Mark Connolly Posted June 27, 2021 Share Posted June 27, 2021 A game is aff. https://www.scottishrugby.org/news/a-international-called-off 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted June 27, 2021 Share Posted June 27, 2021 A game is aff. https://www.scottishrugby.org/news/a-international-called-offJust as well there is a two week gap to the Romania game. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eednud Posted June 27, 2021 Share Posted June 27, 2021 First Australia v France on July 7 moved from Sydney to Brisbane as Sydney under lockdown until 9 July. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Distant Doonhamer Posted June 27, 2021 Share Posted June 27, 2021 South Africa squad isolating due to positive Covid tests. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/57630316 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 Bad news for the journalists going out to cover the Lions Tour. For 4 of the 6 weeks that they will be in SA the Lions will be based in Gauteng province, which is now accounting for 60% of the new Covid cases in the country. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ignoramus Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 On 26/06/2021 at 15:33, Mark Connolly said: With Harrison recovering from illness, I wonder who will be on Sky's coverage. Hope it's not this guy C4 have, he's absolutely brutal. Heaslip is a fucking pain in the arse as well - he's absolutely desperate to criticise Duhan, despite him literally doing nothing wrong so far. Your pal from the weekend Conor McNamara has just confirmed that he’s Sky’s lead commentator for the Tour. No doubt with a little Heaslip on the side as well for good measure. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, Ignoramus said: Your pal from the weekend Conor McNamara has just confirmed that he’s Sky’s lead commentator for the Tour. No doubt with a little Heaslip on the side as well for good measure. ETA: Maggi Alphonsi is on their panel too. Fucking hell Edited June 28, 2021 by Mark Connolly 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajwffc Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 Ginger All Black coming up 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 Russell, Price, Watson and Hogg all starting the next Lions game. Hogg as captain. There are no Irish starters and only Aki and Henderson on the bench. The Leinster and Munster lads are probably not going to take that well...... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajwffc Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 Romania game off as more players tested positive 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 I know it's only under 20s, but this can't be good. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajwffc Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 I know it's only under 20s, but this can't be good.It is allso two teams at different points in the age range cycle (Most of the Scottish side is about 18 years old and the Italian side are at the end of the cycle). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 On 28/06/2021 at 11:13, peasy23 said: Bad news for the journalists going out to cover the Lions Tour. For 4 of the 6 weeks that they will be in SA the Lions will be based in Gauteng province, which is now accounting for 60% of the new Covid cases in the country. I've got a feeling they might be ok in a 5 star hotel. I was in the Phillipines a few years ago on election day when the country is meant to totally dry but being western seemed be enough to circumvent that. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
honestly united Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 38 minutes ago, ajwffc said: 1 hour ago, peasy23 said: I know it's only under 20s, but this can't be good. It is allso two teams at different points in the age range cycle (Most of the Scottish side is about 18 years old and the Italian side are at the end of the cycle). TBF we should have enough players coming through every year not to be losing this heavily to Italy. Its not like we just didn't have kids born for a year in Scotland. There might be some missing due to being in the A side (havent checked on Smith, Thompson etc), although the Italian player development seems to be miles ahead of ours at the moment - although the got trounced in the 6 nations the majority of that squad were early 20's 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blink182 Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 Sorry to Hijack the thread but when is the standard season for Pro14? And when are fixtures likely to be announced? Can't seem to find much online regarding 21/22 season. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 Italy have been very good at u20 the last few years. I can see Scotland suffering big time in football and rugby because of the pandemic. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 3 hours ago, Blink182 said: Sorry to Hijack the thread but when is the standard season for Pro14? And when are fixtures likely to be announced? Can't seem to find much online regarding 21/22 season. Pro 14 no more. URC now. I think it runs September to June. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afca32 Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 (edited) I don't like to make excuses but the u20s are missing due to injury Dobie, Gamble, Paterson, Brown and Currie who all have pro experience. Jamie Campbell and Nathan Sweeney are also injured and would've been heavily involved, plus Harri Morris, who made his Edinburgh debut a month or so back, is suspended after getting sent off in the first game. We are normally lucky to have 2 or 3 players at u20s with pro experience so to have 5 missing was always going to make things tough. It sounded like they actually played well against Ireland until the red card. I watched the England game and they did all right. Today however was absolutely woeful and I couldn't see any positives to take from it. Other than a couple of areas of weakness such as loosehead, I actually think this might've been one of the stronger u20s teams we've had but when 6 or 7 of your best 10 players are missing it makes things difficult. Even some of the better players who are fit like Muncaster and Samuel appeared to get sucked into the malaise today, they were both poor. I don't want to use the lack of game time as too much of an excuse but the SRU really seem to have shot themselves in the foot by having almost no rugby below pro level since last March. I don't know much about other countries but in England they played pretty regular academy games last season. Whereas most of our u20s based up here didn't play a single game for 15 months. As mentioned above, it's hard not to see this having an impact on Scottish rugby in the short, medium and long term. Edited July 1, 2021 by afca32 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
honestly united Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 In other news Edinburgh free up more wages with Sutherland joining Worcester for next season. Not having checked but they may be a bit short on props now with Bhatti, Bergham and now Sutherland all away this summer 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajwffc Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 with a bit of time to kill and after reading the normal pish about the All Blacks stealing players from the Pacific Islands. Hear is the two 23 for All Blacks v Tonga game by country of Birth All Blacks New Zealand - 20 Japan - 1(Akira Ioane(moved to New Zealand at the age of 2 and mother is a former Black Fern) Australia - 1 (Tyrel Lomax(dad was a Kiwi Rugby League player)) Scotland - 1 (Finlay Christie moved to New Zealand at the age of 7 ) Tonga Tonga - 10 New Zealand - 13 So it is shocking that New Zealand have 3 players from out side New Zealand 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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