# The Offside Line Podcast: The First for Scottish Rugby Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-offside-line-podcast-the-first-for-scottish-rugby-6997989 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-offside-line-podcast-the-first-for-scottish-rugby-6997989.md RSS feed: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/the-offside-line-podcast Official site: https://shows.acast.com/the-offside-line-podcast Author: David Barnes & Peter Burns Episodes: 99 ## Resource Welcome to the Offside Line Podcast with your hosts Peter Burns and David Barnes. In this weekly show we examine all aspects of Scottish rugby, from the grassroots level to the Test arena, and discuss the goings on in the wider global game – helped by a regular panel of special guests and featuring exclusive interviews. David Barnes has worked as a freelance rugby journalist since 2004 covering every level of the game in Scotland for publications including The Herald/Sunday Herald , The Sunday Times , The Telegraph , The Scotsman / Scotland on Sunday/Evening News , The Daily Record , The Daily Mail/Mail on Sunday and The Sun. He established the Offside Line in 2016 to provide high-quality, independent and up-to-date coverage of all aspects of Scottish rugby. In 2005 he co-authored Jim Renwick’s autobiography, Centre of Excellence , and in 2008 was shortlisted for Rugby Book of the Year at the British Sports Book Awards for The Accies: The Cradle of Scottish Rugby . He is the co-author of the critically acclaimed Behind the Thistle: Playing Rugby for Scotland and Behind the Lions: Playing Rugby for the British & Irish Lions . Peter Burns is a William Hill Sportsbook of the Year sho… ## Machine-readable JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-offside-line-podcast-the-first-for-scottish-rugby-6997989 Markdown: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-offside-line-podcast-the-first-for-scottish-rugby-6997989.md ## Episodes - [End of Term](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-offside-line-podcast-the-first-for-scottish-rugby-6997989/end-of-term) — 2026-07-24T20:22:26+00:00 - [Pride in Pretoria](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-offside-line-podcast-the-first-for-scottish-rugby-6997989/pride-in-pretoria) — 2026-07-13T12:41:29+00:00 - [Argentina smashed! And a special interview with Roddy Deans](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-offside-line-podcast-the-first-for-scottish-rugby-6997989/argentina-smashed-and-a-special-interview-with-roddy-deans) — 2026-07-08T15:00:21+00:00 - [End of Season Pod](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-offside-line-podcast-the-first-for-scottish-rugby-6997989/end-of-season-pod) — 2026-06-17T19:47:42+00:00 - [Glasgow blow it – again](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-offside-line-podcast-the-first-for-scottish-rugby-6997989/glasgow-blow-it-again) — 2026-06-08T14:42:01+00:00 - [Murrayfield calling: Glasgow march into the URC semi-finals](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-offside-line-podcast-the-first-for-scottish-rugby-6997989/murrayfield-calling-glasgow-march-into-the-urc-semi-finals) — 2026-06-02T13:04:45+00:00 - [Scotland in Sevens Heaven!](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-offside-line-podcast-the-first-for-scottish-rugby-6997989/scotland-in-sevens-heaven) — 2026-05-20T12:38:53+00:00 - [Glasgow bounce back and Edinburgh's renaissance continues](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-offside-line-podcast-the-first-for-scottish-rugby-6997989/glasgow-bounce-back-and-edinburgh-s-renaissance-continues) — 2026-05-13T09:56:19+00:00 - [This is Your Everitt](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-offside-line-podcast-the-first-for-scottish-rugby-6997989/this-is-your-everitt) — 2026-05-06T10:18:09+00:00 - [Silver Saturday and a surprise dive into uni rugby](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-offside-line-podcast-the-first-for-scottish-rugby-6997989/silver-saturday-and-a-surprise-dive-into-uni-rugby) — 2026-04-29T14:34:18+00:00 - [Sh*te Saturday](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-offside-line-podcast-the-first-for-scottish-rugby-6997989/sh-te-saturday) — 2026-04-21T13:45:16+00:00 - [Heineken heartbreak and Cardiff chaos](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-offside-line-podcast-the-first-for-scottish-rugby-6997989/heineken-heartbreak-and-cardiff-chaos) — 2026-04-14T14:54:05+00:00 - [Glasgow biff the Bulls and Edinburgh go down fighting](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-offside-line-podcast-the-first-for-scottish-rugby-6997989/glasgow-biff-the-bulls-and-edinburgh-go-down-fighting) — 2026-04-07T21:39:27+00:00 - [‘Cup rugby’s brilliant’](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-offside-line-podcast-the-first-for-scottish-rugby-6997989/cup-rugby-s-brilliant) — 2026-03-30T22:08:19+00:00 - [The yin and yang of Scottish pro rugby](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-offside-line-podcast-the-first-for-scottish-rugby-6997989/the-yin-and-yang-of-scottish-pro-rugby) — 2026-03-23T17:15:35+00:00 - [Dublin despair](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-offside-line-podcast-the-first-for-scottish-rugby-6997989/dublin-despair) — 2026-03-17T21:18:04+00:00 - [Incroyable Ecosse](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-offside-line-podcast-the-first-for-scottish-rugby-6997989/incroyable-ecosse) — 2026-03-09T21:21:58+00:00 - [France preview](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-offside-line-podcast-the-first-for-scottish-rugby-6997989/france-preview) — 2026-03-05T18:08:49+00:00 - [Yma o Hyd - We are still here . . .](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-offside-line-podcast-the-first-for-scottish-rugby-6997989/yma-o-hyd-we-are-still-here) — 2026-02-24T18:50:33+00:00 - [And sent them homeward tae think again . . .](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-offside-line-podcast-the-first-for-scottish-rugby-6997989/and-sent-them-homeward-tae-think-again) — 2026-02-16T23:47:34+00:00 - [Lost, like tears in the rain](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-offside-line-podcast-the-first-for-scottish-rugby-6997989/lost-like-tears-in-the-rain) — 2026-02-11T12:40:09+00:00 - [Live from the Eternal City: Scotland-Italy 2026 preview](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-offside-line-podcast-the-first-for-scottish-rugby-6997989/live-from-the-eternal-city-scotland-italy-2026-preview) — 2026-02-06T13:58:48+00:00 - [The Big Six Nations Preview](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-offside-line-podcast-the-first-for-scottish-rugby-6997989/the-big-six-nations-preview) — 2026-02-02T15:11:48+00:00 - [Six Nations Launch Pod](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-offside-line-podcast-the-first-for-scottish-rugby-6997989/six-nations-launch-pod) — 2026-01-26T23:19:43+00:00 - [London Scottish for the URC? A Bryan Redpath special.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-offside-line-podcast-the-first-for-scottish-rugby-6997989/london-scottish-for-the-urc-a-bryan-redpath-special) — 2026-01-20T19:39:07+00:00 - [Edinburgh and Glasgow march on in Europe](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-offside-line-podcast-the-first-for-scottish-rugby-6997989/edinburgh-and-glasgow-march-on-in-europe) — 2026-01-12T15:26:41+00:00 ## Actions Episode pages expose an explicit `request_transcript` action. A page view does not automatically enqueue transcription.