Rory takes a look at how Scotland rated after their less than convincing win over Argentina.
Scotland vs Argentina: Player Ratings
Tag: Argentina
Scotland 14-9 Argentina
Scotland finished their autumn campaign with a scrappy but determined win over Argentina in some slippery conditions. Plenty to work on, but some good stuff too.
Scotland v Argentina: Autumn Tests 2018 Match Preview pt II – head to heads
In Part 2 of the Scotland v Argentina match preview, Kevin Millar runs through the head to heads and key stats.
Scotland v Argentina: Autumn Tests 2018 Match Preview pt I
As BT Murrayfield prepares to welcome Los Pumas, Kevin Millar takes a look at what to expect from Scotland’s final Autumn Test of 2018 (Updated with teams)
Podcast: Episode 46 & 47 – Zodiac Killers & Rugby Finance
This week Cammy is joined by Rory and Al to look ahead to the Autumn Tests to predict what the big talking points will be. In the second of this week’s podcasts Cammy chats to Ian McCaw about rugby finances including wheather a third Scottish pro team is realistic.
Argentina v Scotland: Match Preview
With the team announced earlier, Kevin Millar takes a look at the final selection of the summer tour, and the history of Scotland vs Argentina matches in recent years.
World Rugby U20 Championship 2018: Tournament preview
In the first of a two-parter, the King of Previews Kevin Millar takes a look at the upcoming U20 World Championship, an annual event that this year is being held in France,
Scotland 19-16 Argentina
Scotland were aiming to go one better than the narrow defeat against Australia last week. But a strong Pumas side lay in wait, Gavin Harper reports.
Lessons From South America
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…
Argentina Talk The Talk
“I’m really looking forward to this game – I think it’s going to be very close and hard to predict. Argentina have played well in both their first two games, and it was very pleasing to show against Romania that there’s more to our game than power and a strong set-piece. We will need to play well in all these areas against Scotland, because they are tough up front and have a number of good strike runners behind the scrum. It should be a very absorbing game.”
RWC Build-Up: Longing For Los Pumas
I don’t think I would like to play cards with Andy Robinson.
Sure, when we see the glass box on TV, filled with what looks like all the shiny-headed men in Scottish rugby, it always appears like Robinson is losing the plot. Probably about a breakdown.
Behind the eyes, though, I see cool calculation. I bet he’s the gambler who only plays when he has the hand.
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.