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My tickets arrived this morning and I am looking forward to it.

Hopefully Scotland can take the positives out of the Argentina game and minimise the errors.

Whilst I would hope for a win, being realistic not getting absolutely pumped and keeping the losing margin in single figures might be seen as a moral victory of sorts.

And being able to have a beer at a sporting occasion, take note SFA.

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I've lost count of the number of times I've seen us at Murrayfield against the All Blacks. Starting with Mourie's Grand Slam team in 1977(?) there have been a couple of close calls (including the draw when Jim Pollock scored a try to equalise in the murk sometime in the 80s) but generally we get a doing. But this Saturday, yet again, money paid and traipsing along.

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My mate was offered England v South Africa tickets for £167 per person. (She rightfully told them to ram it). I pointed out I have paid £25 each for a pair of tickets for Scotland v New Zealand.

Mad ticket prices at Twickenham.

J

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Day off today as I'd originally planned to go to Parkhead.

Instead I'm now watching it at home and killing time pottering around the flat and found this on youtube.

Anthems from Wales v Scotland 6 nations - quite impressive IMO

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Playing really well...just too many daft errors.

we need to score first in the second half, that's important.

P,S. The referee is giving us nothing. As ever in rugby, the officials favour the 'bigger' team.

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There's reasons for optimism as the young players coming in are looking good. That said, I thought NZ were poor today and made enough mistakes for us to at least put more pressure on their line than we did. In the end, I think we gave them too much respect. We could have had them today.

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First time I've felt disappointed to lose after a game vs the All Blacks. Great improvement under Cotter in a short time, if we keep improving we can look forward to the six nations and world cup next year.

I hope we can hold on to him as a coach for a while -in all honesty the job b he has his wye on is with New Zealand, so keeping him until the 2019 RWC would be the aim.

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That would have been a good performance and something to shout about if it were the All Blacks 1st 15.It wasn't,it was mostly made up of their 3rd string players.At this rate Scotland won't go any further than the WC quarter finals if they are lucky. They gave away far too many penalties,committed school boy errors and at times could not keep hold of the ball.One positive from these two games is we are now running onto the ball taking it at pace instead of the flat game we played in the past.

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That would have been a good performance and something to shout about if it were the All Blacks 1st 15.It wasn't,it was mostly made up of their 3rd string players.At this rate Scotland won't go any further than the WC quarter finals if they are lucky. They gave away far too many penalties,committed school boy errors and at times could not keep hold of the ball.One positive from these two games is we are now running onto the ball taking it at pace instead of the flat game we played in the past.

Its a lot of the players you would expect to make up the AB team after the world cup next year (and for the RWC in 2019). As indeed are our players. The average age of the Scotland XV was lower than the ABs yeatserday which given they were putting out their young guys is a very good sign for Scottish rugby over the next half dozen years.

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Jury's out for me. I'll be interested to see what team the All Blacks field next week. My suspicion is there is no way they they'd field that team against England, Wales or Ireland, not least because, unlike us, any one of those three would beat that All Blacks side. We, it seems, are now a team that second string line-ups can be given a runout against.

There were certainly positives. Harley was outstanding; the Gray brothers were excellent; the line-out functioned well; Russell looks promising; Laidlaw, Ford and Hogg look rejuvenated. Shame Bennett went off early, he and Dunbar may be the answer in the centre. And a good crowd, encouraged by more sensible ticket pricing.

But there were too many negatives. That is the worst All Blacks side you'll see. Not a bad side obviously, but eminently beatable. Scotland competed well, but for all the huff & puff created not a whole lot. Our one try was an interception that came from an All Black attacking move. Carter clearly wasn't match fit (and missed 2 or 3 easy penalties) but still managed to control the game fairly comfortably. When the likes of Williams and Savea came on, you could see the step up in class between them and those they were replacing. Before the game Hansen talked about putting Scotland under pressure and seeing if they (Scotland) had the skills to handle it. Too many failed that test. Couple of phases by Scotland, must be time for a knock-on. There you go! And the passage of play in the second half when Scotland repeatedly tried to run it out of their 22 while being knocked back in the tackle and losing ground on every phase was as brainless as I've seen at international level. I was screaming at them to 'clear your feckin lines' (or words to that effect). The defence overall was good, but it was woeful for Vito's try. Good sides just don't concede tries like that at international level.

Hopefully Cotter can build on the good stuff though, and address at least some of the weaknesses.

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Jury's out for me. I'll be interested to see what team the All Blacks field next week. My suspicion is there is no way they they'd field that team against England, Wales or Ireland, not least because, unlike us, any one of those three would beat that All Blacks side. We, it seems, are now a team that second string line-ups can be given a runout against.

There were certainly positives. Harley was outstanding; the Gray brothers were excellent; the line-out functioned well; Russell looks promising; Laidlaw, Ford and Hogg look rejuvenated. Shame Bennett went off early, he and Dunbar may be the answer in the centre. And a good crowd, encouraged by more sensible ticket pricing.

But there were too many negatives. That is the worst All Blacks side you'll see. Not a bad side obviously, but eminently beatable. Scotland competed well, but for all the huff & puff created not a whole lot. Our one try was an interception that came from an All Black attacking move. Carter clearly wasn't match fit (and missed 2 or 3 easy penalties) but still managed to control the game fairly comfortably. When the likes of Williams and Savea came on, you could see the step up in class between them and those they were replacing. Before the game Hansen talked about putting Scotland under pressure and seeing if they (Scotland) had the skills to handle it. Too many failed that test. Couple of phases by Scotland, must be time for a knock-on. There you go! And the passage of play in the second half when Scotland repeatedly tried to run it out of their 22 while being knocked back in the tackle and losing ground on every phase was as brainless as I've seen at international level. I was screaming at them to 'clear your feckin lines' (or words to that effect). The defence overall was good, but it was woeful for Vito's try. Good sides just don't concede tries like that at international level.

Hopefully Cotter can build on the good stuff though, and address at least some of the weaknesses.

But also quite encouraging against Argentina the week before.

2 good performances against 2 good teams.

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But also quite encouraging against Argentina the week before.

2 good performances against 2 good teams.

Maybe. Argentina looked a bit disinterested, although that could have been that Scotland just outplayed them for much of the game. We'll see how the 6N goes in a few weeks.
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