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1 hour ago, peasy23 said:

Exeter lose by a point at home to Northampton, they scored a try to get within a point in the last minute, but Simmonds took so long to hit the conversion it was charged down by Saints before he even kicked it.
 

 

 

 

Billy Burns has passed on the torch of embarrassment. 

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Billy Burns has passed on the torch of embarrassment. 
Only saw it once earlier, but it does look a little harsh to say he had started his run up. Tbf, if it stops all the pissing about by kickers hitting penalties or conversions then I'm all for it.

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I'm not keen on the kickers who deliberately let the clock drag down to 80:01 (step forward Greg Laidlaw), but that seems incredibly harsh. 

English referees, eh ?

 

 

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2 hours ago, Northsea80 said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/56147154

So just the 5 french players testing positive for covid and out of this coming weekends game against Scotland!

 It's up to 7 now . Looking like the Scotland game could be delayed by a week then as the following weekend is another rest weekend 

 

https://amp.france24.com/en/sport/20210220-six-nations-rocked-as-more-french-rugby-team-test-positive-for-covid-19

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Just now, peasy23 said:
29 minutes ago, stanton said:
 It's up to 7 now . Looking like the Scotland game could be delayed by a week then as the following weekend is another rest weekend 
 
https://amp.france24.com/en/sport/20210220-six-nations-rocked-as-more-french-rugby-team-test-positive-for-covid-19

Shouldn't be delayed imo, France can still field a strong team.

That's the back up plan if it's needed 

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4 hours ago, GAD said:

Gary Graham seems to be out. Wonder if he's carrying the can for last week's disaster. He didn't play well to be fair. No sign of Hutcheson or Skinner. Obviously in the bad books for something.

He was a f*cking nightmare last week. Back to the bad old days of braindead forwards giving away ridiculous penalties and costing us territory and points. 

Thank God he's been booted (injured apparently). 

We're not a team that is good enough to be able to compensate for poor discipline. If players aren't intelligent enough to play controlled rugby, they can hand their jersey to someone who is. 

 

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He was a f*cking nightmare last week. Back to the bad old days of braindead forwards giving away ridiculous penalties and costing us territory and points. 
Thank God he's been booted (injured apparently). 
We're not a team that is good enough to be able to compensate for poor discipline. If players aren't intelligent enough to play controlled rugby, they can hand their jersey to someone who is. 
 
If we hadn't let Wales score before half time then IMO Scotland go on to win comfortably, instead they gained about 70 metres through a few consecutive Scotland penalties and get a try back.
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5 hours ago, GAD said:

Gary Graham seems to be out. Wonder if he's carrying the can for last week's disaster. He didn't play well to be fair. No sign of Hutcheson or Skinner. Obviously in the bad books for something.

He gave away 4 penalties which is an absolute disaster. He put needless pressure on us. He'd fit into the Kelly Brown, Al Strockosch and John Bettie mould during the Andy Robinson and early Vern Cotter days. 

In other news Rob Harley is in. A great club stalwart but I wouldn't have him in a Scotland squad. 

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35 minutes ago, Genuine Hibs Fan said:

Aye, hopefully that's all of them as I can't see it not being delayed if more players test positive. Facing a France team without Dulin, Dupont, Haouas, Ollivon, Vincent, Villiere and Marchand would be a huge boost. 

That makes me more nervous as a Scottish sports fan. When things start to go in our favour they tend to mess it up. When the Welsh team were losing players to injury it made me less confident rather than more, we would have probably beaten a full strength Wales team.

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