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Funny how BBC news is all over this like white on rice, yet have to still to report on the health secretary's PPE high court ruling. Its almost like they are different matters worthy of different streams of coverage and one right now is having live and potentially dramatic evidence presented by a f...

The tournament organisers have really fecked this. How come we went into a tournament during a pandemic without clear rules as to what happened in the event of, well, this? What ought to happen is postponement to a date when both sides will be able to field a full team. This is obviously a problem ...

Begbie wrote: ↑Thu Feb 25, 2021 5:06 pm Both teams should nominate their best gamer and settle it with a game of Jonah Lomu Rugby.

"He's digging like a demented mole"

Will catch it once home.

Havent embraced the constituent SR as much as 2020 (think i watched every match).

How is the new (possible) AU 9-10 combo shaping?

Potential nasty outcone- from our perspective- on this France game.

We have to add the Crown Office's latest highly dubious actions to the Rangers Administration inquiry. How the Lord Advocate can stand in parliament and admit the investigation was entirely malicious on the part of his department and no one is sacked, or prosecuted, or he doesn't resign is astonish...

Edinburgh in QFs and Sunday on, not bad at all.

Not since NPR opened, visited the day after the Calcutta Cup to read the match thread because. . well . . you know.

Remembered how much I detested the bulk of Irish posters so not much chance of another visit.

I think the standard has now been set in the UK that ministers don’t resign and carry on regardless. I don’t necessarily agree with that, but that seems to be the way public life now is. The vast majority of voters don’t give a shit. Whatever the outcome of this, it’ll have a negligible effect on t...

Well it absolutely does fit her version of events because the only situation under which there is a requirement to officially record the meeting is if it was SG business. Murrell’s attendance or absence has nothing to do with that. However, I concede that no explanation will satisfy her opponents H...

westport wrote: ↑Wed Feb 24, 2021 7:18 am
Caley_Red wrote: ↑Wed Feb 24, 2021 6:40 am Anyone know the skinny on the France game? I read that we would have a decision today, postpone, cancel or go ahead?
Decision is being made this evening

Thanks, Westport.

Had a few schnifters and completely forgot the time diff.

Anyone know the skinny on the France game? I read that we would have a decision today, postpone, cancel or go ahead?

Completely fair statement, precedent was set in Autumn Nations Cup with Fiji; we either play this weekend or 28-0. Apart from the 6N tournament rules which all teams agreed to was that games would be rescheduled rather than cancelled. Be a good lad and post them for us, specifically the part that d...

Completely fair statement, precedent was set in Autumn Nations Cup with Fiji; we either play this weekend or 28-0.

If we're doing parliament past and present, Ming Campbell on the wing, faster than Howlett, Rupeni et al

Eric Pickles at tight head, add some heft to the pack

KingBlairhorn wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 7:46 pm Dupont positive for COVID and presumably out of next week’s match. Not sure how many have it so far?

England beat Wales and we get a 28-0 walkover. . It's back on

Was just thinking about who we actually can’t replace at the moment, on the grounds that one of them at least is bound to get crocked against Wales and be out for the rest of the 6N. Sutherland - good cover from Kebble Turner - #1 and #2 injured already, though Cherry did well last week Z Fagerson ...

That would prompt me to trail him with a home-made Gauss Gun. There seems to be a tradition forming of hill walkers throwing stones at the bloody things, long may that continue. I hurled a few at one on Arthur's Seat last year then felt a bit guilty as it was filming a wedding party. I had resolved...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EttxMb0VoAASh5B?format=png&name=small Geez some peace...favourites to win the whole thing according to some stattos. They must have an automatic France devaluation algorithm in there somewhere and lost their Excel column with Scotland v Ireland results. :crazy: I rec...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EttxMb0VoAASh5B?format=png&name=small Geez some peace...favourites to win the whole thing according to some stattos. They must have an automatic France devaluation algorithm in there somewhere and lost their Excel column with Scotland v Ireland results. :crazy: I rec...

While we are all purring after a great performance yesterday, we have a serious game against the Welsh next week. Their back row is a real worry. I hate the thought that we will be favourites. We're really not good at that No, we’re not. But what else aren’t we good at? Winning games away from home...

Begbie wrote: ↑Sat Feb 06, 2021 9:32 pm
Caley_Red wrote: ↑Sat Feb 06, 2021 9:09 pm Looking forward to seeing what Goodey has to say on the RugbyPod
He'll probably blame "remoaners", the fat bald wank.

I expect big Jim to be completely magnanimous

Looking forward to seeing what Goodey has to say on the RugbyPod

I just don't get it. Week after week he is the same flake, f**k up, game loser for Racing. The guy contributes far more game losing moments than the odd occasion his random sh*t strikes gold. Utterly abject again today. Townsend will come to rue this reconciliation along with the rest of Scotland. ...

Annoyingly, it seems the Aus equivalent of Sky no longer shows the 6N on demand, arose at 7 this morning to watch the whole game but have been cruelly relegated to the YouTube highlights. Hence, I can't say anything about specific passages of play or individual player performance, however, like ever...

Does anyone know why the match isn't on demand within foxtel? Woke up this morning to watch it and cannot find it on foxtel sport . .

I cant figure out is the Salmond/Cherry/Rev Stu faction really care about this transgender stuff or its a stalking horse to oppose Sturgeon without saying they do out loud. A separate but just as bitter fight has broken out over the NEC and the allocation of list nominations...its all quite 'Byzant...

Jesus, the opposition parties in Scotland are OBSESSED with independence, it’s all they ever talk about. Just watched that damp piece of cardboard Wullie Rennie on the Lib Dem party political broadcast and you just knew that everything he was saying at the beginning was a build up to talking about ...

The EU has activated article 16 of the Northern Ireland protocol to enable its vaccine export controls....implications of this being done so soon and by the EU remain to be seen. Might well be a case for the UK now having the cover to do the same to ease some supply issues. I'm astonished by how li...

The OP does this every year around this time. Can't remember his name from PR but he is actually very knowledgable on rugby when he manages to stop being a dick for a few minutes. The best way to deal with wanky questions is to simply answer them. I'm sure he was secretly hoping for a pile-on but t...

I thought he was quite good in the games Vs Edinburgh. Managed the last game well and guided Thompson through. Never really been sold on Price. Same- was decent when he arrived on scene in 2017 but has been pretty mediocre since then (although 2020 was an improvement on the previous two years). Pri...

I'm prepared to give them the benefit of the doubt for a few more weeks over the vaccine, but considering their obvious motivation to do it better than HMG it seems incredible that they are still unable to do so. It's astonishing that the BMA are now suggesting that it would be better and quicker f...

The OP does this every year around this time. Can't remember his name from PR but he is actually very knowledgable on rugby when he manages to stop being a dick for a few minutes. The best way to deal with wanky questions is to simply answer them. I'm sure he was secretly hoping for a pile-on but t...

Structure for professionalism was highly suboptimal but the degradation was a lagging factor and became very apparent from 2002 onwards. In the early 2000's- when i was in middle high school- there was no capacity to play good level U16 unless you were at a good private school; I played in an excell...

That's interesting. I've not seen SHC play this season but I've been impressed by Price recently. He seems to have matured and developed the game management aspect that he was maybe lacking before. Really? I’ve thought Price has been a bit dull and slow of late. I thought he was quite good in the g...

6Ns is going to be a bit of a lottery like the AIs and I suspect there are some deals that have been done to spread selections across English teams for those players who might not be guaranteed a game plus Toonie's desire to try a few new options out. I presume that covid19 means the guys selected ...

As an ex player and office bearer/committee member of a midlands club it is immensely frustrating really. The last AGM I recall 4 or 5 years ago was Grangemouth I think proposing Caley 1 be split into North and Midlands. The North clubs voiced concerns because of the lack of comparable opposition (...

Slick wrote: ↑Tue Jan 12, 2021 8:58 am I'm not sure it would come as a surprise to many if Salmonds ego pulls down the whole independence surge

Seems he might not get a chance unless Swinney widens the scope of this enquiry, I can't see him doing that personally.

What are the views on the likelihood of the 6N happening on time? Would personally prefer it to be played in NH summer time with full stadiums but not sure how possible that will be, depends on the rapidity of the vaccine roll-out I suppose. Would also prefer a summer tournament, bias in that I'd p...

Of course it has an editorial jurisdiction (i.e. an editor decides what goes in it) but the editorial slant is value-based rather than party political (a bit like the old Economist) and it's highly decentralised- which is why I like it. Most authors write what they want and it's just subedited rath...

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