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Doc Rob

For anyone who isn’t Scottish, surely Dan Parks is a shoo-in at 10. A kicking stand-off who couldn’t actually kick very well, offered nothing in attack and couldn’t tackle either. He wasn’t even bloody Scottish, and he occupied the 10 shirt at one of our two pro teams for years so they didn’t develo...

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David Milne. His brother Iain won 44 caps and the GS in 1984. His other brother Kenny won 39 caps and the GS in 1990. David won one cap, off the bench against Japan in the 1991 RWC, in a game which strangely didn’t feature either of the other two (Iain had retired the previous year and it was at the...

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Rory Lamont has to be in contention for this XV, either at FB or on the wing. Never known a player quite so made of glass.

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Sad to see Dougie Morgan died today. Found this footage of his first cap, v Wales. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z57-3ScILo4 This clip has everything - Edwards and Bennett, Renwick and McGeechan, about a million knock-ons, wingers throwing in, scrums formed in 2 seconds, jumpers for goalposts etc...

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Alan Watt played a few Tests for Scotland at prop in the early 90s - he is listed as 127kg, which was huge for the time, but there are some real monsters around nowadays.

Banahan at 12? Listed as 110kg on Wiki.

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Russell in todays paper saying how the whole bust up with toonie was blown massively out of proportion and he is targetting the summer tour (if it goes ahead) for his comeback and they are both apparently on the same page with this. Some positive news in this shitty time for the world and it is som...

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Just seen Geech on the BBC site picking a Lions team containing 3 Scots (Hogg, Sutherland and Ritchie).

For all that they’ve all been playing well, does he seriously think Gatland will pick even one of them to start? We’ll be lucky to have that many players in the entire squad.

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Scotland would have a Rob Moffat wet dream back row of Rosco Rennie Roddie Grant Donnie McFadyen Tom Phillip at 12 15. 14. Thom Evans 13. Joe Ansbro 12. Tom Philip 11. Jamie Farndale (looked great at U20 level, never really pushed on) 10. Chris Paterson (the best 10 we never had) 9. 8. Simon Taylor...

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So in this case it is perfectly possible the jury thought that Salmond was guilty on the balance of probability, but there was just not enough evidence to prove it beyond reasonable doubt. Actually it’s not possible at all. If they thought there was evidence, but not enough to convict, they would h...

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Our cleaner quit just before all this started, but we’d probably have carried on paying her.

There’s a guy who does some gardening for us. Must text him and say that he’s free to carry on working if he wishes.

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Didn't realise Burleigh was 31 when capped. Wasn't too far off with Mutschin. Dark times :lol: :lol: tbf if you're only going to win one cap a 50 odd point pumping of Oz is not a bad cap to win. Especially if you were born and raised in NZ! This one annoyed me though. We’re forever getting criticis...

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Shout out to Darryl Marfo, capped for Scotland in 2017 because our first three or four LHP options were all injured. Only played three times: win over Samoa, record win over Australia, and the game against NZ where Hogg looked to be in in the corner with the clock red to give us a kick for the win. ...

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Apparently it was well supported in our village. Unfortunately we were banging around in the kitchen clearing up the dinner dishes and missed it entirely!

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Really enjoyed RDR2, though to be fair there were a couple of bits that dragged.

GTA V is an all time favourite of mine. Finished it on PS3, rebought on PS4, bought and finished again on PC last year.

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ukjim wrote:trying to get hold of nintendo switch for the kids is like trying to get hold of toilet paper...

Quite a few new ones selling on Ebay for reasonable prices?

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Went back and had a look at the first few pages of this thread. There’s a fair bit of gloating that has aged very badly indeed. A few people will be absolutely gutted by this outcome.

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Do posters on this forum not have access to Google? How many times does it need to be said that there is no such thing as an 'innocent' verdict in a UK criminal court, and 'not guilty' does not equal innocent? Google it ffs. And this is not semantics btw. In far too many sexual assault / rape trial...

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So, I’ve read on shitter, northern Wales is crammed full of tourists escaping the cities to the east and Gwynedd has 11 ICU beds. Yes. Though obviously there are plans in place to expand ITU provision as much as can be managed. Hopefully today’s announcement by the government will result in people ...

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Derwyn wrote:He's 10 minutes from betws but luckily just outside the national park.

When did it go all Gilbert & Sullivan in here?

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Brilliant, isn’t it? We’re already going to struggle with ITU capacity, and now you have thousands of selfish wankers doing their utmost to spread the virus as widely as they can. They're scared as well, which can't be discounted. If there was less ambiguity in the guidelines from the government an...

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Well, Tesco announced they were opening an hour early for NHS workers today. I went along at 9.15. The car park was packed - I’ve only ever seen it more full in the week before Christmas. They were checking ID at the door, too. There then followed a very surreal shop where every third person I saw w...

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I last climbed Cadair Idris in the summer. The only Welsh spoken that we heard apart from our own was one couple. Most of the accents, as you would expect, were Scouse, Brum, Standard. I suspect by and large it is the same situation now. The official infection rate in Wales is low, probably about 2...

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Brilliant, isn’t it? We’re already going to struggle with ITU capacity, and now you have thousands of selfish wankers doing their utmost to spread the virus as widely as they can.

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Recorded it off S4C this morning for a leisurely watch 😁 EDIT: apparently not, it’s on tomorrow, but when I looked again it had made its way onto iPlayer, so I just finished watching it now. Was very impressed TBH. Despite the scoreline, it wasn’t a mismatch - Wales had a decent amount of ball and s...

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Anyone know of any highlights available anywhere?

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I generally go to the Wales v Scotland U20 games as I only live 15-20 mins away. This time I was working, and they played behind closed doors anyway. So naturally we pick this game to put 50 on Wales in Wales. FFS.

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Lorthern Nights wrote:Spanked them, thought this was called off tbh, looks like the welsh team did too.

Was at work this evening and they played behind closed doors anyway - but they play the Wales U20 games 20 minutes from my house, and it annoys me that the time Scotland manshame them, I’m not there!

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McInally and Skinner start.

Haining dropped after not being cited. Apparently due to illness. Can’t help feeling that’s a blow, and I rate Bradbury.

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https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/gerry-thornley-rugby-needs-to-tackle-the-agents-provocateurs-1.4197949 This is delicious. When did so many irish become whiny little bitches? Since forever? Offended by everything, ashamed of nothing. I thought that was Celtic fans... (I hate Rangers* just as ...

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Some of you are just being plum. That was a very decent win Agree. Let's just wait till Cardiff where we have an utterly miserable record (arguably worse than Twickenham in the last 10 years) and play a Welsh team who are in transition- need a performance there before I board any GT trains. I think...

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Haven't seen the game. Was the red a correct call? Yes. Yes but Ritchie should have had a yellow. https://i.imgur.com/t3wafbb.gif He's just taken a decent shot to the face, a second French player has tackled him to the ground and they are now both on top of him looking for seconds. He clearly doesn...

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Seriously, though. Is the general feeling that we were good for this win over the 80? It's not pretty but I am beginning to like this harder nosed display. Its nice not seeing them getting bullied all over the park. We seriously need to sort out our lineout though. It is possible, as the panel on T...

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Seriously, though. Is the general feeling that we were good for this win over the 80? It's not pretty but I am beginning to like this harder nosed display. Its nice not seeing them getting bullied all over the park. We seriously need to sort out our lineout though. It is possible, as the panel on T...

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Seriously, though. Is the general feeling that we were good for this win over the 80?

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On look, we are getting to see the England game for the second time this afternoon. The BBC are utterly shameless. It was ever thus. The BBC (and the rest of the UK media for that matter) always make it clear what they regard as the main event. If we had our own media it would be different, but tha...

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Guess whatever happens this year, Townsend stays on until 2021. Not sure what to make of it. France were crap but they made it work. When France switched on we struggled, but at the same time we had switched off. Line-outs, line-outs, line-outs. Fu.ck this post match interviewer, absolute dickhead ...

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Guess whatever happens this year, Townsend stays on until 2021. Not sure what to make of it. France were crap but they made it work. When France switched on we struggled, but at the same time we had switched off. Line-outs, line-outs, line-outs. Fu.ck this post match interviewer, absolute dickhead ...

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The interview with AWJ afterwards was brilliant - kept a perfect poker face. ‘Could you be more specific?’

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Steamin Beamin wrote:Probably nothing in it, hasn't stopped people overreacting on social media though.

https://www.theoffsideline.com/scotland ... ence-call/

I read that this was down to an organisational failure on the part of SRU officials.

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If anyone has any enthusiasm left we need to start a match thread and I don't know how to do it. Is it the breaks, the average rugby, the circus around us at the moment, the threat of matches getting cancelled or something else, but I'm not loving this 6N at all. I know I’ve been accused of being o...

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