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Bobbins from Scotland. The midfield defense was shocking, let the French offload at will instead of closing down the passing channels, no support during the half dozen linebreaks, no contesting the breakdown from the usually disruptive Barclay and Ritchie. Seriously missing a solid defensive centre like Dunbar. Small silver lining is that Hutchison looked good when he came on. Another upside is that is was mostly 2nd string guys playing, probably missing about 8 starters from the team and at least Scotland know what combinations don't work and that Huw Jones is a liability in defense. At least there were no injuries.
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Aug 17, 2019 22:17
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Vagabundo posted:It's a real shame because at one point, Strauss was an excellent loose forward and a potential Springbok-in-waiting. He was an absolute machine for Glasgow, made CJ Stander look utterly pedestrian in the Pro12 final but sadly since going to England he's regressed badly and now goes missing in big games. It's a huge pity because he was up there with Warren Whitely for destructive 8s for a long time.
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Aug 18, 2019 12:47
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Yeah, I think so. Certainly picked up a really bad kidney bruise against France a few years ago and the Prem is a lot more attritional with less player welfare so big ball carriers don't last long without serious injuries.
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Aug 18, 2019 16:05
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Unstructured "chaos" in attack shits up any defensive structure. I really, really hope Scotland sort this out before the RWC or Russia will be walking in tries never mind Ireland or Japan.
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Aug 19, 2019 10:32
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Communist Bear posted:That and it's the start of the 3 year amnesia cycle that Scottish rugby seem to suffer from, in which they forget how to play the game, but love to talk themselves up as champions of the world at it. Never really got this. Vern was dogshit in his first 6N, lost every game and presided over one of the worst losses at Twickenham in recent memory. Cotter is a great coach and helped a lot with Scotland but there's a lot of rose-tineted glasses around his tenure too. Gregor's not perfect but to say he's just living off other coaches scraps seems pretty disingenuous given the development of players like Nakarawa, Matawalu, Jonny Gray, Finn Russell, Seymour etc under his tenure at Glasgow and winning the Pro12 in 2015 was 3 years after Lineen had left. If he didn't know what he was doing, Glasgow sure as hell wouldn't have maintained that form. Glasgow under him hold the record for most consecutive playoff appearances of any team in the Pro12 as well so I'm not sure why anyone would think his approach was useless either. Vaders Jester fucked around with this message at 15:44 on Aug 19, 2019 |
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Aug 19, 2019 15:34
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Ken has absolutely farted and AWJ is having none of it.
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Aug 20, 2019 11:18
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Your Scotland side to humiliate themselves once more. On the upside, this piece of poo poo got a 6 week ban for this. https://twitter.com/Murray_Kinsella/status/1163169761917919237
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Aug 21, 2019 11:51
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Can anyone else smell toast?
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Aug 21, 2019 23:21
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Tyma posted:TLDR : If Scotland win the World Cup, George Foreman will kill himself? Common misconception, The Big Man is actually Allan Jacobsen. 
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Aug 21, 2019 23:58
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The self-proclaimed Archbishop of Banterbury, James "How do rucks work?" Haskell has got a contract to fight in Bellator MMA. So for all of you that want to see him get the poo poo kicked out of him, that's happening in 2020.
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Aug 22, 2019 16:21
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Sam Skinner is out of the RWC after a knee injury against France and Richie Gray has ruled himself out due to family commitments. Potentially the last we see of Richie in a Scotland shirt.
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Aug 27, 2019 20:47
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I didn't think he had enough of a personality to be an arsehole. Either way, he's ruled himself out in a chat to Toony according to Wilson so makes no difference.
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Aug 27, 2019 22:21
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bigfoot again posted:Looking for a rugby podcast that isn’t three English bell ends doing ‘banter’ Blood & Mud are good. One English and one Welsh guy talking about Rugby and chatting the odd nonsense without the Poundshop Piers Morgan that is Andy Goode "bants" Brian Moore's one is pretty great too. Vaders Jester fucked around with this message at 16:16 on Aug 28, 2019 |
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Aug 28, 2019 16:12
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Your Scotland team to get smashed by Georgia like Batman got broken by Bane.
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Aug 29, 2019 15:10
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Pichot is a one-eyed fuckwit that is deeply, deeply salty that the Pumas are still a bit shite even after joining the Rugby Championship so takes swings at anything that looks like an injustice. Jones and Hutchison seem to be out of the Scotland squad, Jones is woefully out of form the last year and Hutchison is really unlucky that Taylor is in more or less one piece. I think the Scotland thoughts on it are defense wins championships so went with Harris and Taylor at 13 for defense and a great all-rounder, Sam Johnson at 12 for play-making and attack and Horne as the utility back and experienced safe hands. Scottish social media has lost its poo poo though.
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Sep 3, 2019 12:48
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Yeah, Hutchison is a better attacking option but Scotland have leaked an average of 4 tries a game and the worst results have also come from cats-in-a-rave rugby, Gregor obviously wants to stop this with his selections at centre. Let Finn and the back three go mental and fling it about but having a solid 13 like Taylor or Harris in defense is probably going to be more important against teams like Japan and Samoa than having another attacking option.
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Sep 3, 2019 18:43
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Wales are going for the Full Scotland by playing many of their 1st XV against Ireland this weekend and playing chicken with fate.
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Sep 5, 2019 17:06
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gently caress me, that's heartbreaking. Imagine attaining the absolute pinnacle of the thing you grew up loving only to find you hate it. Glad he retired when he did, he's turning into a great pundit and a future without that sort of nightmare sounds much more fun.
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Sep 12, 2019 18:07
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I saw that the other day. Incredibly brave to come forward about it but that guy needs life to give him a break sometime.
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Sep 15, 2019 12:36
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Tyma posted:Scotland's literal best player, David Denton retires, age 29 You've changed your tune since that radio interview you did in Edinburgh  Huge shame Denton had to retire though but completely understandable, especially now he has a kid.
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Sep 16, 2019 18:33
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Howley getting sent home almost certainly improves Wales' chances of scoring tries.
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