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The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish Rugby
Welcome to the Offside Line Podcast with your hosts Peter Burns and David Barnes.
In this weekly show we examine all aspects of Scottish rugby, from the grassroots level to the Test arena, and discuss the goings on in the wider global game – helped by a regular panel of special guests and featuring exclusive interviews.
David Barnes has worked as a freelance rugby journalist since 2004 covering every level of the game in Scotland for publications including The Herald/Sunday Herald, The Sunday…
Episodes
The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish RugbyClubhouse: Big hits, bad tips and a broken jaw
Barney, Robin and Stuart catch up to look ahead to the final round of Arnold Clark Men's Premiership matches before the halfway-stage break for the…
- The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish Rugby
A Leatherbarrow from left field – Scotland squad reaction
Barney and Burnsy are joined by friends of the show Mark Palmer of The Times and extraordinaire Craig Watson to chew over and digest Gregor Townsend's Scotland…
The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish RugbyClubhouse: Is it moving weekend in the Arnold Clark Premiership?
Robin returns from a week off to jump right back into a fascinating weekend of Arnold Clark Premiership action. Reigning champions Ayr got a fright last…
- The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish Rugby
Road trips, rugby's complicated rules and Scotland squad selections
Barney and Burnsy catch up to review last weekend's Arnold Clark Men's Premiership action, lament some horrifying score-lines in the Sarah Beaney Cup and…
The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish RugbyClubhouse: Back from the break, straight into the breach
After last weekend's welfare break, the Arnold Clark Men's Premiership returns. With Robin missing in action, Iain Heard steps back into the breach to join…
The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish RugbyHook, line and Sinclair
Hello Offside Liners and welcome to this week’s show. Barney and Burnsy get out of the studio to record a special interview with former Scotland U20s, Stirling…
The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish RugbyClubhouse: Making the most of the welfare break with a visit from the mad scientist
Bob McKillop - head coach of Stirling County and the Edinburgh District team this season - joins the usual suspects to chew over the season so far at the top…
- The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish Rugby
The return of Scotland Sevens and missed deadlines
Barney and Burnsy catch up to discuss the return of the Scotland Men's Sevens team this coming weekend, Edinburgh's gritty win over Stormers last Friday night…
The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish RugbyClubhouse: Arnold Clark Men's Premiership round six preview
Barney is back from his golfing jolly to join Stuart and Robin as they look ahead to the final round of matches before the Arnold Clark Men's Premiership…
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Scots teams off to a flyer in URC .... and has Ayr's bubble been burst?
A short sharp pod to start the week with Barney and Burnsy catching up to celebrate two bonus-points wins on the road for the Scots teamson the opening weekend…
The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish RugbyClubhouse: Arnold Clark Men's Premiership round five preview
Barney has gone golfing so Iain Heard - former referee turned pundit and champion of the club game - steps into the breach, and there's some big games in the…
- The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish Rugby
Struth Be Told: Edinburgh Rugby’s new season
With the URC kicking off this weekend, Barney and Burnsy popped into the Edinburgh Rugby offices at Murrayfield to catch up with the club's managing director…
The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish RugbyClubhouse: Arnold Clark Men's Premiership round four preview
Some huge games on the menu this weekend with Heriots' trip to the Greenyards to take on Melrose in a clash of two of the form teams in the league perhaps…
- The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish Rugby
What is the purpose of the Premiership? Can Scotland Women bounce back from Canada loss?
Burnsy is on a mini-tour of the UK this week but has found the time to catch up with Barney to digest last weekend's Arnold Clark Premiership action and to…
The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish RugbyClubhouse: Arnold Clark Men's Premiership round three preview
Unbeaten sides Currie Chieftains and Melrose meet at Malleny, Hawick head into the lions den to face Ayr at Millbrae, Kelso are missing their two co-captains…
- The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish Rugby
High scores and low turnout – a crisis in Scottish rugby?
Barney and Burnsy are joined by Eric Jones to discuss all the latest in the men and women’s Premierships, which included some major blow-outs on the…
The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish RugbyClubhouse: Buoyant Heriot's head to Malleny
Barney, Stuart Cameron and Robin Purdie reconvene to digest the first round of Arnold Clark Men's Premiership action last weekend, and to look ahead to round…
The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish RugbyWe're back!
Hello Offside Liners and welcome to season 3! Barney and Burnsy get back on the horse after a restful summer and are fired up and ready to go. This week they…
The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish RugbyClubhouse: Ready for kick-off
As a fresh club season dawns, The Offside Line has launched its new weekly ‘Clubhouse’ podcast, landing every Thursday to digest the latest goings-on in the…
- The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish Rugby
End of Term
It’s the final episode of season two! We delve into the U20s fifth-place play-off game with Wales, Scotland vs Fiji and a general examination of the Nations…
- The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish Rugby
Pride in Pretoria
Hello Offside Liners and welcome to this week’s show as we look back on Scotland’s narrow loss to South Africa in Pretoria on Saturday and preview next…
- The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish Rugby
Argentina smashed! And a special interview with Roddy Deans
Hello Offside Liners and welcome to this week’s show as we look back on Scotland’s record-breaking victory over Argentina in the first round of the inaugural…
- The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish Rugby
End of Season Pod
Hello Offside Liners and welcome to this week’s show as we round up the 2025/26 season and we welcome our old muckers Craig Watson and Mark Palmer back to the…
- The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish Rugby
Glasgow blow it – again
Hello Offside Liners and welcome to this week’s show. Barney and Burnsy pick themselves off the floor after the disappointing end to Glasgow’s URC season and…
- The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish Rugby
Murrayfield calling: Glasgow march into the URC semi-finals
This week Barney and Burnsy reflect on Glasgow's quarter-final victory over Connacht at Scotstoun – which puts them into a semi-final with the Bulls at…
- The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish Rugby
Scotland in Sevens Heaven!
Hello Offside Liners and welcome to this week’s show. Scotland in Sevens Heaven! With Burnsy off on holiday, we’ve got a special episode this week with Barney…
- The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish Rugby
Glasgow bounce back and Edinburgh's renaissance continues
Hello Offside Liners and welcome to this week’s show. Barney and Burnsy review their exclusive interview with Sean Everitt from last week before diving into…
- The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish Rugby
This is Your Everitt
Hello Offside Liners and welcome to this week’s show. Barney and Burnsy sit down for an exclusive chat with Edinburgh head coach Sean Everitt. This is an…
- The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish Rugby
Silver Saturday and a surprise dive into uni rugby
Hello Offside Liners and welcome to this week’s show. Barney and Burnsy take a look back at all the action from Silver Saturday, the Kings of the 7s, the URC…
- The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish Rugby
Sh*te Saturday
Hello Offside Liners and welcome to this week’s show. Barney and Burnsy clutch at some straws to dredge some positives from the weekend (well done, Edinburgh –…
- The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish Rugby
Heineken heartbreak and Cardiff chaos
Hello Offside Liners and welcome to this week’s show. Burnsy has to drag himself off the floor to dive into Glasgow’s no-show against Toulon in the Champions…
- The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish Rugby
Glasgow biff the Bulls and Edinburgh go down fighting
Hello Offside Liners and welcome to this week’s show. Barney and Burnsy dive into the last 16 round of the Champions Cup as Glasgow triumph over the Bulls and…
- The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish Rugby
‘Cup rugby’s brilliant’
Hello Offside Liners and welcome to this week’s show. Barney and Burnsy dive into the quarter-finals of the Scottish Cup, pick over the latest Edinburgh…
- The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish Rugby
The yin and yang of Scottish pro rugby
Hello Offside Liners and welcome to this week’s show. Barney and Burnsy dive into Glasgow’s glorious demolition of Leinster and Edinburgh's timid dismantling…
- The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish Rugby
Dublin despair
Hello Offside Liners and welcome to this week’s show. Barney and Burnsy pick over the wreckage of Scotland’s Triple Crown hopes in Dublin and review the…
- The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish Rugby
Incroyable Ecosse
Hello Offside Liners and welcome to this week’s show. Wow, wow, wow . . . what just happened at Murrayfield and in Rome this weekend? Barney and Burnsy dive…
- The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish Rugby
France preview
Hello Offside Liners and welcome to this week’s show. The teams are out for Saturday’s top of the table clash in the Six Nations between Scotland and France…
- The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish Rugby
Yma o Hyd - We are still here . . .
Hello Offside Liners and welcome to this week’s show. After a rollercoaster of a game in Cardiff, Scotland’s Championship and Triple Crown hopes are still…
- The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish Rugby
And sent them homeward tae think again . . .
Hello and welcome to the Offside Line Pod. After a very gloomy pre-match pod, the boys are in fine fettle as they take a deep dive into the 2026 Calcutta Cup…
- The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish Rugby
Lost, like tears in the rain
While Scotland’s Six Nations hopes look as stable as Lindsey Vonn’s knee, Barney and Burnsy are here to pick over the bones of the washout in Rome. They also…
- The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish Rugby
Live from the Eternal City: Scotland-Italy 2026 preview
Hello Offside Liners, welcome to a bonus episode with our intrepid men on the ground in the Eternal City ahead of Scotland versus Italy on Saturday at 2.10…
- The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish Rugby
The Big Six Nations Preview
Hello Offside Liners, welcome to this week’s show. David and Pete dive deep into Scotland’s chances in the 2026 Six Nations, look back on Edinburgh and…
- The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish Rugby
Six Nations Launch Pod
Hello Offside Liners, welcome to this week’s show. It’s just a short episode this time around as Barney reports back from the Six Nations launch in Edinburgh…
- The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish Rugby
London Scottish for the URC? A Bryan Redpath special.
Hello Offside Liners, welcome to this week’s show. Barney is fresh out of Gregor Townsend’s press conference announcing the Six Nations and Scotland A squads…
- The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish Rugby
Edinburgh and Glasgow march on in Europe
Hello Offside Liners, welcome to this week’s show. Barney and Burnsy review the latest round of action in the European Champions Cup as Edinburgh and Glasgow…
- The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish Rugby
The big end-of-year round-up
Hello and welcome to the Offside Line Pod. Barney and Burnsy are delighted to be joined by the pod’s favourite regular renegade guests, Mr Mark Palmer of the…
- The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish Rugby
Christmas Eve Eve and 1872 first leg review
Barney and Burnsy get together for a quick pre-Christmas pod to discuss the 1872 Cup first leg, the Celtic Challenge and the Inter-District Championship. Merry…
- The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish Rugby
Glorious Glasgow’s miraculous victory over Toulouse
Hello Offside Liners, welcome to this week’s show. Barney and Burnsy bask in the glory of Glasgow’s extraordinary comeback win over Toulouse, delve into…
- The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish Rugby
Women’s Rugby Special with Eric Jones
Hello Offside-liners, welcome to a special women’s rugby bonus pod ahead of the play-off Grand Final between Stirling County and Watsonians. In this episode…
- The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish Rugby
Delicious humble pie
Hello Offside Liners, welcome to this week’s show. Barney and Burnsy get tucked into some delicious humble pie after writing off Glasgow and Edinburgh’s…
- The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish Rugby
Scotland’s 2027 Rugby World Cup Draw
Hello Offside Liners, this week Barney and Burnsy dive into Scotland’s draw for the 2027 Rugby World Cup, pick over the bones of a disappointing round of URC…
- The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish Rugby
The Autumn Wrap
Barney and Burnsy get together to pick over the bones of the autumn Test series and analyse where Scotland are ahead of the Six Nations. They also dive into…
- The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish Rugby
How to shoot yourself in the foot
Hello Offside Liners, this week Barney and Burnsy go down to Breadalbane Finance’s HQ to pick over the bones of the Scotland-Argentina match with Jamie Lindsay…
- The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish Rugby
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it
Hello Offside Liners, welcome to this week’s show. The curse of the All Blacks continues for another year. Barney and Burnsy dive into an analysis of the game…
- The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish Rugby
Can Prince Finn and his trusty stead Zander break the Curse of the All Blacks?
This week, things go a little bit off kilter as Barney and Burnsy delve into the Curse of the All Blacks, pick over Scotland’s victory over the USA and dredge…
- The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish Rugby
Barney’s day off – or not
Barney was meant to be having a thoroughly well-deserved day off – but he couldn’t stay off the pod. This week the boys delve into a preview for Scotland-USA…
- The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish Rugby
Bonus pod: Scotland Autumn 2025 Announcement
Barney is joined by Mark Palmer and Craig Watson at Oriam to pick over Gregor Townsend’s squad selections for the 2025 Autumn Tests. Hosted on Acast. See…
- The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish Rugby
Scotland Sevens: back from the dead
Hello Offside Liners, welcome to this week’s show. Apologies there was no show last week, but Burnsy forgot that he was away on holiday. He and Barney catch up…
- The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish Rugby
Disaster podcasting, R360, Toony Redbull and rugby round-ups
This week Barney and Burnsy eventually get the podcast over the line at the third attempt – and they delve into the latest results in the men and women’s…
- The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish Rugby
Olé, Olé, Olé, Olé
This week Barney and Burnsy get into the Ryder Cup, celebrate Porty’s prop power and dig into the Womens’ Rugby World Cup final, the latest URC action and the…