Ireland v Scotland, Croke Park (Dublin), 5pm, Saturday 23rd February
On the day that Fidel Castro decided to retire his Marxist Beard, and spark jubilation amongst the exiled Cubans in Florida, so I also decided to take myself out of my self-imposed rugby exile and started building myself up for the next round of 6 Nations [...]

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Rory Lamont and Simon Webster have been added to the squad to travel to Dublin. We’ll have more on the team announcement tomorrow. Jason White is still not fully training, and John Barclay has a small injury too. Strokosch / Hogg / Brown back row anyone?

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So, Chris Paterson just played over 50 minutes at stand-off for Gloucester. As I type this, he came off the pictch seemingly to be replaced by a streaker. Mossy missed two conversions (that with hindsight would have sealed victory), fluffed a couple of restarts - the commentators review said his performance was “mixed”. Not the [...]

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Scotland’s 6 Nations campaign staggered further into the abyss on Saturday when Scotland crashed to a decent, but not outstanding, Welsh side. Scotland had arrived in the Welsh capital eager to make amends for last weeks horror show against the French but instead compounded the misery by turning in an abject display that [...]

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Keeping in line with Rory’s Episcopal writings Chris Paterson has risen from his resting place on the subs bench to take his place in the Scotland starting XV for the game against Wales. Paterson has come in at 15 and Kelly Brown (8) has come in to replace David Callum who has dropped [...]

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…to the Scotland team ahead of the game against Wales on Saturday? Al made a comment as we watched the game that God was not a Scotsman, due to the bad luck that compounded our errors into the troubling performance we saw last Sunday. Worryingly after Saturday’s matches, it appears he may be actually be [...]

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Ouch! Scotland games must come with a health warning in future as Sunday’s debacle against the French has left a very severely bruised ego. I was confident going into the game that Scotland would have too much for the French and come out better in this Auld Alliance battle. Shows what [...]

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… the Scotland A team to play Italy in Venice on the 3rd Feb. The back division looks a bit weaker than the first XV - with the exception of the half-backs - but the pack looks like they’d give the full team a run in an old-fashioned probables vs possibles type match. It is [...]

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Franky ‘Baws’ Hadden today named his XV for the game against France on Sunday. My initial thought was that this is a team set up to attack the French, and that seems like a fair plan but the big shock is the omission of Chris Paterson from the XV. [...]

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Part I - Best Xmas Present….Ever!
I remember Christmas growing up being all about the lead up to the big day and whether or not Santa Claus had paid attention to the letter sent in June with my demands for Christmas presents. Sure, as the years go by this anticipation has faded [...]

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