MY LIFEIN RUGBY
ALEX GROVE FORMER SCOTLAND, WORCESTER WARRIORS, EDINBURGH, BIRMINGHAM MOSELEY AND COVENTRY CENTRE

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DON’T remember too much of the night after we beat Australia 9-8 in 2009 – there was quite a lot of celebrating. It was only my second cap for Scotland and there had been a huge build-up because we hadn’t beaten Australia for 27 years. Nobody expected us to win. The script was probably that we’d give them a good game for 50 or 60 minutes and then Australia would pull away. Instead, we just clung on in there.
The weather was awful and it bec...