Rugby – 6 nations.

drinkdriving, on a motorway the hard shoulder of a motorway, in a golfcart.

v

drinkdriving, on a motorway, in a golfcart car.

There’s a difference in my eyes. Neither is acceptable, though.

Jeez, hopefully a high profile player will turn out to be a serial killer. Then the argument about who is the naughtiest can finally be settled and we can get back to the rugby.

Austin Healey kills kittens. Regularly.

There. Is that better?

😉

Re the Ireland v Scotland prediction, Ireland will just be too strong, IMO. Scotland are really developing, and are possibly going to be a very good team next year, but they’re still not quite there for me. Too many weak links, whereas Ireland certainly seem to be playing better as a team.

Of course Mongos behaviour was reprehensible and no better than others discussed here – but it sure as hell was funny.

OH FFS!

I agree with TJ.

😳

😆

Don’t start that, you’ll break the internet.

There. Is that better?

Much better, thank you. 🙂

You’re probably right about Ireland Scotland, I think the Glasgow Ospreys result at the weekend is giving me false hope 😉

🙂

See – yo have broken it now!

Who is the most likely to be a serial killer? I suspect Philips

I am off to Dublin for the Scotland match, it was a suprise victory the last time we were in Dublin so fingers crossed for the same again. At the very least i am hoping for a decent match maybe even another couple of Scottish tries…maybe or is that too much to ask?

Think Ireland probably by 10-14.

Wales to beat Italy by about 20

England v France all depends on France but would not be suprised to see England leading at HT and for France to win by 7ish at FT

While we’re on the predictions, who’s going to be in the Heineken Cup final?

Sat 7 April Quarter final: Edinburgh v Toulouse,
Sat 7 Quarter final: Leinster v Cardiff Blues
Sun 8 Quarter final: Munster v Ulster
Sun 8 Quarter final: Saracens v Clermont Auvergne

Max Evans.

His cousin is Chris Evans, you know.

Edinburgh
Leinster
Munster
Clermont

I think the semis would then be

Munster v Edinburgh
Leinster v Clermont

Cant see past an all Ireland final

Who is the most likely to be a serial killer? I suspect Philips

Ewan Murray. In the name of the lord, obviously.

Got my tickets for the Edinburgh 1/4 final. they could well win that but I think yo are right beyond that. Leinster have been the class act of the HC but not unbeatable

De Luca in S Lamont on the wing, looks better balanced out back now

Scotland :

Stuart Hogg, Lee Jones, Nick De Luca, Graeme Morrison, Sean Lamont, Greig Laidlaw, Mike Blair, Allan Jacobsen, Ross Ford, Geoff Cross, Richie Gray, Jim Hamilton, John Barclay, Ross Rennie, David Denton.

Replacements : Scott Lawson, Euan Murray, Al Kellock, Richie Vernon, Chris Cusiter, Ruaridh Jackson, Max Evans.

4th match – nearly right in selection. Weir should be on the bench not Jackson. Welsh should be a replacement prop if not in the squad.

Robinson remains a plonker

Good team, should be a good game. Have fun.
Thanks for the heads-up on the “semis”, I hadn’t seen the way the draw works out. That was enough for me, and just pressed buy on a final ticket 🙂

4th match – nearly right in selection. Weir should be on the bench not Jackson. Welsh should be a replacement prop if not in the squad.

Robinson remains a plonker

Agree and agree.

Although I’m not ready to turn on AR yet.

Why not Bruce?

he refuses to play talented youngsters until his had is forced, we have hardly won a competitive game under him plummeting down the world rankings

He is hold us back – any improvement this year is despite him not because of him.

this is exactly what the did selecting for England.

We will not improve while he is in change

Some of his selections have driven me insane (Jackson instead of Weir for example) but not to the same extent they seem to infuriate everyone else. I was actually happy to see Morrison in the squad last time and I’m happy this time as well. His form dipped but it came back and I think he deserved a spot in the squad. Give him the ball and you are guaranteed to make ground.

Tactically I think he is sound. At the moment it’s stupid mistakes that are costing us dearly. He can’t put the ball down over the line for them, it’s up to the players to get themselves into a mental state that will stop them from fluffing passes and dropping balls.

I also want to see what happens after Steadman and Townsend are replaced (assuming Townsend will be replaced, I think he will). He inherited them and I don’t know what the relationship with them is.

On a different note, I can’t wait to see Hogg going up against Kearney 🙂

Edit to add: Oh, and quite apart from all that, who do we get to replace him?

Here’s a cracking try to lighten the mood. (OK it’s slightly off topic but it’s my favourite of the season so far.)

Edit to add: Oh, and quite apart from all that, who do we get to replace him?

Plenty of candidates. As Scotland coach will never be a top job we have a choice of second raters or people who failed elsewhere or up and coming coaches who want to make a name for themselves with a few exceptions. So lets go for the up and comng guys

My choices right now would be Todd Blackadder or John Kirwen – or Stuart Lancaster if he does not get the England job

That is a goodie

Queenland Reds scored a cracking try week 1 of the Super15 season. Think it was last play to win the match…will have a look for it

Queenland Reds scored a cracking try week 1 of the Super15 season. Think it was last play to win the match…will have a look for it

Yeah it was exciting although it was really just a very quick bloke breaking away and running a long way to score.

There was a cracking try from the Hurricanes (I think) where brilliant passing along the line inside the 22 made a try that most NH teams would have botched.

I’ll see your super 15 touch rugby and raise you jonny may, not that i’m biased.

TJ I agree that AR isn’t the best, but you can’t blame him for the final pass/knock ons etc that are stopping Scotland from scoring this year

TimP – but you can blame him for the fact we have not put our best team out and that the players are not mentally in the right place.

We have gone to 11th in the world under him, one one game in each of the last 2 six nations and had our worst ever WC result

Results are worse than they shold be given the group of players, his decisons have contributed to the losses

teh buck stops with him

Tandemabramovic!

If only 🙂

But they are playing better rugby and creating chances that they weren’t even last year. For several years the empty promises from Scotland that this was their year, and for the first time this year they have looked like a team worthy of a top half finish. From what I have heard AR has never been popular wherever he has coached but there has been no player uprising as though they might believe in him and what he is trying to do?

I think that’s an important point. It feels like the players are behind him and not just making the right noises in interviews. To me it seems like their frustration is directed more at themselves than anywhere else.

Not my interpretation – I think the players are fed up with him and his dopey selections from wht I have seen said. his treatment of parks was scandalous

Scott hastings gives Robinson short shrift in the hootsmon

http://www.scotsman.com/sport/rugby/top-rugby-stories/six-nations-scott-hastings-not-afraid-to-tackle-issues-1-2155448

😆 good to see Herr zokes being as dull and po faced as his posts, what a arse.

Bowe leaving the Ospeys 🙁 the exodus continues.

Lewis Moody has called it a day, never really convinced he was that good, enthusiastic would be my way of describing him 😀 heard some one refer to his as thus “he would be a great player if he learnt the rules”

Cap’n Hovis sits it out.

Good for Tipuric, who IMO would get a start in a number of other sides as a specialist 7.

Desperate Dan’s down to start as well, so fingers crossed his knee comes through it.

Check this try out

Lovely play! 🙂

Brilliant , looked like a forward pass though

THE try. The greatest.

Bbc4 now, murderball.