The much heralded ‘Rigby show’ came to Loks when Chairman Brian Rigby introduced Colin Rigby (no relation), the President of the SRU, to the 120 GROGs gathered for the usual high quality lunch to hear about events in Scottish rugby. Colin Rigby, who was elected to the office of President the previous August, talked about the honour and privilege it was to serve the sport that had given so much to him. His first day as the 130th. President of the SRU saw both the men’s and the women’s international teams jump up the world rankings without any effort on his part thinking that being President might be easier than first thought. Of course, it isn’t! His first 6 weeks in office were “eventful” on both the playing and management fronts. He described the current development of the game up to the recent report on the governance and structure of the SRU by Professor Lorne Crerar (next month’s guest speaker) and welcomed the changes that had taken place as a result of the recommendations. There is a widespread campaign being conducted to recruit 2 Club Custodians to the newly created Scottish Rugby Union Board. The silence from willing volunteers was deafening! The importance of the Club Rugby Board (CRB), the players themselves and, crucially, the role of the referees were covered in detail with special mention made of Hollie Davidson, a recent GROGS speaker. He stressed that women’s and girl’s rugby is a key growth area with considerable financial backing being made. Colin briefly summarised the successes, and otherwise, of all the representative teams in the past year and looked forward to the prospect of more excitement in the forthcoming game against Ireland. He ended an interesting and informative talk by outlining what he saw as the challenges being faced in Scottish rugby. With dwindling numbers of players, participation needs to be addressed. Other areas include how the game is played, the growth and involvement of women’s rugby and the overall wellbeing of the players. Several reasoned questions were asked and answered by Colin and Keith Wallace, Vice President of the SRU, who was another welcome guest. In appreciation, Colin was gifted the only bottle of Famous GROGS whisky available but the Chairman hoped that Keith would be the recipient of one currently in the distilling process when he might return in an elevated status.