Scotland 6N lookahead

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Fixtures

07/02 France V Scotland - 17:00
15/02 Scotland V Wales - 15:00

28/02 Scotland V Italy - 14:30

14/03 England V Scotland - 17:00
21/03 Scotland V Ireland - 14:30


6N standings last 10 years

2014 - 5th, 1 win
2013 - 3rd, 2 wins
2012 - 6th, 0 wins
2011 - 5th, 1 win
2010 - 5th, 1 win
2009 - 5th, 1 win
2008 - 5th, 1 win
2007 - 6th, 1 win
2006 - 3rd, 3 wins
2005 - 5th, 1 win

Squad

FORWARDS: Hugh Blake (Edinburgh Rugby), Fraser Brown (Glasgow Warriors), Blair Cowan, Geoff Cross (both London Irish), David Denton, Alasdair Dickinson (Edinburgh Rugby), Jonny Gray (Glasgow Warriors), Richie Gray (Castres), Ross Ford (Edinburgh Rugby), Jim Hamilton (Saracens), Rob Harley, Euan Murray, Gordon Reid (all Glasgow Warriors), Alasdair Strokosch (Perpignan), Ben Toolis, Hamish Watson (both Edinburgh Rugby), Jon Welsh (Glasgow Warriors).

BACKS: Mark Bennett (Glasgow Warriors), Sam Hidalgo-Clyne (Edinburgh Rugby), Alex Dunbar, (Glasgow Warriors) Dougie Fife (Edinburgh Rugby), Stuart Hogg, Peter Horne (both Glasgow Warriors) Greig Laidlaw CAPTAIN (Gloucester), Sean Lamont, Sean Maitland, Henry Pyrgos, Finn Russell (all Glasgow Warriors), Matt Scott (Edinburgh Rugby), Tommy Seymour (Glasgow Warriors), Greig Tonks, Tim Visser (both Edinburgh Rugby).

Unavailable through injury: Adam Ashe (neck), Chris Fusaro (ankle), Grant Gilchrist (arm), Tyrone Holmes (face), Ruaridh Jackson (knee), Duncan Taylor (hamstring), Duncan Weir (arm).

tigertattie wrote:54. Scotland are still the reigning Five Nations Champions

My favourite "fact" of all time, along with the "fact" that France are the reigning Five Nations Wooden Spoon holders!

It catches many a rugby fan out when you ask

"name the last team to win the five nations"

55. Fact number 2 - Josh Strauss is Superman's secret identity.

56. Superman wears "Josh Strauss" underpants
57. Chuck Norris' beard is scared of Josh Strauss' beard!

58. Josh Strauss was actually born in Ayr.

59. Edinburgh legend Ally Hogg has scored more tries in the AP this season alone than Josh Struass has scored for Glasgow in his whole career

just saying

60. Stuart Hogg is actually the offspring of a love triangle between Ally Hoggs' beard and Chuck Norris's beard -

61. My triangle has 2 sides

62. Ally Hogg doesn't have a beard! Just plenty talent!

tigertattie wrote:62. Ally Hogg doesn't have a beard! Just plenty talent!

he did a few years ago - when Stuart was a twinkle

63. Are we getting near 100 yet?
64. I really can't count.

65. Yes

66. Good!
67. I've got rugby training tonight, so if you could all keep this going that would be great...

68. You guys have officially lost it.

69. The year that must not be mentioned!
70. Whose idea was it to get to 100?
71. Who would win in the over-rated stakes - Josh Strauss or Mark Bennett?
72. naughty number!

73. Ah feck it, someting went wrong there!

74 - sorted it for you!

75. Your numbers don't make much sense now though..

76. I feel I miss out when travelling home after work as we may pass 100 while on the train.
77. Can we get it to 1000?

Right, back to some more predictions:

78. God performance but lose to France
79. Bad game and narrowly lose to Wales
80. Better performance and a comfortable win over Italy
81. 20 point loss to England. Jim Hamilton comes off the bench and is red carded within 2 mins
82. Win over Ireland, denying them the title!

Totally possible...

RDW_Scotland wrote:Right, back to some more predictions:

78. God performance but lose to France
79. Bad game and narrowly lose to Wales
80. Better performance and a comfortable win over Italy
81. 20 point loss to England.  Jim Hamilton comes off the bench and is red carded within 2 mins
82.  Win over Ireland, denying them the title!

Totally possible...

83. Re: 78., I don't think Strauss qualifies to play for Scotland in time for the France game.....

84. Get royal humped at Twickehnam. But we'll laugh knowing we've lured those southerners into a false sense of security ahead of our inevitable World Cup QF.

85. I'm as ginger as they come. A full 10 on the Rob Harley scale of gingerness.

86. The age at which Shlong will finally accept he's to old to play international rugby

87. Just back from training - 86?? You guys
88. Really
89. Really
90. Really
91. Really
92. Really
93. Really
94. Really
95. Really
96. Really
97. Really
98. Really
99. Really
100. Suck!

RDW_Scotland wrote:87. Just back from training - 86?? You guys
88. Really
89. Really
90. Really
91. Really
92. Really
93. Really
94. Really
95. Really
96. Really
97. Really
98. Really
99. Really
100. Suck!

88. There will be no party pooping on this thread.

89. The number of players Scott Johnson has listed ahead of John Barclay at 7 for Scotland.

90. Asbo's suspected age

91. The number of games Strauss will have to play for Edinburgh before someone notices he's on the pitch.

92. The age at which, according to FES, Adam Ashe (see also Mark Bennett, Finn Russell) should be welcomed to the Scotland squad.

93. The year of my birth

94. The % of people on this forum that hate Glove for what he just said.

RDW_Scotland wrote:94. The % of people on this forum that hate Glove for what he just said.

You're 27…i have underwear that's older.

So Scots fans…think Scotland will kick on from their performance v NZ and have a good 6 Nations, every chance you can make 1/4s fairly easily at RWC, if the personnel is right - shame about Weir - and Cotter continues to show he is the real deal, i predict a stellar Scottish year. What is your 6 Nations draw like? If you have England at home it will be a cracker for the Calcutta cup

RDW_Scotland wrote:94. The % of people on this forum that hate Glove for what he just said.

95. The ranking I attained in FHM's 'Hottest Men Called Ian in 2014' competition. I was disappointed to be beaten by Sir Ian McKellen, but I drew some satisfaction from coming ahead of the corpse of Ian Fleming.

Majestic83 wrote:

RDW_Scotland wrote:94. The % of people on this forum that hate Glove for what he just said.

+25,000

Gwlad wrote:

RDW_Scotland wrote:94. The % of people on this forum that hate Glove for what he just said.

You're 27…i have underwear that's older.

True, but I think people (approaching) their late twenties hate those in their early 20s more than old bastards do, because youth is still a fresh memory for us, and we're faced with impending 30s and old age!

Gwlad wrote:So Scots fans…think Scotland will kick on from their performance v NZ and have a good 6 Nations, every chance you can make 1/4s fairly easily at RWC, if the personnel is right - shame about Weir - and Cotter continues to show he is the real deal, i predict a stellar Scottish year. What is your 6 Nations draw like? If you have England at home it will be a cracker for the Calcutta cup

I suspect most Scottish fans will be the same as we are every 6N - cautious optimism but knowing that most likely we're only going to beat Italy! I know we say this every year, but this year we've certainly got most reason to be optimistic, but this doesn't change the fact that odds are very much against us to get more than one win.

96. The number of household staff at FES' beck and call
97. The % of those that are not legally entitled to work in the UK!

98. % of Scots voters who secretly feel guilty.
99 % of Yes voters who secretly feel relieved now the erse has dropped out of oil revenue.
100. % of posters who miss Asbo and his benign, avuncular uncle Schiz.

101. Orwellian room of nightmares no-one wants to see inside. OR the room number of John Barclays private sex dungeon.

We made it!

And a very fitting #100 there from you Pip.

Well that was fun....

We really do talk some utter mince onthese boards eh!

tigertattie wrote:We really do talk some utter mince onthese boards eh!

We do, and it's brilliant! There's some great banter on here and it definitely makes the day go by quicker.

And we do talk about rugby, occasionally...

Back to the rugby

Did you know that Ally Hogg has scored more tries, made more tackles and made more metres that Josh Struass!!!

Quite impressive for someone who is too old to play intenational rugby! Managing to beat the Glasgow God must make him some form of Greek legend!

I'm always suspicious of meters made stats - often the number 8 sits deep to receive kicks (Denton and Beattie do) so they run around 30m without being tackled. Do that several times a game and of course they will have good meters made stats.

A more telling stat would be 'meters made over the gainline'.

Tat, I'm not sure where you're getting those try-scoring stats from - the Aviva Prem website only shows one try for Ally Hogg this year, and that's against London Welsh. I mean, even the MFLs managed to score five tries against them... in two games.

By contrast, we all know that Mr Strauss has scored three tries this year already, including that one at Scotstoun against the aforementioned MFLs.

RDW_Scotland wrote:I'm always suspicious of meters made stats - often the number 8 sits deep to receive kicks (Denton and Beattie do) so they run around 30m without being tackled.  Do that several times a game and of course they will have good meters made stats.

A more telling stat would be 'meters made over the gainline'.

I fully agree. Parisse is always topping the metres made charts for this very reason.

Ally Hogg has been helped this year with his 50m run to score last weekend lol

102. Just because

103. The lady loves milk tray?

104. Fiji poached our best players - we all know McMatowalo. McYanatowa and Macnakawara were all born in Scotland but were poached by Fiji who persuaded them to change their names from these ancient scottish names to some fijian nonsense and hid their birth certificates.

Kelly Brown captaining Sarancans again this weekend - at 6

Richie Gray and Johnnie Beattie both playing for Castres away to Leinster.

That list was very very funny.