For the love of Scottish Rugby, Resented by Vodafone, proud partner of Scottish Rugby. We're here at Scottish Cache-Morough Field to take you inside the Scotland Camp with two of their greatest players. I tell you what it is, it's when you're in a physio room or a dining room or whatever, and you're looking around, you're like, I'm the only forward here. And you're like, why am I the only forward here? And I'm like, oh shit. From the minute the bus turned in, you know, you could just kind of sense already, you know, the amount of people that have on the embankment and piling up to welcome the bus in, you just kind of knew that today was going to be different. I hate to break it to you, but a fair few teams do that. Fair few teams out. I realized that as I was going to say it, I was like, so unique? What? It's this weird ritual that you've never heard of. First Six Nations start, I swapped with Mac Hanson in Dublin. And he kind of asked me at like 65 minutes, we were just kind of standing opposite the wings. And, you know, he was like, yeah, you want to swap jerseys? And I was like kind of like, you know, playing against you now.

Yeah.

Yeah.

What is his mind game you playing?

So in this episode, yeah.

So in this episode, we want to know all about Scottish rugby.

From the moment you get a phone call or a WhatsApp

message, how do you find out you're in the squad to what it's like when you turn up and connecting with everyone all the way through to what it's like standing out at Scottish Gass Murray Field and singing the national anthem. Carl Stain, Rory Darge, welcome to the for love of rugby. How you doing, Jens? Yeah, good thanks to you. Thanks for having us. Well, thanks for coming along.

Camps now started. What's it like when you first arrive and you get back into it? It's good, yeah, it's good to catch up with the boys. Obviously there's a lot of Glasgow lads there. I'm Glasgow and Edinburgh lads. So we've seen a lot of the squad already through club stuff, getting to catch up with the guys guys across the M8 and obviously the Xcel the guys is good to get a catch up. Is any, is any cleaks? Do you have to break up the cleaks? Because naturally you gravitate to, I mean Coley. I mean, we tend to hang out a lot when we're in camp. Is it similar with club mates? Yeah, I think, I actually think we're quite lucky in this squad. I think it's noticeable, you know, that there's definitely that in some sort of squads you get, like as soon as you get in, people will go sit over there, people will sit over there. But I think, you know, some of your good mates have been that Scotland squad on different sides and, yeah, it's a great opportunity to catch up with them again but i don't

think it's i don't think it's too bad for us anyway no it's not too bad like you say maybe there's there's a wee bit of luck you know it's just natural to kind of go to the boys you hang out with every day but um yeah especially coming into six nations once you've had the 1872 and you've had europe you've maybe cross paths with so many of the boys there's there's bit of common ground, you know, a couple of jokes flying around and they're pretty

good about letting us have a, you know, they get someone into to make us flat whites and stuff like that. So, and there's some cakes too. And, you know, so there's a bit of a test straight off the bat to see who goes for it first. And yeah, it breaks ice quite nicely. Is that actually a test you reckon sometimes?

When it's all put in front, like in front of you,

it's like who's going to fold first?

And as soon as one goes, they all go.

It's like when someone's birthday put in front, like in front of you, it's like who's going to fold first?

And as soon as one goes, they all go.

It's like when someone's birthday's in camp, isn't it?

And there's cake and you've got skin folds around the corner. I mean, I always had that problem, to be fair. Eddie Jones was like staring me out as I went up and got a slice of cake. That's when you get like the ripped guy to go up and get like,

oh, just get some for the table, mate.

Yeah. And bring it all back here.

In this episode, we're going to give our listeners and viewers a proper taste of what it's like to be a Scottish international. I mean, you guys just come into Camp Home and you. You came in on Sunday? Yeah, that's right. Correct. Do you have to wait for, like, does Finn Russell turn up with tom jordan as he brought him up in his Ferrari

whatever they car is or is it or is it uh i take everyone assemble at the same time

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