Scotland World Cup campaign

[Mikey Brown]

I forgot how entertaining Reid can be. What an athlete.

[General Zod]

Ok lads. Clear our lines here and capitalise on the 14 men.

[General Zod]

I forgot how entertaining Reid can be. What an athlete.

[General Zod]

Fagerson, Z is not having his best game.

Right, let’s see what Dell can do here...

[General Zod]

Oh dear, the Murrayfield wave returns.

[Big D]

The props have been rotten.

In fact very few of them haven't been. Graham must start ahead of seymour.

[Big D]

What happened to Seymour?

And does anyone else have a terrible feed on the Premier Player?

I know this isn't what you mean but IIRC something happened in his private life (no idea what and none of my business) but he hasn't recovered. Been poor tonight too at times.

[General Zod]

Don’t know if that was a bang on the head or his collar bone. Probably head as his nose is bleeding. Toolis.

[Mikey Brown]

Don’t know if that was a bang on the head or his collar bone. Probably head as his nose is bleeding. Toolis.

Was that a poem?

[Mikey Brown]

Lovely finish, thought nothing was on with that loopy pass from Taylor.

[General Zod]

Good jets, Graham.

Now, have I mentioned our restarts yet..?

[General Zod]

Wahey! About time!

[General Zod]

Don’t know if that was a bang on the head or his collar bone. Probably head as his nose is bleeding. Toolis.

Was that a poem?

http://www.teenink.com/poetry/haiku/art ... gby-Haiku/

[ARM]

Far from perfect but finished with a flourish and no serious injuries hopefully.

Scrum was markedly better at end with Dell and Berghan on field. Fagerson has gone backwards in last 18 months (in every sense). Seems to have lost confidence and shoots to the ground when under pressure.

Graham moving ahead of Seymour as first choice. Longhorn looked good in the first 20. D Taylor makes a huge difference to our defensive line speed.

[General Zod]

Job done. Well played in the end after a slow start and getting pumped in the front row.

Think Graham or Kinghorn will start v Ireland, but Tommy definitely looks happier!

Now, can we practice a few unspectacular, boring re-starts, please.

[General Zod]

Just reading about injuries - sounds like Jamie Ritchie may have done himself some damage. I didn’t want to say anything at the time, but as he went off he felt his eye socket and cursed to himself. Hope it’s just a bang and he gets better.

The rest of the injury-related subs were apparently just precautionary. (Gray and Thomson for hamstrings, apparently).

[Stones of granite]

I have serious concerns about Fagerson’s scrummaging. If he continues like he did in that game, we are going to get taken apart, and he is going to spend a lot of time in the bin. I don’t know if it’s because he couldn’t get as low as the Georgian loosie, but he has his feet far too far back making it easy for the loosie to dip and milk a penalty for hinging.
He’s not a starter for me and if he plays at all it should be in the last quarter only.

[Mikey Brown]

Can’t remember if I wrote this already but he’s surely played himself out of the 23. He had so much promise but just seems to have gone backwards if anything.

[hugh_woatmeigh]

I have serious concerns about Fagerson’s scrummaging. If he continues like he did in that game, we are going to get taken apart, and he is going to spend a lot of time in the bin. I don’t know if it’s because he couldn’t get as low as the Georgian loosie, but he has his feet far too far back making it easy for the loosie to dip and milk a penalty for hinging.
He’s not a starter for me and if he plays at all it should be in the last quarter only.

I agree with you. As a 23 year old prop his position is a perfectly acceptable place to be from a development POV. However he has progressed very little since breaking onto the scene and that's concerning. If Fagerson is serious about becoming a world class prop he should look at a 2 year stint in another league. I've been a vocal critic of Berghan in the past but he is light years ahead of Fagerson right now.

[General Zod]

Good point. You forget he’s 23.

[Mikey Brown]

Wow. Hadn't realised that. Just looked and Matt Fagerson is only 21!

I guess we were so desperate at the point we all started hyping Zander. Really thought he was several years older and just hadn't made that transition. He's played an awful lot of rugby for a TH of that age.

[Cameo]

Didn't really flow but hard to get a handle on Georgia's quality. Hastings played okay but just a big drop off in sharpness compared to Russell. Centre partnership okay for a first game together but not that fluent. Need Taylor to offer the outside break. Defence there didn't look that rock solid either.

Think everyone is right that Bergman should make the bench instead of Fagerson.

Hopefully Ritchie is fit but if not I would probably go for Fagerson on balance but Bradbury did show a couple of decent carries.

Cummings ahead of Tools too. He hits good lines at pace.

[Big D]

Someone elsewhere said Taylor looked like he was playing a veterans game.

If that is what he has then it looks a big mistake taking him.

[Big D]

I think I have come to the conclusion that Wilson, Watson and Blade are my preferred back row for Ireland.

[General Zod]

Someone elsewhere said Taylor looked like he was playing a veterans game.

If that is what he has then it looks a big mistake taking him.

Not sure. Another interpretation is that he played it conservatively/ like a friendly, knowing there’s a time to go for it and a time when you’re playing a bounce match against a tier two side when a few of your team-mates have already gone off injured.

Pity if Ritchie’s injury is true - have read on TOL that he’s possibly got a fracture.