Mark Connolly Posted September 6, 2023 Share Posted September 6, 2023 Huge blow for Fiji as Caleb Muntz is ruled out with an injury picked up in training. He's arguably as important to them as Finn is for us 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Ferguson's Hat Posted September 8, 2023 Share Posted September 8, 2023 I've commissioned a re-work of the Champions League theme song to go with the lyrics: The Rugby The Rugby World Cup For Champions I'm not able to release it just yet due to rights issues, but I'll post it on here as soon as it's been cleared. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GAD Posted September 8, 2023 Share Posted September 8, 2023 Team for Sunday. Pretty much as expected, though probably quite a big decision to go 5-3 on the bench. Also thought Steyn would have been in the squad ahead of Smith. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvo Montalbano Posted September 8, 2023 Share Posted September 8, 2023 Just now, GAD said: Team for Sunday. Pretty much as expected, though probably quite a big decision to go 5-3 on the bench. Also thought Steyn would have been in the squad ahead of Smith. Imagine saying a year or two ago that we'd go into a World Cup opener without Hamish Watson in the squad. Some depth we have in the back row now compared to a few years back. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GAD Posted September 8, 2023 Share Posted September 8, 2023 23 minutes ago, Salvo Montalbano said: Imagine saying a year or two ago that we'd go into a World Cup opener without Hamish Watson in the squad. Some depth we have in the back row now compared to a few years back. Yeah, no Watson, Harris, Hogg, Sutherland and that's just the Lions missing for whatever reason. Like you say, two years ago starting without any of them would be a disaster. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radford Posted September 8, 2023 Share Posted September 8, 2023 (edited) Getting out of the group would certainly be the greatest Scottish rugby achievement this century? Fair? Edited September 8, 2023 by Radford 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
honestly united Posted September 8, 2023 Share Posted September 8, 2023 17 minutes ago, Radford said: Getting out of the group would certainly be the greatest Scottish rugby achievement this century? Fair? Probably as it means we've beaten one of the teams ranked 1st or 2nd in the world. Oh and if we do its either France or NZ in the quarters. Although we get passed them the semi will be a doddle as one of Wales / England / Argentina / Australia / Fiji / Georgia so free pass to the final against one of NZ / SA / Ireland / France. It just shows our luck, if we had any we could be 3rd seeds looking forward to either Wales / Australia or England / Argentina as the top seeded teams in our group and playing one of the other 2 in quarters - and us being favourites to make the semi as the highest ranked team across groups C&D 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted September 8, 2023 Share Posted September 8, 2023 2 hours ago, Radford said: Getting out of the group would certainly be the greatest Scottish rugby achievement this century? Fair? True But it has been a pretty rough century so far 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted September 8, 2023 Share Posted September 8, 2023 1 hour ago, honestly united said: Probably as it means we've beaten one of the teams ranked 1st or 2nd in the world. Oh and if we do its either France or NZ in the quarters. Although we get passed them the semi will be a doddle as one of Wales / England / Argentina / Australia / Fiji / Georgia so free pass to the final against one of NZ / SA / Ireland / France. It just shows our luck, if we had any we could be 3rd seeds looking forward to either Wales / Australia or England / Argentina as the top seeded teams in our group and playing one of the other 2 in quarters - and us being favourites to make the semi as the highest ranked team across groups C&D To win the World Cup, we're probably going to have to beat the defending champions, who we haven't beaten for 13 years anywhere, and only once away from Murrayfield, which was at Hampden in the early 1900s; arguably the best Irish team ever; France in France, which is something we've only done 3 times in the last 50 years; and NZ, which we've never done. These, of course, are also the top 4 ranked teams in the world. And even if we don't have to play France or NZ, we would probably have to play Ireland or South Africa again! To even get out of the group, we either have to beat both of the 1 and 2 ranked teams in the world, or beat one of them and hope the game between the two of them goes our way. And that's before you factor in the fact that Tonga are the strongest they've ever been at a RWC and will fancy pulling off at least one "shock" result. There can't really be a harder route than that, and we're the 5th best team in the world at the moment. If ever there was a chance to front up though... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted September 8, 2023 Share Posted September 8, 2023 Here we go lads... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted September 8, 2023 Share Posted September 8, 2023 Choir going with some fucking weird remix version of La Marseillaise 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajwffc Posted September 8, 2023 Share Posted September 8, 2023 what a start 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
come on shire Posted September 8, 2023 Share Posted September 8, 2023 That choir were horrific. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted September 8, 2023 Share Posted September 8, 2023 5 minutes ago, come on shire said: That choir were horrific. Made the Tartan Army in Cyprus sound like [insert name of famous really good choir here] 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajwffc Posted September 8, 2023 Share Posted September 8, 2023 hookers going for the kick and chase 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted September 8, 2023 Share Posted September 8, 2023 Just now, ajwffc said: hookers going for the kick and chase I love that he then forgot he kicked it and tried to run over the top of Mo'unga anyway 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Duck Posted September 8, 2023 Share Posted September 8, 2023 Not exactly a classic so far 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajwffc Posted September 8, 2023 Share Posted September 8, 2023 all blacks quite good when they try and run it 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajwffc Posted September 8, 2023 Share Posted September 8, 2023 boos ringing out 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajwffc Posted September 8, 2023 Share Posted September 8, 2023 what a tackle 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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