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The Battle for the Wooden Spoon - Italy vs Scotland 6N

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  • #32
    Buer
    Registered Users Posts: 24,174 ✭✭✭✭Buer


    Squidgy Black wrote: »
    No no swiwi I measured it on my TV, was exactly a mile.

    Can I borrow your measuring tape? I...eh....I need to show my wife something.


  • #33
    swiwi_
    Registered Users Posts: 4,469 ✭✭✭swiwi_


    The 6N would be almost better by dumping Italy and Scotland and doing home away. Would become 6 rather than 5 games though.


  • #34
    Rockbeast2
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    The 6N would be almost better by dumping Italy and Scotland and doing home away. Would become 6 rather than 5 games though.

    Obviously loss of gate receipts, along with myriad other reasons, wouldn't allow it, but I always thought Italy could have been allowed a number of years with all their fixtures played at home in 6n.


  • #35
    razorblunt
    Registered Users Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    Harris hit a ruck earlier running in from his position completely in at the side.


  • #36
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users Posts: 10,521 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Both teams are shockingly bad.

    Scotland celebrating their first try like they’d won a grand slam just shows how far they’ve fallen.

    Italians buying every dummy going then making poor decisions and Scotland fumbling constantly, rinse and repeat.

    Has either team played any different over the last few years?

    The tide is turning…



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  • #37
    sydthebeat
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    Great discipline by Scotland in that passage of play


  • #38
    [Deleted User]
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    This match might be the straw that breaks the camels back for me with Italy and the six nations.

    Much more hunger from Scotland, half the Italian team just going through the motions. Embarrassment.


  • #39
    razorblunt
    Registered Users Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    15 turnovers is ridiculous. Italy are beating themselves again


  • #40
    thomond2006
    Registered Users Posts: 45,433 ✭✭✭✭thomond2006


    Italy are worse than Venjur.


  • #41
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users Posts: 10,521 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Yeah, they’re making actually making Scotland look good!

    Well, good is a strong word. Maybe less shít would be a better fit.

    The tide is turning…



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  • #42
    Water John
    Registered Users Posts: 21,104 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    The last line out was clearly a penalty, interfering with the jumper.


  • #43
    sydthebeat
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    I've lost the will to live watching this sh!te


  • #44
    sydthebeat
    Subscribers Posts: 40,953 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    Hastings needs to be hooked off immediately... He's adding the grand total of nothing to this Scottish team... Even no neck dunkie couldnt be worse

    Edit : just checked and no replacement 10 on the bench


  • #45
    razorblunt
    Registered Users Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    Polledri is a great replacement for Parisse in that he’s incredibly skilful and a great player but he’s also incredibly self indulgent with his carries.


  • #46
    sydthebeat
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    razorblunt wrote: »
    Polledri is a great replacement for Parisse in that he’s incredibly skilful and a great player but he’s also incredibly self indulgent with his carries.

    Perfect replacement for Parisse then ;)


  • #47
    razorblunt
    Registered Users Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    Horne for Price (which sounds like a sex ad) would help the Scottish backline a lot, type of player once he gets his chance you can see him kick on,


  • #48
    swiwi_
    Registered Users Posts: 4,469 ✭✭✭swiwi_


    Cana is a terrible 12. And Hastings is an atrocious 10. Get Finn Russell back in. Tbh I reckon Townsend gets fired at the end of the 6n. He’s achieved nothing.


  • #49
    Rockbeast2
    Registered Users Posts: 798 ✭✭✭Rockbeast2


    Ireland -28 v Italy looks safe enough.


  • #50
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users Posts: 10,521 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Italy building up for a drop goal here.

    The tide is turning…



  • #51
    razorblunt
    Registered Users Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    Ref calls the advantage after the TMO review and Scotland immediately kill a ruck. Instantly.


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  • #52
    EmmetSpiceland
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    Game over.

    The tide is turning…



  • #53
    razorblunt
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    swiwi_ wrote: »
    Cana is a terrible 12. And Hastings is an atrocious 10. Get Finn Russell back in. Tbh I reckon Townsend gets fired at the end of the 6n. He’s achieved nothing.

    Cana is willing but he’s a 10, a slight 10 too.


    I was going to say I feel sorry for the Scottish fans but then I remembered a) the weather in Scotland has been atrocious for two weeks straighT so it’s a nice break and b) they’re Scottish, so fück em


  • #54
    johnnysmack
    Registered Users Posts: 2,108 ✭✭✭johnnysmack


    What do they mean by dominant tackle in those stats screens they bring up?


  • #55
    sydthebeat
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    Italy need Fijian wingers


  • #56
    jammiedodgers
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    This is pathetic


  • #57
    mangobob
    Registered Users Posts: 1,149 ✭✭✭mangobob


    Lol


  • #58
    ScrubsfanChris
    Registered Users Posts: 8,599 ✭✭✭ScrubsfanChris


    Someone tell Ben Kay that Italy have been "building to something" for 20 years now.


  • #59
    razorblunt
    Registered Users Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    johnnysmack wrote: »
    What do they mean by dominant tackle in those stats screens they bring up?
    Generally a tackle that stops the carrier dead, rather than your textbook tackle where the ball is a foot or two behind so technically ground gained.

    The sort of stat that Jonnny Gray hates.


  • #60
    sydthebeat
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    Italy nilled for two out of three games this year....

    They are not building or progressing....they are going backwards.


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  • #61
    [Deleted User]
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    sydthebeat wrote: »
    Italy nilled for two out of three games this year....

    They are not building or progressing....they are going backwards.

    Agreed, I'm done defending their involvement in top flight rugby.

    Drop them and go back to the 5N or replace them with South Africa.

    They add nothing to this competition other than a deciding vote in the championship every time it's won on points difference.


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