Scottish rugby end of season summary and awards

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Season summary

Edinburgh Rugby   

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Wins - 7
Losses - 15
Points for - 397
Points against - 526
Tries - 38
BP - 10

Heineken Cup

Wins - 3
Position - 3rd in group


Glasgow Warriors   

Rabbo Direct Pro 12

Wins - 18
Losses - 4
Points for - 484
Points against - 309
Tries - 53
BP - 7

Heineken Cup

Wins - 2
Position - last in group


Scotland   

Wins - 5
Losses - 7
Points for - 174
Points against - 324  
Average points per game - 14.5
Average points against per game - 27  


Awards   

Edinburgh player of the year -
Edinburgh young player of the year -
'Gunner' of the year -
Surprise of the year -
The Jack Gilding award for worst player of the season -


Glasgow player of the year -
Glasgow young player of the year -
'Warrior' of the year -
Surprise of the year -
The Daryl Gibson award for worst player of the season -


Scotland player of the year -
Scotland young player of the year -
Scotsman of the year -
Surprise of the year -
The 'Andy Henderson on the wing' award for worst player of the season -


Miscellaneous

Scott Johnson quote of the year -
V2 poster honourable mention for being interesting, funny or just plain mental (Schitz - I'm looking at you) -

 

Got to love Glasgwegian taxi drivers.

And at £7.90 for such a long trip, taxis are obviously a lot cheaper than in Edinburgh!

RDW, you are not hinting that a gentleman of the press may have been playing fast and loose with the facts are you?

RDW_Scotland wrote: 

Got to love Glasgwegian taxi drivers.

And at £7.90 for such a long trip, taxis are obviously a lot cheaper than in Edinburgh!

Everything is cheaper in Glasgow. Including the women!   

Well folks here are the results.  They may not accurately reflect how many votes each person got, but I couldn't be hooped counting all the votes!

Edinburgh player of the year – Du Preez
Edinburgh young player of the year - Gilchrist
'Gunner' of the year - Nel
Surprise of the year - Cuthbert
The Jack Gilding award for worst player of the season - Strauss


Glasgow player of the year – Bob Harley
Glasgow young player of the year – Jonny Gray
'Warrior' of the year - Strauss
Surprise of the year – Finn Russell
The Daryl Gibson award for worst player of the season - McGuigan


Scotland player of the year – Tommy Seymour
Scotland young player of the year – Jonny Gray
Scotsman of the year – Geoff Cross
Surprise of the year – Too many to count
The 'Andy Henderson on the wing' award for worst player of the season – Too many to count


Miscellaneous

Scott Johnson quote of the year – Too many to count!
V2 poster honourable mention for being interesting, funny or just plain mental (Schitz - I'm looking at you) – Can’t give it to one person – most people got a nomination!

Difficult to argue with the result, and some nice fence sitting on V2 poster of the year!

You should allow yourself the casting vote. I don't mind who you vote for, as long as it's an Edinburgh fan, anti-separatist and based in Stockbridge.

I called the award 'v2 honourable mention' to avoid that very scenario!

That's me tweeted the results on the v2 rugby feed - could those cool enough to be on Twitter retweet / favourite to give us some publicity?

Not cool enough I'm afraid.

RDW_Scotland wrote:
V2 poster honourable mention for being interesting, funny or just plain mental (Schitz - I'm looking at you) – Can’t give it to one person – most people got a nomination!

I didn't   

Well maybe if you pulled your finger out and did more Lego rugby animations maybe you would have!   

RDW_Scotland wrote:Well maybe if you pulled your finger out and did more Lego rugby animations maybe you would have!   

Ha! Those days are behind me (at least until next year!) I've moved on from lego. These days it's all about the Subbuteo...
https://vine.co/v/MIeJ56AYUxE
https://vine.co/v/MT1idlaUdL5
https://vine.co/v/MUUv9gru71n
https://vine.co/v/MPDnQg2vTTO

 

The wonders of social media - my V2 tweet about Geoff Cross being Scotsman of the year has had numerous retweets, and someone even tweeted it to his wife and she replied saying she was a very proud wife indeed!

  

RDW_Scotland wrote: 

  
I'd better win 'Scottish spammer of the year' come the next awards..!

And good job with the V2 account RDW, nice to see Mrs Cross pick up on that!

Yeah, well done RDW.
I'd like to thank all the little people who made my winning this award possible..... that is all the little people screaming inside my head all the feccin time.... stop already for fecc sake stop.
Also, a big thank you to the MFL for unfailingly providing such copious amounts of comedy gold.

Wait a minute Jim, when I met you, I felt something... nagging at me... I knew... that I'd seen you somewhere before...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APlOxgaQajw

Ian it was so thoughtful of you to find a clip with yourself and Schiz also in it.

When clicking on that link I couldn't help but watch the Christopher Walken impersonations. Outstanding impressions of the great man.

I retweeted some of it.

"I'm doing my part"

Did anyone attend the Sellic football club champs league game last night?

If so, how was the pitch looking! is it worth the £££'s that has been spent on it?

Watched a bit online and the pitch looks fantastic. They've also got rid of the running track.

It has received widespread praise from the managers, pundits and players alike so looks pretty positive.

Interesting to see what effect a decent pitch has on Edinburgh - I always thought last season the bad pitch was a bit of a leveller.

RDW_Scotland wrote:Watched a bit online and the pitch looks fantastic.  They've also got rid of the running track.

It has received widespread praise from the managers, pundits and players alike so looks pretty positive.

Interesting to see what effect a decent pitch has on Edinburgh - I always thought last season the bad pitch was a bit of a leveller.

Agreed - last season the pitch certainly did us a few favours against the more expansive sides and the better scrummagers.

Hopefully the new surface will encourage a more attacking approach from Edinburgh (and Scotland), and allow for a more open game. Watching the scrum being reset 50 times a match and seeing ordinarily quick players wading through the mud wasn't a great spectacle.

Have they put extra seating in or something where the runnning track was or is here just a big empty space where it once was?

I don't know, but I like the idea of an adjustable pitch, so we could widen it for the easy games and then narrow it for the tricky games.

I'd suggest we bring the pitch in as much as possible against the All Blacks in the AIs!

No extra seating and I'm not sure if the grass area is now wider.

More space for Visser = more tries (for both sides).

funnyExiledScot wrote:More space for Visser = more tries (for both sides).

  

Well I don't think even Tim Visser's Mum could claim his defence is anything other than feeble.

He'll still score a bunch of tries next though. He's like DTH, only better.

Notch wrote:Commonwealth Games in Glasgow- the friendly games. Some South African journalists share their experience of 'friendly' Glasgow taxi drivers!

http://www.sascoc.co.za/2014/07/20/fun-and-games-for-some/

  

I love Glasgow. They don't take any shoite in that part of the world

Classic stuff. Good to see useless administration is found everywhere. Actually, I could envisage that taxi driver in Australia albeit without the swearing panache. If you google rheem answer phone message you could get a taste of how the conversation might go.

Who is schitz?