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Scotland v France today, France have picked a much weaker team.
Wales to continue poor form I'm sure v England.
Prime only gave me one week free this time 😟
lose / lose for Scotland. We beat france its because they are a weakened team. Lose to them and its because we are losers 🙂
should be a good tight game - clearing up a bit here now
I will be watching via my favourite dodgy link
I can only hope Scotland beat the under strength France , I'm not confident and I am worrying about injury to our key players already.
Wales will lose ,Italy will lose.
Amazon prime interface is poor as always.
Oh happy days
Wales to continue poor form I’m sure v England.
I intend to be optimistic for once, at least initially. There aren't many teams I think we could possibly beat, but England are one of them. I give Wales a 33% chance today.
If Leigh 1/2p ever reads this, congratulations on your 100th cap - absolute superstar and seems like a genuinely lovely person.
Some try that!!
Sweet!
A much more entertaining game than last week.
Shame O keeffe has left his cards at home. Hopefully it evens out
France look well up for it. Scotland are clearly going for attack attack attack. To be expected with Finn captain
Do France do dull tries? - another beauty
Shine a light. Time for the pillow fort behind the sofa
Thats the 4th high tackle. 2 not penalised even. One should have been a card
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Shame O keeffe has left his cards at home.
I was thinking O'Keefe is quietly competent.
Generally a very good ref. They cant get everything. Tmo should have given the card
France look hungry. Scotland look shellshocked
Worst half from Scotland for ages. France do look good tho
Apart from the scrummages the Scots pack is being demolished and the backs are forcing it from deep far too much.
Thats better. Took them apart there.
Aa. Scotland will allways run from deep at least some of the time. Our coach is toonie not gats😜🤣
Same as glasgow and Edinburgh do
French hooker looks like he's stolen Moriarty's face!
Red all day long that.
Jailbait has stolen Ntamacks hair
That look like red
Game over
Fagerson is a liability from what I've seen.
The yellow card/red card review worked well in the U20's imho.
WTF is going on??
Great comeback but what a poor effort at a tackle on Kinghorn there.
Gauss. Its Scotland. Attack attack attack
How did the ref/TMO not notice that the holding penalty came after the missed knock on??
It was an offside earlier
How did the ref/TMO not notice that the holding penalty came after the missed knock on??
I think there was a different advantage before but it was over the other side of the pitch.
Refs giving us everything now🤣
Edit. Or not
it wasn’t. You can rewind and see. 1st infringement after the line out was the holding which was after the knock on
Can’t blame the ref for the error (no way I could remember all that stuff) but surely it’s the job of the TMO to help??
Well well well
Congratulations Scotland
Not what the ref said. Earlier advantage. 2 in that passage
That was fun.
Scotland made it easy for France in first half, applied some forceful defensive pressure in second half and unsettled France
The yellow/red card thing worked well I think
The ref questioned it to the TMO, the TMO got it wrong. Mistakes happen.
What a great game though. As a neutral really enjoyed it.
Well well well. 25 nil second half most with 14 men
It seems that toonies boot up the arse at halftime did something
AA see what i mean about the wee man? Remind you of anyone? Maybe a welsh winger?
Not what the ref said. Earlier advantage. 2 in that passage
kind of my point. The ref clearly said he was playing advantage for holding which he wasn’t. The TMO had the chance to correct him and also got it wrong.
Have you watched it back?h
Anyway, I need to focus on making excuses for when England are awful again. That takes a lot of focus 😀
Never doubted, now off to get lightly potted and then press the buzzer and run away multiple times at a certain address in Leith….
Maybe a welsh winger?
He's not that good!!
Scotland in a nutshell, shite to world beaters again in 40mins...Fagerson is likely to miss a couple of pool games I reckon.
100 Wales caps for 1/2p plus 4 Lions caps, well done. Can't see much more positives coming from today.
RIP Clive Rowlands 👏👏👏👏👏
Wales win the singing, let's leave it at that shall we!!?
Wales props will need to up their games significantly to compete here.
AA - a try every 2 internationals? I know no scot would get into the welsh team but........... 🙂
Finn very good today. Even got a jackal penalty He just seems to have so much time and space. We have the backs to take on anyone in the world. Forwards a step lower
I wonder if the french spent so much time marking Huipolotu and Finn that they left the space out wide? Certainly we didn't get much out of huipoloto this game
C'mon Wales. Time for LRZ to reach his potential and a few others to show what they can do 🤞🤞🤞
Which pub you in duckman? and leave my doorbell alone!
So after the fancy french patisserie ( we have plenty of our own in Edinburgh - Auld alliance 🙂 ) now its time for the spotted dick and custard. stodge on stodge 🙂
Anyone noticed with O'Keffe that he gives very short advantage? did it once in that game. make 10 m and kick the ball - advantage over even for a pen. He is consistent with it - I have noticed it before.
Did not see that 2nd half performance coming, France looked a bit leaderless for much of the second half you could see the lack of game intelligence. The ref was ok didn't make any game changing mistakes. I am even beginning to like Darcy.
I rate O'Keeffe. One of the best. Has his quirks as they all do but I am always happy if we have him.
AA – a try every 2 internationals? I know no scot would get into the welsh team but
He'd get in the Wales team but he's not as good as Shane
Darcy beat 5 men in that match, Duhan 8. No one else more than 2 on either side.
the combo of the two works really well. Bludgeon and rapier
Darcy beat 5 men in that match, Duhan 8. No one else more than 2 on either side.
World beaters no doubt
I just looked at the scoring rates - Shanes really is remarkable. 3.3 a game average ( Darcy is 2.7) What I really meant tho was very similar players not that Darcy was better.
That's true
Turgid stuff in Wales games, Welsh props getting stuffed.
This is like 2 one legged men in an arse kicking contest. Teej, Bennetts but off to whatever the junction is called now; cask and barrel?
Ah - I thought you were down leith!
Cockasinga proving he can’t catch, leaving a door open for Watson.
Well England are shite, we already knew Wales are. Being on Biggar, change the props and we could sneak this 😆
Don't think England or Wales need to be thinking about clearing a space in their trophy cabinets
Agreed, it’s Scotlands day today unless the the next 40 mins explodes with excellence *
* I doubt it
Well I was fearing worse from Wales, so I'm not too disheartened. Some Wales players looking good to me:
Wainwright, North, Rowlands and LRZ...
Don’t think England or Wales need to be thinking about clearing a space in their trophy cabinets
There are only 4 teams who should New Zealand, South Africa, France, Ireland.
There are only 4 teams who should New Zealand, South Africa, France, Ireland.
I'm not so sure, being on the other side of the draw has definite benefits - get to the semis and anything can happen.
Good play by Wales but lost due to Cockasinga being swapped out to avoid the catching issue. Malins catching for him on one wing, Care on the other.
Aside from Marchant and Steward who are proving mediocre, England have no threat out back… again.
those 4 teams are all in one side of the draw. France and SA in particular have a very tough route to the final.
Was that try the first bit of creativity all game?
Good god England are bad!
What has happened to Englands tradition strengths? Forwards are playing like they have no pride in the set piece. While I would like both teams to lose, I almost feel sorry for their supporters…Almost.
I cannot see England beating Argentina at the mo.
Argentina are a good side. NOt easy to beat them. Playing SA tonight
Jeezo this is dire stuff.
Bull shit decision that, no clear separation!
I canr remember seeing an England performance as bad as this.
I think Wales realised how poor England actually were, then loosened up a bit and looked much better for it
England handed Wales a bit of a confidence boost
I canr remember seeing an England performance as bad as this.
So, so many handling errors. No real attacking threat. Certainly there's plenty of room for improvement. However, they've got just about enough time to improve a fair bit - but there's no clear structure/game plan that I can see.
Well thats 80 mins I am not getting back!
Can anyone explain why Marcus is so highly rated? He did nothing much of note. Is it the tactics he is being told to play? Overrated by the media? Struggling to adapt to the international game ( I have not seen him in any club matches) But where was the clever stuff to create space for others? I'd be playing Ford at 10 if i was selecting.
Why so many handlingerrors across the team?
Wales didn't have to do a lot to winthat game easily. Englanddid nothing
Steward is another I just don't get. He is too slow to be an international FB. LRZ should have been nowhere near that disallowed try. OK steward can catch a ball
I’ve got tickets for next weeks game. I hope the beer is good.
From memory it isn’t, sorry Kryters.
Oh well 2 games down and 2 predictions wrong. Could it be a famous night for Italy?
From the guardianlive text coverage:
England are in the Wales 22 and attacking with all the vim of a bulldog on mogadon.
🙂