A few of the locals were in. They didn't know what to do with him. @Kevin,10.The records will always say Scotland won because they did- they only lost one game, narrowly, and played the best rugby and deserved the title. No, no, no. The finale of the 1999 Five Nations championship - the last of its kind - remains one of the most momentous weekends in Scottish sport. Glenn Metcalfe was on fire at 15, John Leslie putting fellas away in the midfield, Alan Tait running great lines from his rugby league days, Gregor Townsend pulling the strings at 10. The title was still up for grabs but not many people thought we were going to win it. Martin Leslie got our first try, Alan got our second, Gregor got our third and his fourth in four games. We stopped singing and it kept droning on. What's that? It was still a major trophy - our last in 20 years.". Something bizarre happened. The place was stowed out. We were going to be presented with the trophy at Murrayfield on the Monday so we had to get back to Edinburgh as fast as we could. Adore 'Home International' rugby. Its why we love sport - sometime during that game I remember starting to wonder 'what if'...until Gibbs picked up the crash ball from the line out and you just knew...Happy days. They did it to us two years running. Last time before now that we were quite good. The championship was all down to us and England. It is what it is. He said, 'You boys are going to be unbearable'. When Gibbsy [Scott Gibbs] went for over for the winning try the place erupted. George was going, 'No, no, no. But when he was running with the ball there was nobody better than him. He was my hero. Half the wins were by less than 10 points, and 3 were by only 1 point. ", Bulloch: "We didn't really know what was going to happen, but something like 10,000 people turned up. The beer was flowing. A big break by Thomas Castaignede and finished off by Emile Ntamack. George was going, 'No, no, no. Five Scottish tries in 27 breathless first-half minutes against France on the championship's final weekend - and the honour, the following day, of being crowned the last-ever kings of the Five Nations. Scotland's Gregor Townsend became only the fifth player in history to score a try against each other country in the five nations tournament. ", Hooker Gordon Bulloch: "Jean-Luc Sadourny, Christophe Lamaison, Philippe Bernat-Salles, Olivier Magne, the Lievremont boys - Marc and Thomas. The realisation that we were going to win was something special. The cheaper stuff, mind. I'm not sure anybody wore them. John Leslie came running over to me in the warm-up. It felt like we didn't know anything else apart from just going for it. Then they put 51 points on us at Murrayfield in 1998. He walked away, laughing. They've done that on purpose'. ", "Glenn cut them to ribbons. The championship was all down to us and England. Martin Leslie got our first try, Alan got our second, Gregor got our third and his fourth in four games. He used it. A few of the locals were in. He was my hero. Nobody really thought they would. Former Scotland international striker Chris Iwelumo on the importance of learning as he embarks on a Black History Month project for the BBC. Scotland to score 5 tries again - bien sur ! Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the hundred-and-fifth series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Whether it was or wasn't didn't matter. And then we're under the bar again. BBC Scotland looks at this summer's Scottish transfer window and the impact on the game it may have. Details. Shawsey dropped me off at the airport. ", "We didn't really know what was going to happen, but something like 10,000 people turned up. Olympic cycling champion Callum Skinner in conversation with Tom English. Oddly, half the 10 games were away wins - each of the 5 teams won 1 game away. That made it 33-12. Then they score and it was 33-19. Match abandoned due to bad weather, but replayed in Scotland on 7 March, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History_of_rugby_union_matches_between_Ireland_and_Scotland&oldid=974482518, History of rugby union matches between Ireland and Scotland, Scotland national rugby union team matches, Ireland national rugby union team matches, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 23 August 2020, at 09:28. We'd watched France do that to teams for years. ", "I don't think France took us as seriously as they would have done had it been England. Join us to watch the full match replay from 7pm BST. It was so slow it was like the funeral march. Gregor was always a thinker and a bit of a space cadet. Glenn cut through again and I scored. If we beat France then England had to beat Wales the next day to win the title. If I'd kicked those goals then we'd have had a Grand Slam. People were saying, 'Imagine if Wales win tomorrow and we're champions'. Indeed, Italy played all the Five Nations sides during the 1998/99 season, partly in preparation for joining the tournament the following year, albeit that the game against England (at Huddersfield) was a World Cup qualifier. I was sitting beside George Graham at dinner the night before. They've done that on purpose'. I played in that one. Whether it was or wasn't didn't matter. ", "We had a few beers that night. We were only half-watching it, but then it got interesting and then it got very interesting. To Paris, then, in the company of four men who helped make it all happen... Centre Alan Tait: "France had won back-to-back Grand Slams. Just looking back at the 1999 5N. I remember watching as a lad in '87, fast, fluid, running rugby, great players, wonderful ethos. Do you even like rugby? Everybody was in blazers, but then word came down from Famous Grouse [the team sponsor] that we had to wear some branding, so they brought out these bloody awful caps. Scotland scored sixtee… An incredible team. Run over the top of them'. ", Tait: "It was fearless stuff. ", "Jean-Luc Sadourny, Christophe Lamaison, Philippe Bernat-Salles, Olivier Magne, the Lievremont boys - Marc and Thomas. Paris was my second cap. I did it for one of my tries. Ten matches were played over five weekends from 6 February to 11 April. ", Wing Kenny Logan: "They hadn't had a great season. Sportscene will show all of the day's Scottish Premiership goals every Saturday evening this season. England couldn't handle the pressure and deserved to finish where they did.The Scotland team of 99 were class and i'd like to see them walk out at Murrayfield for the Wales game to get some recognition.

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