GAD Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 We blew that really. They weren't a better team, but we made so many bad decisions at important times. The ref wasn't great, but some of the penalties we gave away were utterly brainless, and we never really looked like we could score a try. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 Glasgow should still have won that, despite the refereeing. Frustrating on every single level. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lambies Doos Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 We blew that really. They weren't a better team, but we made so many bad decisions at important times. The ref wasn't great, but some of the penalties we gave away were utterly brainless, and we never really looked like we could score a try.Good post, we just haven't looked balanced at all this year despite some decent players, hopefully the new signings square that up and a better season awaits.This season should be filed as 'in the sea' 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 We blew that really. They weren't a better team, but we made so many bad decisions at important times. The ref wasn't great, but some of the penalties we gave away were utterly brainless, and we never really looked like we could score a try.The spell around their yellow card was pivotal imo. It should have been a penalty try, but even at that the decision to throw a Hollywood pass out wide right away was madness. Should have gone through a couple of phases to tie up some defenders, or the right choice imo was to scrum instead of the quick tap. It was a pretty aimless attacking performance all round.Anything Ioane has done positively this year (which hasn't been much) has been far outweighed by the penalties, yellow cards and tonight's red. Honestly don't know what the coaches see in him.Ultimately, a different bounce of the ball from that kick through at the end could have given us a different result. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
come on shire Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 Tonight's the one that got away. The 1st half was cagey but the 2nd half was more open. The ref didn't have a clue but both teams discipline was shocking. Montpellier played like a team who're 11th in the French league. Glasgow's effort was there but discipline, organisation and leadership's simply not there. TJ Ioane gives away too many penalties and gets too many cards. On the Warriors FB forum there were people getting ticked off for saying he's a liability as it's classed as personal abuse... Once the Rainbow Cup's out the road then surely discipline will be a big part of pre season. If it goes tits up again then it'll be down to Danny Wilson and his coaches... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonS Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 Anybody watch the Gloucester v La Rochelle game? Despite their loss Gloucester fans are raving about Chris Harris on Twitter, saying it was a defensive master class. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonS Posted April 3, 2021 Share Posted April 3, 2021 Have given up watching England v Scotland as there's only so much of a kicking I can bare without it feeling like an obligation. Switched to Munster v Toulouse, which is exactly the game it was expected to be. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted April 3, 2021 Share Posted April 3, 2021 Script torn up at Sandy Park as Lyon lead 17-5 after 17 minutes against Exeter, after they were 14-0 ahead after 10 minutes. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted April 3, 2021 Share Posted April 3, 2021 Exeter do their usual and grind their way into the lead, 26-20 at half time. Lyon had a man in the bin, but looked to be going in ahead until they had a penalty reversed against them for one of their forwards going head to head with a Chiefs player and pulling his hair. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted April 3, 2021 Share Posted April 3, 2021 Johnny Gray with a storming run helps set up another Chiefs score, 33-20 ahead now with 57 minutes played. He's just gone off and been replaced by Skinner, another yellow for Lyon. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted April 3, 2021 Share Posted April 3, 2021 Penalty try for Chiefs kills the game. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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John Lambies Doos Posted April 3, 2021 Share Posted April 3, 2021 I listened to that, an absolute joke and great hes bringing it up. Scotland lost years on the other teams when NH rugby went professional. Absolute amateur hour by the SRU and its literally taken us decades to catch up internationally and nowhere near at club level. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted April 3, 2021 Share Posted April 3, 2021 As much as I'm no fan of the SRU, I wouldn't trust a word that comes out of Williams' mouth. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lambies Doos Posted April 3, 2021 Share Posted April 3, 2021 Some really high scores and exciting finishes in todays European games. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted April 3, 2021 Share Posted April 3, 2021 As much as I'm no fan of the SRU, I wouldn't trust a word that comes out of Williams' mouth. Saw a reply on Twitter (which I can't be arsed searching out) saying he has made the same cracks about other teams he has coached. How does he know he could lift more weights than the players if there weren't any weights? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonS Posted April 3, 2021 Share Posted April 3, 2021 2 hours ago, John Lambies Doos said: 2 hours ago, ajwffc said: I listened to that, an absolute joke and great hes bringing it up. Scotland lost years on the other teams when NH rugby went professional. Absolute amateur hour by the SRU and its literally taken us decades to catch up internationally and nowhere near at club level. What he says about the SRU may or may not be true, but plenty of people in the know and with no love for the SRU have piled out to slaughter him. One player has talked about the gym being fine. A journalist said Williams was asked when in Ireland what he was reading and named some book that made him sound clever. Two years later he was asked the same question in Scotland and named the same book. He's by far the worst manager Scotland ever had and it looks like he's just bullshitting to salvage his reputation. Obviously the Irish media will entertain that as they love to look down on Scotland. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted April 4, 2021 Share Posted April 4, 2021 His first HOME game was against England. His first game was against Wales the week before, so if the forwards didn't know who they were defending at the lineout against England, surely questions should be raised as to what changes were made between those two games that caused the forwards to be so confused. On that point, the pack for that game against England (assuming that's the one he actually means, but who knows?) was Tom Smith, Gordon Bulloch, Bruce Douglas, Scott Murray, Stuart Grimes, Jason White , Cameron Mather and Simon Taylor. The guy who coached the forwards in their most recent matches (RWC 2003) before that was some bloke called Telfer. I'm sure that lot didn't have a clue about defensive lineout play before Matt fucking Williams and Willie "It's a match plan, not a game plan" Anderson showed up. Or maybe it was down to the infamous 24-point defensive plan that Steve Anderson, the defence coach, tried to implement. And there had been a gym at Murrayfield since the late 90s, when Ken McEwan, the S&C guy, first started using Olympic weightlifting in the S&C programmes. But I'm sure Matt was benching more than the backs. In a gym that had no plates. That he had to set up himself. Matt Williams is also the guy that claimed he was hounded out because of racism, which intensified after Berti Vogts was binned as the football coach. Nothing to do with him being a complete bullshitter who won 3 games out of 17, and who the players absolutely detested. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Henry Posted April 4, 2021 Share Posted April 4, 2021 15 hours ago, Mark Connolly said: As much as I'm no fan of the SRU, I wouldn't trust a word that comes out of Williams' mouth. While he’s exaggerating a point, Budge Poutney retired from international rugby after being docked the price of an SRU tie after giving to a young fan in lieu of an autograph. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonS Posted April 4, 2021 Share Posted April 4, 2021 There's some serious talent in that Edinburgh team. A back three of Ritchie, Watson and Mata, and DTHVDM and Darcy on the wings. You can't see them winning but they could have some fun. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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