Rory Darge | |
Fullname: | Rory Neil Benjamin Darge |
Birth Date: | 23 February 2000 |
Birth Place: | Edinburgh, Scotland |
Height: | 1.860NaN0 |
Weight: | 1020NaN0 |
School: | North Berwick High School |
Position: | Flanker, Number 8 |
Currentclub: | Glasgow Warriors |
Years1: | 2019–2020 |
Clubs1: | Southern Knights |
Apps1: | 13 |
Points1: | 0 |
Years2: | 2020 |
Clubs2: | Edinburgh |
Apps2: | 1 |
Points2: | 0 |
Years3: | 2021– |
Clubs3: | Glasgow Warriors |
Apps3: | 48 |
Points3: | 15 |
Repyears1: | 2018–2020 |
Repteam1: | Scotland U20 |
Repcaps1: | 13 |
Reppoints1: | 0 |
Repyears2: | 2022– |
Repteam2: | Scotland |
Repcaps2: | 25 |
Reppoints2: | 25 |
Clubupdate: | 24 March 2024 |
Repupdate: | 25 November 2024 |
Rory Neil Benjamin Darge (born 23 February 2000) is a Scottish professional rugby union player who plays as a flanker for United Rugby Championship club Glasgow Warriors and captains the Scotland national team.[1]
Darge was part of the Edinburgh academy, before signing his first professional contract in July 2019[2] for Super 6 side Southern Knights where he won Southern Knights youth player of the year in his first season.
At the start of the 2020-21 season he signed for Edinburgh Rugby. He made his debut for Edinburgh in Round 6 of the 2020–21 URC against Leinster.[3]
On 16 April 2021 it was announced that he would move to Glasgow Warriors ahead of the new URC season and that he had signed ahead of the 2021-22 season.[4]
Darge was called up to the Scotland squad for the 2021 Summer internationals.[5]
He made his debut for Scotland in the Six Nations match against Wales on 12 February 2022.[6] Darge was selected in the 33 player squad for the 2023 Rugby World Cup in France.[7] Darge was named as the Scotland co-captain for the 2024 Six Nations Championship.[8]
|-|style="text-align:center;"|1|26 February 2022|Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh, Scotland||style="text-align:center;"|8–15||2022 Six Nations Championship|-|style="text-align:center;"|2|12 August 2023|Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, Saint-Étienne, France||style="text-align:center;"|20–27||2023 Rugby World Cup warm-up matches|-|style="text-align:center;"|3|26 August 2023|Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh, Scotland||style="text-align:center;"|12–6||2023 Rugby World Cup warm-up matches|-|style="text-align:center;"|4|24 September 2023|Stade de Nice, Nice, France||style="text-align:center;"|22–10||2023 Rugby World Cup|-|style="text-align:center;"|5|30 September 2023|Stade Pierre-Mauroy, Lille, France||style="text-align:center;"|75–0||2023 Rugby World Cup|}[9]