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Club rugby targets six stages to October return

SCOTTISH Rugby has unveiled a six-stage ‘Return to Rugby Roadmap’ (see infographic below) to help clubs re-launch safely in the new season, with an October start-date…

David Ferguson3 July 2020

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‘Let’s create something unique to Scotland’

CURRENT Scotland coaches Gregor Townsend and Shelley Kerr view community and school sport as central to the nation’s recovery from COVID-19 and the health of…

David Ferguson2 July 2020

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Sport for Scotland’s older generation on the up?

NEW research has suggested that many more of Scotland’s older population are taking up sport as they near or enter retirement than was previously believed.…

David Ferguson30 June 2020

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Scottish sport begins to re-awaken: new guidance

By Ryan Brown Following a lot of behind-the-scenes work involving the Scottish Government’s Active Scotland division, sportscotland and a range of partners across Scottish sport…

David Ferguson30 June 2020

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COVID-19 impact falls heavily on community sport but opportunities emerge to shape brighter and better future

THE OSS hosted a series of six fortnightly webinars in response to the lockdown imposed across Scotland to deal with the spread of the coronavirus…

David Ferguson26 June 2020

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Scotland coaches join OSS Supporters to discuss sport post-lockdown

GREGOR Townsend and Shelley Kerr, the Scotland rugby and women's football head coaches respectively, will share their thinking on the impact on Scottish sport of…

David Ferguson23 June 2020

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Defenders are most popular coaches in pro football

Former defenders make up the highest percentage of coaches in professional football, and goalkeepers provide the lowest, according to the latest CIES Football Observatory Report. The CIES…

David Ferguson22 June 2020

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Investment, joined-up thinking and friends are keys to building on cycling boom

SCOTLAND fell well short of government targets to have 10% of the population cycling to work and 10% of children cycling to school by 2020.…

David Ferguson17 June 2020

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Time to think about ‘feelings’ if we are to grow sport’s volunteer base

What is the emotional culture at your club - fun-loving or apathy? Are there too many paid 'professionals' in Scottish sport? How do sports cope…

David Ferguson10 June 2020

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Families are running through lockdown

On Global Running Day, appropriately, OSS has discovered research that suggests that more people have spent lockdown running and more youngsters across the UK are…

David Ferguson3 June 2020