NPR

Jock42 wrote: ↑Sat May 18, 2024 8:44 pm So very Scottish

Still, it's completely in their hands. Be nice if the Stormers do enough to stop the Lions getting all 5 points though.

Yr Alban wrote: ↑Thu May 23, 2024 11:06 am Ross Thompson to Edinburgh. Not sure how much sense that makes?

Biffer wrote: ↑Thu May 23, 2024 11:08 am

Yr Alban wrote: ↑Thu May 23, 2024 11:06 am Ross Thompson to Edinburgh. Not sure how much sense that makes?

Me neither. Only a one year deal.

weegie01 wrote: ↑Thu May 23, 2024 12:22 pm

Biffer wrote: ↑Thu May 23, 2024 11:08 am

Yr Alban wrote: ↑Thu May 23, 2024 11:06 am Ross Thompson to Edinburgh. Not sure how much sense that makes?

Me neither. Only a one year deal.

Franco does not like his style of play and he has not been able to adapt to what Franco wants. The SRU want to see if he can fit in at Edinburgh given the investment made in him to date. They have been getting a lot of stick about giving more support to non Scots (eg. Charlie Savala) than to Scots and seem to be taking that on board.

Fraser Brown rumoured to be moving into a coaching role at Glasgow, and Ben Cairns at Edinburgh..

Tichtheid wrote: ↑Fri May 24, 2024 12:13 pm Blair Kinghorn to start for Toulouse in tomorrow's Champions Cup final.

Good luck to the laddie, I really hope he plays a blinder.

KingBlairhorn wrote: ↑Thu May 23, 2024 1:29 pm

weegie01 wrote: ↑Thu May 23, 2024 12:22 pm

Biffer wrote: ↑Thu May 23, 2024 11:08 am

Me neither. Only a one year deal.

Franco does not like his style of play and he has not been able to adapt to what Franco wants. The SRU want to see if he can fit in at Edinburgh given the investment made in him to date. They have been getting a lot of stick about giving more support to non Scots (eg. Charlie Savala) than to Scots and seem to be taking that on board.

Fraser Brown rumoured to be moving into a coaching role at Glasgow, and Ben Cairns at Edinburgh..

He's closer in style to Ben Healy than (for instance) Hastings who is incoming at Glasgow. I actually think this could be an ok move, Edinburgh's only other 10 is Cammy Scott who Everitt doesn't seem to trust.

He's a year older than Healy which really puts his development (or lack thereof) into sharper focus.

Tichtheid wrote: ↑Fri May 24, 2024 12:13 pm Blair Kinghorn to start for Toulouse in tomorrow's Champions Cup final.

Good luck to the laddie, I really hope he plays a blinder.

Jock42 wrote: ↑Sat May 25, 2024 4:45 pm Chuffed to fuck for Kinghorn

Biffer wrote: ↑Sat May 25, 2024 5:07 pm Starting for the biggest club in Europe, ahead of Ramos, in the European Cup final, means he's one of the best about. As we already knew.

Delighted for him, seems to have kicked on being in France.

Toulouse also top of the table in France so the double is on for them

KingBlairhorn wrote: ↑Sat May 25, 2024 6:25 pm

Biffer wrote: ↑Sat May 25, 2024 5:07 pm Starting for the biggest club in Europe, ahead of Ramos, in the European Cup final, means he's one of the best about. As we already knew.

Delighted for him, seems to have kicked on being in France.

Toulouse also top of the table in France so the double is on for them

Great for Scotland too. Kinghorn, Smith, Patterson is an excellent roster. We do need our very best to move on occasionally to ensure we retain a deep enough pool.

Tichtheid wrote: ↑Sat May 25, 2024 8:14 pm

charltom wrote: ↑Sat May 25, 2024 10:24 pm

Tichtheid wrote: ↑Sat May 25, 2024 8:14 pm

Didn't he do well?

Yr Alban wrote: ↑Sat May 25, 2024 8:01 pm Kinghorn mentioned that he spent 9 years with Edinburgh and didn’t beat Leinster once. That is a sad indictment of Scottish club rugby.

topofthemoon wrote: ↑Sun May 26, 2024 12:02 pm

Yr Alban wrote: ↑Sat May 25, 2024 8:01 pm Kinghorn mentioned that he spent 9 years with Edinburgh and didn’t beat Leinster once. That is a sad indictment of Scottish club rugby.

To be fair, within that 9 years there was a 6 year gap (between September 2017 and November 2023) where Kinghorn didn't play in any of Edinburgh’s games against Leinster (which included a couple of home wins).

He played against Leinster 5 times during his Edinburgh career, only one of which was a home game (lost 20 - 33). He came off the bench in that fixture in September 2016 where the starting Edinburgh backline was 15 Bryce, 14 Allen, 13 Tofilau, 12 Burleigh, 11 Brown, 10 Weir, 9 Fowles

Biffer wrote: ↑Sun May 26, 2024 12:40 pm

topofthemoon wrote: ↑Sun May 26, 2024 12:02 pm

Yr Alban wrote: ↑Sat May 25, 2024 8:01 pm Kinghorn mentioned that he spent 9 years with Edinburgh and didn’t beat Leinster once. That is a sad indictment of Scottish club rugby.

To be fair, within that 9 years there was a 6 year gap (between September 2017 and November 2023) where Kinghorn didn't play in any of Edinburgh’s games against Leinster (which included a couple of home wins).

He played against Leinster 5 times during his Edinburgh career, only one of which was a home game (lost 20 - 33). He came off the bench in that fixture in September 2016 where the starting Edinburgh backline was 15 Bryce, 14 Allen, 13 Tofilau, 12 Burleigh, 11 Brown, 10 Weir, 9 Fowles

That's a shocking backline. Geez.

Tichtheid wrote: ↑Sun May 26, 2024 12:45 pm

Biffer wrote: ↑Sun May 26, 2024 12:40 pm

topofthemoon wrote: ↑Sun May 26, 2024 12:02 pm
To be fair, within that 9 years there was a 6 year gap (between September 2017 and November 2023) where Kinghorn didn't play in any of Edinburgh’s games against Leinster (which included a couple of home wins).

He played against Leinster 5 times during his Edinburgh career, only one of which was a home game (lost 20 - 33). He came off the bench in that fixture in September 2016 where the starting Edinburgh backline was 15 Bryce, 14 Allen, 13 Tofilau, 12 Burleigh, 11 Brown, 10 Weir, 9 Fowles

That's a shocking backline. Geez.

Tom Brown was very quick and Phil Burleigh wouldn’t have been out of place in a high quality backline, but that wasn’t a high quality backline

topofthemoon wrote: ↑Sun May 26, 2024 12:02 pm

Yr Alban wrote: ↑Sat May 25, 2024 8:01 pm Kinghorn mentioned that he spent 9 years with Edinburgh and didn’t beat Leinster once. That is a sad indictment of Scottish club rugby.

To be fair, within that 9 years there was a 6 year gap (between September 2017 and November 2023) where Kinghorn didn't play in any of Edinburgh’s games against Leinster (which included a couple of home wins).

He played against Leinster 5 times during his Edinburgh career, only one of which was a home game (lost 20 - 33). He came off the bench in that fixture in September 2016 where the starting Edinburgh backline was 15 Bryce, 14 Allen, 13 Tofilau, 12 Burleigh, 11 Brown, 10 Weir, 9 Fowles

clydecloggie wrote: ↑Mon May 27, 2024 7:21 am Was in the stadium on Saturday - BK played an absolute blinder. His cover tackles were beyond brilliant and saved two certain tries. Of course Dupont got MotM, because he always does regardless of how he plays, and in all honesty Willis would have been equally/more deserving of that accolade...but arguably BK's impact on the match was on a par with those two.

Toulouse's defence was magnificent to see - they completely negated the Leinster / Ireland tactic of multiple short running lines bamboozling the defence so they don't know where the ball is by simply standing their ground not worrying about it and making dominant hits as soon as a guy in blue ran into contact. And if there was a break, they had a never-say-die scramble defence as a back-up. Scotland take note - that's how you beat Irish rugby.

SaintK wrote: ↑Mon May 27, 2024 11:51 am
There is tons of bitching about EVERYTHING from the swarm