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I'm not the most knowledgeable about rugby union but this is fantastic sport. Two teams going for it, tremendous for the neutral. The atmosphere is tremendous too, feels better than the Stade de France for French games.

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12 hours ago, Savage Henry said:

Means Scotland finish fourth.  With arguably the second strongest team in the tournament.  

If it weren’t for our hard luck with refereeing at the end of our respective games against France Scotland and Italy would be 2nd and 3rd

It’s been one of the most balanced and interesting tournaments in years

except for viewers in Wales

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8 minutes ago, topcat(The most tip top) said:

If it weren’t for our hard luck with refereeing at the end of our respective games against France Scotland and Italy would be 2nd and 3rd

It’s been one of the most balanced and interesting tournaments in years

except for viewers in Wales

Fair point. 

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1 minute ago, GAD said:

Nothing to see here, stop blaming refs, get treated the same as everyone else, etc, etc, etc

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That’s absolutely on the players.  Piss poor discipline throughout the tournament. 

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2 minutes ago, Savage Henry said:

That’s absolutely on the players.  Piss poor discipline throughout the tournament. 

A disparity that size, considering we dominated large periods of most games is not absolutely on the players.

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On 17/03/2024 at 18:31, GAD said:

Nothing to see here, stop blaming refs, get treated the same as everyone else, etc, etc, etc

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I dont know how you expect to be winning games if you give away on average 6 more penalties per game than the team you are playing.

Also, just looking at our drop off in the 2nd half, the full table for the score at half time is as follows,

  Won Lost For Against dif Points
Ireland 5 0 72 24 48 20
Scotland 4 1 78 40 38 17
France 3 2 66 60 6 14
Italy 2 3 44 65 -21 9
Wales 1 4 31 73 -42 5
England 0 5 47 76 -29 4

 

So we were ahead in all games expect Ireland (and only 1 point down) at half time, before collapsing in all the games. Also shows how good England were 2nd half of there games coming back from losing in all games to winning 3 and only losing 2 with a +24 points swing compared to Scotland's -38 point swing in the 2nd half

1st half we were 78 for 40 against in points, compared to 2nd half of 37 for 75 against (115 for 115 against total).

 

Also Autumn Internationals announced as follows

 

Scotland's autumn fixtures

  • 2 November - Scotland v Fiji (kick-off 17:40 GMT)
  • 10 November - Scotland v South Africa (16:10)
  • 16 November - Scotland v Portugal (15:10)
  • 24 November - Scotland v Australia (13:40)

Looks a decent split against Tier 2 nations / winnable games and playing South Africa.

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