TrueDiamond Posted April 19, 2017 Share Posted April 19, 2017 The capitulation at Twickenham cost a lot of people places. Andy Nichol has an article somewhere on BBC where he said he was chatting to Gatland a couple of days before the Calcutta Cup match. Gatland said he wanted to see how the Scots stood up to a strong side away from home. So it does look like a few of the possible Lions did indeed suffer from that Capitulation Whilst expecting it, seeing the lack of Scots in writing is a bit galling. Struggling to find any enthusiasm for the Lions tests now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingscot Posted April 19, 2017 Share Posted April 19, 2017 9 minutes ago, TrueDiamond said: Andy Nichol has an article somewhere on BBC where he said he was chatting to Gatland a couple of days before the Calcutta Cup match. Gatland said he wanted to see how the Scots stood up to a strong side away from home. So it does look like a few of the possible Lions did indeed suffer from that Capitulation Whilst expecting it, seeing the lack of Scots in writing is a bit galling. Struggling to find any enthusiasm for the Lions tests now. We went to Twickenham and were embarrassed. Fair point if Gatland said, "f**k me England did that, what would NZ do!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Skidmarks Posted April 19, 2017 Share Posted April 19, 2017 To be honest, England could probably kick up a fuss about some of their players not being selected. Form team over the past 18 months and then watching the coaches laddies walk straight into the team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogmc Posted April 19, 2017 Share Posted April 19, 2017 You forget Rule 1- Scotland lose, same old Scotland. Scotland win, my didn't Ireland/Wales play badly. Gray not being picked on basis of one game when he personally wasn't that bad after two years if brilliant consistency is plain crazy. Both him n launchberry have been very very hard done to. Especially when one pick is on reputation and one is based on playing well once against England. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogmc Posted April 19, 2017 Share Posted April 19, 2017 We went to Twickenham and were embarrassed. Fair point if Gatland said, "f**k me England did that, what would NZ do!" Rather undermined by picking 12 Welsh guys though....guys who were losing to Italy at half time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajwffc Posted April 19, 2017 Share Posted April 19, 2017 Rather undermined by picking 12 Welsh guys though....guys who were losing to Italy at half time. And we were the only side that Italy did not score any points against Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salmonbuddie Posted April 19, 2017 Share Posted April 19, 2017 23 minutes ago, ajwffc said: And we were the only side that Italy did not score any points against And the only side to score three tries against England Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajwffc Posted April 19, 2017 Share Posted April 19, 2017 Looking at the squad the following songs will be well played Spoiler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skiblue Posted April 19, 2017 Share Posted April 19, 2017 12 Welsh players.....WTF A well the team will be all English captained by Warbie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogmc Posted April 19, 2017 Share Posted April 19, 2017 12 Welsh players.....WTF A well the team will be all English captained by Warbie I'd guess Biggar n halfpenny at least will play. He wouldn't be taking 12 Welsh guys to play the provincial games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dysart Posted April 19, 2017 Share Posted April 19, 2017 Hope NZ thrash the English Lions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Kincardine Posted April 19, 2017 Share Posted April 19, 2017 This gives me a dilemma. Do I A) Watch the tests and support the Kiwis or B) Not watch the tests? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajwffc Posted April 19, 2017 Share Posted April 19, 2017 23 minutes ago, The_Kincardine said: This gives me a dilemma. Do I A) Watch the tests and support the Kiwis or B) Not watch the tests? C) Watch the tests and hope for a good match Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmothecat Posted April 19, 2017 Share Posted April 19, 2017 Watch the tests and hope for man of the match performances by Hogg whilst everyone else underperforms? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogmc Posted April 19, 2017 Share Posted April 19, 2017 This gives me a dilemma. Do I A) Watch the tests and support the Kiwis or B) Not watch the tests? Don't give Murdoch your cash....soon as his mob commercialised the lions it became about loading the squad with Welsh n English players because that's the two biggest rugby audiences. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogmc Posted April 19, 2017 Share Posted April 19, 2017 Watch the tests and hope for man of the match performances by Hogg whilst everyone else underperforms? When nz overwhelm the lions hogg will be scapegoated as the defensive weak link. This whole lions farago has been and will continue to be painfully predictable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northsea80 Posted April 19, 2017 Share Posted April 19, 2017 The team manager guy is on five live just now. Was asked who was talking up the case for the Scots and he laughed and then said they don't take nationality in to account they just pick the best players available and then total up the nationalities at the end. Sound like shite to me. Sorry was Graham Rowantree who's an assistant coach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northsea80 Posted April 19, 2017 Share Posted April 19, 2017 Gavin Hastings is on now, he can f**k off as well with his shite about nationality not mattering. How do they stop Scottish folk from becoming disenfranchised with the whole lions thing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lambies Doos Posted April 19, 2017 Author Share Posted April 19, 2017 Gavin Hastings is on now, he can f**k off as well with his shite about nationality not mattering. How do they stop Scottish folk from becoming disenfranchised with the whole lions thing? Hastings is a c**t. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D Angelo Barksdale Posted April 19, 2017 Share Posted April 19, 2017 10/11 for the whitewash is phree munney. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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