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Baa Baa's Team to face Edinburgh Academicals 9/4
By KATH April 7 2008
The Barbarian Football Club are celebrating their 150th anniversary season and have invited players from no less than nine nations to represent the famous old club at Raeburn on Wednesday night. The squad of 22 has eight capped players two of which are Scotland's Gordon Bulloch & Ireland's Tyrone Howe.


 Baa Baas v Edinburgh Academicals

Raeburn Place - 9th April 2008 - Kick Off 6pm

The Barbarian Football Club are celebrating their 150th anniversary season and have invited players from no less than nine nations to represent the famous old club at Raeburn on Wednesday night.   The squad of 22 has eight capped players two of which are Scotland's  Gordon Bulloch  & Ireland's Tyrone Howe.  Invited also are  Six Nations under-20 tournament players  including England's Rob Miller and Dan Norton and Scotland's Ross Samson.

Centenary Tour Squad

Barbarian Website and Photo Galleries

Club president Micky Steele-Bodger said, “As a club we are proud to have been invited by Edinburgh Academicals and we are delighted to be able to accept the honour. It is a great achievement to have reached this milestone of 150 years of rugby and congratulations to the Accies on having done so. We will be bringing a Barbarians' squad which reflects our own commitment to balancing established players with youngsters who have a great future in front of them.”

Edinburgh Academicals Captain Dan Teague said, “This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for the players and for the club to play against the Barbarians. They are a team all rugby fans and players can associate with; we've grown up watching their matches and admiring the great names that have played for them and in the exciting style in which they play.”

The Barbarians will be coached by one of Scotland's all-time greats, John Jeffrey, who played for the Baa-Baas on eight occasions and is now a Club committee man.  The Barbarians play in traditional black and white hoops, though players retain the socks from their "home" club strip.

The match, which will be all-ticket, is being played at one of the most evocative and historic grounds of rugby union world-wide, Raeburn Place, where the first ever international, between Scotland and England, was played in 1871.

Curtain Raiser entertainment from 4.30pm 

The Edinburgh Academy U15 v Edinburgh BATS U15

Edinburgh Academicals Mini Section

The Edinburgh Academy Pipe Band

Tickets for the match are available from www.edinburghrugby.org and the ticket hotline on 0131 346 5180

Baa Baas:  

Stuart Moffat (Viadana & Scotland); Tyrone Howe (Banbridge & Ireland), Matt Allen (Bedford Blues), Nick Macleod (Cardiff Blues), Craig Morgan (Bristol Rugby & Wales); *Rob Miller (Newcastle Falcons), *Nick Runciman (Worcester Warriors); Dorian Williams (London Welsh), *Gordon Bulloch (West of Scotland & Scotland), Nigel Hall (Nottingham), Jon Phillips (Bedford Blues), *Peter Sidoli (Newport Gwent Dragons), *Tammas McVie (Heriot's), Gavin Quinnell (Worcester Warriors), *Genaro Fessia (Sale Sharks & Argentina)

Replacements:

*Andrea Moretti (Viadana & Italy), Ngalu Tau (Doncaster Knights & Tonga), Craig Hammond (Nottingham), Ledua Jope (Army & Fiji), *Ross Samson (Newcastle Falcons), *Ross Blake (Cambridge University), Dan Norton (Gloucester Rugby)

[* - denotes new Barbarian]

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Anyone going to this? If so please send us a picture - Thank Yousmiling smiley

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Barbarians: A club in touch with history
Barbarians: A club in touch with history


FROM the first international teams representing Scotland and
England in 1871, to the Barbarians, the Raeburn Place rugby ground in Edinburgh has welcomed the great and the good of the oval ball game.

And that trend is set to continue tomorrow when the famous Barbarians Select take on Edinburgh Academicals to mark their 150th anniversary – an unprecedented achievement in Scottish rugby with only England's Blackheath club achieving greater venerability.

Fresh from securing their place in Scottish rugby's Premiership Division One, Accies captain Dan Teague will lead his team against an amalgam of internationalists and up-and-comings
[sport.scotsman.com]

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