frankthetank22 Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 13 hours ago, ajwffc said: Antoine Dupont, Mohamed Haouas, Gabin Villière, Arthur Vincent, Julien Marchand, Cyril Baille, Peato Mauvaka, Romain Taofifenua, Charles Ollivon and Brice Dulin Just seen this on FB BREAKING: 6Nations officials announce Wales will play France this weekend instead of Scotland. In a further twist, the customary red card awarded to Wales’ opponents will be issued before kick off to ease the burden on France having to find enough players for a full XV. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GAD Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 53 minutes ago, ajwffc said: They want the match to happen this weekend as mutch as we do as they will be without 23 players if it is played outside an international window I know, but the game isn't going to go ahead if they are still recording positive cases now, is it? I don't even reckon Sturgeon would let the team travel the way it is now, even if the 6 nation's demanded it. Trying to think what a Scotland XV made up only of Edinburgh and Glasgow players would look like right now. I guess Ritchie Gray instead of his brother, Hastings, Johnson and Jones at 10/12/13, DVM, Graham and Kinghorn as the back 3. Bench would be a lot lighter on quality. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Henry Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 No chance this game is played this weekend. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genuine Hibs Fan Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 It has to be a forfeit or played later in the year surely? Playing in a rest weekend for everyone else effectively punishes Scotland twice for no fault 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankthetank22 Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 57 minutes ago, Genuine Hibs Fan said: It has to be a forfeit or played later in the year surely? Playing in a rest weekend for everyone else effectively punishes Scotland twice for no fault Aye, but that's what'll happen though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaggyness Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 Officially postponed 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honest_Man#1 Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 f**k sake, was really looking forward to this. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunning1874 Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 I assume there's absolutely no way English or French clubs can be forced to release players for the rescheduled game, meaning Scotland are stuck with a Glasgow/Edinburgh select? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennie makevin Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 The SRU should refuse to play whatever rescheduled date is come up with without guarantees that Scotland's foreign based players will be released and made available. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngusTheBull Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 14 minutes ago, kennie makevin said: The SRU should refuse to play whatever rescheduled date is come up with without guarantees that Scotland's foreign based players will be released and made available. Don't think the SRU are in international rugby's good books following the Storm Hagibis debacle. Will France not be missing their players too? Or will they come to a convenient arrangement to release all French-based players as I think Finn is our only players based over there. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
honestly united Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 We should be demanding November window or we take the win as we wont have players available. Any other date is giving the advantage to France 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonS Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 1 hour ago, AngusTheBull said: Don't think the SRU are in international rugby's good books following the Storm Hagibis debacle. Will France not be missing their players too? Or will they come to a convenient arrangement to release all French-based players as I think Finn is our only players based over there. It's surely easier for the FFR to secure the release of their players than for the SRU to get English clubs to release ours? And as a smaller country we have much less depth so it's a bigger issue for us. What really pisses me off is Ireland potentially getting an extra week to prepare. Honestly, I'd give up both the France and Italy games for a convincing win against those pr!cks. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
honestly united Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 Another decent looking signing for Glasgow, things starting to look good for next season - well an improvment on this one at least https://www.theoffsideline.com/glasgow-warriors-sign-cole-forbes/?v=79cba1185463 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genuine Hibs Fan Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 Couple of interesting picks for Wales on Saturday. North at 13 forcing JD out of position at 12 when Halaholo (who I thought was excellent the other week) is on the bench. Biggar gets the nod over sheedy again. Convinced this is a dead cat's bounce for Pivac but they've still some group of players down there. That back 3 is very exciting 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lambies Doos Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 So Scotland will be fucked over here, 28 0 victory should be awarded ala Lyon...or game played in autumn 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 So Scotland will be fucked over here, 28 0 victory should be awarded ala Lyon...or game played in autumnRumours that it could be rearranged for Saturday 3rd July, which is the date of the first Lions test. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Left Back Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 2 minutes ago, peasy23 said: 18 minutes ago, John Lambies Doos said: So Scotland will be fucked over here, 28 0 victory should be awarded ala Lyon...or game played in autumn Rumours that it could be rearranged for Saturday 3rd July, which is the date of the first Lions test. When the only guarantee is that France won’t be missing any players. Sounds extremely sensible 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Left Back Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 Just read the email from Scottish Rugby. Toony said “It remains our position that we want to have all our eligible players available to us for that fixture, so we can compete to the level we would have done this weekend”. Can’t wait to see how this one plays out. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GAD Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 In other news I see Fagerson's punishment has been "upheld" but in reality has not as they have decided to include all the Glasgow games he wouldn't have played in anyway, so in reality it's a two match ban and he should be back for the Italy game. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lambies Doos Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 When the only guarantee is that France won’t be missing any players. Sounds extremely sensibleNeither will Scotland. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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