honestly united

I would have said when fully fit Dunabr and Bennett are the best pairing at centre but have been impressed with Taylor this season though

Huge difference to the team having Pyrgos back, although disappointed letting them back into the gale, when they should have been trying to kill them off and get the bonus point

Was wondering how we could lose from 14 up when Italy scored still think we can do this if we keep our head's

Cant believe Gilchrist is injured again, on his first game back. The boy is made of chocolate.

The utter panic when I read the updated squad thinking Hart was the 2nd choice behind Laidlaw. The relief when I saw SHC was immense!! Price is a much better scrum half, and I am assuming Townsend was asked who did he want to play on Thursday and the other was called up as cover only. With Blair Cowan out with concussion I wonder if Straus or Harley will start on the bench?

The reason they aren't being dropped is that Glasgow, if they win their 2 games in hand can go above Edinburgh in the league. They will be wanting to be in the European Cup and not the Challenge Cup next season and the only way to do that is finishing in the top 5 or above Edinburgh, so they need the best players on the park given that at the moment the majority of their first choice players will be with in the Scotland squad

nakarawa is off to Racing most probably

Seemingly Naiyaravoro is off back to Australia at the end of the season, disappointing but always thought it would happen. With him and a few others going (Weir & Nakarawa as a start) hopefully there is money to bring in a few replacements oh a decent standard. Also does anyone know what is happening with Blair, he was ruled out with concussion after the 2nd Scarlets games in Europe before Christmas, and is still listed as out with concussion 2 months later?

I would get rid of Laidlaw as well, only problem is Hidalgo-Clyne didn't do himself any favours on Saturday with his performance when he came on and Pyrgos is injured. Also got to agree that Denton brings nothing to the team. Every other country has a big ball carrying number 8 that is always involved and makes yards, yet Denton is anonymous most games, yet seems to get bigged up by the commentators on the odd occasion he gets the ball. Dont think we really have any options at 8, Strauss is a bit to small for 8 at International level (good blind side option though)and I dont rate Taylor, and Beattie isn't the sort of player we need. Dont know if moving Johnny Gray back to 8 would be option, although he might be a bit to slow. I would also like to see Harley back in the squad, as he would add a bit more physicallity to the back row but again he has been out injured for a while.

Scotland have got decent backs that are more than a match for any of the 6 Nations teams, I remember Russell, Dunbar and Bennett playing for Glasgow last season ripping apart the Bath backs of Ford, Eastwood and Joseph who were all in the England Squad at the time. Bennett was on the shortlist for World break through player of the year last year. The problem they have is that the backs dont get quick enough ball to work with

To be fair it looks like Chelsea know he is not going to make the grade and are punting him out on loan anywhere that will take him in the hope of getting some money back for him

Brown is out injured, and as much as i like Mcarthur i think he is to small for international rugby. Ford is the one player I would love to get dropped. Richie Gray needs to up the work rate, but again there is no one to replace him with. I would love to see Harley in the team, but Barclay's doing well at blind side. Im just hoping Taylor can deal with Roberts as Wales' whole game revolves around big lumps charging up the 10 / 12 chanel

Granted we are still pish, but less pish than last year. I don't know why people suddenly thought we had become world betters after beating Japan, USA and the limping past the worst Samoa team in my lifetime before coming close against Australia, who having not checked but just guessing are probably the tier 1 team we have the best record against in the last 10 years or so. I would definitely say though that Saturday was a step up from last years preformances, just hoping we can do something this weekend against Wales

We were never favourites to win and a 6 point loss is better than some of the drubbings we have taken in the past. If the ref had penalised Care for his blatant obstruction on Laidlaw at the first try Scotland win 9-8. To be fair I thought England played quite well and any team only giving away ONE scrum in the whole game has kept possession well. Scotland weren't at their best but there were positives to take, for once we kept the penalty count down, and we had chances to win, plenty to build on for next week against Wales, but we have to start picking up wins somewhere

It wouldn't suprise me that Killie could be off and Irvine game on, I used to get the train from Glasgow to Ayr all the time and you could have inches off snow all the way down to Killwining then you cross the A78 and there's nothing.

Probably a good move for Weir and for Russell as should ensure more game time for Scotlands 2 first choice Stand Offs. Will be interesting to see who Glasgow bring in as a replacement, whether its a young academy guy, or an oversea's experience pro.

Swinsons cost Glasgow the game there, just no need for that

I used to play for Carrick out of Maybole and some of the away trips were outstanding in the Glasgow and District League, Arran, Dunoon, Campbletown, Oban - what a mess some of those coach trips were!

Can't beelive TNA have ran with the following for the World Title Series Finale

Was going to go to Northampton as its relatively close to me but £35 ish for the cheapest ticket stopped that, I think I've been spoiled by wasps at 15

Given is a bit strong it was him or price as Blair is out injured

At the moment there is a play off for the bottom team, against a play off winner of HL & LL winners, if there were 3 feeders now then you could include the bottom club and have SF's and a Final for the place in the league. The problem with the pyramid is until the Juniors are on board (or told they are getting involved) you just have a HL in the north, and the LL, and EoS and SoS (although don't think they are official feeders as of yet) in the south which is probably the least pyramid like set up you could have. This would be the first step to get them involved before you start worrying about how many teams are in each division or what split in regions there is

I think hart and Blair were due to share back up duties behind pyrgos and Glasgow have suffered with him being out injured as neither are a patch on matawalu but not many players are

You could make the case that they are being looked after rather than disregarded. If you look at the much highlighted Annan vs Elgin game how much is it costing the clubs to travel to this away game twice a season? They could probably pay someones wages for 5 or 6 weeks with the cost of the bus alone! The premises is that for the clubs you reduce costs, that can be re-invested in the squad, hopefully crowds increase as the travelling distance is reduced you hopefully gain more away fans. But that needs to be balanced against reduced (perceived) quality of teams, potential loss of advertising if there isn't the nationwide exposure (although what exposure the sponsors get in league 2 is debatable) and the notion that your team might not be the same level as it was before (although in reality you would be moving from Level 4 to level 3) and you also have to put up with the Juniors and their local leagues for local people.

Was thinking the same when I watched Ant man last week. I have to say I thought Ant man was a much better film than Age of Ultron