Scotland will mangle new belligerent in this year’s Autumn rugby Test array by personification Tonga during a home of Kilmarnock Football Club.
The Rugby Park encounter, on Saturday, Nov 22 (kick off 2.30pm), will also be a initial time an general involving a tier one nation has been staged on an synthetic pitch.
In new years, Scotland have played during both Aberdeen FC’s Pittodrie Stadium and McDiarmid Park, home of St Johnstone, though dual preceding Autumn fixtures, opposite New Zealand and Argentina, will be during BT Murrayfield.
Scottish Rugby Chief Executive Mark Dodson pronounced in a statement: “We are gay to move general rugby to Ayrshire for a initial time. It’s an area where clubs, schools and internal authorities are all operative together to yield opportunities for a immature people to play rugby.
“We know from a matches we’ve taken to Aberdeen in a new past that general rugby can excite and captivate a whole new assembly and, as a means of boosting personification numbers, it positively helps a teachers, coaches and volunteers in all they do to inspire participation.
“Rugby Park will turn a ninth venue during that Scotland have played general rugby on a possess patch. Clearly it’s home to Kilmarnock FC though it was a strange home of Kilmarnock Rugby Club,â€
On a prior arise Tonga visited Scotland, a home better was followed by a abdication of manager Andy Robinson. His successor, Vern Cotter, said: “We final faced Tonga during Pittodrie in 2012 and that outcome still hurts.â€
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Scotland to play rugby Test at Rugby Park
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