honestly united Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 2 hours ago, GAD said: Yeah, good player and a shame for Edinburgh to lose him, but they seem to have a backlog of decent Scottish back rows not getting a game so no surprise to see him finally moved on. Was a great signing for Edinburgh, and probably one of their best players for many years, but right time to let him go. Was probably a cheap option when he came in but would have been looking at a big wage, which will be better spent elsewhere, and Embra have some decent options in the back row now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
honestly united Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 The BBC has the SRU / GT interested in Finn Smith (Northampton), Tom Roebuck, Aaron Reed and Gus Warr (Sale) and Jacob Beetham (Cardiff). I suppose it must be cheaper and easier than paying for proper player development in Scotland 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GAD Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 3 hours ago, honestly united said: The BBC has the SRU / GT interested in Finn Smith (Northampton), Tom Roebuck, Aaron Reed and Gus Warr (Sale) and Jacob Beetham (Cardiff). I suppose it must be cheaper and easier than paying for proper player development in Scotland This has been doing the rounds, but the article I read seemed to be more that it was the Sale coach trying to drum up some England caps for his players, and the Beetham one is a "Welsh rugby in turmoil!!!" story. If these guys had been a few good props, or massive ball carrying second rows then I could see Scotland pushing the boat out for them, but it's three back 3 players, a scrum half and a 10. Honestly think Smith is the only one they'd be seriously interested in making a concerted effort to poach. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajwffc Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 Beetham looks more like Edinburgh trying to replace Kinghorn 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aDONisSheep Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 On 08/11/2021 at 11:05, aDONisSheep said: I completely agree with this; Here's my manifesto for the game 1) Lineout; get a lineout clock going from when ball goes out of play, maybe 30 seconds if from a penalty, 40 if opposition put it out. 2) Injured players; rolling replacements at set pieces but restricted to set piece and first phase of play. After that, replacements are out of the game unless made permanent. 3) Reduce the number of substitutions 4) Allow deviation in line when defending box kicks, but no arms, grabbing or shoulder charges 5) Get TMOs the fvck out of making calls unless for the most agregious offences, punching, gouging etc. Other than that, they only get involved with what the referee has asked them to look at. 6) Scrum; one re-set then free kick or penalty at referees discretion. 9) Kick at goal reduced to 45 seconds 10) Maximum caterpillar of one at ruck Yours, the self appointed commissioner of rugby aDONis Rumour has it, that World Rugby, has been looking at the comments of the - self appointed commissioner of rugby’s comments on this board. They haven’t adopted all of my fine, fine ideas, but they’re looking to adopt variations of 1, 5, 9 & 10. @WORLD RUGBY, I’m available for consultancy, wedding and Bar-mitsvas. Yours aDONis Self appointed commissioner of rugby 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Left Back Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 Just seen Owen Farrell make a legal tackle for Saracens. He hurt himself mind but they replayed it and it was definitely legal. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GAD Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 Just watched Bath v Gloucester, not a classic but interesting seeing Russell v Hastings. Russell was decent, but his place kicking wasn't, Hastings was playing ok, but then completely fluffed his lines when he just had to execute a simple pass to put Gloucester in at the corner and he completely fucked it, very late in the game. Basically cost them the match. Both Harris and Redpath were good as well I thought. That could easily be the center in Cardiff in a few weeks. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Left Back Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 1 hour ago, GAD said: Just watched Bath v Gloucester, not a classic but interesting seeing Russell v Hastings. Russell was decent, but his place kicking wasn't, Hastings was playing ok, but then completely fluffed his lines when he just had to execute a simple pass to put Gloucester in at the corner and he completely fucked it, very late in the game. Basically cost them the match. Both Harris and Redpath were good as well I thought. That could easily be the center in Cardiff in a few weeks. Thought Finn and Redpath combined well today. Tough call between Redpath and Sione but for me Sione and Huw are still deserving of their spots. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GAD Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 10 minutes ago, Left Back said: Thought Finn and Redpath combined well today. Tough call between Redpath and Sione but for me Sione and Huw are still deserving of their spots. Not sure Jones is playing so well just now. It's a hard call anyway, for me Redpath is such a classy player, probably the best passer and kicker, Tuipolotu isn't as good a distributor, but brings the strength and line break potential, as does Jones, and Harris is obviously the best defender from the lot of them. You've got McDowall kicking about as well who is knocking on the door, who brings more physicality and a massive boot. It's a hard call. Not to mention the forgotten men like Hutchison, Bennett, Scott, Lang, etc. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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come on shire Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 That's Andy Farrell officially the head coach of the British and Irish Lions tour to Oz next year. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Left Back Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 4 hours ago, come on shire said: That's Andy Farrell officially the head coach of the British and Irish Lions tour to Oz next year. Cue Farrell becoming Gatland mk II. Default pick will be an Irish player and no-one else is getting a look in. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 Thread about Andy Farrell’s rugby league career. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 2 hours ago, Left Back said: Cue Farrell becoming Gatland mk II. Default pick will be an Irish player and no-one else is getting a look in. There’s a whole soap opera angle about Owen Farrell’d selection 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 From everything he has shown in his playing and coaching, Farrell Sr is the type of guy who just wants to win, and will pick the best, regardless of where they come from. I reckon he would also have no issues with phoning his boy to tell him he's staying at home if he didn't think he was worth picking. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GAD Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 9 hours ago, Mark Connolly said: From everything he has shown in his playing and coaching, Farrell Sr is the type of guy who just wants to win, and will pick the best, regardless of where they come from. I reckon he would also have no issues with phoning his boy to tell him he's staying at home if he didn't think he was worth picking. To be honest, if he takes 3 10s, unless someone really starts pulling up trees during the next couple of 6 nations it's going to be Farrell and Russell plus one. To be honest, if you were picking it now, it would be hard to argue with Ireland + Russell and DVM. Also, it's Australia so it doesn't really matter who he picks. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honest_Man#1 Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 Dodson away! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 https://scottishrugby.org/scottish-rugby-ceo-mark-dodson-to-step-down-in-summer-2024/ Good riddance, don't let the door hit you on the way out 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GHF-23 Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 11 minutes ago, Honest_Man#1 said: Dodson away! 1 - good to see the BBC reporting it as "Chief Exec" rather than the annoying Americanism of CEO 2 - The new guy has to be a bold appointment, heavily backed, with a strong plan to improve the game from the ground up and finally make up some of the gap we've been struggling with since Professionalism. I won't exactly be holding my breath but good riddance. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajwffc Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 for the lions i would say Russell and DVM to start. With Kinghorn, Graham, Ritchie, Schoeman in the team with 3 out of 4 in the 23 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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