If you look at the Sky Sports page for this final weekend of pool action, you’ll notice that in all the pools you can watch a choice of either final match on the main channel or the red button.
Unless that is, you support Glasgow or Bath.
As the first 2 parts have stated, England have a pack with runners, a midfield that can crash and whippets out wide. Scotland have picked a team with a need and runners of their own. They have abrasion and risk in equal measure in their selections.
Scotsmen think they can win this. Englishmen have an expectation to win. Alex Ferguson himself thinks Scotland have a chance. We will all be watching and wondering.
So as it is, frankly, impossible to tell if this game will be close, a rout or an 8 point victory I have come up with how the game would pan out if it was played in my head. Yeah. That dark, scary place…
In an effort to show a genuine response from a genuine guy, I have not altered this in any way. This is an email I got from Berni Stortoni at the start of the week:
Pete South from RugbyFanCast gives us his views on tomorrow’s titanic clash from an English perspective..:
And so, three teams remain in Pool B. Georgia and Romania have huffed and puffed, and threatened to blow the houses of England and Scotland down, but now both teams are consigned to four years in the wilderness before the bright light shines on them once more.
Life is about change. Nothing can stay the same for too long. In a postmodern world to stand still is to be left behind: to perish in unpopularity.
Like it or not we are in the throes of a new season.
In which Rory takes a look at the opening weeks of next season’s Heineken Cup fixtures. With Sean Lineen looking to prove his underperforming squad has not been destroyed by further departures, and Michael Bradley looking to make an instant impact at the helm of Edinburgh, it should make an interesting return to high intensity rugby following all the World Cup madness.
Glasgow Team to face Scarlets: Stortoni, O’Hare, Murchie, Morrison, Van Der Merwe, Jackson, Cusiter; Tkachuk, Hall, Low, Muldowney, Ryder, Eddie, Vernon, Beattie
Percentage of these players who will not be in the Glasgow team next year: 30%.
Watch it: Firhill or BBC Alba, Friday night, 8pm.
Edinburgh Team to Face v Dragons: Paterson, Webster, Thompson, De Luca, Visser, Laidlaw, M Blair, Traynor, Kelly, Cross, MacLeod, Lozada, McInally, Rennie, Denton
Watch it: at Murrayfield.
It occurs to me I haven’t written anything about the pro-teams yet this week, and I’m really busy with work so I may not get round to it in any great detail, sorry. Next week, I promise. However, I can give you a brief rundown in the style of the Incredible Hulk:
In English – BBC Alba are to show Edinburgh and Glasgow Magners League games next season. Granted it’ll be in a language that only 3 men and their sheep understand and every fifth word will be an English word said in a funny way but it is a damn site better than what has gone beforehand!
Congrats to the BBC for doing this – might get some decent numbers tuning in!
