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Is the Munster game fully sold out? I was considering going, but if the website is to believed, there isn’t a single seat in the house.

TedMaul wrote: ↑Sun May 12, 2024 10:34 am
TB63 wrote: ↑Sun May 12, 2024 10:01 am Tree Gump

Crow on the Orient Express
Well played.

Came here to say this. I didn’t make it up, but it wins the game. (I did like Lion and Prejudice though!)

Hoping one of you knows how this should work... My Viaplay subscription ends in a week. The URC matches are now on Premier Sports. Viaplay are offering me a good deal (£59 for the year) to continue the subscription. But am I right in thinking that won't give me Premier Sports access? Do I need to s...

Some comeback from Glasgow, I see. Gave themselves a bit too much to do for a win, but two BPs from the Bulls away is decent.

Agreed - that team should be good enough to get a BP win against Zebra at home. Anyone carrying a niggle or recovering doesn't have to be risked tonight. I suspect we might make heavy weather of it but will grind the Italians down in last 20mins. Hopefully we won't sustain any more injuries! 5 poin...

Two late tries actually put some polish on this in the end. Ah well, the expected result. Need to keep pushing for top 8.

BP secured for Edinburgh (presuming they don’t fuck it up and lose) but they’ve been drawn into a shit fest by Zebre. A bit more structure and a little more smarts and they’d have skooshed this. I don’t know what the hell is wrong with Edinburgh. It’s been this way for years. They have a decent squ...

FGS, if Edinburgh arse this up, I will not be impressed.

My son is at the game v Zebre tonight. Was just thinking that he’d picked the wrong night. Though I see Ashman has gone over again.

One of my Uni mates has just been appointed as Dr James Robson’s replacement as SRU team doctor. Not a surprise - he’s worked with the team for years - but I’m delighted for him all the same.

https://x.com/sportsdocskye/status/1787 ... 53746?s=46

An old teacher of mine was at Heriot’s with Andy Irvine and told me he was an absolute arsehole. I was at Uni with a guy who played against Toony and said he was the most arrogant player he’d ever met. Immense talent on the rugby pitch often seems to go along with being a toxic person. I’m just gla...

Fuck me, he’s not quite a childhood hero of mine (that’d be big Gav) given he’s a decade younger than me but Hoggy was a formative part of my rugby psyche. To learn he’s (allegedly) a proper wrong un is tough. An old teacher of mine was at Heriot’s with Andy Irvine and told me he was an absolute ar...

Saw a rumour on Twitter today that the SRU have tied up Tuipulotu the younger. For Edinburgh. Which would certainly give the derbies an edge!

... and another thing seeing as I'm sitting in the pub with a pint. Should Townsend be chasing Fergus Burke to come on the summer tour and commit to Scotland? Already Scottish qualified and Saracens have kindly brought him to the UK and are paying him. 24 year old kiwi born and raised, through the ...

But my point was that even if he has two complete seasons when he never misses a tackle or a high ball, there will still be people who won't let go of that opinion. Same went for Chris Patterson - one missed tackle. Was a pretty good defender in general, as well as superb elsewhere. This still anno...

charltom wrote: ↑Sat Apr 06, 2024 10:23 pm
Yr Alban wrote: ↑Sat Apr 06, 2024 10:05 pm Good result for Edinburgh. Where will the QF be played?
Durban if Sharks win; Hive if Zebre do.

Good result, eventually.

Well, that willl be the end of that, then.

I was cheering Jasmin on at work when she finished the Barkley. I was then going to claim her for Scotland (she is originally from Derbyshire) but as she presented the match ball at the women’s Scotland v France game, I think she has done that herself! One of my colleagues is a serious ultra-runner ...

Good result for Edinburgh. Where will the QF be played?

Did Glasgow fuck that as badly as the text updates suggested?

Kind of in relation to the ‘players born overseas’ thing, Patrick Kielty is every Irish/Scots/Welshman who moved to England for work https://fb.watch/rdwk8FdhYY/? Yeah, I seem to have got away with it. Neither of my kids remembers living in England (not a surprise really, my eldest was 5 when we le...

Re: props, Embra are struggling to make the big cup every season and that’s without developing any SQ props. Can’t see how it will make a great deal of difference if they do.

So, Fergus Burke has signed for Saracens.

Here’s the question: will England try to get him capped ASAP so that we can’t make use of him?

Fuck me, there’s another story about it on the bbc as well https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-68679606 "I was livid, but I didn't know who to be livid with," he said. Yourself, you dick. Yep. A lot of countries don’t just require your passport to be in date, either, but to have 3 months’...

Rumor has it that Edinburgh has secured the services of Paul Hill currently at Northampton Saints Filling a WP Nel sized gap, Certainly pretty experienced , and not getting much game time at Saints, third choice these days , probably hot going to be getting in the England squad so would be availabl...

I forgot about the 2022 NZ match - it was the tour to NZ that was cancelled in 2020 that was maybe in my mind? 2022 was Hogg getting tackled by Barrett in the last few minutes and then them scoring (a penalty?) at the other end to take the match away from us? 2017 was Cane (?) slapping the ball out...

And maybe he has got them playing beyond their talents (I don't think so) but we'll not know until we try someone else. It's been 7 years of false dawns. Oh and congrats Ireland. I think our talents are overrated. I think Hogg, Finn, Huw Jones, Sione and possibly Vdm would be at home in any team in...

I would have liked the ABs as I think we might have had a glimmer of hope against them, plus when did we last play them at Murrayfield? Australia is a good chance for a decent scalp but it's presumably out of window? That could be a tough ask without our first choice half-back pairing amongst other...

Uncle fester wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2024 8:10 pm How on earth did she end up here?

Because she is incapable of admitting she might have been wrong. Under criticism, she invariably doubles down, whatever the issue. On this one, she has dug herself a huge hole and keeps on digging rather than look for a way to climb out.

The most impressive thing about Scotland this campaign was highlighted by skipper Finn in his post match comments after both the Welsh and French games. In the former he lambasted the sheer stupidity of them giving away so many penalties in a row and the latter he refused to blame the ref and sayin...

What is so frustrating is that Scotland have addressed all of the issues that were losing us games. We’ve sorted the attack. We’ve sorted the defence. We’ve sorted the scrum, the lineouts, even the bloody restarts were better this year. Admittedly not all of these things have stayed fixed, but at le...

The stat about penalties won and conceded is truly bizarre. 27 for, 57 against. How does that happen, when all but one of our games was less-than-a-score close and we weren’t noticeably dirtier than anyone else? The series of penalties awarded to Wales in that game beggared belief in itself, but it ...

Two wins, fourth is what we deserve We were a wrong TMO decision away from three wins and we really should have held on in Rome for four, but c'est la vie as a Scotland supporter. Three home wins next year and wins in London and Paris (do-able) will see us get the GS next year - it's on! TBH I can’...

In Australia. Just woke up to this. Fuck sake. You could
see it coming, but fuck sake. We could literallly have been playing for the title next week.

Hadn't heard that one before. A 20 cap international switching sides seems a bit mucky tbh. I know that is hugely hypocritical because Jack Dempsey is ace and is a 15 cap Aussie international and I am delighted he plays for us. But all the same, mucky. I think Carre played in the 2021 Wales jamslam...

There’s also the players who were born overseas but nobody cares, like Arundell (Cyprus) and Marcus Smith (the Philippines). In Scotland’s case these players are counted as ‘foreign born’ - Kyle Rowe and Cam Redpath, for example - because the narrative is that all of our players have to be poached....

The crying that is still going on about eligibility is incredible. We are obviously doing something right. Yip, we shouldn't allow the trolls to get to us, we do not have to defending our right to play who we want under the rules. Rather we should be celebrating our team no longer being dismissed a...

The crying that is still going on about eligibility is incredible. We are obviously doing something right. Yeah, the daily for Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells ran an article/whingefest on the subject yesterday The Irish, as usual, are the most ridiculous. Their 1st XV would have the same number of ove...

Didn't BK basically say in the Netflix documentary that Duhan either doesn't understand or isn't interested in the finer points of the game, he's just has an instinct for running and scoring. They have tried to coach more into him but in the end just let him do what he does. Like all things there i...

Big D wrote: ↑Tue Feb 27, 2024 10:24 am Huw Jones is apparently off to Montpellier in the summer.

No he’s no! Just signed an extension!

Mark Bennett an Edinburgh centurion, I didn't think he'd been with the club that long - time flies etc. Regarding Nel, Everitt said his neck is liable to flair up from time to time and he's going through that at the moment, I remember reading that it was his neck that caused him to miss games a cou...

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