The Official Scottish Rugby Thread

[GrahamWa]

Glad to see Bean and Horne get a start. Is Jordan the Super 6 ex Ulster lad?

Super 6 with Ayr Bulls but he's from Auckland. I think you're maybe thinking of the Embra hooker from Ulster.

[Jock42]

Mata back

[Tichtheid]

Mata back

Good team.

It's interesting the Savala is starting ahead of Jaco.

Good the see that many of internationals will be playing their part.


edit, from the club's announcement
Unavailable: Wes Goosen, Jake Henry, Mesu Kunavula

we knew about Goosen, Henry must have picked up a knock but I was hearing good things about him - back three is looking pretty strong at the moment.

I don't recall hearing about an injury to Kunavula, but I didn't see him in any of the preseason photos in training or the games. I hope it's nothing serious.

[robmatic]

Mata back

Mata looked quite up for it when he came on against Benetton last week.

Decent bench...

[KingBlairhorn]

Good looking team, very strong looking bench. Have to worry they'll be significantly undercooked though.

[KingBlairhorn]

Glasgow not looking much different from last season so far, all fart no shite.

[robmatic]

Glasgow not looking much different from last season so far, all fart no shite.

They've picked a bigger pack but are getting done in the tight - especially the scrum.

[Jock42]

Looking completely uninterested.

[KingBlairhorn]

That looked a try to me. Surely that went backwards? Glasgow very lucky.

[Tichtheid]

That looked a try to me. Surely that went backwards? Glasgow very lucky.

Murphy made the call and refused to be contradicted by evidence

Benetton are no mugs at home, but Glasgow have been very poor

[robmatic]

That looked a try to me. Surely that went backwards? Glasgow very lucky.

Clearly but it made no difference in the end.

[Tichtheid]

Glasgow were rank.

[dkm57]

That was disappointing

[Slick]

Just finished watching. Not very good.

Worrying that Benetton looked better, more interested, more professional, better coached etc etc

[Slick]

I suppose we shouldn’t read too much into the game last night- first game, very disrupted pre season, new coach - it was still a bit of a worry.

Benetton were denied a try that looked OK to every one except the ref and missed 3 lockable penalties. Also when the cavalry came in their wasn’t any real discernible difference, Fagerson aside.

I’m sure they will get better. My main worry is them losing a ton of support on match days

[robmatic]

Just finished watching. Not very good.

Worrying that Benetton looked better, more interested, more professional, better coached etc etc

Benetton are a decent outfit, they are mostly just limited by the talent of available Italian players.

[Slick]

Good to have Ritchie back, looks like he has never been away

[Tichtheid]

Chris Dean couldn't pass for toffee when he first started at Embra.

He's now one of the best distributers from 12 in the game, imo of course.

We look like we are still in preseason, but when we get a couple of phases going we look fairly good. We need to get a period of possession going early in the second half

[Slick]

Chris Dean couldn't pass for toffee when he first started at Embra.

He's now one of the best distributers from 12 in the game, imo of course.

We look like we are still in preseason, but when we get a couple of phases going we look fairly good. We need to get a period of possession going early in the second half

Sweet timing

[Tichtheid]

Ah Darcy, ya wee beauty

[Tichtheid]

That pass from Kinghorn!

[Slick]

Kinghorn spotted that Hoyland try from 3 phases out

[robmatic]

Kinghorn spotted that Hoyland try from 3 phases out

What about Sykes and the flip pass though

[Big D]

Couple of very nice touches early into Kinghorn's second season at 10. That kick for thr 50/22 was a peach too.

[Tichtheid]

Kinghorn spotted that Hoyland try from 3 phases out

What about Sykes and the flip pass though

His pull back pass?

It was top drawer stuff

[Tichtheid]

That kind of thing happens too often for Kinghorn for it to be pure sponny

[Slick]

He’s on another planet tonight, insane 15 minutes so far

[Tichtheid]

Drags scrum half is dummying the put in

[Tichtheid]

We took a while to get going, but the second half was good.

[Slick]

Well that was a very impressive start. Perhaps even more than the lovely tries in the 2nd half was scoring 3 by keeping it tight in the 1st half when under pressure from the Dragons, not sure they would have done that last year.

Dean, Ritchie, Crosby, Graham, Bennett and Kinghorn with his cameo all excellent, Mata looking good.

If you were being hyper critical, lineout wasn’t great, might suffer not having a deadeye kicker at some point, too many players with their socks rolled down, probably won’t come up against a more stupid team.

[Tichtheid]

Well that was a very impressive start. Perhaps even more than the lovely tries in the 2nd half was scoring 3 by keeping it tight in the 1st half when under pressure from the Dragons, not sure they would have done that last year.

Dean, Ritchie, Crosby, Graham, Bennett and Kinghorn with his cameo all excellent, Mata looking good.

If you were being hyper critical, lineout wasn’t great, might suffer not having a deadeye kicker at some point, too many players with their socks rolled down, probably won’t come up against a more stupid team.

Boff is the deadeye kicker.

Kinghorn did okay in the summer for Scotland. I assume they were protecting his hamstrings tonight by only having him take the one pot at goal.

We did okay once we got going, South African sides are not going to be so flaky and give us time to settle, we need to be hitting the ground at full tilt next week

[Biffer]

General view in the ground from who I spoke to was the first twenty minutes was sheesh, not encouraging, but then got a bit of carrying work going in the forwards , got a couple before half time and then Kinghorn unleashed the backs in the second half.

Good win with plenty to work on. TH is correct, Boff is the nailed on kicker.

[Biffer]

Drags scrum half is dummying the put in

He was a bit of a prick even by SH standards.

[Slick]

General view in the ground from who I spoke to was the first twenty minutes was sheesh, not encouraging, but then got a bit of carrying work going in the forwards , got a couple before half time and then Kinghorn unleashed the backs in the second half.

Good win with plenty to work on. TH is correct, Boff is the nailed on kicker.

Yes, to be honest I’d completely forgotten about Boff when writing that

I didn’t think the first 20 was awful, Dragons were fired up and extremely physical. If anything I thought it was a step forward that they soaked it up and then found a different way to score. In saying that there were definitely a few cobwebs that were being blown away as well

[dkm57]

Nicely done Edinburgh, a step up from last year.

[Biffer]

General view in the ground from who I spoke to was the first twenty minutes was sheesh, not encouraging, but then got a bit of carrying work going in the forwards , got a couple before half time and then Kinghorn unleashed the backs in the second half.

Good win with plenty to work on. TH is correct, Boff is the nailed on kicker.

Yes, to be honest I’d completely forgotten about Boff when writing that

I didn’t think the first 20 was awful, Dragons were fired up and extremely physical. If anything I thought it was a step forward that they soaked it up and then found a different way to score. In saying that there were definitely a few cobwebs that were being blown away as well

Problem of course is we won’t see much of Boff until December. Might see him somewhere in Benneton/ Zebre / Cardiff sequence then he’ll have the AIs.

Worry about burnout for the guy as well, went straight from our season into the Arg v Sco games, then RC then back to Edinburgh.

[Big D]

I think we're moving to a pre season similar to the NFL, fewer games and less time for the "1s" so the first 20min was always going to be a bit rusty.

Very good last 60min. Kinghorn looked very sharp in his cameo. Darcy, Bennett, Crosbie and Ritchie looked good throughout.

[robmatic]

I think we're moving to a pre season similar to the NFL, fewer games and less time for the "1s" so the first 20min was always going to be a bit rusty.

Very good last 60min. Kinghorn looked very sharp in his cameo. Darcy, Bennett, Crosbie and Ritchie looked good throughout.

I think basically our pre-season is extending into the season proper and we were still selecting and making substitutions for building match fitness purposes last night. We are fortunate that we had Dragons first up and not one of the Irish or SA teams.

Line out definitely needs sorting quickly, it was poor last week as well.

[Tichtheid]

I think we're moving to a pre season similar to the NFL, fewer games and less time for the "1s" so the first 20min was always going to be a bit rusty.

Very good last 60min. Kinghorn looked very sharp in his cameo. Darcy, Bennett, Crosbie and Ritchie looked good throughout.

I think basically our pre-season is extending into the season proper and we were still selecting and making substitutions for building match fitness purposes last night. We are fortunate that we had Dragons first up and not one of the Irish or SA teams.

Line out definitely needs sorting quickly, it was poor last week as well.

I think the lineout improved as the game went on, it could be that all the fight went out of the Dragons, but that set piece seemed to get better as we shook the rust off

[Jock42]

Well that was a nice game to watch after a night shift. Was a bit concerned during the first 20 minutes that the game would either way and the wrong way at that. Solid team performance and once they found their feet was very enjoyable. Marshall Sykes btw