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Well as an ex rugby player in the 70s , 80s and 90s - that game yesterday was typical of what the professional game has become and nothing like the past. . Nothing more than glorified British bulldogs. Player gets ball, drives in , sets in back , another player gets it drives in sets it back ..repeat repeat repeat.yesterday was mind numbingly boring - hardly any exciting running/passing/handling. Absolute drivel.

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Well as an ex rugby player in the 70s , 80s and 90s - that game yesterday was typical of what the professional game has become and nothing like the past. . Nothing more than glorified British bulldogs. Player gets ball, drives in , sets in back , another player gets it drives in sets it back ..repeat repeat repeat.yesterday was mind numbingly boring - hardly any exciting running/passing/handling. Absolute drivel.

I blame Sean the weatherman for that. They were talking about the weather being shit and I think that affected both teams game plans. Turned out that the weather forecast was just as shit as the rugby. :lol:

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I blame Sean the weatherman for that. They were talking about the weather being shit and I think that affected both teams game plans. Turned out that the weather forecast was just as shit as the rugby. :lol:

From a similar perspective and I agree. Think England were more guilty than Scotland.

In the 22's was the big difference. England hit like they want the ball, we hit like we don't want them to score. In possession England want to score while we poke around hoping for a break and end up knocking on.

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I think Russell really has something a wee bit special(a bit like faddy if you like) but he didnae turn up yesterday.

I am hopeful that he will turn out to be a good player, but I've thought that about a few of them recently and it just hasn't happened. The one big chance he got yesterday, at the interception, he just panicked and booted the ball out of the park. Hopefully he will learn from that and show a bit more composure in similar situations in the future. A bit more confidence and composure wouldn't go amiss with most of the team.

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It was pretty awful yesterday.

The same error-ridden, painfully slow guff that we've seen from Scotland in almost every game for the last 15 years.

Why is it that players that are sharp and quick of thought and foot for Glasgow, turn into nervous wee boys when they pull on a Scotland shirt ?

England weren't all that great....I'll be surprised if they win another game other than Italy....yet they were streets ahead of us.

I fear what could happen (again) next week and against Ireland.

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The pubs are filled with tweed jacket wearing, Tory voting, nawbag, public schoolboy twats tonight.

They along with the SRU who publicly declared a "No Thanks" preference all have the cheek to Sing Flower of Scotland.

They are beyond parody and beneath contempt in my book

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It was pretty awful yesterday.

The same error-ridden, painfully slow guff that we've seen from Scotland in almost every game for the last 15 years.

Why is it that players that are sharp and quick of thought and foot for Glasgow, turn into nervous wee boys when they pull on a Scotland shirt ?

England weren't all that great....I'll be surprised if they win another game other than Italy....yet they were streets ahead of us.

I fear what could happen (again) next week and against Ireland.

Spot on. Wooden spoon again.
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So today's draw means already only England can take the triple crown, which I can't see happening btw.

Didn't realise ITV were covering the Six Nations now too!

think this is the last year on the BBC
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Why is it that players that are sharp and quick of thought and foot for Glasgow, turn into nervous wee boys when they pull on a Scotland shirt ?

I don't really think they have been this season though, which (along with a seriously weak bench) was why I was fairly sure we would lose. Glasgow had their season disrupted by the RWC but even so they haven't been playing that well this season. Injuries to the likes of Dunbar and Bennett haven't helped either, and I thought Bennett looked well off the pace on Saturday. I think the same team, with maybe Strauss in at 8 and Denton to 6, will be given another chance against Wales, although Lamont might come in as a counter to the likes of North. In all honesty though, when I looked at a back up front row of Fagerson, McInally and Reid I knew it would be a tough watch. The English knew that they would finish the game stronger. And the errors, always the errors. A bit of momentum, a few phases then a knock on, loose pass or squint throw at the line-out. Or something. We just aren't as sharp and efficient as the bigger teams. Summed up for me when Laidlaw (the most reliable of kickers) missed a pretty easy penalty and then no one fielded the restart kick, conceding loads of territory far too cheaply. These guys are professionals.

I agree that England were ordinary but they played a limited game pretty effectively, scoring two tries to none, and won what must have looked like a real potential banana skin. They kicked far too often, and I think Ford might be for the heave-ho, but they still beat us fairly comfortably. The 6N is wide open, in truth I don't think there is a more than half decent team in it. France were awful against Italy (who will really fancy there chances against us in Rome), England are clearly a work in progress at best, and neither Wales or Ireland looked that strong yesterday in a game that Wales must be kicking themselves they didn't win. And yet already it is looking like how we go about avoiding the Wooden Spoon again. A shite state of affairs as Renton might say.

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Poor from us, reminds me of when we lost 6-13 at home to them a few years ago when they were in another rebuilding phase. A great chance wasted. As noted above, whilst we have some excellent backs they are either out of form or recovering from injury. Having watched Glasgow struggle consistently this season, with a handful of bright spots, it was not a great surprise but still very disappointing. We had the life strangled out of us towards the end with the replacements in the scrum obviously not of the same standard as the first picks.

I firmly believe that our first XV- if all available AND in decent form - is a very good team, despite this result, and hopefully one day they will actually prove it in some six nations matches. But it's not easy to keep that line going wi my six year old son who has only seen us win one game in his living memory! At least by taking him to see us vs. Japan, Samoa and USA I have managed to show him it isn't always gloom and doom.

Enjoyed watching the Ireland Wales game yesterday because it was close, but in all honesty I thought it was pretty poor. A draw was fair because neither of them deserved more. Plenty of mistakes, shortage of quality, lack of imagination. It was the most compelling of three pretty average contests. Another couple of weeks of this and the 'why aren't we as good as the Southern Hemisphere' bandwagon will be going at full tilt. Meanwhile I will start preparing for Italy away wi the 'early wooden spoon decider' script already written.

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Thank fook the rugby league season has started again - great to watch - funny how both games have gone in opposite directions in later years - rugby league in the Eddie Waring days was ball up the jumper and drive in , rugby union had the likes of Campese with his trickery - now its the opposite - rugby union dull as ditchwater -rugby league at superleague level - virtually game exciting and excellent to watch.

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Thank fook the rugby league season has started again - great to watch - funny how both games have gone in opposite directions in later years - rugby league in the Eddie Waring days was ball up the jumper and drive in , rugby union had the likes of Campese with his trickery - now its the opposite - rugby union dull as ditchwater -rugby league at superleague level - virtually game exciting and excellent to watch.

League has always been easier on the eye.
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