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 [...]
What We Learned in the Autumn
December 4th, 2008 · No Comments
Categories: Heineken Cup · Rugby World Cup · Rugby on TV · Scotland A Team · Scotland National Team · Six Nations · World of Rugby
Well Of Course Not
November 11th, 2008 · No Comments
Still, for about three minutes there it looked like we might give New Zealand a game. Having watched the match since on video, most of my initial thoughts on it remain unchanged from the beery haze of Saturday.
The Good:
Euan Murray was dominant in the scrum and should cement his place in the team, and hopefully [...]
Categories: Adventures in Rugby · Scotland National Team
Can We Beat The All Blacks?
November 1st, 2008 · 3 Comments
After the widely derided World Cup ‘B’ Team played against New Zealand on their last visit to Murrayfield, it will be interesting to test our full XV against the might All Blacks. Your fearless Scottish Rugby Blog correspondent will be in attendance. But can we (unlike Scubbsy) man up, and get a result?
Yes We Can:
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Categories: Laws, Rules and Refs · Player Watch · Rugby World Cup · Scotland National Team
Hadden gets his men… sort of
October 15th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Frank Hadden has announced that IRB Player of the Year Nominee Mike Blair will continue to captain Scotland for the Autumn Internationals, and that the SRU has also come to some sort of agreement with Premier Rugby over the release of Scotland players based at Guinness Premiership clubs.
While it’s not as much as Hadden wanted [...]
Categories: Scotland National Team
What is going on with Scottish rugby?
October 7th, 2008 · No Comments
It’s been a bit of a rollercoaster over the past few weeks, with more ups and downs on the Scottish rugby scene than the Dow Jones. Firstly we saw Edinburgh put in a storming performance to dispatch Llanelli while Glasgow failed to beat Irish development side Connacht.
Then off the pitch there was a similar mix [...]
Categories: Magners League · Scotland National Team
Edinburgh vs Ospreys
May 1st, 2008 · No Comments
Probably the last chance for those of us without Setanta to see one of the Scottish pro-teams in action on the telly, tomorrow night on BBC Wales (Channel 991 on digital). Edinburgh will be hoping to finish strongly, but they have picked a side shorn of Southwell and Webster so they will look to the [...]
Categories: Magners League · Rugby on TV
