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Big build up, totally outplayed and out thought tactically by Wales, plenty of individual mistakes, BBC Rugby commentators and analysts bigging up certain Scottish players over the last few weeks, they've all been poor. The only one that has an excuse is Laidlaw who's been out for a while, but Townsend looks as if he's been completely out thought by the Welsh coach. Scotland are better than this, but nowhere near as good as some people seem to think, on this performance anyway.
Mistake after mistake, a shambolic performance.
Very very poor. Rabbits caught in the headlights once again.
Gave the game away, the Welsh weren’t anything special, we were shambolic.
some hard questions needing asked and answered by the coaching staff and the players.
The coaching staff must take their share of the blame but some of the errors on the field committed by the players were embarrassing and something that no rugby player at any level should make. Basic handling errors. Complete rethink needed needed before next week.
Intercept tries happen but no excuse for the way we just seemed to chuck it after that. Completely lost the plot. So poor. Watson just about got pass marks but he's the only one.
won't even bother watching a recording of the game, unfortunately scotland are always capable of results like todays, still, £40 on a welsh win has softened the blow, read somewhere that since 2000 scotland have won away from home just 6 times...with 4 of they wins coming in italy, the french mucked up against ireland by missing a penalty with just a few mins left which would have meant the irish needing a try to win, but i was positive if ireland just controlled play from then on they were perfectly capable of winning with a drop goal...and they duly obliged with a great effort by sexton, they've set themselves up for a last day winner takes all at twickenham as i'm sure they will win all their next 3 games all at home v italy/wales/scotland, scotland(imo) will now be involved in the basement battle with italy to avoid that wooden spoon
p.s. cheeky wee £30 on england to win tomorrow in italy starting at -22 points
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Originally Posted by cabbageandribs1875
Felt sorry for Scotland fans. Total underperformance.
Being Welsh I was well happy with a bonus point win but I'm also a big fan of Scotland rugby and felt disappointed. On to France next Sunday. Ill be looking for a big reaction.
It's between us and Italy for the wooden spoon. Again.
Gatland didn't pick Scots for the Lions because he doesn't feel they travel well.
Looks like he's right.
First time on here after having been in Wales for the match. Travelled down on Thursday and spent roughly £700 and once again had a great weekend but ruined completely by the result. I feel we made a huge mistake getting rid of Cotter as coach. One of the top 4/5 coaches in the world to be replace by someone who might one day possibly maybe a very good coach. Too many wrong selections and too many just shat it basically in the big game atmosphere. I was there when we lost 50-3 and Saturday was a worse performance!!
I'm not sure if this has been a game for the purist as my knowledge of rugby is pretty much zero but it's been very entertaining in the way the scoring has gone.
master class from townsend by finally taking finn russell off after 65 minutes, he really should have been taken off 25 minutes earlier at HT as he was absolutely abysmal today, tackling like a wee girl, kicking possession away constantly and the worst crime off all...failing to find touch 2 or 3 times:bitchy: but a great win in the end :saltireflag
Brilliant result. Some big performances in the forwards. Laidlaw outstanding. Jones back playing in his right position played well. Horne had a strong game. Only player who didn't have a good game was Russell. Stop believing the hype and get back to basics Finn. Kicking was awful as well. Need to up the performance levels by 20% to beat England
Jones is a horrible man. A good friend of mine knows him well through working for the SRU for years and said he is a complete ****er that no one can stand. All this bull**** just now about how jones is a wind up merchant and is alright is only because he is England coach. If he was Scotland coach and said some of that crap he would get slaughtered. Can't stand Gatland either mindQuote:
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Finn Russell's form has went downhill since he signed his mega bucks contract with Racing 92. They must be a worried Club right now!
If his interview post match yesterday is anything to go by, he is certainly an arrogant git. The TMO fckd up big style with that decision and he wouldn't answer the question he was asked. I appreciate he was asked a 'what if' question but he just bullshttd the response.Quote:
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Anyway, today's response by Scotland to last week was outstanding, despite Russell's below par performance and the ring loosening first ten minutes. I thought Gilchrist had possibly his best game for Scotland while Watson, Hoggy, Dents, Gray, Berghan and Laidlaw were tremendous. That was pretty physical at times.
And do you know what? Lenny was at the game!
Finn Russell is by far the best option we have at stand off. He's not been very good the first two games of the six nations but there's no way we can drop him. (Perhaps that's part of the problem?) He reminds me of Townsend in his younger days, a bit of a mercurial talent, equally as capable of throwing the game away with terrible decisions as he is of a moment of magic to win us a huge game. I was always gutted when Townsend was dropped for the likes of Duncan Hodge, it took some of the excitement of the game, so I hope they stick with Russell.
So was McGinn. Seeing him was the highlight of my son's day although the game ran it a close second.Quote:
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i can certainly believe that :agree: horrible little scroat of a man, Gatlands remarks about the scottish team leading up to cardiff were pathetic as well, although the southern hemisphere teams play with some class... jones and Gatland have none whatsoever, classless/graceless fuds the two of them
Anybody else think that if football managers did the same kind of prematch sledging on a daily basis that rugby coaches seem to do these days, we'd never hear the end of it?Quote:
Originally Posted by cabbageandribs1875
I see the plane carrying the French team home has been grounded and French players removed for questioning by the police. Allegedly involved in a mass brawl on George Street.
Who the heck in their right mind would take on the French rugby team at fisticuffs??Quote:
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Sky News are now saying it is to do with a sexual assault.Quote:
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Edit: Police Scotland are now saying they have concluded that no crime has been committed.
George Best?Quote:
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:top marks Agree with you on all counts my friend
Scotland U 20s beat England tonight. An unbelievable result considering the gulf in resources both in personnel and finances. Well done the young team, fingers crossed for tomorrow for the big team
Eddie Jones is Rugby's version of Levein (with success though), hope we can wipe that smirk off of his face.
Fighting in the tunnel before the game apparently. Love it.
Its weird that the commentators are celebrating the scuffle in the tunnel before the match. If that was football we'd have an investigation and players banned before the game had begun.
The difference in attitude is interesting, but probably due to how physical the game is.
Ice hockey is the same. Hook a player, that's you out for a few minutes to think about what you've done before coming back on :faf:
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Is there a facepalm big enough for the guy in the crowd with the half and half face paint?
It's mostly handbags. Big treelike chaps grasping each other at arms length. Nothing to see here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dinkydoo
Everyone goes for a few beers after.
Ripping them a new one so far. Can't wait to see Guscotts puss tripping him.
superb try from huw jones 22-6 HT hope we can keep it up in the 2nd
Well well well. Keep it going lads !
I enjoyed watching the last 6 nations hand-egg and decided to give it another bash this year. From the second half against France to now we've played some great stuff.
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Fin Russell says :giruy: to his critics in a spectacular way.
that was rather easy, still it wouldn't be scotland if we didn't shoot ourselves in the foot now and then
fs hogg :grr:
aw man if horne had passed that ball we were in, criminal
Let off there albeit an excellent bit of refereeing.
russell kicking away possession, needlessly
followed by a forward pass from him :rolleyes:
For some reason I'm ten times more nervous with rugby, I've had to start tanning in a bottle of wine to get through this.
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excuses excuses
could really do with getting more points on the board
usual english thuggery at rugby....no change there
yellow card well done referee
Thought that was a red but think him missing the face has saved him. Good decision again.
good kick 25-13 need to clear the decks from the re-start
get another 3 points on the board and i'l be confident :)
unfortunately another poor line out
wee scroat eddie jones starting to worry i hope
great turnover :greengrin
and yet another total ****up at our own line-out...ffs
get in ya dancer yi :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
p.s. i absolutely detest eddie jones...get it up yi
Get.that.wrapped.360.degrees.right.*****.roooooooo ooooooooond ye jones!!!!!
Unbeleeeeeeevable!
nice round of boo's for poison dwarf jones
Well done Scotland!! What an atmosphere at Murrayfield as well! Absolutely proud of all the lads!
We did a lot of talking exchanging jibes with them off the pitch and we needed to ensure we backed that up on the pitch and we did it in style!
GIRFUY Eddie Jones!
Sorry thought this was going to be a curling tread. :wink::greengrin
scotland U20's unlucky going down 30-25 in oirland, wales losing at home to the italians 7-18
outclassed in ireland, penalty after penalty gifted away, natural order definitely restored
Threw too many chances away.Quote:
Originally Posted by cabbageandribs1875
Really difficult to win away from home in the 6N as shown in the 2nd match.
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doubly hard when we gift teams 7 points and can't make basic throws, still, at least our women won :greengrin
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/43409476
England head coach Eddie Jones has "apologised unreservedly" for offensive comments he made about Wales and Ireland.
At a sponsors' talk in July 2017, the Australian described Wales as a "**** little place" and spoke about how disappointed he was by a recent defeat by the "****my Irish".
i really really REALLY despise this little cretin, he's going to lose all his teeth some day
Getting tanned senseless currently by Italy.
it was men against boys, now it's men against Girls
They’re a real Jeckyll and Hyde outfit. They can be so good at times but more often than not they are mince with no backbone, skill or character.Quote:
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mon the Girls :flag:
Somehow managed to drag ourselves in front, shown some character having looked well beat at one point.
If it wasn’t for Laidlaw, we would be in a sorry state. Unconvincing win.
we truly are a great team :greengrin
price nearly ****s it up
all credit goes to the italians
I kind of wanted Italy to win this. Feel sorry for their horrible run of defeats and there's nothing in it for us anyway.
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we could end up 3rd if other results go our way, nothing in it for us ?
Grand Slam: £5.5m
1st: £4.5m
2nd: £3.3m
3rd: £2.3m
4th: £1.8m
5th: £1.3m
6th: £800,000
Italy done well today but I think they need to bring in some sort of play off, teams like Georgia or Romania would give Italy a run for their money in a play off.
Average performance but a good win. Some of the derogatory comments on Facebook are disgraceful, we weren't really as bad as that.
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i'm all for giving entry to Georgia thus increasing it to 7 nations, i don't think it would be the right thing to do for international rugby by downgrading italy, imo of course
I hadn't realised that, fair enough.Quote:
Originally Posted by cabbageandribs1875
eddie jones decision to lengthen the in goal area backfires with a 3rd irish try :greengrin poor wee eddie
more than a bit of luck for at least two of those trys though
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Originally Posted by hibsbollah
tiz a lot of money for the SRU hopefully :agree: helluva lot of money even just between 1st and 3rd
To be honest I'm not really knowledgeable about rugby, I just use the six nations as an excuse to go in for a bit of'anyone but england' :)Quote:
Originally Posted by cabbageandribs1875
already looking forward to the ireland v all blacks autumn international
Paddy's day grand slam at Twickenham? Ah go on then :greengrin
so, the welsh win even though the french dominated, very credible 3rd spot for Scotland, just a pity with our lack of bonus points, the bottom two nations should get relegated to a newly formed north siberian league for the next two decades :greengrin
Who finished in the bottom two?Quote:
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:greengrin:greengrin:greengrin
Well, not an awful day
Oi! We're getting there, late starters at this game compagno.Quote:
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