Guinness SIX Nations 2021

awec · 06-02-2021 07:42PM

Paul Smeenus wrote: »

Ironically, given the (justified) raving about Russell, he was a bit of a liability.

He was shit. No point beating around the bush.

bilston · 06-02-2021 07:42PM

Nice touch by Hogg letting the debutants lift the Calcutta Cup

clsmooth · 06-02-2021 07:43PM

Stuart Hogg: ‘Credit to England, they really brought it to us today’. Most condescending compliment that England have ever received in ‘HQ’?

06-02-2021 07:43PM

Deleted User wrote: »

We have lost to Scotland twice in the last decade while racking up a bunch of titles. They haven't won anything in that time period.

'Gutless ball surrendering'... :rolleyes:

We've done **** all but box kick ourselves into oblivion since 2018.

This is 2021.

We're lashing a horse that was sent to the glue factory long ago. We should have been in rebuild mode after the most shameful of World Cups but nah, still the same weary, long passed their prime, players togging out.

bilston · 06-02-2021 07:43PM

Cameron Redpath looks like he is going to be a top player.

uptherebels · 06-02-2021 07:44PM

Paul Smeenus wrote: »

Ironically, given the (justified) raving about Russell, he was a bit of a liability.

He is like quade cooper, you never know what you are going to get, a piece of absolute brilliance or an absolute clanger.

joseywhales · 06-02-2021 07:45PM

England in the churn now, just like us post 2018, they will have to adapt to the churn.

mfceiling · 06-02-2021 07:45PM

Scotland winning it by doing only what Scotland can do. Absolutely brain dead decision with a minute left on the clock.

Big Billy is exactly that....looked way out of shape. As I said earlier the Scottish forwards played a blinder. Little pull backs, holding on after rucks, lazy rolling away from rucks and just being general pricks. Played the ref perfectly.

Well done Scotland. Any day that England are beaten is great. Any day that England are beaten and denied a chance of a grand slam is even better.

lawrencesummers · 06-02-2021 07:45PM

The Scots just handed the French the Championship.

topdecko · 06-02-2021 07:47PM

Russell is so infuriating. He has glimpses of genius but often fails in the execution of the most basic skills. Delighted for the Scots though and Townsend for sticking to his attacking game. Some ferocious tackles today and makes things interesting from here...

06-02-2021 07:47PM

dubrov wrote: »

Completely wrong idea.
They just had to run down another 30 seconds to close out the game.

It was a great position for a drop goal and it would have put them two scores ahead.

06-02-2021 07:47PM

Well played Scotland, dominated from start to finish.

Joma4good · 06-02-2021 07:48PM

Hamish Watson always impresses, overshadowed Tom Curry who I thought would be Lions starter.

joseywhales · 06-02-2021 07:49PM

Deleted User wrote: »

It was a great position for a drop goal and it would have put them two scores ahead.

similar to gaa, I think you have to guarantee that your kick at least goes dead if you miss.

That's like bare minimum, it must go dead.

testtech05 · 06-02-2021 07:49PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

It was a great position for a drop goal and it would have put them two scores ahead.

I thought it was a minute early going for the drop but ya have to say the pass put Russell in all sorts of bother, I think he tried to kick the ball away rather hang give away a penalty for holding on as he was outnumbered

bilston · 06-02-2021 07:50PM

lawrencesummers wrote: »

The Scots just handed the French the Championship.

Bit early to say that.

Although I do fancy the French do it myself, but sure no one saw them losing to Scotland last year.

06-02-2021 07:50PM

lawrencesummers wrote: »

The Scots just handed the French the Championship.

We've beaten Italy by similar margins on numerous occasions of late. It was a good performance and France have improved a lot, but if we go well tomorrow and I have a sneaking suspicion we will - then I wouldn't have France more than a 50/50 coming over here.

RugbyLover123 · 06-02-2021 07:51PM

The Scots have very good players but their issue has always been getting some sort of consistency in getting results against the big teams. They played very well today but it would be so Scotland to back this up by losing to Italy.

Russel is also vastly overrated. Does one good thing followed up by 20 brain farts. Wouldn’t want him anywhere near a Lions test team.

06-02-2021 07:52PM

testtech05 wrote: »

I thought it was a minute early going for the drop but ya have to say the pass put Russell in all sorts of bother, I think he tried to kick the ball away rather hang give away a penalty for holding on as he was outnumbered

When he had to jump to gather the ball he should have forgotten about kicking it and looked to secure possession. But had he made the kick then England would have had absolutely no chance to win it and even if he bucked it wide England still had a long way to get into a scoring position.

PTH2009 · 06-02-2021 07:53PM

Fair play to Scotland

If we can get the win tomorrow it will make things very interesting

Akrasia · 06-02-2021 07:54PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Itoje has been excellent when not giving away penalties. He's put in a huge amount of work but as I've said before - when the rest of the team isn't firing he looks a lot less effective.

Itoje’s game is almost entirely based on pushing the offside line. Today the ref didn’t allow him to get away with it and he didn’t have a plan b

Gwynplaine · 06-02-2021 07:55PM

Who is the fella with the glasses on the panel?

Rugby4568 · 06-02-2021 07:55PM

Ben Healy must be very tempted to play for Scotland now. Would be a smart move for him he’d be playing international rugby straight away and getting more game time and money with Glasgow.

Akrasia · 06-02-2021 07:55PM

England kicked the ball away way way too much. The wingers had close to zero possession

Jones’ talk about Ireland being boring has been shown to be the sh1ttalk that we all know it was

Pudsy33 · 06-02-2021 07:56PM

Gwynplaine wrote: »

Who is the fella with the glasses on the panel?

Ian McKinnley, formerly of Leinster and Italy.

Rugby4568 · 06-02-2021 07:56PM

Pudsy33 wrote: »

Ian McKinnley, formerly of Leinster and Italy.

He has one eye

joseywhales · 06-02-2021 07:57PM

Rugby4568 wrote: »

Ben Healy must be very tempted to play for Scotland now. Would be a smart move for him he’d be playing international rugby straight away and getting more game time and money with Glasgow.

Because they beat England in one game?
I mean come one, there are bigger reasons to play international rugby.

06-02-2021 07:57PM

Akrasia wrote: »

Itoje’s game is almost entirely based on pushing the offside line. Today the ref didn’t allow him to get away with it and he didn’t have a plan b

Ah he was a constant menace at the breakdown and put Scotland's halves under real pressure around the fringes. He works very hard and has a great reading of the game.

Lot's of commentary that James Ryan has had a big dip in form, but much like Itoje today if the team isn't firing there isn't much he can do to take control of the game.

We get our breakdown resourcing / timing right and start getting our lineout to stick and a lot of our pack will look more impressive.

Championship wide open now - we really need to show up tomorrow and deal with Wales ruthlessly. Set up a huge clash for next week.

hold my beer · 06-02-2021 07:58PM

Brilliant performance by Scotland. Really put England under pressure all over the pitch. It's going to be a very interesting 6 Nations.

degsie · 06-02-2021 07:59PM

Fair play to the Scots for taking Eng's scalp on their home territory

Guinness SIX Nations 2021

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