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Doc Rob

I deliberately avoided use of the word "fans" here, but there are some pretty ugly videos coming out of Murrayfield yesterday. The arriving England team were subjected to boos and offensive gestures, while there's a video of a bottle hitting one of the England coaching staff. During the match, as i...

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Russell needs to grow up. I have some sympathy with some of what he's saying but this is all very damaging, perhaps in a way in which he doesn't intend, not only to the current team but also to his longer term international and lions prospects. 2 weeks, countless opportunities to consults friends, ...

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doesn't matter if he likes it or not. If there are 5 players in the group, 4 vote one way and he votes the other, then he would lose it. He's a wanker, who would be better out of the environment, no point saying they would fare any better this tournament with him, they've better now than at the RWC...

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https://www.theoffsideline.com/finn-russell-breaks-silence-for-the-first-time-since-scotland-walk-out/amp/?__twitter_impression=true That puts a different light on things. I've worked in/under toxic environments before and can see where he's coming from. That's public service for you. The story pai...

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https://www.theoffsideline.com/finn-russell-breaks-silence-for-the-first-time-since-scotland-walk-out/amp/?__twitter_impression=true That puts a different light on things. I've worked in/under toxic environments before and can see where he's coming from. Glad to finally get his take on it. It doesn...

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https://www.theoffsideline.com/finn-russell-breaks-silence-for-the-first-time-since-scotland-walk-out/amp/?__twitter_impression=true That puts a different light on things. I've worked in/under toxic environments before and can see where he's coming from. I’ve just read that interview twice. OK, you...

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I’ve actually resigned myself to another shite 6N because it’s the only way Toony is going to get the sack. I like the guy, but we are going nowhere fast.

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Just waiting for Slick to see this Fred.

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A few more stats with the Calcutta Cup in numbers: https://scrummagazine.com/calcutta-cup-in-numbers/ Sample: 14 – the number of years BT Murrayfield had waited to see a Scottish try in a Calcutta Cup match when Huw Jones crossed in 2018 (since Simon Danielli in 2004). All the more damning to note ...

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School trip to England vs Scotland in 1979, I was 17. A 7-7 draw and until we beat Fiji in 2018 it was the only time I saw Scotland not lose. Considering the 80s and 90s were the closest thing Scottish rugby has ever had to a golden age (4 titles, 2 Grand Slams, RWC semi, generally in the top half ...

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One thing that BOD said just before the game was spot on - basically that these are the games you want to be playing in. The big stage, for your country. FR is missing all this, surely he'll be gutted and desperate to get back. Is it though? I have no particular insight on FR, but it may be a diffe...

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If we end up being denied the services of one of our best players because it turns into an argument over who was in the right and who should apologise first, I’m done with the SRU. We don’t have enough good players to be precious about things. Just fücking fix it.

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I totally disagree about Price. He was the main defensive culprit in the concession of the try, and he was the one who gave away a stupidly blatant offside in midfield. He did some decent stuff, sure, but those were very big errors. Fair enough - I wasn’t watching with a forensic eye. I largely mea...

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Watched the game. Fair to say that it was a much better Scotland performance than we all expected, and if we had won then I don’t think Ireland would have had too many complaints. The physicality in the pack was wonderful to see. Top marks for Fagerson and Sutherland. I really liked the look of Hain...

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Hastings said Russell FaceTimed him before the game and sent him a text. Hard to know what to make of that, but I’m taking it as evidence he still gives a shite, if nothing else.

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Doc Rob, watch the game, this is a bit bizarre I’m going to. Sorry - I can’t watch Scotland games live these days because I’m generally watching it in my own and I get too emotionally invested in it. It’s easier to take a bad result if I didn’t watch it live. Somehow this doesn’t apply if I was act...

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Doc Rob, watch the game, this is a bit bizarre I’m going to. Sorry - I can’t watch Scotland games live these days because I’m generally watching it in my own and I get too emotionally invested in it. It’s easier to take a bad result if I didn’t watch it live. Somehow this doesn’t apply if I was act...

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This will be controversial but I would stick with Hastings, for all Finns wonder shit, he loses us as many games as he wins imho. It’s Carlos Spencer v Mehrtens, Mehrtens wins every time. As to the centres I would start Hutch and Johnson, Harris I’ve never rated at this level, I don’t doubt his eff...

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There are some positives though - Haining, Sutherland, Zander, Ritchie and Watson give us a good platform. Hastings did well. Scrum was great. The team will be up for England I feel. Need to play at intensity and cut out the penalties, and we're in with a shot. Considering everyone thought we'd str...

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Well that was frustrating. I should be feeling better considering we got a LBP when I was expecting a 25 point tonking. We didn't give away 2 soft tries in the first 10 minutes, we stayed in the game, defence was generally better. It's almost more annoying to lose knowing we could have won that get...

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nardol wrote:Was hogg going for the one handed put down

Not on that replay. He was holding it in both and it just fell out of his grip.

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henry wrote:Hopefully they’ll harness a sense of rage and injustice and deliver a performance next week.

Yeah. Because we always do that.

I suppose it’s England at home, which generally means our players at least turn up.

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We said that Toony picked the squad on form. But not the back line. Our form centres right now are Scott and Hutchinson - so he started Johnson and Jones, and brought Harris off the bench.

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So it’s a better loss, with a LBP, but at the end of the day it’s still a loss and I am sick of losing games we could have won. Haven’t watched it yet, but BBC describing Hogg’s failure to ground the ball as a ‘howler’. Would we have won if he had scored that? All he had to do was fall over. Couldn...

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So it’s a better loss, with a LBP, but at the end of the day it’s still a loss and I am sick of losing games we could have won.

Haven’t watched it yet, but BBC describing Hogg’s failure to ground the ball as a ‘howler’. Would we have won if he had scored that?

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Andy Nicole talking pish as usual. Even if we only win one game and have a nightmare summer tour, his mate Too ie should get an extension to the next world cup. https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/51286543 Was going to post this. Nicol can GTF, especially if retaining Townsend means losing Russel...

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I'm confident one of that front row will spend ten minutes sitting on his arse. Haining is an odd choice. Don't understand why Bradbury isn't there instead. Price / Hastings makes me nervous and not in a good way. But I'll be in San Francisco and not that worried. Bradbury has a thigh strain, appar...

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I wonder how long until, or if we will see some players retire from international duty fairly young and focus on picking up a bigger wedge in wages. As much as we like to think international rugby is the peak, rugby is a job to the players. Some will have a shorter career than others and some get f...

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the question every Scotland rugby fan has been asking the past few days ‘what on Earth has happened here?’ Townsend replied: “I don’t know, really, all that happened because I was in a coaches room until around 11.30 at night, but I did say hello to Finn when he arrived with [Saracens wing] Sean Ma...

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https://www.theoffsideline.com/gregor-townsend-man-management/ The first half of this is very interesting. Very interesting indeed, and fits with the on field evidence. It’s weird that a free spirit player turns into a shackles type coach. If true, obviously, etc. He didn’t start that way though, d...

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https://www.theoffsideline.com/finn-russell-gregor-townsend/ Seems a wee bit more positive. Russell still keen to play (though no actual quote) and no formal disciplinary procedure. He was being a fud, slap on the wrists (and hopefully learnt his lesson) and back to business. He will get injured pl...

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frillage wrote:
Doc Rob wrote:FFS, now Graham too. We are plagued with serious injuries every bloody year, and they are always to our most crucial players. Every bloody time. It’s so unfair.

Yeah, can’t really deny that. It is though!

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https://www.theoffsideline.com/finn-rus ... -townsend/

Seems a wee bit more positive. Russell still keen to play (though no actual quote) and no formal disciplinary procedure.

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FFS, now Graham too. We are plagued with serious injuries every bloody year, and they are always to our most crucial players. Every bloody time. It’s so unfair. ... but not for the World Cup. And look how that went. Yes. The one time we actually had almost everyone available, and Toony bottles it a...

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So it seems like the right course of action given what we know. The real test is how the situation is managed from here on. We simply can't afford to let one of the world's most creative players languish. Primadonnas abound in elite sports or indeed elite anything. The key is how you manage them. M...

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FFS, now Graham too. We are plagued with serious injuries every bloody year, and they are always to our most crucial players. Every bloody time. It’s so unfair.

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Latest from the offside line https://www.theoffsideline.com/finn-russell-gregor-townsend/amp/?__twitter_impression=true Details remain hazy but it appears that the 27-year-old playmaker, who had played for Racing 92 versus Saracens earlier that day, refused to stop drinking despite being urged to d...

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Twitter saying he came in reeling of booze, Toony challenged him and told him he was dropped, Russell f**ked off back to Paris. Hope this is true, though reflects poorly on Finn and suggests he might be petulant enough to refuse to play in future. I’m sure Racing would be delighted to increase his w...

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Feck. Still trying to get my head around this. If it’s a bust-up between Finn and Toony, then do we just write off another 6N on the basis that it will probably mean Toony gets the sack, and hopefully we get Russell back on side? We genuinely have a better squad than we have had in years, and we are...

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The SRU and the clubs have been very good at keeping things that needed to be kept confidential inhouse. This is too big imho, and too many people will know the reason for it not to become public. Assuming that is true, the SRU should get ahead of the game and say what happened to avoid needless, a...

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