The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish Rugby
Episodes
The yin and yang of Scottish pro rugby
23 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Dublin despair
17 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 revi...
Incroyable Ecosse
09 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 Burn...
France preview
05 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 a...
Yma o Hyd - We are still here . . .
24 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 ar...
And sent them homeward tae think again . . .
16 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 Calcu...
Lost, like tears in the rain
11 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Live from the Eternal City: Scotland-Italy 2026 preview
06 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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...
The Big Six Nations Preview
02 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 Edi...
Six Nations Launch Pod
26 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 i...
London Scottish for the URC? A Bryan Redpath special.
20 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Hello Offside Liners, welcome to this week’s show. Barney is fresh out of Gregor Townsend’s press conference announcing the Six Nations and Scotla...
Edinburgh and Glasgow march on in Europe
12 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 an...
The big end-of-year round-up
28 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 Palm...
Christmas Eve Eve and 1872 first leg review
23 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 Championsh...
Glasgow’s miraculous victory over Toulouse
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hello Offside Liners, welcome to this week’s show. Barney and Burnsy bask in the glory of Glasgow’s extraordinary comeback win over Toulouse, delv...
Women’s Rugby Special with Eric Jones
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Delicious humble pie
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hello Offside Liners, welcome to this week’s show. Barney and Burnsy get tucked into some delicious humble pie after writing off Glasgow and Edinbur...
Scotland’s 2027 Rugby World Cup Draw
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 rou...
The Autumn Wrap
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 div...
How to shoot yourself in the foot
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 Ja...
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 o...
Can Prince Finn and his trusty stead Zander break the Curse of the All Blacks?
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Barney’s day off – or not
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 S...
Bonus pod: Scotland Autumn 2025 Announcement
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Scotland Sevens: back from the dead
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Disaster podcasting, R360, Toony Redbull and rugby round-ups
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 wo...
Olé, Olé, Olé, Olé
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ac...
New Scottish Women contracts and a Mark Cairns exclusive
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week the boys dive into Barney’s trip to Mull, the new the Scottish Women’s contracts, match cancellations and fixture reviews and previews, ...
Magnus Bradbury - the comeback captain
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hello Offside Liners! This week Barney and Burnsy are sitting down with Edinburgh Rugby 2025/26 Captain Magnus Bradbury and Scottish Building Society ...
The business of rugby: David Jordan and the URC
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hello and welcome to a special bonus pod with David Jordan. Jordan became Glasgow Rugby’s chief executive in 1997 and was therefore right in the eye...
Downed by Canada, it's time for the Red Roses
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Offside Line, the first for Scottish rugby. Barney and Burnsy are delighted to be joined by Stuart Bathgate to chat about the Women’s...
Gregor and Franco sign on for more . . .
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week Barney and Burnsy head down to Oriam in Edinburgh for a press conference with Alex Williamson and David Nucifora as Scottish Rugby announces...
Walloping the Welsh
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week Barney and Burnsy are joined by Eve McTiernan, who is part of the Offside Line team working on the ground in Manchester covering the Women’...
Season two kicks off!
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to season two of the Offside Line Pod. Barney and Burnsy are back to preview the start of the Women’s Rugby World Cup and the men and women’...
Episode 50: 2025 World Cup Squad Announced
08 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Barney and Burnsy raise their bats to the clubhouse as they notch episode 50 of the Offside Line Pod – and they welcome Stuart Bathgate to discuss t...
Episode 49: The MCG breakdown
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Barney and Burnsy delve into the Lions’ second Test at the MCG and also chat about Scotland Women’s match against Italy, the heart-warming return ...
Episode 48: Melbourne Test week
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week the boys dive into Scotland v Samoa, coaching merry-go-rounds, the Under 20s and they review the Lions vs Australia first Test, the First Na...
Episode 47: Fiji review and a Lions 1st Test preview
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After a (very brief) summer break, Barney and Burnsy saddle up again to review Scotland’s loss to Fiji, Scotland U20’s win over Ireland and previe...
Episode 46: A bonus pod with Alex Stewart
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week Barney and Burnsy sitting down with Corstorphine, Edinburgh and Scotland back-rower Alex Stewart to discuss her meteoric career so far as we...
Episode 45: Season Review
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Now that Scotland’s 2024/25 domestic season is over, Barney and Burnsy team up with their old pals Mark Palmer and Craig Watson to review Edinburgh ...
Episode 44: R360 – a new dawn for the game?
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Barney and Burnsy talk URC quarter-finals, preview Glasgow’s semi-final visit to Leinster and review Edinburgh’s season. They also dive...
Episode 43: Rants and reviews
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week Barney and Burnsy delve into the Melrose 7s, the general state of worldwide international 7s, the Club World Cup announcement, the European ...
Episode 42: Edinburgh and Glasgow into the URC knock-outs – and a Melrose 7s preview
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week Barney and Burnsy break down the final round of the United Rugby Championship regular season and look ahead to Glasgow’s home quarter-fina...
Episode 41: Into the Lions’ Den
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Fresh from Burnsy attending the Lions squad announcement and speaking to one of the coaches, the boys delve into Andy Farrell’s selection and review...
Episode 40: Lions selection: who makes the cut?
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Barney and Burnsy look back on an action-packed weekend of action in the Champions Cup and Challenge Cup and make their predictions for And...
Episode 39: Bath time
28 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week Barney and Burnsy are joined by Duncan Hodge from Accelerate Rugby to reminisce about playing for Edinburgh against Bath in Europe back in 1...
Episode 38: Schoooooooe!
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week Barney and Burnsy have an exclusive sit down with Pierre Schoeman to discuss Edinburgh’s recent turnaround in fortunes, his pride in playi...
Episode 37: Glasgow suffer Dublin horror show but Edinburgh march on
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s episode is recorded live at the Hive Stadium, so please accept out apologies for the background noise. We were covering a brilliant even...
Episode 36: Sun, fun and knock-out phase runs
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Barney and Burnsy get the show back on the road after a week’s break (Burnsy is still picking himself off the floor after a vets’ tour to northern...
Episode 35: Reflections, ruminations and relegations
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Barney and Burnsy dive into their overall reflections on the men’s Six Nations then buoy themselves with the action from the women’s edition, give...
Episode 34: Paris preview pod
14 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Barney, Mark Palmer and Craig Watson call in from the pitch at the Stade de France to preview the final game of the 2025 Six Nations. Can Scotland pul...
Episode 33: Slaying the Dragon (just) – and picking over its corpse with Duncan Hodge
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We’re delighted to be joined by the great Duncan Hodge, who among many other playing and coaching accolades, won 26 caps at fly-half for Scotland an...
Episode 32: Welcoming the dragon
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Barney and Burnsy preview this weekend’s Six Nations matches with a focus on Scotland hosting Wales and review the latest action in the URC and the ...
Episode 31: Farewell (for now), Calcutta
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Barney and Burnsy get together to pick over the bones of Scotland's match at Twickenham, chat Wales-Ireland, Italy-France, the Under-20s, the Prem and...
Episode 30: Calcutta Cup preview!
21 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
While Burnsy is stuck in Edinburgh, Barney is ensconced at Twickenham with Mark Palmer and Craig Watson and all four come together to preview the 2025...
Episode 29: And another thing . . .
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Barney and Burnsy emerge from their deep funk to dissect the horrors of Scotland’s Six Nations match against Ireland, pick over the bones of the Und...
Episode 28: Ciao bella!
04 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Barney and Burnsy get into the nitty gritty of Scotland’s opening win of the Six Nations, discuss Wales-France, Ireland-England and the threats that...
Episode 27: Italy preview!
31 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Barney and Burnsy get into the nitty gritty ahead of Scotland’s opening round clash of the 2025 Six Nations with Italy at Murrayfield. We also hear ...
Episode 26: The Pigeon of Misfortune
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week Barney and Burnsy dive into Saturday’s Premiership matches, the Celtic Challenge and review two rounds of Champions Cup and Challenge Cup ...
Episode 25: The Struth and nothing but the Struth
16 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week Barney and Burnsy head down to the Edinburgh HQ at Murrayfield for an exclusive sit down with the club’s managing director Doug Struth. Th...
Episode 24: The big 2024 review and 2025 preview
31 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Merry Christmas and a happy new year one and all! It’s the mega review of 2024 and our preview of 2025. Barney and Burnsy are joined by special gues...
Episode 23: Hampden is calling
17 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week Barney and Burnsy dive into an 1872 Cup preview with an exclusive interview with Glasgow’s Stafford McDowall. We also chat to new Glasgow ...
Episode 22: More Currie, please
12 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this bumper episode, Barney and Burnsy welcome special guest Matt Currie to the pod as he signs a new two-year deal at Edinburgh. They also speak t...
Episode 21: Jamie Dobie and Calum Forrester
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week Barney and Burnsy head to the Clubhouse restaurant in Glasgow for an exclusive sit-down with GHA’s head coach Calum Forrester before swing...
Episode 20: The Autumn Review
28 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this week’s show, Barney and Burnsy review Scotland’s Autumn Nations Series performances, discuss Scotland A vs Chile and delve in the SRU’s ...
Episode 19: George Gregan, Peter Horne and the big preview show
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to part two of this week’s pod. Barney sits down with Scotland A coach Pete Horne to discuss Saturday’s game with Chile, while Burnsy has ...
Episode 18: Reviews, rants and a rebel league
18 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week Barney and Burnsy have such a mega rant about various off-field matters (the rumours surrounding a new pro rugby league, the SRU’s most re...
Episode 17: State of the Nation pod: Portugal
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Offside Line State of the Nation pod!The aim of the series is to explore the unique cultures, challenges, and triumphs that have shaped...
Episode 16: Bomb Squad defuse Scotland’s threat
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a bumper episode! Sit back and relax while Barney and Burnsy take you through all the weekend’s action, from the Men and Women’s Premiershi...
Episode 15: Flying Fijians are grounded with ease but Springboks loom large
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week Barney and Burnsy get into the meat of the first two Autumn Nations Tests that saw Scotland take on Fiji, while England faced New Zealand. T...
Episode 14: Squad Pod
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Barney and Burnsy catch up for a quick bonus pod to discuss Gregor Townsend’s selection for the Scotland-Fiji game at Murrayfield, which kicks off t...
Episode 13: The Wight Stuff
29 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Barney and Burnsy go through all the weekend's action in the Men and Women's Premiership and the URC and are joined by special guest Scott Wright, the...
Episode 12: Two-ipulotu: Gregor Townsend names his 2024 Autumn Test series squad
23 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Barney and Burnsy delve into Gregor Townsend's 2024 Autumn Internationals squad - and we hear from the man himself. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pri...
Episode 11: We've got the (George) Horn(e)
22 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week Barney and Burnsy are joined by George Horne from Glasgow’s base in Stellenbosch to review the Warriors’ game against the Sharks, previe...
Episode 10: Dead cat bounce?
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join the guys as they dissect a cracking weekend of rugby in the URC, WXV2, the Men and Women’s Premierships and chat to Alan Lorimer for our first ...
Episode 09: Hampden Roars and Lions’ Jaws
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week the boys delve into Glasgow’s announcement that they are going to hold their leg of the 1872 Cup at Hampden Park, the Glasgow triumph on t...
Episode 08: Dan Biggar and Ross Harries on The Biggar Picture
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The boys have a chat about all things domestic Scottish rugby, Scotland Women at WXV2, the Rugby Championship and Scots abroad before getting into the...
Episode 07: Great White Shark leaves blood in the water
24 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week Barney and Burnsy chat about John Jeffrey’s acrimonious withdrawal from the campaign to become the head of World Rugby alongside special g...
Episode 06: There’s been a murder . . .
17 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Barney has to hold his hands up for throwing Musselburgh head coach Derek O’Riordan under the bus before their game against Ayr at the weekend. Stua...
Episode 05: It’s an emergency pod!
11 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s an emergency pod! Barney and Burnsy cancel all their plans to bring you news of Scottish Rugby’s breaking announcement that Alex Williamson i...
Episode 04: Hammerings everywhere!
10 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week Barney and Burnsy chat about Scotland Women’s thumping victory over Wales, another epic between South Africa and New Zealand, the Argentin...
Episode 03: Glorious weather and some glorious (and inglorious) rugby
03 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week Barney and Burnsy are joined by Stuart Bathgate as they dive into the latest action in the Arnold Clark Men and Women’s Premierships, disc...
Episode 02: Bonus Pod - the Big Interview with Matt Scott
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this special Big Interview bonus pod, we head to Murrayfield for a chat with Matt Scott. The Scotland centre has recently re-joined Edinburgh for h...
Episode 01: Is David Nucifora the man to positively reshape Scottish rugby?
27 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In today’s episode David and Pete discuss the SRU’s appointment of David Nucifora, look at Leon MacDonald’s departure from the All Blacks, have ...
Introducing the Offside Line Podcast
23 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Offside Line Podcast with David Barnes, editor of the Offside Line, and author Peter Burns. This episode is a little introduction to yo...