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What We Learned in the Autumn

December 4th, 2008 · No Comments

1) We shouldn’t really bother playing New Zealand, ever again. What useful purpose does it serve? It does us little good, and it gives them pointlessly easy grand slams. Think of that, we could scupper their grand slam tours without even playing a match.
2) Scotland now have a scrum that shouldn’t get pushed around. If [...]

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Categories: Heineken Cup · Rugby World Cup · Rugby on TV · Scotland A Team · Scotland National Team · Six Nations · World of Rugby

Building a Tank from a Shopping Trolley

November 15th, 2008 · No Comments

Bad A-Team related joke time again. Yesterday the backup team gave the Georgians a doing (under the tutelage of Andy Robinson, Gregor Townsend and Shade Munro) in front of a pretty small crowd at Firhill. The early scheduling of 6ish was apparently at the behest of TV behemoth BBC Alba. Surely an extra hour would [...]

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Categories: Player Watch · Rugby on TV · Scotland A Team

Rugby in Gaelic on TV…

November 14th, 2008 · No Comments

Hey folks, as Rory says below - happy birthday to us!  Time for our terrible two’s!
Can the standard of writing get any lower?!?
Anyway, my esteemed comrade is away from a PC and can’t bring you the exciting news - rugby in Gaelic!  BBC Alba are showing the Scoland A team’s game against Georgia tonight so [...]

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Categories: Rugby on TV · Scotland A Team

England Saxons team to face Scotland A

June 20th, 2008 · No Comments

England Saxons team: Nick Abendanon, Ugo Monye, Ollie Smith, Anthony Allen, Matt Banahan, Ryan Lamb, Paul Hodgson, Alex Clarke, George Chuter, Jack Forster, Chris Jones, George Skivington, Chris Robshaw, Will Skinner (capt), Jordan Crane. Replacements: Andy Titterrell, Tom French, Stuart Hooper, Steffon Armitage, Lee Dickson, Adrian Jarvis, Ben Foden.
Scotland A team: Steve Jones, Mark Robertson, [...]

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Categories: Rugby on TV · Scotland A Team

A chance for revenge…sort of

June 11th, 2008 · 3 Comments

So, 15 points. Can we really beat Argentina by that much? Without scoring any tries? With Dan Parks at 10? Not having seen the previous game yet, I can’t really comment specifically but from the sounds of it on the radio we were solid in the set piece but bullied at the breakdown, which led [...]

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Categories: Rugby on TV · Scotland A Team · Scotland National Team · World of Rugby