Bill McLaren: Flower of Scotland

sneem-man

I hope a few of you are watching this...
The man had so many tales to tell:)

toomevara

Yeah enjoying it immensely. On professionalism; "I loved rugby when it was an escape from the daily grind, now it is the daily grind." Spot on, absolute gent.

cruiserweight

It was on everywhere except BBC Scotland Instead they had they were showing St Mirren vs Rangers :rolleyes:

toomevara

cruiserweight wrote: »

St Mirren vs Rangers :rolleyes:

Hmmmm....what a delicious sporting treat that must have been.:D

cruiserweight

toomevara wrote: »

Hmmmm....what a delicious sporting treat that must have been.:D

0-0 at the moment it is entralling Says a lot about the order of things sports wise in Scotland.

Anyway I am getting off topic, luckily I have Sky so I watched the Bill McLaren tribute on BBC London. A nice way for BBC to start their 6 nations coverage and hopefully the Scots will do him proud tomorrow in Murrayfield

jayteecorktemp

anyone have a link?

I'd love to see this.

toomevara

jayteecorktemp wrote: »

anyone have a link?

I'd love to see this.

Thought it would be on BBC iPlayer as a pod cast, but cant seem to find it...

Paul Tergat

Was a really good watch. Love those kind of commentators.

athtrasna

It was one of the best sports interviews I've seen in a long time. Apart from a few moments when Stuart Barnes perpetuated his "England are unbeatable" tripe, it was a beautiful show. Genius to interview on the golf course, so natural, so totally McClaren. Now wishing I'd recorded it.

Digifriendly

athtrasna wrote: »

It was one of the best sports interviews I've seen in a long time. Apart from a few moments when Stuart Barnes perpetuated his "England are unbeatable" tripe, it was a beautiful show. Genius to interview on the golf course, so natural, so totally McClaren. Now wishing I'd recorded it.

It wasn't Stuart Barnes (he works for Sky) - it was John Inverdale of the BBC.

athtrasna

Sorry...had a stressful morning...silly mistake!

toomevara

athtrasna wrote: »

It was one of the best sports interviews I've seen in a long time. Apart from a few moments when Stuart Barnes perpetuated his "England are unbeatable" tripe, it was a beautiful show. Genius to interview on the golf course, so natural, so totally McClaren. Now wishing I'd recorded it.

You have to understand that the documentary was filmed in 2002, when England and France were, in effect, on a different level to the other nations in the 6N competition. England in particular were beating all before them, and some very severe hidings had been handed out to the celtic nations and this was a legitimate concern being expressed and debated ad nauseum by virtually everyone in the Northern Hemisphere game at the time.

England put 50 on Wales and 45 on Ireland that year, and how about the 2003 game at Lansdowne; 6-42 to England. Anyone who remembers that game and the post mortem in particular will remember that the question was, were we ever going to beat England again! Seems laughable now. Inverdale is actually a very fair and balanced observer of the game in the main.

Funny how Bill though got it absolutely spot on, and the then dominance of England/France spurred us on to success, a very canny Scot indeed.

cruiserweight

It is on again on BBC 2 Scotland tonight at 5:30

themont85

toomevara wrote: »

You have to understand that the documentary was filmed in 2002, when England and France were, in effect, on a different level to the other nations in the 6N competition. England in particular were beating all before them, and some very severe hidings had been handed out to the celtic nations and this was a legitimate concern being expressed and debated ad nauseum by virtually everyone in the Northern Hemisphere game at the time.

England put 50 on Wales and 45 on Ireland that year, and how about the 2003 game at Lansdowne; 6-42 to England. Anyone who remembers that game and the post mortem in particular will remember that the question was, were we ever going to beat England again! Seems laughable now. Inverdale is actually a very fair and balanced observer of the game in the main.

Funny how Bill though got it absolutely spot on, and the then dominance of England/France spurred us on to success, a very canny Scot indeed.

Wasn't just about losing the slam. The feeling that maybe we had levelled off and that was that was horrible in LR that day.