2012 Six Nations Referee Appointments
It’s our old mucker George. And yes, we do have Alain Rolland as well…
Category: Six Nations
Six Nations Jumbo Mega Round-Up
Well it might not be mammoth, as it’s all in the past now isn’t it and we want to start looking forward to the World Cup, but it will be woolly. Here we look back at the feast of um, something, that was Six Nations 2011.
Round 5 Six Nations Review
In which we take a look at the final weekend of the Six Nations, 2011 style. More round-up and end of term type nonsense coming soon.
Scotland Injury Update
We’ll be back later in the week with our Week 5 Six nations round up and a look back at the tournament as a whole, but for now here is injury information on our battered team hot of the SRU Presses.
Super Saturday Twitter Rantathon
Keep track of our thoughts on the days action.
Analysing The Opposition: Forza Azzurri?
Murrayfield: 4.00pm. We will know by then if Scotland have beaten the Italians at home and handed them the wooden spoon.
Scotland vs Italy Teams
Andy Robinson announces a mostly unchanged team to allow the combinations that performed well against England and France to see if they can end the tournament on some sort of high, while Nick Mallet has made a bunch of changes to the team that beat France.
Scotland: Paterson, Evans, Ansbro, Lamont, Danielli, Jackson, Lawson, Jacobsen, Ford, Cross, Gray, Kellock, Hines, Barclay, Brown
Replacements: Lawson, Murray, Vernon, Strokosch, Blair, Parks, De Luca
Italy: A Masi (Racing Metro), T Benvenuti (Treviso), G Canale (Clermont Auvergne), A Sgarbi (Treviso), Mirco Bergamasco (Stade Francais), K Burton (Treviso), F Semenzato (Treviso) S Perugini (Aironi), L Ghiraldini (Treviso), M Castrogiovanni (Leicester), C Del Fava (Aironi), Q Geldenhuys (Aironi), A Zanni (Treviso), P Derbyshire (Treviso), S Parisse (Stade Francais).
Replacements: C Festuccia (Racing Metro), A Lo Cicero (Racing Metro), V Bernabo (Treviso), R Barbieri (Treviso), P Canavosio (Aironi), L Orquera (Brive), L McLean (Treviso)
Ref: Steve “Matey” Walsh
Round 4 Six Nations Review
Once again we sat down to discuss the latest Six Nations happenings, with no-less cheer than usual but possibly a little extra in the way of satisfaction after a heartening display from Scotland and a heart-warming performance by Italy.
Injury Update
From the SRU, an injury update for Scotland. Our weekend round-up will follow in the next day or two before the build-up to the final game with Italy.
Analysing The Opposition: Between A Rose And A Hard Place
On Sunday at 3pm there will be a meeting between two teams desperate to win. The only problem is that one team is eying a grand slam and the other team doesn’t want to get splinters in its hands…
Update About Nothing Really
Sorry I’ve been a bit slack on the Calcutta Cup build up duties this week, but there has been plenty back and forth on Twitter and I’ve got a wee piece going up on the ESPN fanzone shortly. All I will say is I hope the boys put in a top performance on Sunday and if they can manage that, then anything is possible! Also you really should check out A.D’s article below “Arrested Development” about the Under 20s which has attracted a fair bit of new comment.
Teams for England vs Scotland
Joe Ansbro and Rory Lawson have been restored to the back division while Simon Danielli comes in at the expense of Nikki Walker. Ruaridh Jackson retains his place at 10 as does “You Shall Not Pass” Sean Lamont at 12 – his new nickname could be Gandalf.
(now updated with England team)
A Day Trip to Murrayfield
Greetings, readers. Ahead of the big cross-border clash that is sure to have the tinpot nationalists out in force this weekend, regular correspondent for The Rugby Blog Christine Lester writes in with an Englishwoman’s view of her first trip to Murrayfield for the Ireland game. Christine is based in Glasgow, and we hope she may be able to give us some more coverage from that end of the country in future. Over to Christine!
Arrested Development
As Scotland braces itself for the trip to ‘Rugby HQ’ it is perhaps a time to look to the future before we all head down to the fallout shelter at the foot of the garden. You know, the one with no TV, a pile of national newspapers outside it and the Jonno-proof door…
Round Three Six Nations Review
Rory, Al and A.D sat down to discuss the most recent events in the 2011 Six Nations. After some cheap flirting, too much wine and a taxi ride home no-one remembers, the following is what was left on the doorstep some time later.
