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Ireland 1st try should probably of been chopped off for double movement, they are almost constantly offside, only penalised once in the 1st half and constant backchat from the Irish players yet the Irish fans think the ref is not helping them 

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Seymour, Hogg and Kinghorn all out for England.
 
 
Shaun Longstaff and Cammy Murray called up as replacements.
 
I was just going to ask if anyone on here had experience of playing full back or on the wing. Can't see anything other than a gubbing unfortunately. We would have been up against it with a full squad, but now we are looking at 3rd and 4th choices in a few positions then it's going to be even harder.
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36 minutes ago, Detournement said:

Is Lee Jones still injured? Steyn looked very ropey defensively.

I think Hughes would play ahead of Steyn.

Is Hughes in the squad? Unfortunately he seems like one of those guys who are never going to be fully fit again. Can't remember the last time I saw him finish a game.

Is Maitland still out? Jackson, Maitland and Graham wouldn't be the absolute end of the world I suppose.

In fact, you'd probably go with Maitland at full back with McGuigan on the wing if possible. 

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https://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/17492974.is-steyn-selection-a-black-mark-for-scottish-rugby-administrators/

The Herald having a dig at the SRU over the Steyn call up and the whole SRU development team.

Didn't realise it was quite that bad, but only 12 of the 60 / 70 odd scotland players in and around the squad come from outside the private school / borderers / developed abroad which makes pretty grim reading and just shows how far we still have to go development wise. There isn't much detail but would be interesting to see how this relates to numbers through the various levels of the fosroc academy structures as it looks like nothing much has changed in terms of getting average kids playing rugby (outside the borders)

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3 hours ago, honestly united said:

https://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/rugby/17492974.is-steyn-selection-a-black-mark-for-scottish-rugby-administrators/

The Herald having a dig at the SRU over the Steyn call up and the whole SRU development team.

Didn't realise it was quite that bad, but only 12 of the 60 / 70 odd scotland players in and around the squad come from outside the private school / borderers / developed abroad which makes pretty grim reading and just shows how far we still have to go development wise. There isn't much detail but would be interesting to see how this relates to numbers through the various levels of the fosroc academy structures as it looks like nothing much has changed in terms of getting average kids playing rugby (outside the borders)

They are missing some players on the list and some of the non Scots came through the Scottish Rugby Academy 

Lewis Carmichael - born in Edinburgh went to North Berwick high school 

Peter Horne - born in Aberdeen went to Bell Baxter High School in Cupar(as did Chris Fusaro)

Duncan Weir - born in Rutherglen went to Cathkin High School in Cambuslang 

Jonny Gray -  born in Rutherglen went to Calderglen High School in East Kilbride

Ali Price - English born with a Scottish mother developed by the Scottish Rugby Academy

Also some of the players that went to private schools started of at state run high schools but were offered scholarships due to their rugby ability. 

 

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14 hours ago, ajwffc said:

They are missing some players on the list and some of the non Scots came through the Scottish Rugby Academy 

Lewis Carmichael - born in Edinburgh went to North Berwick high school 

Peter Horne - born in Aberdeen went to Bell Baxter High School in Cupar(as did Chris Fusaro)

Duncan Weir - born in Rutherglen went to Cathkin High School in Cambuslang 

Jonny Gray -  born in Rutherglen went to Calderglen High School in East Kilbride

Ali Price - English born with a Scottish mother developed by the Scottish Rugby Academy

Also some of the players that went to private schools started of at state run high schools but were offered scholarships due to their rugby ability. 

 

Jamie Ritchie, George Horne, the Fagersons and Murray McCallum all offered rugby scholarships at Strathallan and McDowall and Hidalgo-Clyne at Merchiston. All been in and around the Scotland squad/team recently. Plus young pros like Cammy Fenton and Bruce Flockhart at Strathallan and Paddy Kelly at Merchiston.

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Kevin Ferrie is a fuckwit. Surprised he didn't manage to shoehorn a mention of his stellar 3rd XI cricket career in there like he normally does.
To be fair I never read the herald just saw the link on the BBC website down below the Steyn call up. Good to see our rugby journalist are as good as our football ones
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36 minutes ago, afca32 said:

Jamie Ritchie, George Horne, the Fagersons and Murray McCallum all offered rugby scholarships at Strathallan and McDowall and Hidalgo-Clyne at Merchiston. All been in and around the Scotland squad/team recently. Plus young pros like Cammy Fenton and Bruce Flockhart at Strathallan and Paddy Kelly at Merchiston.

Bradbury went to Oban High then got a scholarship to a private school. Richie Gray was at state schools as well before private schools.

 

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