social Loving the takeover! “They died as they lived, probably annoyed about something” had me in fits, as did “with the angles” 😂😂😂

One of the worrying things is he appears to have “the yips” with his lineout throwing

Have been watching Scotland since 88, and feel we’ve usually been lighter than the English or French packs of the same time (barring a brief spell around Frank Hadden’s tenure as head coach)

You didn’t happen to be watching the Lions game at Sale RFC on Saturday?

Hopefully a speed bump rather than a full stop but Edinburgh doesn’t seem to have been a fertile ground for kicking on careers of late - Sam Skinner, Ben Healy, etc. Here’s hoping Ashman bucks that trend

I think he’s struggled to shake off a label which was applicable earlier in his career but hasn’t been for some time. Most of his more recent “moments” with Scotland come from light rather than heavy infantry in front of him

Few things make me happier than the way you approach social media!

He’s been too busy out-benching Rob Valentini and Will Skelton to speak up before

I get the Tom Curry hype now btw

Ryan’s a player he knows, I guess, but my feels was Cummings had been better on tour

I know, right?!

The re

Scotland fans who thought Scott Cummings would have been picked for the #BiL 23 because he has been better on tour: when performing your calculations, you forgot to carry the Irish.

This started as a joke but would genuinely buy a few as gifts for “difficult to buy for” family members

I've actually been a huge fan of Ashman since U20s where he looked a real prospect especially in defence and the loose, and genuinely hope the exposure to this environment will prove beneficial to his development as a player, which seems to have stalled a little in the last year or so...

Oooh how about a range of Scottish Rugby themed candles? “The Finn” (scented with Haribo Tangfastic),”The Ryan Wilson” (lager and BBQ kings) and one that just says “Disappointment” which always smells like 4th in the 6 Nations?

Dear goodness, Duolingo is so needy that, if it were a real person sending those messages, they’d be out of my life pretty quickly.

Does the Sky studio make the presenters look jaundiced on everyone’s TV or is mine just goosed?!

This Ben White bloke looks decent at 9, Anyone know if he’d ‘work’ with Finn Russell?

#AUNZvBIL

Objectively accurate - not got the same breadth of experience yet, and has the ne fewer “N” 😉😂

He’s a bloody impressive player, mind

…for there is only one Mr Greeeeeig

…not sure he was either, as much as I love him.

He’s not the messiah, he’s a very haughty boy!

The “Lesser Finn” playing quite well so far for #Lions #BiL

It's like if Runrig had a fight with Bill McLaren in a paint factory

See, this is why we’re friends 😂😂😂

Playing Fiji away is very different to playing them when they’re on tour. Reminds me of playing the likes of Dumfries or Newton Stewart back in the day at Ardrossan…the travelling team would be a poor shadow of the one who took the field at home…