Scottish rugby

[Mikey1874]

5 hours ago, Malinga the Swinga said:

The non decision of referee to penalise deliberate foul play, let's call it what it was  which is thuggery, was disgraceful. The two Irish guys knew exactly what they were doing and targeted Duponts leg with intent to injure.

The ref and TMO official let the sport of rugby down by refusing to make a decision, simply because it was Ireland players in Ireland going for a grand slam. An injury like that was coming as Ireland slipping from where they were and have countered that by late hits and going over the line in what is allowed.

Ref at Scotland game seemed to allow coming in from side, from both teams, and struggled to keep up with what was happening but got away with it as neither team went overboard on physicality.  Only gripe would be when Welsh guy stuck hand in VDM's face. Could easily have been red for contact to eyes of VDM but should have been minimum of yellow.

 

 

 

 

[Victorian]

Bookies have England vs Italy as a 23 point game.   Sounds about right.   Italy need a great start and a HT lead to stand any chance at all.   Hopefully they'll be motivated by Wales somehow grabbing 2 bonus points.   

[Tazio]

Just now, Victorian said:

Bookies have England vs Italy as a 23 point game.   Sounds about right.   Italy need a great start and a HT lead to stand any chance at all.   Hopefully they'll be motivated by Wales somehow grabbing 2 bonus points.   

Italy are very capable of getting bonus points with the centres they have, they’re a real handful for any team. 

[Victorian]

3 minutes ago, Tazio said:

Italy are very capable of getting bonus points with the centres they have, they’re a real handful for any team. 

 

They could go close if England are under their best.   But like Scotland,  Italy often tire badly after 50.

[Footballfirst]

2 hours ago, Victorian said:

Bookies have England vs Italy as a 23 point game.   Sounds about right.  

What do bookies know? 

England 47-24 Italy

[Victorian]

Another strange match that went dull for a long time and you realise there were 10 tries.   Italy had fleeting moments but generally poor again.   

[Mikey1874]

[PortyJambo]

So...if Scotland come out with their best 80 minute performance in years and somehow beat France in Paris...they'll likely hand the 6N title to England. That's assuming England beat Wales, which is likely, but you never know as the Taffs do like to spoil England's parties.

 

Of course, the more likely outcome is France get a bonus point win over Scotland and they'll then be champions. Even a non bonus point win for France will likely be enough as they hold a massive points differential advantage over England.

[Victorian]

Hopefully a 3 try win for England,  then an epic try bonus point draw for France and England spewing.

[Malinga the Swinga]

Dempsey and Gray out of team for French game. Brown and Fagerson in from start. Other than that it's same team starting as v Wales. Hope for the best, fear the worst 

[Mikey1874]

[Tazio]

A very busy day ahead defensively for both wingers. 

[Mikey1874]

TNT Sports just saying something vague about 'challenges' after they were tipped to take this over.

 

 

[Malinga the Swinga]

36 minutes ago, Mikey1874 said:

TNT Sports just saying something vague about 'challenges' after they were tipped to take this over.

 

 

Heard that on ITV during Cheltenham. They are covering England home and away for next 4 years and doing 10 of the games which means BBC doing 5 (by my calculations). Better than going behind paywall though.

[Mikey1874]

U20s giving another decent effort. 

Edited Friday at 22:12 by Mikey1874

[Malinga the Swinga]

10 hours ago, Mikey1874 said:

U20s giving another decent effort. 

Wales, who Scotland beat last week, stunned England meaning France finished top of table. Thanks to last gasp drop goal, Scotland grabbed bonus point and didn't finish bottom. Ireland did that

[PortyJambo]

10 hours ago, Mikey1874 said:

U20s giving another decent effort. 

That is an encouraging result from the U20's, even if a loss, maybe even more so than beating Wales at home last time. Going by previous seasons, you'd have expected them to suffer a heavy defeat, especially as France knew they could (and did) win the U20 Championship with a bonus point win.

[Mikey1874]

 

[Mikey1874]

 

[Victorian]

Ireland (-29.5)

England (-19.5)

France (-24.5)

 

21/1.   Should stand a chance.

Edited Saturday at 13:56 by Victorian

[PortyJambo]

Good start by Italy, 1 try already and should have had another one there. Not sure they'll keep it up, but we'll see.

[PortyJambo]

That's a double move on the Ireland "try"

[Victorian]

Lamaro has sold the pies big time.   Italy playing first 9mins of 2nd half a man down.   Ireland will pound them on the powerplay.

[JWL]

Italy not doing themselves any favours. Anyway, chilly day here in Paris, will stick up some pics from the stadium tonight.🍻🇫🇷🏉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🍻

[PortyJambo]

That's going to be upgraded to a red for Italy. Probably game over with Ireland pulling away from here.

[PortyJambo]

Wales nailed on for the wooden spoon as they're collapsing against England. Unless England do a Scotland and switch off, this could be a absolute mauling. 

 

[PortyJambo]

I think Wales will create a new record for losses in a row for Tier 1 nations (since professionalism) once they lose this 

[periodictabledancer]

1 minute ago, PortyJambo said:

Wales nailed on for the wooden spoon as they're collapsing against England. Unless England do a Scotland and switch off, this could be a absolute mauling. 

 

It's going to be a massacre.  As far as rugby goes, England hate the Welsh. 

[Mikey1874]

Scotland will finish 4th.

 

Wales a definite wooden spoon.

 

England the best in the world again.

[Victorian]

Wow.  2-10 tries.   14-68.

 

Davies.

 

[PortyJambo]

A 68-14 whooping for Wales 

 

Scotland really should have beaten them about the same last week.

[Mikey1874]

England top of the table.

 

Can only mean one thing.

[PortyJambo]

Biggest amount of points Wales have given up at home

 

Record 17th loss in a row for a tier 1 nation in the professional era

 

Back-to-back wooden spoons for them for the first time in their 6N history

 

The records keep on coming

 

Just as well for Wales there's no relegation at the moment, as I'd put money on Georgia, Portugal and others beating them...

Edited Saturday at 18:45 by PortyJambo

[manaliveits105]

🐏Give us a song Taffies 

[Victorian]

It was more England being really good than Wales being terrible.   England are capable of being a really,  really good side.

[Mikey1874]

Martin Johnson has just said the highlight of the 6 Nations is France and is excited about them getting the try scoring record.

[Malinga the Swinga]

30 minutes ago, Victorian said:

It was more England being really good than Wales being terrible.   England are capable of being a really,  really good side.

I think you are giving Wales too much credit. They are really shit, a team with no clue, no direction and no ability. The reality will hurt them which makes it even funnier.

England are okay String pack with decent depth but nothing out of the ordinary. Main difference from last week was they didn't take off play makers and kept foot down.

[Malinga the Swinga]

35 minutes ago, PortyJambo said:

Biggest amount of points Wales have given up at home

 

Record 17th loss in a row for a tier 1 nation in the professional era

 

Back-to-back wooden spoons for them for the first time in their 6N history

 

The records keep on coming

 

Just as well for Wales there's no relegation at the moment, as I'd put money on Georgia, Portugal and others beating them...

Hope it hurts them. Arrogant ****s thought they were untouchable at rugby and given their district sides performances, they have a fair way to go yet to hit their bottom.

[Dawnrazor]

[Seymour M Hersh]

A bit torn here. I do not want those lucky twats (should never have been France or us) from down south to win the championship but I also don't want us to lose badly. 

Edited Saturday at 20:01 by Seymour M Hersh

[PortyJambo]

BBC headline "can Scotland beat France and hand England the title?"

[PortyJambo]

Out fault that's the storyline though. We should have beaten England, as should have France.

[periodictabledancer]

FFS , Scotland falling apart already. 

[Seymour M Hersh]

Ritchie accused of not supporting his weight there, utter pish. ````````````did bring the following one down. 

[PortyJambo]

Yellow card already...not going to make it any easier for ourselves, are we

[Malinga the Swinga]

Instead of turnover, ref manages to waffle something about body weight and cards Ritchie. Different application of coming in from side than applied in previous games.

[neilnunb]

Another crooked ref

[Seymour M Hersh]

well done lads. 

[Malinga the Swinga]

Just now, Seymour M Hersh said:

Ritchie accused of not supporting his weight there, utter pish. ````````````did bring the following one down. 

Just said the same thing. Ridiculous decision.

[Seymour M Hersh]

Just now, neilnunb said:

Another crooked ref

 

He's english so you'd expect him to favour us. 😂