Unless you lose. Not that we endorse wanton gambling or anything, but James at the Rugby Blog has been in touch to say that they’re running an offer in conjunction with Betfair offering you good deals on Six Nations betting. So if you think that Marcus Di Rollo will win the most Man of the [...]

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Here’s to the Scottish teams doing well this weekend. This means a win for Edinburgh on the Saturday against Leinster, and a decent game (bonus point) for Glasgow on Friday. If Parks kicks his touch and Biarritz forget to turn up again though, it could be the shock of the tournament. Both games are on [...]

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Leinster 28 -14 Edinburgh
Another dogged performance from Edinburgh which suggests that given a vocal support in the return fixture at Murrayfield next weekend they might grab a result at home. Once again Ross Rennie put his hand up and waved a big number 7 shaped sign at Frank Hadden as he showed up all over [...]

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Just out of interest, I compiled a team of the players in the training squad who are not compatible with a Fortress Scotland type policy. Though it has a glut of 6s and not much else in the back row, in most other areas it looks ok:
FORWARDS
A Dickinson (Gloucester), S Lawson (Sale), E Murray (Northampton), [...]

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World Cup 2007 - phew, what a tournament! The scrummage was intense, the rivalry between two passionate set of combatants, the immense handling skills - all to the backing track of rousing renditions of national anthems. Yup, getting to and fro the bar in Le Glasgow Bar the night before the Scotland v [...]

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Frank Hadden announced his training squad yesterday, so here’s my team based on that. A few notes – this is the squad I would pick today based on current form, based on what I have seen/read/heard (so there may be a slight Edinburgh bias until I get a chance to see Glasgow on TV at [...]

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“I’ve watched enough games involving their sides, to wonder what they actually bring to the event, because Murrayfield is like a morgue. Edinburgh and Glasgow have achieved very little over the years, and if there was any move to set up a British league in the future I don’t think that anyone would be rushing [...]

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