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There's a slightly clearer view of it here, https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/videos/cqlygq419yko That it was a deliberate action from Mauvaka cannot be in dispute. There is nothing in that laws that I can see that says White has to be knocked out or has to suffer a broken jaw, on the contrar...

Let's give England some credit. While Slick is right, Borthwick did one thing that helped contribute to the improved performance in the last two matches: he picked more Saints backs, allowing England to leverage Saints' coaching.

Just a quick reminder that while Ireland didn't finish the season great, Farrell will be looking at the games between the lions nations and both England and Scotland were well beaten against Ireland. Farrell Jnr will be one of the 10's I reckon. He may also care about the home nations performed aga...

After yesterday's matches I fail to see any reason or argument for including a single Welshman in the Lions squad ... apart from trying to get some coverage on SC4? I have no idea why folk still think Williams is a better 9 than White who was excellent for Scotland yesterday. It is hard to make an ...

Punter15 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 14, 2025 10:07 pm Magnificent performance. Douglas and OBL outstanding, Cowan’s passing was fantastic, great management from Urwin. If we’d played like that throughout we wouldn’t be bottom.

Don't think they are, are they, after that DG?

Ireland by 15
Wales by 3
France by 10

Yes I know these are mostly outliers.

Ha.

Jones is definitely the skillz in this skillz & bosh combo. Sione can't be a pairing on his own!

Not that he isn't blessed with skillz, of course.

Skillz & bosh = Huwipulotu

France by 3
Scotland by 7
England by 10

Russell's kicking has deserted him completely at times - it's happened for Bath, so much so that Spencer and others have taken on kicking at times - but he's in pole position as the best distributor at 10. That hasn't changed. Well not completely. This was the first time he's missed all his kicks.

Just seen a PR post on my FB feed (didn’t click on it) where part of the tagline says that ‘Scotland stars loosen their grip on Lions shirts’. Hold on a sec. So Scotland went to Twickenham looking for a third win there on the trot, and a fifth straight win v England. They were agreed to be the bett...

Are you S African by any chance Don't be daft. There are three such obvious howlers, each of which ended up gifting the match to the poorer team. Finn didn't know that would be the case as he kindly helped guide him. Three now!! Apologies, you are right. There were four particularly heinous ones.

Mate, if anyone on the pitch thought it was a valid complaint, it would be Finn. He was gobbing off at the ref throughout the match. I thought it was Sexton on the pitch at one point. It was nothing like Sexton (or Biggar). He was chatting to the ref more than I've heard him in other games but that...

topofthemoon wrote: ↑Sat Feb 22, 2025 11:34 pm By my reckoning that's the first time in his Scotland career that Finn has missed every goal kick he has attempted in a game.

It's all part of Finn's ingenious plan to keep Borthwick in post...

KingBlairhorn wrote: ↑Sat Feb 22, 2025 7:20 pm You know that might be a game that haunts some of our players. In just a few months Farrell will be putting his squad together and he’ll look at a lot of our guys and say, when the chips are down, I don’t think I can count on him. And to be honest, he’s probably right.

Nah.

I don't think he's talking about their actual age/experience; just how they look!

Ireland by 25
Scotland by 2
France by 20

I’m not going to say that the most successful teams are successful because they are the best at cheating. That would be unfair, as they also have lots of great players and are very well coached. But there is a correlation there. If your forwards can effectively slow the ball at every breakdown, and...

Completely agree. Pinching Franco buggers what little development pipeline we have, and no one can understand ROG. Neinaber? RoG also wouldn't take the job.. We said the same about Townsend when he took the Scotland job and Glasgow hired Dave Rennie one of the better coaches going. We don't have th...

KingBlairhorn wrote: ↑Sun Feb 09, 2025 4:39 pm It’s probably sour grapes but I genuinely think we’ve been really hard done by here. We’ve been shit, but we have got nothing from the ref.

It happens a lot, especially against Ireland.

charltom wrote: ↑Sun Feb 09, 2025 4:25 pm Game on!

Looks like the ref has found some balance, despite not seeing things quite how we might.

Spoke way too soon there.

Game on!

Looks like the ref has found some balance, despite not seeing things quite how we might.

fishfoodie wrote: ↑Sun Feb 09, 2025 3:44 pm 6 - 2 split is biting Scotland on the arse today

Not yet.

These guys all play regularly in these positions... so far.

Can’t believe we are going in only 12 down. That was shit in every single way. Still think we got fucked by Lady Luck in that half despite our shiteness. Fingers crossed that was our inevitable terrible half and we can come out firing in the second half. You call him Lady Luck but I think his name ...

I don't know, maybe I don't read blitz defences well, but Ireland's always looks well offside to me.

There are lots of times when Scotland would have had great positions after Irish mistakes, but the ref had already awarded a pen against Scotland. Grrr.

But silly Duhan there.

...and yet France have been making loads and loads of mistakes!

What a muppet not kicking for goal to deny Wales the losing bonus point. Not used to denying teams bonus points I guess!

Iirc there's a bit of an expat community around Corby (sp). I've no idea if they've all come through the academy though. That ex pat community in Corby (Little Scotland) is quite mad. I was coming home on thr train a few months ago and my carriage got packed with Celtic season ticket holders headin...

I can't remember if it was here or on the Glasgow board I said this, but at the risk of repeating myself, if the cards had fallen differently Scotland could field an All Saints midfield of Smith, Hutchinson and Dingwall. Same for England if Hutch had chosen the dark. It's an odd little quirk that S...

It was both funny and sad, earlier, to hear Fin Smith talking of "half of Scotland" coming down to see him in his first Twickenham start.

ie his family

Tom Jordan in at 12! This is going to be good fun.

Sutherland
Cherry
ZFagerson
Gilchrist
Gray
MFagerson
Darge
Dempsey
White
Russell
VdMerwe
Jordan
Jones
Graham
Kinghorn

Bench:
Ashman
Schoeman
Hurd
Skinner
Brown
Ritchie
Dobie
Macdowall

Interesting play with the planned locks change.

Bench:
Ashman
Schoeman
Hurd
Skinner
Brown
Ritchie
Dobie
Macdowall

Sutherland
Cherry
ZFagerson
Gilchrist
Gray
MFagerson
Darge
Dempsey
White
Russell
VdMerwe
Jordan
Jones
Graham
Kinghorn

Tom Jordan in at 12! This is going to be good.

Jamie Ritchie off to Perpignan. Slightly odd destination for him, I must say - they're not exactly high fliers. You'd hope he would be aiming for the top end of the Top 14 rather than a team fighting to not end up in Pro D2. Big club though. Good move for him rugby wise I reckon, brave move with a ...

Italy by 8
France by 13
Scotland by 1

There's one of those predictions that I don't really believe, but I can't not make it...

I really struggle to find a single Welsh player who I would pick on form shown at international level over the past 12 months, and certainly none who have clearly outshone candidates in the same position from other countries. If you also want to pick squad on basis of proven partnerships, style of ...

Hope you don’t mind me sharing, but bursting a bit with pride…. My 8 year old son just became the Scottish National Field Archery Champion (this has a handicap type thing)the Scottish National Novice Champion and Scottish National Junior Champion. Unbelievable scenes, he was over the moon with his ...

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