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November tests Fiji, South Africa, Portugal, Australia on successive weekends throughout November - hopefully all within the international windows. Is the international window not only 3 weeks? From looking at the fixtures for the other teams it looks like the Fiji game might be outside the window ...

So, two things to think about now that the Six Nations are over. 1, who tours this summer. 2, who might retire/be moved on from the squad prior to the next six nations. In terms of the summer for me it is a mixture of rest for the most overworked world cup players, more caps for some of the older b...

On the penalties it certainly looks odd. I would guess losing the possession and territory stats probably means we've given away a few more defensive penalties than anyone. A few fair enough. That level of disparity is very, very strange though. It is. The -12 differntial from the Wales game makes ...

On the penalties it certainly looks odd. I would guess losing the possession and territory stats probably means we've given away a few more defensive penalties than anyone.

I think we've become very stale. We have that one wee loop off 12 variation in attack but our attack hasn't evolved and too often we still rely on Duhan doing something special to win games. And we scored the second fewest tries in the 6N. When was the last time we tried anything clever with the for...

Having seen Ireland's second try over and over again now, I am fuming. More and more, it seems like Scotland are being held to a different standard than the other teams. How is that try awarded? There's blocking, there's holding a potential tackler back, there are three Scots seemingly under the ba...

Plenty to be positive about for both sides. Lots to work on but many positives.

Christie amd Cummings will be sore. Over 50 tackles between them.

Never at the races really. As usual not helped but some very dodgy refereeing. Not saying it would have changed the game but we really seem to get more than our share of poor calls. I reckon we’re at the races. We’re not charging for the line to win them, but we’re there. Big difference today is we...

That's a scrum.

These French young uns are going to be a problem.

Lol talking utter shite again.

Itoje treading a very fine line already. Could easily have given away two pens.

Congrats to Ireland.

Need more night games in the 6N/international rugby. Feel like bigger games.

In these games we often lack the composure needed because we don't have the experience to fall back on of winning them.

The Irish squad all have experience of winning these games and have that composure of knowing if they all do what they need to then they'll win more than they lose.

Can't fault the effort.

Christie was excellent. Not sure why he was the one sacrificed after the yellow.

Some big questions needing asked but not tonight.

Congrats Ireland.

Can't fault the effort of the Scottish team.

No urgency at all.

What an awful call by the ref.

Penalty for that yet when the ball pinged of Furlongs chest to an Ireland player in front it was just a scrum.

That was a penalty.

Manshaming for Zander there

C69 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2024 5:58 pmCarly being a twat

Was definitely something odd with the tap.

Once again we are doing OK in these games but can't take our chances. Like Graham in the RWC v SA, Stafford has to give a short pass to Kinghorn who would probably have gotten in. Steyn had a chance to set Jones away just after too. Defence very good. Christie playing well. Duhan and Russell having ...

Christie has been great today.

Big D wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2024 5:17 pm Pass the bloody ball. Kinghorn is in if McDowall passes it.

And another. Steyn has to give that to Jones.

Pass the bloody ball. Kinghorn is in if McDowall passes it.

Game is stopped so he can fix his lifting tape? Bollocks to that.

Dummy runner pole axes the defender and not a peep from the officials.

That's poor by VdM.

Steyn again in no man's land creating space for attackers.

petej wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2024 5:00 pm
Big D wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2024 4:58 pmAwful.
A bit easy for Ireland.

It is such a bad throw. There was margin of error and even then short is better than long.

Awful.

petej wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2024 4:53 pm
Big D wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2024 4:51 pm I really wish they'd pension off Hastings and let Beattie Jnr in the comms box.
Not as bad as jiffy, guscott or nicol
Edit or d'arcy

Doesn't make him any good though.

Piss weak from Fagerson.

I really wish they'd pension off Hastings and let Beattie Jnr in the comms box.

I don't understand some of the refereeing. Wildly inconsistent.

Don't disagree with any of that. All I'm saying is that they probably identified the propensity for individual player errors rather than Scotland's general defence set up, as this has rarely been this issue with the defence system previously. So the Italian analysts prepared their attack based on t...

Seems to be a lot of contact between dummy runners and defence not being picked up.

It is going to be a skelping.

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