Dumfries & Galloway Rugby Podcast

New Year, New You?

We are back for 2025 and welcome Unicorn Strength's Anne Halliday onto the podcast to talk us through what we can be doing to improve our fitness and nutrition this year!

Whether y…

Wigtownshire's Niamh Wilson joins us on the podcast for the final episode of 2024 to talk about the season so far, beach rugby in Magaluf and her aspirations to play for the Glasgow Warriors!

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In the penultimate episode before the Christmas break, John sits down with Dumfries Saints stars Abby Tait and Bryony McCaw to talk about the brilliant first season they've had at Park Farm!

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With two brilliant guests lined up for the coming weeks before the Christmas break, this is the last episode of 2024 to run through the important D&G rugby business!

It's a packed episode with Commun…

Moffat Rams Youth Administrator Martin Armstrong is our special guest this week and he sits down to talk about his life as a primary school head teacher, the battle between rugby union & rugby league…

Stewartry Sirens' head coach John Dawson sits down with us this week to talk about his story, his passion for helping others and life as a Scottish Premiership manager!

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As we gear towards the Christmas break, we decided to have a look at how the 2024/25 season has gone for our 11 D&G sides so far. Some teams have now reached the halfway mark, while others are playin…

In Part 1 of this week's podcast, we welcome Newton Stewart head coach Nic Lloyd to talk about his journey to southwest Scotland from Australia, his coaching philosophy and his admiration for rugby h…

This week is something a little different as we discuss the recent SRU meeting between the Glasgow South clubs, which focused on the transition and retention of a club's players, parents, coaches and…

On the 19th of March 2022, David Hill lost his life from a sudden cardiac incident, while playing rugby, at the age of just 30. Since his passing, David's father, Rodger, and his family have worked t…

With John unavailable, (and not wanting to make you sit through another episode of Ross by himself), we decided to bring in a new podcast host for the very first time!

Our Season 3 sponsor Cammy Litt…

Now that we are already seven weeks into the season, we thought it was time to take a look at how each of our teams are faring - League tables, tries scored, points differences and key players for ea…

This week our special guest is Scotland international Ken Macaulay, who this weekend sets out on an inspirational bike journey across the whole of the country to raise money for 4 fabulous charities!

Annan Warriors star Kayleigh Warrick is our special guest this week to talk about their brilliant start to the season, playing rugby with her dad as head coach and helping organise the Pigbarians tou…

Dumfries Saints legend Ross Strawbridge is in the hot seat this week to talk us through the new ethos at Park Farm, the rise of rugby in D&G and even to read us a wee poem he wrote just for the podca…

This week's episode, (unluckily for you), is just 35 minutes of Ross by himself! Due to certain circumstances, John and any guests were unavailable so Ross spent some time running through the region'…

For the first time this season, we are without a guest but it allows us the chance to take a deeper dive into the new segments of the podcast, as well as some time to preview the NINE games we have c…

After Shire's strong start to the 2024/25 season, we invite Blair Forsyth to chat through all the good things happening at the club, Hearts & Balls Rugby 7s and even the late tackles he has been putt…

We are back for Season 3 of the podcast and are delighted to welcome Sport & Community Coordinator and star rugby-mum Aileen Marchant on as our first guest! Aileen is the chief organiser of this week…

For the final episode of the second season here at DGRP, we invited Annan's Alex Halliday to talk us through his journey and give us the inside scoop on the great escape that went on at Violetbank th…