Invergordon, 6 a.m.

Cian joins the under-16 boys heading north to play rugby in Orkney today - a misty start to a long day of travel ahead. There’s an invisible poignancy to the scene as today is the centenary of the Armistice - a grouping like this one hundred years ago would have already lost a lot of brothers and fathers, and would have been wondering about their own imminent call-up