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Andrew Cotter

Loving the Lamonts (20)

St Etienne - It's official. St Etienne loves Scotland! And the ladies love the Lamont brothers!

Today was Scotland's first full day in this little corner of the Rhones-Alpes region and the dignitaries of St Etienne appeared with their best smiles and hand-shakes at the first press conference which was held in the rather grand Hotel de Ville (Town Hall, according to O-Grade French).

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Ben Dirs

A humbling site (48)

Amiens - As I scanned row upon row of crosses at one of the many that dot north east France like ice-white scars, it was sobering, and a little humbling, to think that my great granddad fought on these very fields.

It certainly managed to put my little sulk over our dwindling stocks of Foamburst and Shreddies into perspective.

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My cousin has in her possession my great granddad’s mother-of-pearl bible, dented, family legend has it, by a German bullet. A cracking story, although given my record with mobile phones, he probably just sat on it after a few .

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Ryan Jones

Watching, waiting....wishing (36)

Swansea - With the of the tournament now just a day away, being sat in Wales writing this blog isn’t exactly what I’d had in mind for this week.

But my best laid plans have once again been rudely disrupted by my body’s refusal to stay in one piece for more than one season and my chance to play at a has, for now, evaded me.

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