Edinburgh move up to 10th in Europe
29 December 2003
The Gunners are ending what has been a good 2003 for the club by moving up to 10th place in the latest unofficial Eurorugby rankings. This is the first time in their history that Edinburgh have made it into the top ten, and only Leinster, Ulster, and Munster of the Celtic teams now sit above them.
The EuroTable Top Ten as of Monday 29th December 2003.
For more rankings, results and club information, visit http://www.eurorugby.com
rank team name country rating(%)
(change)
1 (-) Wasps England 100.00
2 (-) Bath England 91.55
3 (-) Toulouse France 83.63
4 (-) Ulster Ireland 83.12
5 (-) Leinster Ireland 78.56
6 (1) Gloucester England 76.75
7 (-1) London Irish England 74.58
8 (-) Munster Ireland 74.15
9 (1) Castres France 73.40
10 (2) Edinburgh Rugby Scotland 71.46
11 (-2) Northampton England 71.00
12 (-1) Llanelli Scarlets Wales 69.98
13 (-) Perpignan France 69.31
14 (-) Bourgoin France 69.08
15 (1) Newcastle England 68.03
16 (-1) Brive France 66.83
17 (-) Sale England 66.19
18 (-) Newport Gwent Dragons Wales 62.80
19 (-) Connacht Ireland 61.66
20 (4) Celtic Warriors Wales 60.58
Meanwile, the unfortunate Marcus Di Rollo, Dougie Hall, and - amazingly - Derrick Lee have missed out on the national 6 Nations training squad, announced on 30 December. There are still 14 Gunners there, though, and Craig Smith has also managed to stay in the 34 man group after he replaced Gordon McIlwham in the previous squad.
Scotland squad: Ross Beattie (Gwent Dragons), Graeme Beveridge (Glasgow Rugby), Mike Blair (Edinburgh Rugby), Gordon Bulloch (Glasgow Rugby), Andy Craig (Orrell), Simon Cross (Edinburgh Rugby), Chris Cusiter (Borders), Simon Danielli (Bath), Bruce Douglas (Borders), Ross Ford (Borders), Stuart Grimes (Newcastle Falcons), Andrew Henderson (Glasgow Rugby), Nathan Hines (Edinburgh Rugby), Ben Hinshelwood (Worcester), Ally Hogg (Edinburgh Rugby), Allan Jacobsen (Edinburgh Rugby), Ally Kellock (Edinburgh Rugby), Brendan Laney (Edinburgh Rugby), Cammy Mather (Glasgow Rugby), Gareth Morton (Borders), Euan Murray (Glasgow Rugby), Scott Murray (Edinburgh Rugby), Dan Parks (Glasgow Rugby), Chris Paterson (Edinburgh Rugby), Jon Petrie (Glasgow Rugby), Tom Philip (Edinburgh Rugby), Robbie Russell (Saracens), Craig Smith (Edinburgh Rugby), Tom Smith (Northampton Saints), Simon Taylor (Edinburgh Rugby), Nikki Walker (Borders), Alastair Warnock (Edinburgh Rugby), Simon Webster (Edinburgh Rugby), Jason White (Sale Sharks).