A group of Scottish rugby heroes had their legendary status officially stamped at Murrayfield last night - and The Scotsman's David Ferguson was there too.
"Gavin Hastings was revealed as the winner of the public vote for the player of the 1990s, edging out his brother Scott, Grand Slam skipper David Sole, Alan Tait and scrum-halves Gary Armstrong and Bryan Redpath, while Finlay Calder, the British and Irish Lions captain of 1989 and a key member of the 1990 team was chosen as the player of the 'Eighties'.
The judging panel, chaired by John Jeffrey, and featuring his fellow former Scotland caps Sir Ian McGeechan, Norman Mair, Chris Rea and John Beattie, had stated in recent weeks that the task of choosing the first inductees had been a hugely difficult one, especially with a rule having been agreed that no-one currently playing or employed by the SRU could be yet honoured.
That ruled out a number of players in the 2000 'Noughties' decade, and so the judges opted to launch that particular era by recognising McGeechan due to the fact that he ended his involvement with Scottish rugby in 2005 and received his knighthood at the end of the decade."
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