Rugby

France grand slam.

Love the 6 Nations, favourite sporting event of the year.

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Originally Posted by nellio

Six nations back this weekend.

Apart from Italy all the teams are decent so should be a great tournament. Cant see us retaining the championship though. France look great as do Ireland. Scotland look best they have in while and England are always competitive.

Bring it on! Particularly looking forward to Wales France on a Friday night in Cardiff. Wish I was going!

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I can't wait for it to get going. Home game against England is a tough start, but our record recently against them is good. France and England with less than ideal preparation, but England looked strong during the recent Autumn Tests and will be confident going into this. I'd genuinely struggle to pick who I think will win it this year - we look good, but having to go away to Cardiff and Dublin and win is always a tall ask...

While I don't think Italy are going to be anywhere near competitors for the title, they're building a very good young side that could cause a lot more headaches than they perhaps have in previous years.

Good hundred or so Calcutta Cup tickets just went on sale for anyone not going to Hibs v St Mirren…

France deservedly starting as favourites. Playing well and play some of their toughest opponents at home. Scotland have a great fixture list with England and France at home and a trip to Cardiff on a year where Wales look out of sorts - win the first game and the whole tournament opens right up. Ireland are going well but have a poor fixture list, will be up against it to win more than three games. Italy to lose all five as usual.

A big couple of months coming up for Scottish sport - the current Scotland rugby and football teams will probably never have a better chance to win a 6 Nations and qualify for a football world cup than they'll get this year.

Going to be a good day hopefully a Scotland win, terrible weather and I’m out doing Uber at night so plenty money to be made😃

Wales looking completely ordinary here.

17-0 Ireland and Wales have scarcely gone into Ireland’s 22…

Wales getting absolutely pummelled here.

quite astonishing england aren't ahead yet


edit, they are now


only one side in this game

That try came from another not straight throw to the lineout.

Exciting match. England are more lightweight and speedy than they used to be.

Ben O’Keefe has been dreadful today as referee.

England deserve to be ahead but he’s been really poor.

penalty try Scotland and yellow card for the english dude :greengrin


MMmm should we have went for a lineout there instead of taking the three points


20-17





arrrggg hamish watson


penalty reversed, idiot we would have been out of sight i think


just 3 mins remaining, and now scotland give away another penalty ffs


finn russell misses touch


scottish knock-on fgs



they're gonna get a penalty aren't they


yassssssssssss



get a photo of that wee nyaff jones

Makes you sick watching the crowd swigging out of beer cans & football fans can’t even drink alcohol in the concourse

Brilliant result! Well done Scotland. 💪

Hoggy will have his head on the end of a pike by the end of the day. He waltzed off with the Calcutta cup to get some photos with the boys, whilst Annie was standing waiting to present it. :greengrin

Just finished watching it after getting back from Easter Road. Great result and a performance full of heart and effort and no little skill. Thank **** I saw some from one of my teams today.

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Originally Posted by bod

Makes you sick watching the crowd swigging out of beer cans & football fans can’t even drink alcohol in the concourse

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That was quite unusual actually. Normally they dispense it into a plastic cup when you buy it but there were a few cans in the camera shots yesterday.

What a win that was. England will (rightly, if I'm honest) complain about the lack of a penalty at that third scrum reset, but their try to take the lead came from a line-out that wasn't straight and one of O'Keefe's errors.

A lot of ill-discipline from Scotland at the breakdown and work to be done before going to Cardiff next weekend, but a great start.

Was thoroughly impressed by Ireland yesterday and I suspect France will blow Italy away pretty easily today too.

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Originally Posted by Sylar

That was quite unusual actually. Normally they dispense it into a plastic cup when you buy it but there were a few cans in the camera shots yesterday.

What a win that was. England will (rightly, if I'm honest) complain about the lack of a penalty at that third scrum reset, but their try to take the lead came from a line-out that wasn't straight and one of O'Keefe's errors.

A lot of ill-discipline from Scotland at the breakdown and work to be done before going to Cardiff next weekend, but a great start.

Was thoroughly impressed by Ireland yesterday and I suspect France will blow Italy away pretty easily today too.

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Just watched it again and the Scottish co commentator said the try came from "pin point accuracy at the lineout"
Nonsense as we both know.

Italy giving a decent account of themselves here in Paris, but struggling to contain the French as we approach half time.

They're improving year on year with some of the new, young talent coming through their domestic teams and it's showing here.

18-10 France HT.

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Originally Posted by bod

Makes you sick watching the crowd swigging out of beer cans & football fans can’t even drink alcohol in the concourse

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Quite a lot of the time they were opening the cans but we got a round closed which was handy.

Realistically in football I'd have a worry a full can would get lobbed into the away support, as with many things it's the behaviour of a few

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Originally Posted by OldEast

Just watched it again and the Scottish co commentator said the try came from "pin point accuracy at the lineout"
Nonsense as we both know.

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It's a massive bug bear of mine that line outs and scrum feeds are meant to be straight down the middle but referees and linesmen, who are always standing in line with both the throw in and scrum feed, hardly ever punish a squint feed or throw. Add to this that a large amount of line outs and every single scrum feed is squint and it just makes a mockery of having "contested" line outs and scrums.

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Originally Posted by Sergio sledge

It's a massive bug bear of mine that line outs and scrum feeds are meant to be straight down the middle but referees and linesmen, who are always standing in line with both the throw in and scrum feed, hardly ever punish a squint feed or throw. Add to this that a large amount of line outs and every single scrum feed is squint and it just makes a mockery of having "contested" line outs and scrums.

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As long as the ball is fed to one of the scrum half's front row it's not going to be punished. It's treated as an advantage to the team who were awarded the scrum. Get what you say about "contested" though.

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Originally Posted by Sergio sledge

It's a massive bug bear of mine that line outs and scrum feeds are meant to be straight down the middle but referees and linesmen, who are always standing in line with both the throw in and scrum feed, hardly ever punish a squint feed or throw. Add to this that a large amount of line outs and every single scrum feed is squint and it just makes a mockery of having "contested" line outs and scrums.

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The put in to the scrum hasn't been policed for years, however they are still meant to throw in straight to the lineout. However, there were at least a couple on Saturday that were nowhere near straight, even called out by the commentators.

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Originally Posted by OldEast

As long as the ball is fed to one of the scrum half's front row it's not going to be punished. It's treated as an advantage to the team who were awarded the scrum. Get what you say about "contested" though.

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Yeah I know that, it just really annoys me. Scrums are a mess to be honest and I think that part of this is that the teams know they don't have to hook, so can just concentrate on pushing knowing the scrum half is just going to throw the ball into their side of the scrum.

Mind you, the size and strength of the players has probably got too much for scrums to be at all successful nowadays.

Rugby is not my favorurite sport, and I’m not all that knowledgeable about it. I do like watching the 6 nations.

For some reason, I got into watching the highlights of 2019s 38-38 draw with England on you tube earlier. What an incredible spectacle, just an impossible unscriptable game. I was wondering how many Scotland rugby fans on here actually watched the whole 80 mins? If you’re anything like me against a big rival and you’re getting humped 31-0 you turn off the tv and go and make the tea :faf: I didn’t watch it that year, I was aware there’d been an exciting finish but hadn’t realized it was quite like that. Amazing.

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Originally Posted by hibsbollah

Rugby is not my favorurite sport, and I’m not all that knowledgeable about it. I do like watching the 6 nations.

For some reason, I got into watching the highlights of 2019s 38-38 draw with England on you tube earlier. What an incredible spectacle, just an impossible unscriptable game. I was wondering how many Scotland rugby fans on here actually watched the whole 80 mins? If you’re anything like me against a big rival and you’re getting humped 31-0 you turn off the tv and go and make the tea :faf: I didn’t watch it that year, I was aware there’d been an exciting finish but hadn’t realized it was quite like that. Amazing.

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I was at the game. Believe me, if it wasn’t for the fact I was with my young step son, I’d have been back in the pub at half time.

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Originally Posted by Frazerbob

I was at the game. Believe me, if it wasn’t for the fact I was with my young step son, I’d have been back in the pub at half time.

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I'm fairly sure most of the TV viewers claiming to have seen most of that comeback are total liars:greengrin

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Originally Posted by hibsbollah

Rugby is not my favorurite sport, and I’m not all that knowledgeable about it. I do like watching the 6 nations.

For some reason, I got into watching the highlights of 2019s 38-38 draw with England on you tube earlier. What an incredible spectacle, just an impossible unscriptable game. I was wondering how many Scotland rugby fans on here actually watched the whole 80 mins? If you’re anything like me against a big rival and you’re getting humped 31-0 you turn off the tv and go and make the tea :faf: I didn’t watch it that year, I was aware there’d been an exciting finish but hadn’t realized it was quite like that. Amazing.

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Alcohol helped! I'd probably have turned off had we not scored the try right before half time. As a Scotland fan in both football and rugby, I've learned to cling to every crumb :greengrin

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Originally Posted by hibsbollah

Rugby is not my favorurite sport, and I’m not all that knowledgeable about it. I do like watching the 6 nations.

For some reason, I got into watching the highlights of 2019s 38-38 draw with England on you tube earlier. What an incredible spectacle, just an impossible unscriptable game. I was wondering how many Scotland rugby fans on here actually watched the whole 80 mins? If you’re anything like me against a big rival and you’re getting humped 31-0 you turn off the tv and go and make the tea :faf: I didn’t watch it that year, I was aware there’d been an exciting finish but hadn’t realized it was quite like that. Amazing.

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That's exactly what I did 😃