Cammy is joined by Iain and John as well as stats whizz Kevin Millar (aka Top Of The Moon) to look back at 2019 as well as the past decade in Scottish rugby. Kevin pits one half of Jian Anderhay against the other in a stats battle to the death (sort of) and there’s our special Scottish Rugby version of Bohemian Rhapsody as a wee treat at the end of the podcast.
The podcast will return in 2020.
We broadcast the podcast live and you can watch and join in on the night. You can also choose to watch or listen back afterwards by one of our video or podcast channels:
YouTube – www.youtube.com/scottishrugbyblog
Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-scottish-rugby-podcast/id1195370479?mt=2
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3gmKpRaLw8kBYDXpkmLnim
All other podcast apps: https://podfollow.com/the-scottish-rugby-podcast
Alternatively search for Scottish Rugby Podcast on your favourite podcast app or smart devices such as Amazon Alexa.
Each week we will put out a 40 minute podcast for all listeners covering all the latest news and key analysis of the big matches. If you want an ad free version of the podcast as well as a weekly bonus episode taking a deeper dive into the main talking points you can sign up to our Patreon from £3 per month. This also gets you access to our super secret social media group where you can chat to other fans of the podcast.
Don’t forget to buy your copy of our World Cup song from our Bandcamp page. You can listen below and click the “buy” button to buy the song and help the My Name’5 Doddie Foundation.
6 Responses
Just reading an article from BBC sports on Rob Howley and couldn’t help but chuckle at this part
His case was heard in Cardiff by an independent panel, chaired by Sir Wyn Williams.
Now I don’t want to be a propagator of stereotypes but could it be possible that Sir Wyn Williams has Welsh connections? Is that an ideal chair of an independent panel?
Enjoyed. But (obviously):
Stuart Hogg – most important player for Scottish rugby. Barclay lol??
Lions – Maitland, Ritchie unlucky not to start.
Hand in ruck of decade – Joubert, no question.
OK, here are my views:
TEAM OF THE DECADE:
Hogg
Seymour
Bennett
Dunbar
Visser
Russell
Laidlaw
Dickinson
McInally
Nel
Gray
Gray
Barclay
Watson
Denton
Ford
Reid
Murray
Gilchrist
Wilson
Cusiter
Weir
Maitland
Seymour should’ve been picked for the Lions test team in 2017 (and Hogg too if he hadn’t been injured); Finn Russell should have been treated much better than he was. Richie Gray deserved minutes. Allan Dell, Ryan Grant, Greig Laidlaw and Sean Maitland were all deserving of their call-ups. Jonny Gray, Alex Dunbar, WP Nel, John Barclay, and especially Hamish Watson should’ve joined them.
Hoggy has been our best player this decade.
Greeg has been our most important player this decade.
Barclay has been our best captan this decade.
Joubert is by far the biggest Hands in the Ruck. The real salt in the wound is that that Argentina semi-final would’ve been winnable for us too.
Our 2010s decade team would beat our 2000s decade team. (Barclay and Cusiter would be in both, so the 2010s team has Jamie Ritchie and Ali Price instead). We’ve improved on where we were ten years ago. Now, the 1990s team – that’d be a match for the ages.
And what of our 2020s team? Graham, Hastings, Ritchie, Bradbury, Dobie, Hornito, Cummings, Skinner, Kinghorn, both Fagersons, Crosbie…I’d say the future looks bright for Scotland. Although it’s still a pity Jamie Dobie’s parents named him James and not Tobias – then we could’ve had Tobie Dobie.
In my defence, I wasn’t allowed to pick Russell or Hogg, as others had picked them, so went with Barcs.
I’d have gone Russell otherwise.
What has been the best Scotland result from the last decade?
For me, Australia 19 Scotland 24 in Sydney, June 2017. Massive win away against a decent Wallaby side at full strength. A come from behind win featuring a backs to the wall last five minutes or so of dogged defence culminating in a brilliant Dunbar turnover to earn a penalty to finish the Test.
Calcutta Cup 2018 was excellent, but that win in Oz shades it as we were away from home.