come on shire Posted February 10, 2019 Share Posted February 10, 2019 (edited) I was at the Scotland game yesterday and a few things offended me: Romain Poite's performance. Get 3 tokens from boxes of Special K and become a top tier rugby ref. Hogg's injury and O'Mahony causing it. It should have been a yellow card and penalty. Seymour and Maitland's mess for the O'Mahony-gate try was like a very un-funny Laurel and Hardy sketch. How easily Ireland got their 2nd try. How easy Ireland got their 3rd try. Keith Earls got their 3rd try. Less basic mistakes are made in a P7 game than those made by Scotland today. Edited February 10, 2019 by come on shire 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunning1874 Posted February 10, 2019 Share Posted February 10, 2019 Yeah, for all that we can say about Poite ultimately Ireland are clinical and we aren’t nearly clinical enough. If Ireland spend as long in any side’s 22 as we did in theirs in the first half there’s no chance they’re only getting 10 points from it. That’s the main difference between Scotland and a team at that level, even accounting for the defensive mistakes. Even if becoming more adept at crash ball is all it takes, learning to put teams away from those positions is what Scotland need to do for the World Cup. Going into the second half of games like that ahead would make all the difference. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S7C Posted February 10, 2019 Share Posted February 10, 2019 Laidlaw slows the game down too much for me. The only problem is I'm not a fan of Price either, who has all too often shown himself to be reckless at this level. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Jacobsen Posted February 10, 2019 Share Posted February 10, 2019 If we were to bin Laidlaw, which is very unlikely, then I trust Horne more than I do Price, both in ability and temperament. I'd certainly like to see Horne getting more of a chance but I think he's been injured recently. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lambies Doos Posted February 10, 2019 Share Posted February 10, 2019 If we were to bin Laidlaw, which is very unlikely, then I trust Horne more than I do Price, both in ability and temperament. I'd certainly like to see Horne getting more of a chance but I think he's been injured recently.Laidlaw is a 3 point machine though when needed. I accept Russell could kick.. He is also a leader, we don't have many.Any update on Hoggy? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Jacobsen Posted February 10, 2019 Share Posted February 10, 2019 8 minutes ago, John Lambies Doos said: Laidlaw is a 3 point machine though when needed. I accept Russell could kick.. He is also a leader, we don't have many. Any update on Hoggy? Last I saw, likely to miss France. Be interesting to see what changes, if any, Townsend makes to the Scotland team against France. It'll also be interesting to see if they study the ref to determine where his 'blind spots' are. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajwffc Posted February 10, 2019 Share Posted February 10, 2019 Laidlaw is a 3 point machine though when needed. I accept Russell could kick.. He is also a leader, we don't have many.Any update on Hoggy?Probably find out on Monday but according to the Irish he should be OK as he was faking it to get their player in trouble. Also according to the Irish we are all a bunch of dirty cheats for stamping on Sexton's head(the Irish manager thinks he was kicked in the head by an Irish player) forcing him to go off injured after failing a HIA. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lambie's Pigeon Feed Posted February 10, 2019 Share Posted February 10, 2019 Got comps in the back row of the bottom tier in the West stand so treated it like a football match and was giving the ref fucking pelters, got told to pipe down by some posh farmer type. Irish guys were a great laugh. Scotland rugby fans are mostly soft bawbags. Thought we matched them first half, they were lucky with all their tries and the ref was utter shite. Excellent day out but wouldn't pay what they charge to get in there for the 6 Nations. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunning1874 Posted February 10, 2019 Share Posted February 10, 2019 For f**k’s sake, France. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gianfranco Posted February 10, 2019 Share Posted February 10, 2019 England look pretty good but maybe the French are contributing to that. Does Farrell have some sort of special needs? He’s a smashing player unfortunately. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted February 10, 2019 Share Posted February 10, 2019 Good to see Jonny Wilkinson has sorted his hair out for this week. Pretty much the only positive I'm taking from today. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngusTheBull Posted February 10, 2019 Share Posted February 10, 2019 France have been absolutely awful here, we’ve got a great opportunity against them if they play anything like this. Surprised they’ve not dropped their wingers back a bit given how often England are kicking in behind them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
same_ol_g35 Posted February 10, 2019 Share Posted February 10, 2019 (edited) Totally forgot about this game today and missed the first half. Just switched it on and seen the score. I'm glad I missed it. City Vs Chelsea it is then! Edited February 10, 2019 by same_ol_g35 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted February 10, 2019 Share Posted February 10, 2019 Owens has got that wrong - Ashton has run past the ball by the time he gets tackled. Yellow yes, PT no. Convenient that the closest angle wasn't shown until after though... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaggy Snake Posted February 10, 2019 Share Posted February 10, 2019 That was never a penalty try. There's no way you can say Ashton would have gathered the ball, which he'd overrun, and scored. Yellow & a penalty fair enough. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted February 10, 2019 Share Posted February 10, 2019 (edited) That should be a yellow for Sinckler ETA: especially if he warned him at the last scrum. Edited February 10, 2019 by Mark Connolly 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaggy Snake Posted February 10, 2019 Share Posted February 10, 2019 That's a disgraceful decision. Outrageous. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted February 10, 2019 Share Posted February 10, 2019 May was in front of the kick there too, before he holds the guy on the floor. That's two penalties. Owens is a fantastic ref, but he's now got the last 3 big ones badly wrong. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Henry Posted February 10, 2019 Share Posted February 10, 2019 The Scotland team that started against Italy played arguably as well as any side has up until this England performance. I'd imagine for the next game, Townsend will drop Jones (though I'd go with him over Horne against France any day of the week) and perhaps make changes in the second row, but there really aren't many options. Scotland just don't have the depth that England or Ireland, or even Wales, do. And if the Scottish players would quit throwing the ball away under no pressure, they having the makings of an extremely dynamic side. My concern is that France go with the big b*****d backs rather than the dillydallying flair guys and just beat the crap out of our centres. My great hope is that one day Scotland will put it all together like they did vs England and Australia in recent times and absolutely trounce somebody. This team is so much like Gregor Townsend was as a standoff. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lambies Doos Posted February 10, 2019 Share Posted February 10, 2019 The Scotland team that started against Italy played arguably as well as any side has up until this England performance. I'd imagine for the next game, Townsend will drop Jones (though I'd go with him over Horne against France any day of the week) and perhaps make changes in the second row, but there really aren't many options. Scotland just don't have the depth that England or Ireland, or even Wales, do. And if the Scottish players would quit throwing the ball away under no pressure, they having the makings of an extremely dynamic side. My concern is that France go with the big b*****d backs rather than the dillydallying flair guys and just beat the crap out of our centres. My great hope is that one day Scotland will put it all together like they did vs England and Australia in recent times and absolutely trounce somebody. This team is so much like Gregor Townsend was as a standoff. And hopefully that day will be 4 weeks time in Murrayfield 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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