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Very disappointing Dobie not involved against Oz. Probably be White and Price. Can't believe Townsend has overlooked Dobbie (well, I can because GT is in charge - but ... WTF!). It is clear that Horne can't be trusted to start but he can offer something if the game loosens up. But if we need contro...

Apparently 170kg at his peak and genuinely athletically gifted. Wow! Would have been quite a force on the rugby pitch if the shot or strongman hadn't beckoned.

Article on the BBC saying we’d have picked Gray Jr but he elected to stay with Bordeaux. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/articles/cwy4wg7y021o Reads like GT throwing his toys out of the pram. A confident coach would say "We've got a great group of 2nd rows and whilst it will be great f...

Saw Andy Christie got a potentially career ending injury today. All the best to him. Probably the most consistent and effective SQ back rower over the past year (maybe Matt F or Jack D aside) but a shoo in for the autumn IMO.

How Scottish. Best of luck to him.

Why can't Townsend put teams on the pitch that are adequately focused and able to build and apply pressure? We are world champs at making it easy for the opposition to get a foothold in the game when we get ahead. Very, very poor tonight. Because he’s not very good. I've no argument with that. SRU ...

I just can't understand how our full-time professional players can be so utterly and consistently shite at managing games. Franco seems to have turned Glasgow around in no time, yet Townsend remains unable to build anything even when he's given the best groups of players we've had in the pro era. I ...

Why can't Townsend put teams on the pitch that are adequately focused and able to build and apply pressure? We are world champs at making it easy for the opposition to get a foothold in the game when we get ahead. Very, very poor tonight.

I always enjoy watching talented people doing talented things. But this has been a complete shambles. Horse down the river could have looked great but was so badly done. Can't they do a couple of speeches, sing a song or two, light the fire and then just get on with the sport? Rather than splurging ...

I'm still buzzing from this, it becomes even more incredible as time goes by. Me too, of course I hoped they’d win but I certainly didn’t expect it, not after their recent trip to South Africa and reversals against the Bulls and Lions, even through the first half hour of the final it looked to be g...

I feel the WP didn't/doesn't get the recognition from refs as to how good he was/is. He seemed to get pinged when the loose head ran down his side while he was square or the LH had hinged. Probably due to Scotland never being regarded as a strong scrummaging team (even when on occasion we are) and t...

C69 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:48 pm
Big D wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:46 pm Congrats Ireland.

Can't fault the effort of the Scottish team.
They have not had the rub of the green this 6N tbh.
Today was no different.

Ireland dominated but the knock on disadvantage and the line out penalty were Carley at his best.

The team is the epitome of GT as a player - very occasionally brilliant, consistently inconsistent and often feckless. After 7 years of opportunity it is resoundingly clear that Townsend doesn't have the capabilities to be an international coach. Time for him to go.

Yr Alban wrote: ↑Fri Nov 24, 2023 10:10 pm Fucked off now. Decent start to the season and now they blow it at home against a mid-table side.

Yep. Same old Edinburgh. Headless chickens. Error on error and coughed the game up. The leadership on the pitch is continuously awful.

EnergiseR2 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 18, 2023 7:51 am I'm reasonably confident Scotland timed their run wrong and peaked too early

I'm not sure about timing of runs - it is more that SA and Ireland are Scotland's kryptonite.

Slick wrote: ↑Sat Aug 12, 2023 9:07 pm
Soapy wrote: ↑Sat Aug 12, 2023 9:05 pm Watched the last10 so no context but Berry looked very quick on the draw for the winning pen.
Best you don’t watch the first half

Fair play. Will watch the full thing in the morn

Slick wrote: ↑Sat Aug 12, 2023 9:07 pm
Soapy wrote: ↑Sat Aug 12, 2023 9:05 pm Watched the last10 so no context but Berry looked very quick on the draw for the winning pen.
Best you don’t watch the first half

Fair play. Will watch the full thing in the morn

Watched the last10 so no context but Berry looked very quick on the draw for the winning pen.

He will have been om sweetie money up until now , and will be substantially cheaper than Ben Healy Lad's done well though , but Glasgow need Thomson back - looking at the training pictures posted , looks like RT10 is not far off getting some game time I don't get it. Thomson has never looked no mor...

Tom Jordan has signed a new and much improved contract which takes him up to being Scottish qualified late Oct 2024. He will have been om sweetie money up until now , and will be substantially cheaper than Ben Healy Lad's done well though , but Glasgow need Thomson back - looking at the training pi...

The Thompson to Edinburgh doesn't make any sense to me, unless they are thinking that he's not going to be anywhere near the test team for a while. If that is the case it would mean Savala and Thompson there all season long and covering the second seat behind Kinghorn, maybe with vdWalt as well, bu...

Really great try by Glasgow. Their pack has dominated again this week, the backs have added the final touch and Tuipolotu has just been sensational. Edinburgh, 4 losses in 4. How's Blair turning this around? Unfortunately but not surprisingly Mike Blair as a coach is following the same profile as a...

The inadequacy of the citing process and it’s role in a professional era aren’t helped by having an Argentinian ruling on a player of the team playing Argentina next up …

https://mobile.twitter.com/Murray_Kinsella/status/1587188272568090625 Three tweets in the thread, showing three nice passes from Finn. https://twitter.com/OptaJonny/status/1587077547887656960?s=20&t=_S0n9Uplcei4iSbeUL4wAw Nice to see Scots playing well and perhaps with the shackles off. Flatman...

Bye, bye Gregor. Dreadful selector. Dreadful coach. But still will be there for another early exit from the WC …

Rory Hutchinson is right now Scotland's best back. Basically unstoppable at saints. And again. He's so much fun to watch. And again. He's too good. Amazing that he's not good enough in Townsend World. He doesn't crash ball so not Townsend's type of centre. The odd thing is that Cameron Redpath seem...

I like neeps wrote: ↑Sat Apr 02, 2022 2:31 pm Rory Hutchinson is right now Scotland's best back. Basically unstoppable at saints.

And again. He's so much fun to watch.

And again. He's too good.

Amazing that he's not good enough in Townsend World.

https://twitter.com/AndyBurke_/status/1504833001800220694?t=uE1HcAvzcYRHIonydIW3xw&s=19 Piss up rumours were true - captain and vice captains involved. I think this shows the (lack of) respect Townsend commands. Not condoning the players' behaviour at all but it surely signals that Townsend has...

Cockerill's problem (as far as an outsider can tell) was he was never able to then understand why that was the case and work to change things - he would just blow up at people or freeze them out entirely. If that is true he was a classic poor manager with limited emotional intelligence who didn't u...

I like Vellacott but he's a bit George Horne for me. A very good attacking player who fits an attacking gameplan but when it comes to playing a structured game plan probably doesn't have the kicking skills or consistent speed and accuracy of pass for international standard. I agree with the compari...

No matter what, every new squad announcement has at least one surprise. I had never heard of Ben White before now, and as we have a bit of a logjam at 9 (albeit no clear #2) I’m surprised to see an entirely new name there. Logjam of fairly average alternatives unfortunately (at this point only as t...

South Africa are going to beat us all day every day if we play to their strengths. The only justification of dropping Watson one of our very best players for Haining is Watson is injured. Anything else is just stupidity. Watson has only played about 120 min of rugby since the Lions tour. It is prob...

I was really impressed by Cherry in the 6N. Sure, he may not offer the same in the loose, but as with a reliable kicker, a hooker who reliably hits his jumpers will win you tight games. For me, Cherry looks like he's constantly focused on the job and consistently executes what is expected of him to...

Christopher Greaves - Saffa born, if you have a doubt listen to his post batting interview...Man of the match. Richard Berrington - Saffa Born Bradley Wheal - Saffa Born Kyle Coetzer (Captain) - Scottish name? Saffa chicken runner heritage 3.5 /11 :wink: Coetzer and Berrington both moved to Scotlan...

Insane_Homer wrote: ↑Sun Oct 17, 2021 3:53 pm Game 2
Scots (mostly Saffas) set Bangers 141 FTW after being deep in the shit early on.

Erm, no. 2 SAs in the squad of 15. 9 born in Scotland.

Ok, I see the distinction you are making. I don't think I would like that either as I don't think the players necessarily know a lot of the time that an infringement has been committed. Take the ABs game in 2017 when Kieran Read slapped the ball out Gray's hand on the goalline. Clear yellow card an...

I think that everyone is being too negative about the state of rugby, South Africa have always played like they did during this Lions series. They have still been involved in plenty of classic games, the 2013 and 2018 New Zealand games spring to mind. Rugby is a clash of styles and if the other tea...

Lions pack got mullered in 2nd half, feckin hopeless. Sinkler and Vunipola can't scrummage. Wynn Jones shoved off a couple of scrums. AWJ is past it and Curry was abysmal. Too many penalties conceded by the pack in the last 20. Couldn't win ball or clean ball for Finn to do his magic. Can't underst...

Lions pack got mullered in 2nd half, feckin hopeless. Sinkler and Vunipola can't scrummage. Wynn Jones shoved off a couple of scrums. AWJ is past it and Curry was abysmal. Too many penalties conceded by the pack in the last 20. Couldn't win ball or clean ball for Finn to do his magic. Can't underst...

Why did Curry get 3 tests?. He was poor throughout the whole series. And no surprises that the same back 5 was 2nd best again.

Lions second best upfront and the leaders didn’t lead when it mattered. Liam Williams to go 17-3 .., oh dear.

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