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27 minutes ago, Left Back said:

The game only continues over 80 in the event of an act of foul play.  This stops the team in the lead from  ending the game by deliberately committing an offence.  That’s an entirely different scenario to running out of time.

The game goes over 80 all the time though. It continues until the ball goes dead (unless doing so causes a penalty to be awarded). 

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Maybe a touch against the grain here but since I just read yet another "should have had the game sewn up anyway" take, I am 100% firmly.against this patter. 

Not only are France an excellent team who put on some unbelievable rugby in the very recent WC, we are Scotland. We are going to be in tight games, even before you consider that this was v France. We have the same right as anyone else to come out on the winning side of a tight, nervy match. 

Scotland done everything that was required of them to deliver a win in that match. Handwaving away a wildly wrong and incompetent refereeing call for some reason makes absolute no sense. 

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39 minutes ago, Bairnardo said:

Maybe a touch against the grain here but since I just read yet another "should have had the game sewn up anyway" take, I am 100% firmly.against this patter. 

Not only are France an excellent team who put on some unbelievable rugby in the very recent WC, we are Scotland. We are going to be in tight games, even before you consider that this was v France. We have the same right as anyone else to come out on the winning side of a tight, nervy match. 

Scotland done everything that was required of them to deliver a win in that match. Handwaving away a wildly wrong and incompetent refereeing call for some reason makes absolute no sense. 

Correct.  Not every game is won in the first half a la Wales.

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But to add to kicking the SRU, they have cancelled the Super 6.

With no plan of what is going to replace it,

Or when its actually going to finish, ie after the upcoming sprint series, or after the next series in the autumn

So were in a position where all the clubs, players and coaches have no idea whats going on or whats happening next. Do the 6 teams drop back into the existing league structure, which is supposed to be fully amateur, releagating a whole host of clubs? Do all the players have to go back to amateur status, when they have bills to pay etc

Hopefully a plan is put in place soon for player developmenet path ways etc, however having a new plan first would probably have been better than ripping up what you have (which probably needs it) a having nothing in place.

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3 hours ago, honestly united said:

But to add to kicking the SRU, they have cancelled the Super 6. With no plan of what is going to replace it, Or when its actually going to finish, ie after the upcoming sprint series, or after the next series in the autumn

So were in a position where all the clubs, players and coaches have no idea whats going on or whats happening next. Do the 6 teams drop back into the existing league structure, which is supposed to be fully amateur, releagating a whole host of clubs? Do all the players have to go back to amateur status, when they have bills to pay etc

Hopefully a plan is put in place soon for player developmenet path ways etc, however having a new plan first would probably have been better than ripping up what you have (which probably needs it) a having nothing in place.

Who could possibly have foreseen this outcome, eh? How many millions has Dodson wasted on his folly?

You've now got a couple of hundred part-time players and support staff, potentially out of work in just a few months, plus 6 clubs whose financial models are torched. Their regular XVs are scattered down the levels (just 2 are in top tier and Boroughmuir as far down as tier 4); plus the system is supposed to be amateur.

My guess is they put the other 4 in next season's Premiership temporarily expanded with a split, plus allow some form of pay again... and all hell will break loose.

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9 hours ago, honestly united said:

But to add to kicking the SRU, they have cancelled the Super 6.

With no plan of what is going to replace it,

Or when its actually going to finish, ie after the upcoming sprint series, or after the next series in the autumn

So were in a position where all the clubs, players and coaches have no idea whats going on or whats happening next. Do the 6 teams drop back into the existing league structure, which is supposed to be fully amateur, releagating a whole host of clubs? Do all the players have to go back to amateur status, when they have bills to pay etc

Hopefully a plan is put in place soon for player developmenet path ways etc, however having a new plan first would probably have been better than ripping up what you have (which probably needs it) a having nothing in place.

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19 minutes ago, ajwffc said:

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Lovely graphic they've done... but who are the 'Pro A teams' playing week-to-week? who are 'National A team' opponents?

There are 1 or 2 club internationals annually and the inter-district championship lasts a fortnight.

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1 hour ago, HibeeJibee said:

Lovely graphic they've done... but who are the 'Pro A teams' playing week-to-week? who are 'National A team' opponents?

There are 1 or 2 club internationals annually and the inter-district championship lasts a fortnight.

The rumour doing the rounds is that there is going to be a shadow URC, although the SA teams are unlikely to be involved

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