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Thread: Good luck Scotland
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07-10-2007 08:42 PM #61
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07-10-2007 08:43 PM #62This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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07-10-2007 08:43 PM #63
****ing pish
Far too conservative and wait till the last few minutes to have a go. very
p!ssed off if you are going out at least give it a go.
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07-10-2007 08:45 PM #64This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Think you missed the sarcascm
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07-10-2007 08:46 PM #65
Christ i watched Edinburgh for a few seasons under Hadden and he had them throwing the ball wide at every opportunity. tonight we needed to do that and he plays a scared *****e rugby match. what a clown.
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07-10-2007 08:48 PM #66
Doubt they will ever have a better opporchancity to get to a World Cup semi, Argentina were there for the taking and we blew it by making far too many mistakes and not playing for the 1st hour.
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07-10-2007 08:49 PM #67This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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07-10-2007 08:50 PM #68This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
We should have attacked them earlier IMO
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07-10-2007 08:52 PM #69This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Only time they did it all game and Cusiter got a try.
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07-10-2007 08:55 PM #70This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Really? They managed to beat, let's see, Portugal, Italy (just) and Romania.
They chucked the game against New Zealand by picking a below-strength side, and they didn't turn up tonight until less than twenty minutes from time (Gregor Townsend's opinion, not mine).
I'd say that's pretty embarrassing.
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07-10-2007 08:57 PM #71This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Which part of Scotland does he come from exactly?
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07-10-2007 09:00 PM #72This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
cheers all-in-all pretty disappointing we didn't start showing some urgency until time was running out only upside is we didn't get clobbered by them(like some people thought we would) so many "IF only's"
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07-10-2007 09:02 PM #73This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Howevet Scotland lost it tonight by lacking any real threat up-front
We need to attack teams,...............that's our forte in Rugby
Pish poor WC this year
Far too defensive
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07-10-2007 09:05 PM #74This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
portugal= it was there first game in the WC and were out to prove they were no mugs good win for scotland
italy= no mugs at rugby by any stretch of the imagination another good win
romania= as portugal, thought they would have given us a right hard game but they didnt
all-blacks i concur
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07-10-2007 09:09 PM #75This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Regarding New Zealand, I can understand the picking of that team ie avoidance of injuries/fatigue in a game we were unlikely to get anything from and little benefit of winning anyway (play France rather than Argentina. I know who i'd prefer if I had the choice before hand).
Regarding Italy. Granted Italy are not a great team but we did lose the last game we played against them so had to treat them with respect. We got our tactics right on the day and got through to play an Argentinian side who beat France in the first game.
Granted, Scotland in the past should have and would have waltzed past Italy and Argentina but you can only P*ss with the cock you've got and we don't have the best options available at the moment (see this years 6 nations).
Embarassment, I don't think so, but opinions eh.:cool:
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07-10-2007 09:11 PM #76This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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07-10-2007 09:14 PM #77This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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07-10-2007 09:14 PM #78This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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07-10-2007 09:17 PM #79This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Those were games we ought to have won anyway. Portugal aren't a serious Rugby power by any stretch of the imagination. Romania was probably the best performance, and against Italy they did just enough.
But when the coach openly chooses a second team against NZ, and the commentators openly rfer to the fact that 'Scotland' won't be trying (Douglas Nicol used the expression 'throwing the game') there's something wrong. Murrayfield was well-filled by people who had paid good money to watch the game. They deserved better.
Tonight they were embarrassing.
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07-10-2007 09:25 PM #80This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
What was the benefit of Scotland going all out for a victory?
To be honest I wanted to go along to the All Blacks game just to see them, really not caring what the score was as it was not important.
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07-10-2007 10:16 PM #81This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
The years of my youth were spent at a rugby-playing school where we were constantly lectured by the sadistic dwarf who taught the game that 'soccer' players were (I quote) 'nancy-boys and cheats'. Well, if Alec McLeish or any other Scotland 'soccer' manager had approached an international match in such a cynical spirit he would have been booed out of the stadium, and rightly so. A boxer approaching a bout in that spirit would lose his licence. A jockey would quite possibly have the heavy mob set on him by the bookies he'd cheated.
I've seen a few pretty cynical performances in the FIFA World Cup over the years, but I've never actually heard the team officials and the country's commentators confirming the fact that a team wouldn't be trying before.
That team no longer has any real connection with Scotland. Too many antipodean second-raters, too little contact with the (rapidly shrinking) rugby-playing community, and an over-riding attitude of money-grubbing greed that makes Blatter and UEFA look like angels.
Once upon a time I enjoyed watching rugby. Two Grand Slams in less than ten years, and teams that had a real pride in representing THEIR country. That's the first match I've watched in this World Cup, and I'm very glad I didn't waste any more of my time watching the others. the SRU ought to be ashamed of the way they've destroyed what was once a healthy spectator/participant sport at all levels in this country.
I say it again - they're a disgrace and an embarrassment to Scotland.Last edited by --------; 07-10-2007 at 10:18 PM.
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10-10-2007 06:02 PM #82This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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10-10-2007 07:48 PM #83
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10 of the 31 man squad weren't born in Scotland. 2 in Australia, 1 in Hong Kong and the rest in England.
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10-10-2007 08:13 PM #84This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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