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3 minutes ago, Detournement said:

Very poor from Edinburgh. The usual big errors in big moments from Kinghorn and Pyrgos. 

Looking forward to seeing the Davids of Glasgow conquer Exeter Goliath tomorrow...... Aye right

Pyrgos had an absolute stinker, awful.

 

Pearce killed Edinburgh’s only spell of pressure by completely guessing on the knock-on/penalty. Can’t say Edinburgh deserved anything at all from it though, pretty terrible.

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4 hours ago, Genuine Hibs Fan said:

Here's a question that I always have with the residency qualified players argument, as we've seen with Jaco, Duhan and Oli all playing this Autumn. I see the clubs are bringing in a few lineage Scots qualified lads brought up in NZ, Aus and SA. Why do folk think this is any better? If someone lives in a country for long enough that they could reasonably be expected to have grown attached to, why is it wrong for them to play for that country but not guys whose connection is a granny they barely knew?

 

I think most would be a lot happier if we were much less reliant on both and produced more of our own players, although we'd certainly have far less depth if you took out all players produced outside Scotland.

What's most disappointing recently is that players produced elsewhere are being given contracts over young Scottish players when there is little to no difference between the two. 10 years ago this may have been more understandable but the standard of young player coming through in the last 5 years has improved greatly and good players aren't getting a shot.

All the investment in improving the academies in recent times seems a waste when some of the better players they produce are let go at the expense of similar quality foreigners.

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24 minutes ago, peasy23 said:

Andy Nicol voicing the same concerns as many on here about the lack of young Scottish players coming through at both Glasgow and Edinburgh.

Is it not the case that many of the Edinburgh/Glasgow youngers have been farmed out to the Super6 sides ?

I'll give you though that when you see the likes of Harley, Wilson, Horne, Grigg et al still churning out average performances for Glasgow, you start to wonder where the replacement talent is. 

On a side note, Glasgow facing a real arse rimming here. 

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