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A few thoughts after watching the energy secretary once again mounting what seems to me an incredibly weak defence of Labour's handling of the whole water industry issue. The water companies are being permitted to increase bills by an average of 26% (considerably more in some cases), despite their ...

Speaking off Scottish forwards coaches John Dalziel Lions forwards coach. Good on him.

They had done well to get themselves in a good position with 20 mins to go. I thought Thompson was playing the conditions well, and the only issue was the lineout being a shitshow. That Tuipolotu red card was an absolute killer though. I thought they played well until being on Benneton's line and g...

Mosese had a good game but that's a 3 week ban.

Surprise surprise, Mauvaka banned for 6 games (reduced to 3) for his headbutt. Great help to Scotland that. I am surprised that nothing more has been said about the referees' faulty interpretation of the law on the day? Carley and the TMO will have been rebuked in their review. We don't need World ...

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I agree, It’s a tough sport to watch objectively when emotionally invested in one of the teams. And it’s probably for that reason I can’t think of anything major that occurred in our 2018 and 2022 matches that led to our wins. Any chance you could elaborate ? Can’t pretend to keep a detailed accoun...

Why do we seem to get so little from the officials? Yesterday, vs England, France last year etc. Obviously a very parochial view, but can’t think of other teams getting similar. Captain not doing his job? Toonie too nice? Cognative bias? It’s the same for everyone ? Precisely. I reckon it evens its...

Marshall Sykes had a great cameo.

Tichtheid wrote: ↑Sat Mar 15, 2025 9:42 pm fuck. you Carley, if you call release make them release

And not pull them over the line after you've called it. Was a penalty at the other end.

Was that not pulled into touch actually Monseiur Carley?

That's a tip Carley you f*cking c*unt.

Every French carry has a prelatch.

Carley just making sh*t up.

I'm in the pub and I can't be arsed reading the thread 1. In what world isn't that a red card. Launch yourself headfirst at a player on the ground, make direct head contact. Onoy debate should be twenty minute or full game 2. Where's the conclusive evidence that Kinghorn WA in touch? Has to clearly...

I'm in the pub and I can't be arsed reading the thread 1. In what world isn't that a red card. Launch yourself headfirst at a player on the ground, make direct head contact. Onoy debate should be twenty minute or full game 2. Where's the conclusive evidence that Kinghorn WA in touch? Has to clearly...

Whatever the rights or wrongs of the yellow/red, the law needs rewritten so that "low/high degree of danger" isn't a factor on head contact from non rugby incidents. Carley and the TMO got confused. You're not allowed to headbutt people. World Rugby will come out with a clarification on m...

Can we see that?

Blackmac wrote: ↑Sat Mar 15, 2025 8:34 pm That's absolutely nonsense. Assaults off the ball allowed now.

Why were they looking at degree of danger for a dogshot headbutt?

Rugby is such a farce.

I think it's an accidental headbutt, but it is a headbutt nonetheless. Monstrously stupid from Mauvaka. I don’t think there was much accidental about it. It’s not a huge impact but he knew what he was doing. Launched himself at him in an aggressive manner. Clearest red card you will see all tournam...

Headbutt is a clear red please and thank you Peato.

A lot of chat always about Scotland being "dark horses" for the six nations to be slapped with "underachivers" later in the tournament. Look at tomorrow, in Paris the French are going to bring Julian Marchand, Dorian Aldegheri, Emmanuel Meafou, Antony Jelonch off the bench. And S...

Andy Christie is on the (enormous) bench for Sarries tomorrow vs Edinburgh. An astonishing turnaround given the sickening nature of his injury Great news! Ironic Sarries have a massive bench as Edinburgh have a smaller bench than usual as they have no players to pick from with injuries and the six ...

Teams evolve and adapt depending on the resources they have available. Scotland have developed a team and attack around Russell because he is world class, however lots of successful teams do well without a world class 10 like Russell in their ranks. Whilst we have a number of options once Russell r...

The drop off is from world class 10 to very questionable if they are international class 10s. It is huge. I liked Hastings but his last few years have been lost to injury and the resulting inconsistency. I think Glasgow need a 10 next year. Jordan if he starts weekly for Bristol will be the answer ...

Jordan. Not convinced, but yeah, better than it has been in the past for sure. Point I'm making is that this 'huge drop off' narrative isn't really correct. There's a drop off, sure. But it's not that wailing disaster it's sometimes made out to be. The drop off is from world class 10 to very questi...

The Irish and the provinces love an off the feet ruck tornado aimed at players knees. Not a surprise regrettably, hoping World Rugby do something about it soon.

Italy have had a really poor six nations it must be said. Have barely been competitive.

Who cares if England win the six nations. A win in a full SdF against the French on a high would be a monumental win. Nae chance it happens.

That second half was disgusting. Townsend out. That shit of a man got a good (better?) man dismissed for his own vanity. Did his ultimatum not involve him delivering anything as national coach? He’s given us fuck all as the coach of our best generation of professional players. Fuck him. This is obv...

Clown Grant Gilchrist loves grabbing peoples arms in a lineout. Costs us every single year.

Another starship launch failure yesterday. That’s four failures from eight launches. No way that thing should be licensed to put humans into space. People wealthy enough to afford a flight to space in a shuttle that blows up 50% of the time are wealthy enough to figure out the risks involved. I say...

Tichtheid wrote: ↑Fri Mar 07, 2025 8:41 am What are the origins of calls for elections in Ukraine? They aren’t coming from Ukrainian opposition parties, who is doing it?

My suspicion is that part of the peace agreement the US and Russia are working on is that Zelesnsky steps down.

It's hard to believe that people so dismayed by Trump's siding with Putin and trade policy want stronger ties with China and India. Which two economic powerhouses do you all think have been buying cheap Russia oil and gas the last three years?! I think you all need to take a step back and remember C...

I don’t understand how these billionaires who support Trump will still be rich when the US economy shrinks and millions of people lose their jobs. The stock market will drop and so will the value of their stock profiles. What am I missing? Ask any hedge fund/PE manager the best time to make money a...

I don’t understand how these billionaires who support Trump will still be rich when the US economy shrinks and millions of people lose their jobs. The stock market will drop and so will the value of their stock profiles. What am I missing? Ask any hedge fund/PE manager the best time to make money a...

They are now, as expected, looking at easing sanctions on Russia. Even the straight up report-news-verbatim articles are baffled as to the underlying strategy behind it. Which would charitably suggest there isn't nearly enough of, if any on display. This Trump administration's only consideration is...

Someone was lamenting our lack of lock depth recently but with him, Samuel and Williamson all at Glasgow and all just 22 there is a decent amount coming through. With Cam Henderson, Sykes and Hodgson all 25 and with their best years to come that’s a decent bit of depth to go with the likes of Cummi...

In domestic news, Annaliese Dodds resigns from Cabinet because of the slashing of overseas development aid Talk about not reading the room. Just like politically Starmer had no choice to cut international aid, she politically couldn't not resign. The cut to foreign aid cuts that the UK, US, France,...

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