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On 10/03/2021 at 16:52, Genuine Hibs Fan said:

As if referees coaching players through games hadn't gotten ridiculous enough, BBC reporting that Wayne Barnes and Matt Carley have been in England training this week to  "help England improve their discipline". Much easier to just become better mates with the refs than you already are than just not give away mountains of obvious penalties eh

Ach, that's nothing. The Irish refs in the Pro 14 train with Leinster and Munster all the time then get to go out and ref them at the weekend. At least Barnes and Carley won't be doing that.

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3 hours ago, Left Back said:

Can anyone explain how the payment split between the unions was arrived at in the CVC deal?

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/mar/11/cvc-concludes-365m-deal-to-buy-a-seventh-share-of-six-nations-rugby-union

Apparently the cake is split according to 'relative audience share'.  Therefore England receive 95 million, and the SRU less than half that. 

Effectively it's like a Premier Sports deal with Scottish football.  CVC will insist that most of the 6 Nations games disappear behind a paywall and will try and squeeze as much from the RFU cash cow as they can get out of them. 

Whereas the 6 Nations countries apparently retain overall voting control (at the moment), there's no doubt at all that Scotland will be pushed further to the bottom of the pile. 

 

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Im assuming Hogg is the option to cover 10.

You would assume Lang is a better option to cover 10/12/13 - although as he has dropped out completely assume he must be injured, and Skinner gives more options than Gilchrist - including being much better at 2nd row, other than Kebble not sure what else you would change though

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Bench is a bit dodgy but good XV. Delighted Johnson is in, Laing might be the like for like replacement for Redpath but he's not international standard for me. Johnson is a talented enough all rounder to adapt his game to being more of a distributor than he maybe has usually been for Scotland. Ritchie and Maitland back is a massive boost, makes us substantially better at the breakdown and in the air which hopefully nullifies the Irish strengths a little.

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1 minute ago, Mark Connolly said:

He was on the wrong side of th maul, and ran round after it fell, then made it up.

I think he knew he'd been conned as I thought it was a penalty to Ospreys at the resulting scrum.

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