RBS 6 Nations: Scotland 6 – 13 England
This game was nervvy and tight, but Stuart Lancaster’s new England won at Murrayfield for the first time since 2004.
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And So It Begins…
Be prepared to give up the next few weeks of your life… The RBS Six Nations is about to start this weekend. Who are you scared of? Who will shine? Who will win? Alan Dymock presents a 6N Team Guide.
Is England’s Velvet Revolution Myth or Reality?
New guest writer Cameron takes a look at what sort of England team we can expect to pitch up at Murrayfield this weekend.
The Same Barb, But A Fresh Wound
New revelations pour in today about the English World Cup fiasco. Personal revelations. The kind that cannot be ignored because they were taken confidentially and meant for in-house evaluation.
A series of reviews were carried out by the RFU, the RPA (Rugby Players Association) and the combined Premiership rugby clubs and were presented to the Professional Game Board (PGB) last week. As of yesterday some of the findings were leaked
England And Scotland: Pt 3
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…
England And Scotland: Pt 2
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:
England And Scotland: Pt 1
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.
Falling Off The Summit
Welcome to the precipice. In front of you is a sharp drop. A fall from grace. Behind you is a queue of people waiting to push you off. That same queue of people that always said Scottish rugby wasn’t very good. You always ignored them. Hoping that the glory days would return. Now you have to listen to their deafening chant and you can’t fight the urge to look down…
England And Scotland Must Follow Northern Hemisphere Rivals To The Party
Sometimes we get a little too Albacentric, here. We can lose perspective. Thankfully, Pete South from RugbyFanCast.com is here to give us some perspective from, um…. down South:
RWC Build-Up: Cometh The Hour, Cometh The Men
Despite the Scottish cessation of activity at the weekend there was still plenty of rugby being played. We saw Australia show how antiquated South Africa’s rugby may have become in just a few short years. We saw Wales expose England’s lack of skills throughout an entire XV. We saw the French recline and accept gifts from Ireland.
Watching these games will be invaluable to Scotland because they framed some obtrusive issues that many in sport -particularly in England- have danced around. These issues give us cause, not only to look at our future opponents, but to assess ourselves as well.
RWC Build-up: Selecting The ‘Home’ Nations
When I was much younger I remember being excited by watching the Scotland team play with its ‘exotic’ stars. I knew very little about the politics or any assumed insult to purists. All I knew was that the ‘Kilted Kiwis’ had a cool nickname and they all seemed to be that little bit sui generis.
Playing Past the Present
With the EMC tests looming and the daily press releases telling us how our players are “harder, faster, stronger” than ever before whilst the players assure us the group has never been so tight-knit, I must ask: how will the warm up games pan out?
The reason I ask this is that everything in training, we have been told, is geared towards rugby specifics.
Overcooked or Undercooked?
How would sir like his steak cooked? Restaurateurs of New Zealand take note, mine’s a medium thanks. How about you, the reader? And possibly of slightly more import, how does one like one’s Wallaby or Springbok? (You can’t use a flower in a cooking metaphor, sorry. Or for that matter an All Black)
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…
Six Nations: The Opposing Squads
Like a Big Fat Gypsy Wedding the 6N is sidling into view, all bright lights and funny accents.
As Andy Robinson prepares to kick off our campaign and puts the squad through its paces I will look at the squads that the opposition teams have picked and assess their strengths, weaknesses and how controversial some of their selections have been…
