Is Jones competing with Toonie to see who can make the best batshit crazy selections?
The rumour is that Radowan is carrying a knock
this made me laugh from another rugby discussion from an England fan
"Somewhere Ford is laughing his backside off going "there you go lad now you know the kind of carp I've had to put up with"."
Best openside in Britain not making starting 15 for Scotland.
Le Xv de l'Écosse
Stuart Hogg (capt.) -
Rufus McLean, Chris Harris, Matt Scott, Duhan van der Merwe -
(o) Finn Russell, (m) Ali Price -
Matt Fagerson, Jamie Ritchie, Nick Haining -
Grant Gilchrist, Sam Skinner -
Zander Fagerson, Stuart McInally, Pierre Schoeman
Remplaçants : Ewan Ashman, Jamie Bhatti, Oli Kebble, Jamie Hodgson, Hamish Watson, George Horne, Adam Hastings, Blair Kinghorn.
What’s with the strange language? Is that Afrikaans?
I was offered a ticket for the Scotland v SA game, but unfortunately cannot go - shame, as it promises to be a really good game.
Agree on Maitland, he has scored 75pts on 53 appearances. Always threatening.
What’s with the strange language? Is that Afrikaans?
Yeah, it's easier for the "Scottish" players to understand.
😂
Anyway predictions for the weekend?
Scotland lose
Ireland Lose
England Win
Wales Win.
Scotland lose
Ireland lose
England lose
Wales win
But - its a lovely day for rugby in Edinburgh, we are not far off a first choice team, got the rustiness out of the way last week toughing out a win over Aus even when not playing well so you never know...............
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'But its the hope that kills you. I may have to retreat behind the sofa
SA no. 10 choice = Scotland win, I reckon.
Waiting to get home to watch but I can envisage a hard press defence against Russell. As in hard late and illegal.
Cats at a rave!
Well that was unexpected. We took a real beating that half and have a 2 pt lead! Fabulous try.
Scotland are a good side now - the looser playing style is upsetting SA and defence is really strong.
SA are a bit one dimensional, they are very good at it, but it does allow the opposition to develop a game plan
Hopefully the team have more belief than you TJ! For too long I think Scotland had lost to SH teams before they even got on the pitch, but in recent years they (justifiably) believe they can win.
SA are proof of why rugby should go back to only allowing subs for injury. The “50 minute forward” allows them to bulk up to dangerous levels.
Waiting to get home to watch but I can envisage a hard press defence against Russell. As in hard late and illegal.
not illegal so far
Scotland well in this. (60:26 just got the pen on 5m line after a great clearance 70m. )
Oh well, sorry Scotland, they've brought Pollard on.
Has the Mish made a +ve impact?
Scotland scored some nice tries but, like Wales, just don't have the bench to compete in last 20mins.
Has the Mish made a +ve impact?
Impossible to do when the front 5 is being completely outplayed in every facet.
pretty much. Our Scrum was mullared all game and missing kicks did not help. None of them were sitters but he should have got some
considering the scrum we were competative but thats all
Couple of expensive line-out fails from Scotland. A try off one of those would have made it more interesting.
But SA good for the win
Ireland have started brightly!
C’mon Ireland
Love to here the guardians of politeness in rugby boo the other team, if only they could boo Wales a bit more recently!!
Amazing half of Rugby!
Ireland making all the running but somehow trailing at the half?
Have NZ ever made that many tackles in 40 minutes?
Not sure IRL can do another 40 like that. NZ won't be happy.
IRL won the first half but at what cost?
Even if rugby went to subs only for injury there'd be an even slower walk. Is the nothing in the rules about the trundle and eat up time. Needs a ref to say everytime you walk to a set piece I'll stop the clock.
Has Andy Farrell taken two steps towards being the next England coach?
I’m in Barcelona & my VPN won’t work for Ch4, so only following this one on txt. Sounds a good one……
Luckily AP works for the later game.
Amazing match*. Certainly ain't over yet
*only slightly spoilt by indecisive ref referring every bloody thing to the tmo
I will take that, we had no right at all to be ahead at half time.
*only slightly spoilt by indecisive ref referring every bloody thing to the tmo
Indeed. Why can't they just referee the bloody game? I'm sick of continual TMO references.
I will take that, we had no right at all to be ahead at half time.
I fully disagree, SA were on the back foot a lot of the time 1st half, Scotland backs and attack great. If the three lineouts had gone the other way in 2nd half we would be singing scotland praises. It easy to only see the neg when you have lost.
England would have just done their usual up front muscle fest and had no plan B. (My expectation for next weekend)
Scotland had a plan B. Use their back talent...
Indeed. Why can’t they just referee the bloody game?
Exactly. We grassroots refs have to! 😉
And that scrum to NZ when Jordan just stopped for no reason was moronic. Nice that Ireland scored shortly after anyway 😀
Come on Ireland hold them out
Umm this Pen is gonna be massive!
Game over they've done it again!!
This is glorious!
Fine victory. Well played Ireland.
Wow, well done Ireland. #3 in world rankings and looked good for it.
Wow! Clapping at the telly. Have I gone mad?! 😆
Unbelievable!
Amongst others, Ringrose very good. Lowe much improved imho from when he first played for Ireland.
Well, that was just EXCELLENT!
****ing awesome. Mine's a pint
