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Ireland have been clinical but Scotland have played some decent rugby in a very competitive first half. The defence has been very good and scrum continues to be solid. Missed an open goal and gifted them a try. Frustrating but small margins. Completely different performance to Cardiff although the HT score is pretty similar unfortunately.

hugh_woatmeigh wrote:

Big D wrote:Macfarlane needs to tell Gray to be better with the calling. 3 poor line outs and 2 were thrown where Toner was so competition is pretty much guaranteed. Rambo has no excuses for that last one. Throw to the front and maul a couple.

Macfarlane should have dealt with this after the England game. We lost two (maybe 3) key throws.

Ireland operate at 60-70% possession against teams with far better lineouts than ours.

What did they think was going to happen?

Thing with line outs are people always aim criticism at the hooker (not saying you are) but for me the whole unit isn't functioning. I can forgive a hooker a bad throw in a game or a jumping pod making the odd arse of it but we are not getting a man free and it's not as dynamic as it was in the AIs.

If the Scottish backs insist on standing that deep, they need to be running onto passes, not stalling to wait for a water balloon to land in their face.

Big D wrote:

hugh_woatmeigh wrote:

Big D wrote:Macfarlane needs to tell Gray to be better with the calling. 3 poor line outs and 2 were thrown where Toner was so competition is pretty much guaranteed. Rambo has no excuses for that last one. Throw to the front and maul a couple.

Macfarlane should have dealt with this after the England game. We lost two (maybe 3) key throws.

Ireland operate at 60-70% possession against teams with far better lineouts than ours.

What did they think was going to happen?

Thing with line outs are people always aim criticism at the hooker (not saying you are) but for me the whole unit isn't functioning. I can forgive a hooker a bad throw in a game or a jumping pod making the odd arse of it but we are not getting a man free and it's not as dynamic as it was in the AIs.

I'm not blaming McInnally. I'm blaming the group and the coaching team.

2 weeks ago was amazing but it was far from perfect. Those glaring deficiencies must be addressed whatever the result!

ARM wrote:Ireland have been clinical but Scotland have played some decent rugby in a very competitive first half. The defence has been very good and scrum continues to be solid. Missed an open goal and gifted them a try. Frustrating but small margins. Completely different performance to Cardiff although the HT score is pretty similar unfortunately.

Defence has been good in the main. There has been some pretty bad gaps at times like when ringrose waltzed through.

hugh_woatmeigh wrote:

Big D wrote:

hugh_woatmeigh wrote:
Macfarlane should have dealt with this after the England game. We lost two (maybe 3) key throws.

Ireland operate at 60-70% possession against teams with far better lineouts than ours.

What did they think was going to happen?

Thing with line outs are people always aim criticism at the hooker (not saying you are) but for me the whole unit isn't functioning. I can forgive a hooker a bad throw in a game or a jumping pod making the odd arse of it but we are not getting a man free and it's not as dynamic as it was in the AIs.

I'm not blaming McInnally. I'm blaming the group and the coaching team.

2 weeks ago was amazing but it was far from perfect. Those glaring deficiencies must be addressed whatever the result!

I knew that, hence the brackets

And I totally agree re 2 weeks ago. As good as it was Scotland weren't close to their best imo that day.

Pish. Uncharacteristically poor by Watson.

Come on Scotland, strike a blow against anti-rugby.

Scotland are the new France. You just never know which team will turn up!

We've slowed right down here. No tempo to anything.

That's pathetic.

Take a scrum.

Totally fucking ridiculous. None of them can pass off the left hand.

Great finish.

That's better!

Two golden chances blown by shit passing, we deserve to get well beaten here, for all the good work that lead to those chances this is criminally wasteful

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Erm, I may take that back a bit later

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That's what happens when you use the scrum as an attacking platform and not simply a vehicle for penalties.

Just make the fucking easy pass Horne. That's two games in a row.

Why can’t we fwcking pass

Wtf is horne doing

Schoolboy shit.

Nope, not taking it back

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dismal left to right passing; blown three tries and given one away....look like England

McGrath took that down.