The Rugby Thread

[Cormack74]

Strangely I have had loads of my English friends get in touch to see what I think will happen today which is unusual.

I think England will win.

I hope Scotland will win.

Same as pretty much every year!

Nope, so far it's looking very much like it will be Scotland's day.

England looking very undercooked and the little things like Itoje's 2 charge downs not falling the 'right way' makes me think the CC is going back up north.

[Buzzo]

We’ve played really well. But only lead by 2 points.

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Shocking missed pen from Russell.

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Hoggs spiral kicks are unreal. What a bomb that was.

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Excruciating.

[badpiggy]

Gtfi! Great win despite trying to lose it at the end

[RichC]

No complaints with that. That was an absolutely disgraceful performance from England and yet again when it’s not working we have nobody on the pitch that can think and implement changes. Seen it too often under Jones for my liking.

[Buzzo]

No complaints with that. That was an absolutely disgraceful performance from England and yet again when it’s not working we have nobody on the pitch that can think and implement changes. Seen it too often under Jones for my liking.

I’ve never seen England show up like that.

Definitely some complacency involved. I had a feeling that the no fans issue and the Saracens guys not having played might work in our favour, but I didn’t expect us to dominate. Even when we were down to 14.

We are improving though. Good players and depth. Having player that play every week in the Gallagher Prem has improved mentality and performances.

We have to back this up.

[Buzzo]

Also. What the **** is going on with Ellis Genges hair and tache

[Buzzo]

Gtfi! Great win despite trying to lose it at the end

My heart was racing for the last 5.

Mad drop goal attempt. Then kicked it away with 20 seconds to go.

Almighty rip from Hamish Watson right at the end to bring it home

[RichC]

I’ve never seen England show up like that.

Definitely some complacency involved. I had a feeling that the no fans issue and the Saracens guys not having played might work in our favour, but I didn’t expect us to dominate. Even when we were down to 14.

We are improving though. Good players and depth. Having player that play every week in the Gallagher Prem has improved mentality and performances.

We have to back this up.

We were awful, massively undercooked.
I’m not even sure that was a great Scottish performance and I mean that as in it didn’t need to be. You were by far the better side and probably had more gears to go if you needed them but you didn’t !

[Buzzo]

We were awful, massively undercooked.
I’m not even sure that was a great Scottish performance and I mean that as in it didn’t need to be. You were by far the better side and probably had more gears to go if you needed them but you didn’t !

It was a really poor performance. The discipline was awful from kick off right through,

If say the criticism of us is that we probably left about 10 points out on the pitch so should have won far more comfortably. But what was at stake for us can’t be played down.

I sometimes think Eddie Jones tries too much with the Fergie style mind games in the lead up, but normally it doesn’t matter. He will never get a bite from us because we always lose. Sometimes we’ve been ‘maybe’ a bit cocky in the run in, but we excused control and confidence today. Not something I’ve witnessed before.

It was really strange because I have watched countless Calcutta cups play out exactly like that, just with the teams the other way around.

[Irishnev]

I’ve never seen England show up like that.

Definitely some complacency involved. I had a feeling that the no fans issue and the Saracens guys not having played might work in our favour, but I didn’t expect us to dominate. Even when we were down to 14.

We are improving though. Good players and depth. Having player that play every week in the Gallagher Prem has improved mentality and performances.

We have to back this up.

Scotland go bragh - well done......delighted for ye

[Buzzo]

One day since Scotland last won at Twickenham.

Keeping England to 6 points at Twickenham is definitely something to be proud of. Didn’t realise just how few games had been lost there.

I’m going to remove the Saracens angle from the list of excuses. We had a Saracens player and he played really well.

[ChesterDave]

Wales
Getting out played by 14.