Good luck Scotland

[keyser Soze]

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not that it matters now but, who was it that kicked the ball over to the line to try get a try ? :asshole:

Dan Parks.

[Houchy]

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That team is a national embarrassment.

Hardly. A poor result tonight but a national embarrassment. Get a grip.

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****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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Hardly. A poor result tonight but a national embarrassment. Get a grip.

Think you missed the sarcascm

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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.

[macca70]

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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Think you missed the sarcascm

I hope so!

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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.

Agree


We should have attacked them earlier IMO

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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.

Only time they did it all game and Cusiter got a try.

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Hardly. A poor result tonight but a national embarrassment. Get a grip.

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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Dan Parks.

Which part of Scotland does he come from exactly?

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Dan Parks.

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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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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.

I see where you coming from

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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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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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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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.

Regarding 1 & 3, well you can only beat what's in front of you.

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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I was in the process of typing something along these lines but decided not to because it sounded like name dropping. I speak to him on a regular basis and he's a great bloke but he is on another planet tonight.

He had a bit of a mare against Romania as well. The tournament hasn't been his finest moment.

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Which part of Scotland does he come from exactly?

The same part as Nigel Quashie i think.

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He had a bit of a mare against Romania as well. The tournament hasn't been his finest moment.

I know mate. I agree but I think I'll just leave it.

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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

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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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.

I know the paying public deserved a better performance but to be fair it was the worst kept secret that Scotland were going to do this.

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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I know the paying public deserved a better performance but to be fair it was the worst kept secret that Scotland were going to do this.

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.

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.

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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.

Just out of interest do you know how many of the Scotland World Cup Squad were Aus/NZ/Saffers

[west_didsbury_hibee]

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 of the 31 man squad weren't born in Scotland. 2 in Australia, 1 in Hong Kong and the rest in England.

So not exactly the overwhelming numbers of Antipodeans that Doddie was insinuating had infested the team this WC