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3 minutes ago, Savage Henry said:

Ireland aren’t very good.

This is the kind of performance that would have several columns in the English broadsheets demanding Scotland be replaced by Georgia in the 6 nations if it had been us. England haven't even played well.

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14 hours ago, The_Kincardine said:

We've scrummed well and defended well.  Our forwards have been pretty decent (until we get within striking distance of the try line)  but there's a huge disjoint between 9 and 10 and it's like watching two separate teams at times.

No idea how we fix this, though.

Telling Toony to stick his constant kicking tactics would be a start.

Oh wait, Finn did that then treated himself to beer and whisky.

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Absolute joke that "tackle" by Henshaw hasnt been looked at again, late, no arms, probably a card to be honest and its been ignored. Refs really are shit.


The trip on, I think, Daly, was also a flagrant foul. This ref is a little lenient.
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Given the state of the other teams this 6 Nations could have been a real opportunity for Scotland to challenge. Ireland and Wales are shadows of the sides they've had in the last couple of years. England have been okay, but that home match against them was winnable, and France look good but again at home to them we have a decent shot. And Italy are Italy.

The problem is even if we do start to improve over the next couple of years you'd expect everyone else to do the same. I'm not sure you'll get a 6 Nations as weak as this for a while. England will be building for another World Cup, France have a talented young team, and you'd expect Wales and Ireland to regenerate once they ship out some of the 'old guard' like Sexton and Murray.

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It wasn't scintillating on Saturday, but a win is a win, and very few games in the 6 Nations are ever won to nil, so well done. 

It's a very Scottish thing that now that we seem to have at last sorted out the defensive problems, we've lost our mojo when it comes to attack. Price and Hastings are both decent players, but they're not Laidlaw and Russell.

There's no real sense of anyone controlling the attack, and players seem to be taking the safety first route of just picking the ball and running into the nearest opposition player over and over again. 

It'll be ignored in the story of a possible French grand slam, but the game at Murrayfield has become vital for us. For the coach and team to prove to everyone that they're improving, this is a must win game. 

 

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It wasn't scintillating on Saturday, but a win is a win, and very few games in the 6 Nations are ever won to nil, so well done. 
It's a very Scottish thing that now that we seem to have at last sorted out the defensive problems, we've lost our mojo when it comes to attack. Price and Hastings are both decent players, but they're not Laidlaw and Russell.
There's no real sense of anyone controlling the attack, and players seem to be taking the safety first route of just picking the ball and running into the nearest opposition player over and over again. 
It'll be ignored in the story of a possible French grand slam, but the game at Murrayfield has become vital for us. For the coach and team to prove to everyone that they're improving, this is a must win game. 
 
Think Andrew Cotter summed it up very well on Twitter, we won comfortably away from home keeping Italy to nil, but it still felt very frustrating.

A lot of positives, but plenty of meh too. Our forward play has been poor all through the tourney, we seem to go through endless pick and goes and end up going backwards, but defensively they were excellent on Saturday.
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Isn't in interesting how much we're missing Laidlaw, someone who was often derided on here for being too slow and everything else. He was a bit slow sometimes but not one prone to panicking, his kicking from hand and from the tee was good and he was a calming influence on the rest of the squad. Having a calm and composed 9 with a quicker and more maverick 10 is also a good combination, whereas now we have 2 relatively inexperienced and "too quick for their brains" players in key positions. Price has had some good games over the past couple of years but he's nowhere near Laidlaw levels.

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I dont think Price is the issue, its Hastings positioning. He is lying really deep and most of the time the forwards are in the way (where they should be if he was playing flat to be fair), so Price has no option but to give them the ball to just rumble up as they weren't expecting it. It does look like a classic backs and forwards have been training separetely and no one has told hte other how they are going to play!

Russell always played very flat and Hasting does for Glasgow and anytime we look like doing anything interesting is when he is flat. I can only assume its the tactics and he is being told to stay deep but as a whole its just not clicking - it just looks like nobody is on the same page in attack, whereas in defence its clear everyone knows exactly what they should be doing.

 

Anyone else feeling really dirty about being glad England beat the Irish? Both Biggar and Sexton being put in their place was excellent to see. Hopefully we can get a decent result against the French (I would take us winning but France with the 2 BP's to ensure they are still in pole position for the Championship) and would set us up nicely for the last weekend in Wales where a win could see us finishing 3rd

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4 hours ago, Salvo Montalbano said:

Isn't in interesting how much we're missing Laidlaw, someone who was often derided on here for being too slow and everything else. He was a bit slow sometimes but not one prone to panicking, his kicking from hand and from the tee was good and he was a calming influence on the rest of the squad. Having a calm and composed 9 with a quicker and more maverick 10 is also a good combination, whereas now we have 2 relatively inexperienced and "too quick for their brains" players in key positions. Price has had some good games over the past couple of years but he's nowhere near Laidlaw levels.

We are definitely not missing Laidlaw. Far too slow and his 'accurate' kicking was the first nail in our coffin at the RWC. Also a man down in defence compared to Price. 

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On 22/02/2020 at 13:16, Mark Connolly said:

Yeah I knew, that, I was referring to the competition that we will be playing in, though I appreciate I could have been clearer that it's JWC Div 2!

ETA: Regardless, Scotland are playing well, and have a real game changing half back to come in with plenty of Pro14 experience. That's a great sign.

It's in September so think Glasgow would have first dibs on him.

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Government in Dublin is calling for (indeed basically sound like ordering tbh) the Ireland v Italy tie in the Six Nations due a week on Saturday to be cancelled, due to the health emergency.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/51631954

Back in 2001 all 3 of Ireland's concluding games were cancelled due to the foot-n-mouth crisis, then rearranged in place of the autumn internationals. More recently in 2012 their tie away to France in matchday #2 was frozen off and rearranged on the weekend between matchday #4 and matchday #5, but obviously that couldn't be possible this time as it's from matchday #4.

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6 hours ago, HibeeJibee said:

Government in Dublin is calling for (indeed basically sound like ordering tbh) the Ireland v Italy tie in the Six Nations due a week on Saturday to be cancelled, due to the health emergency.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/51631954

Back in 2001 all 3 of Ireland's concluding games were cancelled due to the foot-n-mouth crisis, then rearranged in place of the autumn internationals. More recently in 2012 their tie away to France in matchday #2 was frozen off and rearranged on the weekend between matchday #4 and matchday #5, but obviously that couldn't be possible this time as it's from matchday #4.

Italy v England in matchday 5 is also a doubt. This leaves the tournament organizers with two games to rearrange and a lack of free dates to play them(unless they make Ireland play Italy on the 28th of November(only England a Wales playing that weekend) and have Italy play England on the 21/22nd of November (England due to play an unnamed Tier 2 side and Italy playing Australia)). If they don't want to affect the Autumn Internationals it leaves them with 2 other  options try and play the games behind closed doors or cancel the 2 games and declare  the Italy results as null and void 

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