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 delve into the semi-final performance before looking ahead to Scotland’s upcoming Nations Championship campaign.

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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 Murrayfield – and the final round of the Kings of the 7s at Raeburn Place.

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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 catching up with some of the key players in Scotland’s famous 2016 HSBC World Sevens Series final tournament win over England at Twickenham, which happened 10 years ago this Friday.

Thanks to coach Kitty MacRae, skipper Scott Wight, Mark Robertson, James Johnstone and James Fleming for providing their memories of a rare Scottish rugby fairytale story.

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