'Family, sisterhood, together' - Scotland's most capped back aiming to pass mentality on to next generation

The Toulon star will hopefully have plenty of years ahead of her in the national game as she looks to become just the second women’s, and sixth overall, Scotland player to earn 100 caps. Since her debut in 2015 the former Jedburgh Grammar School pupil has established herself as one of the squad’s senior figures alongside the likes of captain Rachel Malcolm and lock Emma Wassell.

Aside from her personal ambitions on the pitch, Rollie says she wants to pass on the mentality of ‘family’ and ‘sisterhood’ amongst the team to the younger players, so that they can make the next generation feel the same way the veteran stars did for her when she first joined camp.

Scotland veteran Rollie on ‘responsibility’ as younger players join camp

“I think it's really important to make people feel comfortable and bring them into the squad as much as you can and make their life easy,” said Rollie. “Because, if not, people might not want to come back and that's not what we want.

“We want the best of the best players being here and we want to make them feel like they're fully welcome. I personally lead by example, I want people to look at me and feel comfortable asking me questions about on pitch or off pitch things or whatever it is and I want them to also take the way that I act with them into the next generation.

“I think it's really important to keep everything flowing, keep everything smooth. It's a team sport, it has to be like that. You can't have people who are not feeling good in a squad or feeling left out as it just doesn't work. It'll start to fall apart.

“The more that we can keep this whole family vibe building the better it'll be for everyone in the future and everyone right now as well. It’s a sisterhood, we're so tight, everyone's just together.”

‘It shows how far the women’s game has come’ - Scotland full back relishing Principality Stadium and Murrayfield tests

Scotland kick off their 2026 Women’s Six Nations against Wales this weekend with the match taking place at the Principality Stadium. The team, who will also play England in front of 25,000-plus supporters at Murrayfield the following week, have come a long way from relatively humble begins since Rollie’s debut.

From playing in front of crowds of a few hundred at Broadwood Stadium in Cumbernauld, to tens of thousands at some of the biggest and most iconic venues in the sport. “When we played at Broadwood back then it was cool.” said Rollie.

“It was like ‘oh, we're in a stadium and a hundred of our friends and family are here’. We never took that for granted, but now to go down to the Principality and we are playing on some of the world's biggest stages, like when you're playing in South Africa you're in the DHL stadium and when we’re playing in New Zealand, you're in these amazing stadiums as well.

“I think it just shows as well how far women's rugby has come, you know, going from playing at Broadwood - and even before that the national team were playing on back pitches - to going into the Principality and Scottish Gas Murrayfield, it is amazing. It just shows you how far we've come.”

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