Difficult to tell how Glasgow are getting on this year because there’s been bugger all coverage. We’ve got a really good sport pub that can show pretty much any game providing it’s somewhere on TV but I’m getting so sick of scouring the TV guides only to find that yet again I have to follow it on the radio or by live text. Not the best way of getting a feeling for how the teams doing.
Anyway, considering that they’ve started the season without Parks, Cusiter, Kellock, and the killer B’s I’m actually pretty happy with the way the team’s playing. Weir and Jackson are shaping up nicely at stand-off and which could be the start of a pipeline of Scottish stand-off’s for Scotland that has been sadly lacking for years. All the results could have gone either way as far as I can tell so hopefully the form will pick up.
One thing that I’m really happy about is the fact that both Glasgow and Edinburgh teams are made up almost entirely of players eligible for Scotland which I hope is going to result in Scotland finally coming back to form. A lot of teams with more money seem to rely on southern hemisphere players in key positions that I don’t think will help their national teams at all.
Another encouraging statistic I heard recently was that the number of registered rugby players has gone from 15,000 a few years ago to 25,000 now with state school pupils accounting for a lot of the new people.
So I’m reasonably happy all in all. I just wish we could get some more results and some bloody coverage 🙂