I like Robert as an actor but he doesn't seem to have much knowledge about the Scottish Borders where I am from. In the interview with the Irish Times about the not being allowed back into Glasgow joke he says about his character

"He's Scottish, but he's 'rugby player Scottish' if you know what I mean, like a Borders type thing: public school, Oxford-educated – that type of guy"

That type of guy though is not your typical Borders rugby player. We are more similar to south Wales in that rugby here is what we played in all the local schools. It is the working man's game in the Borders. Virtually all the big name players from the Borders I can think of were just folks who went to the local town schools. The Public School posh rugby player stereotype thing was much more a city thing than a Borders thing. In fact up until the 1960s and 1970s we were supposedly way under-represented in the Scotland team despite Hawick and Gala being the two dominant clubs in Scotland. Maybe more than one reason and I don't think the SRU liked the independent streak in Borders rugby with the importance we gave the Borders League and Sevens Circuit - but seemingly the ruling body was dominated by Public School types and didn't want to encourage the Borders oiks too much. ;-)