6N Round 1: France v Scotland, 7 February

by **George Carlin** Mon 26 Jan 2015, 10:27 am

First topic message reminder :

FRANCE v SCOTLAND
Saturday 7 February 2015
KO 17:00 (GMT)/18:00 (local)
Stade de France, Paris

Live on BBC1.

Referee: Nigel Owens (WRU)
Touch Judge 1: Glen Jackson (NZR)
Touch Judge 2: Mike Fraser (NZR)
TMO: George Ayoub (ARU)

A. Teams:

1. France
6N Round 1: France v Scotland, 7 February - Page 3 Laetit10

6N Round 1: France v Scotland, 7 February - Page 3 Laetit10

15 Scott Spedding (Bayonne)
14 Yoann Huget (Toulouse)
13 Mathieu Bastareaud (Toulon)
12 Wesley Fofana (Clermont)
11 Teddy Thomas (Racing Metro)
10 Camille Lopez (Clermont)
09 Rory Kockott (Castres)

01 Alexandre Menini (Toulon)
02 Guilhem Guirado (Toulon)
03 Rabah Slimani (Stade Francais)
04 Pascal Papé (Stade Francais)
05 Yoann Maestri (Toulouse)
06 Thierry Dusautoir (c) (Toulouse)
07 Bernard Le Roux (Racing Metro)
08 Damien Chouly (Clermont )

16 Benjamin Kayser (Clermont)
17 Uini Atonio (La Rochelle)
18 Eddy Ben Arous (Racing Metro)
19 Romain Taofifenua (Toulon)
20 Loann Goujon (La Rochelle)
21 Morgan Parra (Clermont)
22 Rémi Talès (Castres)
23 Rémi Lamerat (Castres)

2. Scotland
6N Round 1: France v Scotland, 7 February - Page 3 Gisell10

6N Round 1: France v Scotland, 7 February - Page 3 Gisell10

15 Stuart Hogg (Glasgow Warriors)
14 Tommy Seymour (Glasgow Warriors)
13 Mark Bennett (Glasgow Warriors)
12 Alex Dunbar (Glasgow Warriors)
11 Tim Visser (Edinburgh Rugby)
10 Finn Russell (Glasgow Warriors)
9 Greig Laidlaw CAPTAIN (Gloucester)

1 Alasdair Dickinson (Edinburgh Rugby)
2 Ross Ford (Edinburgh Rugby)
3 Euan Murray (Glasgow Warriors)
4 Richie Gray (Castres)
5 Jonny Gray (Glasgow Warriors)
6 Rob Harley (Glasgow Warriors)
7 Blair Cowan (London Irish)
8 Johnnie Beattie (Castres)

16 Fraser Brown (Glasgow Warriors)
17 Gordon Reid (Glasgow Warriors)
18 Geoff Cross (London Irish)
19 Jim Hamilton (Saracens)
20 Alasdair Strokosch (USA Perpignan)
21 Sam Hidalgo-Clyne (Edinburgh Rugby)
22 Peter Horne (Glasgow Warriors)
23 Dougie Fife (Edinburgh Rugby)

B. Tournament Form (last 3 games):

1. France

15/3/14 - France 20 - 22 Ireland

8/3/14 - Scotland 17 - 19 France

21/2/14 - Wales 27 - 6 France

2. Scotland

15/3/14 - Wales 51 - 3 Scotland

8/3/14 - Scotland 17 - 19 France

22/2/14 - Italy 20 - 21 Scotland

C. Head to Head:

87 Played 87
50 Wins 34
34 Losses 50
3 Draws 3
153 Tries 132
78 Conversions 70
119 Penalties 127
28 Drop Goals 15
1,228 Points 1,049

by Tattie Scones RRN Tue 27 Jan 2015, 5:18 pm

Bit of a 'don't blame me' about this...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-union/31003148

by IanBru Tue 27 Jan 2015, 6:30 pm

Hugh Blake wrote:"I have managed to catch up with family in Ayr and around the place."

Play him. Start him.

Wait! Make him captain.

by Gwlad Tue 27 Jan 2015, 6:36 pm

No Weir Maitland and Denton…..still think it's possible to do it though if Scotland play the way we all know they can now.

by teh_Dingmeister Tue 27 Jan 2015, 6:43 pm

If Maitland's out and considering Hoggy hasn't played for a while I assume the only option left would be Tonks at FB?

I hope Blake isn't receiving actual abuse for being included, can't blame the lad for being picked and he does seem genuinely shocked. Plus my plan for Scottish rugby was to marry a Kiwi or Saffer bird (hopefully) have sons and have them qualify for Scotland through the Grandfather rule. Probably as a 10 and 7 or centre though I suppose it's hard to predict which position Scotland will be woeful in by then.

by 123456789 Tue 27 Jan 2015, 6:58 pm

I'm off to the Pacific Islands to reproduce if we don't win this world cup, if they practice polygamy I can have 5 wives on Samoa, Fiji and Tonga of varying size and take them to Scotland to give birth so we have a team of fully eligible gifted rugby players.
Alternatively we take every semi-decent (as in the Grays, Finn Russell and Hogg (and Weir)) rugby player in Scotland and mate them with south Africans to produce front 5 forwards, New Zealanders for 6,7,8,9,10,12,13 and Fijians for wingers.
Let's take project players to the next level! (Decided to call it Project Parents)

by whocares Tue 27 Jan 2015, 7:28 pm

That's more like project copulate!

by reallybored Tue 27 Jan 2015, 7:48 pm

Re-watched the Bath match, is there an argument to start with Dunbar and Bennett?

Has Scott really done enough to walk straight back into the first XV?

by **George Carlin** Tue 27 Jan 2015, 7:52 pm

IanBru wrote:
Hugh Blake wrote:"I have managed to catch up with family in Ayr and around the place."
Play him. Start him.

Wait! Make him captain.

by GLove39 Tue 27 Jan 2015, 7:55 pm

reallybored wrote:Re-watched the Bath match, is there an argument to start with Dunbar and Bennett?

Has Scott really done enough to walk straight back into the first XV?

I'd agree, on from I'd go with the Glasgow pair. Only issue will be whether or not Dunbar gets over his concussion in time.

by 123456789 Tue 27 Jan 2015, 8:07 pm

whocares wrote:That's more like project copulate!

There are worse projects to participate in...

by teh_Dingmeister Tue 27 Jan 2015, 8:21 pm

Maybe some Georgian women as well for a decent tighthead?

by **RDW** Tue 27 Jan 2015, 9:11 pm

teh_Dingmeister wrote:Maybe some Georgian women as well for a decent tighthead?

Don't all rush now...

by TJ Tue 27 Jan 2015, 10:06 pm

What we need is to breed Jonny Gray with Rebecca Adlington. an entire race of giants

by 123456789 Tue 27 Jan 2015, 11:06 pm

Or Nakarawa with Robbie coltrane, I don't know the logistics but just imagine the results...

by GLove39 Tue 27 Jan 2015, 11:43 pm

Leave this thread for a few hours and come back to find we're plotting an advanced breeding program! Shocked

by 123456789 Wed 28 Jan 2015, 12:04 am

We could get BT to sponsor the women like they do with the academies, think we could have "BT Olga" to produce Georgian tightheads

by TJ Wed 28 Jan 2015, 7:48 am

123456789 wrote:Or Nakarawa with Robbie coltrane, I don't know the logistics but just imagine the results...

:-)

by EWT Spoons Wed 28 Jan 2015, 8:10 am

Not to detract from the, clearly brilliant, breeding ideas, but I’m going to attempt to get this thread back on track…but before I do, I think we are coming at this all wrong. We’re picking Scotland’s best players to breed, what we should be doing is getting the worlds best to breed with Scottish woman, and then (this is the tricky bit) convince them to play for Scotland.

Anyway, back to the France vs Scotland game

I have no idea how this game will go, we have a stronger team now than we’ve had in years, but at the same time our record in Paris is less than brilliant, plus given the injuries I don’t think any of us could say for sure who will line up for us in the backrow.

If the injuries don’t clear and no one else is called up then I’m guessing the team will look something like this:

1. Dickinson
2. Ford
3. Murray
4. Gray
5. Gray
6. Strokosh
7. Cowan
8. Beattie
9. Laidlaw
10. Russell
11. Visser
12. Scott
13. Bennett
14. Seymour
15. Tonks

I really hope Harley is back in time, but I’ve not heard how his recovery is getting on. Dunbar, if fit, should be in the side as should Hogg, but as things stand I don’t believe they are.

Hopefully nothing happens to Beattie or R. Gray in their game this weekend.

by **George Carlin** Wed 28 Jan 2015, 9:13 am

GLove39 wrote:Leave this thread for a few hours and come back to find we're plotting an advanced breeding program!

Apparently the men in Keira Knightley's family were good at rugby*.

So I would be willing to sacrifice myself for the greater good if a breeding programme ever came to fruition. Whistle

*I may have just made that up.

by R!skysports Wed 28 Jan 2015, 10:30 am

George Carlin wrote:
GLove39 wrote:Leave this thread for a few hours and come back to find we're plotting an advanced breeding program!
Apparently the men in Keira Knightley's family were good at rugby*.

So I would be willing to sacrifice myself for the greater good if a breeding programme ever came to fruition.

*I may have just made that up.

Would your royal copulation connections count?

by highland_scot Wed 28 Jan 2015, 10:38 am

This reminds me of the Irn Bru campaign to have Scottish girls find Brazilian men to copulate with so that we could have a good wendyball team.

Closest we came to Scots Brazilians was a boom in the number of beauty salons offering intimate hair removal treatments...

by jimbopip Wed 28 Jan 2015, 10:49 am

This advanced breeding programme is old hat. Apparently back in Victorian times a young and beautiful actress approached George Bernard Shaw at a party and suggested they should have children, "With my beauty and your brains they would be unstoppable." she cooed.
"Better not my dear. They might have my looks and your brains." replied the Irish genius.
I know this is true because Asbo was there and he swears it happened.

by R!skysports Wed 28 Jan 2015, 11:01 am

Ahh.. I miss ASBO

by MacKnocked-on Wed 28 Jan 2015, 11:21 am

George Carlin wrote:Absolutely - topics to be discussed in the intervening two weeks surely have to include:

- what Alive555 really gets up to living in Bangkok;
- whether GLove really does get sunburned watching fireworks;
- why Numbers has been ignoring us all recently;
- whether we can convince Asbo and Schiz to re-join the group for this tournament;
- why MacKnocked-on chose that as a user name;
- how big BigGee actually is;
- why teh_Dingmeister cannot correct the spelling mistake in his user name;
- where Nematode is now that he's been forced to move from Edinburgh's pitch;
- how much tigertattie likes BVC;
- why EWT Spoons is called EWT Spoons and WTF that actually means;
- what cakeordeath's favourite cake is;
- whether there is any truth to the rumour that highland_scot cannot post more frequently due to the sporadic nature of internet connection in the Highlands;
- what jimbopip thinks about DevoMax;
- how young Bru's stones are currently getting on;
- whether who cares is French, actually Scottish or a hard drinking hybrid of the two;
- whether Bsando has worked through his complicated heritage issues and decided whether to be an Aussie or a Jock;
- what the riskiest sport is that Riskysports has ever tried;
- why lostinwales doesn't just use the satnav on his phone to get out of Wales;
- what Radge thinks is the best thing about Dunfermline;
- whether madmaccas has punched an old woman, urinated in a shop's cash register or done anything properly, certifiably mad;
- whether CP10 lives in Stockbridge or somewhere that, well, just isn't as good as Stockbridge;
- what Miss Dotty Mantooth thinks about life;
- how Maj knows so freakishly much about Scots players and whether, in fact, he uses his brainpower for anything else;
- whether Baby FES has already asked her dad if her formula milk is organic;
- why Prothero chose to live in Salisbury;
- why TheMildlyFranticLlama doesn't already have 3 pubs named after him;
- why RDW cannot stop making fun of Sean Maitland;
- whether TattieScones believes that Frankie Boyle really should have been banned from television.

That should tide us over.

Discuss.

Simple; Many years spent sitting in the West Stand marvelling at the handling skills of great Scottish backlines and then copying those skills with my own play.

by reallybored Wed 28 Jan 2015, 12:24 pm

EWT Spoons wrote:Anyway, back to the France vs Scotland game

I have no idea how this game will go, we have a stronger team now than we’ve had in years, but at the same time our record in Paris is less than brilliant, plus given the injuries I don’t think any of us could say for sure who will line up for us in the backrow.

Touch wood, we know it'll be:

7 - Cowan
8 - Beattie

How much better would everyone feel if Kelly Brown was in the squad?

Saying that, really hope Harley recovers in time. Exactly the kind of guy you want against a big ugly French pack: relentless, tireless and fearless in the tackle. Plus his height is a big bonus at the line-out, we threw to him a lot at the tail in the Autumn.

3 -

No idea who first choice will be, Murray started AIs well but he's been in and out the Glasgow team since, while Cross played well in final two matches and has been getting more game-time with LI. With the Welsh match on Sunday, perhaps start Cross to build some continuity and bring Murray on to combat the inevitable French 20st LH prop joining the fray around the hour mark.

6 -

If Harley is fit, he starts. If he isn't and Strokosch is, he starts. If neither are fit ....... chin

11 -

Vern commented on Visser's form and would really expect him to get a chance. But then again, perhaps Vern will be conservative and go with Lamont to try dominate them defensively.

12 -
13 -

If fit, Dunbar has to start because he's been one of the form centres in NH this season. Who to pair him with is tricky though, the safer choice is to go with Scott and have them effectively play L&R. But going for Bennett could be the bold call, brings more balance to the back-line, adds more pace and trickery plus it's a settled club midfield-line.

15 -

Obviously if fit, Hogg starts. If not it'll be Tonks, how much time at FB has he had in the 12 months? Have been against his switch to FH since the beginning and now it's potentially going to backfire on us, while Heathcote is currently kicking his heals somewhere. What would happen if Tonks started at FB and picked up an injury, who can cover? Russell, Seymour, Bennett, Lamont, Hidalgo-Clyne?

by tigertattie Wed 28 Jan 2015, 1:56 pm

I think we need to have us men breeding with the women of the world rather than our women breeding with the other men of the world!

Why?

1. I'm not sure, but I think that, barring the kid having dwarfisim (no offence to anyone with dwarfisim), a boy will always grow taller than his mother??? So if we send out a 5 ft 5 scots lass to have it off with a 6ft 6 fijian, the boy (if it is a boy) could grow to only 5ft 6! But if I go and have my way with a 6ft 4 swedish girl, then the boy would grow to at least that height???

I may be totally off the mark here though!

2. It's already hard enough in this part of the world to pull a bird without the kiwis, ozzies, saffas, fijians et al coming here and stealing our women!

by IanBru Wed 28 Jan 2015, 2:00 pm

I second the thoughts of my learned friend, TigerTattie.

It really should be Scottish men being sent abroad, and by 'men' I mean 'us', and to be quite honest, by 'us' I really mean 'me'.

by jimbopip Wed 28 Jan 2015, 2:15 pm

I concur with the Brumeister. Also, unless there is a government sponsored scheme there is no way on God's earth that any of us will be procreating with 6 ft 4 Swedes. (must I tell them about my vasectomy?)

Thought for the day;

Yesterday, through this forum I picked up two tickets for Scotland-Wales at a very reasonable price. Very Happy

Today, four tickets for the Calcutta Cup match have landed in my lap (okay so they'll cost face value) Yahoo

Tomorrow??? I can hardly wait to see. Perhaps the worldwide SRU funded insemination programme will begin a trial run. Shocked

by tigertattie Wed 28 Jan 2015, 4:54 pm

Watch out jimbo! There is precedent for this kinda thing!

https://imgur.com/gallery/GTomc

by lostinwales Wed 28 Jan 2015, 5:08 pm

Well to make something perfect it can take a lot of practice....

by 123456789 Wed 28 Jan 2015, 5:39 pm

So we need people to go to Georgia, SA, NZ, Samoa, Tonga and Fiji...
I suggest we all have predict the score in the France game and then the closest gets to choose first and we work our way down til the worst has what's left

by **George Carlin** Wed 28 Jan 2015, 6:07 pm

Riskysports wrote:
George Carlin wrote:
GLove39 wrote:Leave this thread for a few hours and come back to find we're plotting an advanced breeding program!
Apparently the men in Keira Knightley's family were good at rugby*.

So I would be willing to sacrifice myself for the greater good if a breeding programme ever came to fruition.

*I may have just made that up.

Would your royal copulation connections count?

If there isn't a student band somewhere called Royal Copulation Connection, then that is an absolute crime.

by jimbopip Wed 28 Jan 2015, 6:11 pm

Numbers, I'll forego those sunny and exotic locations. It is a little known fact that all the French ladies GC chooses all suffer from two afflictions; elongation of the lower limbs and a fondness for cuddly Glaswegians. Bonjour tristesse, as they say. That is French for "I'll take one for the team"

On a practical note; as I'm taking Pipetto to Murrayfield for the Wales game I had best stay off the sauce. Can anyone offer advice as to the best place to park. I'll be approaching from the west and don't want to drive into the city centre. Thanks.

by **RDW** Wed 28 Jan 2015, 6:45 pm

jimbopip wrote:Numbers, I'll forego those sunny and exotic locations. It is a little known fact that all the French ladies GC chooses all suffer from two afflictions; elongation of the lower limbs and a fondness for cuddly Glaswegians. Bonjour tristesse, as they say. That is French for "I'll take one for the team"

On a practical note; as I'm taking Pipetto to Murrayfield for the Wales game I had best stay off the sauce. Can anyone offer advice as to the best place to park. I'll be approaching from the west and don't want to drive into the city centre. Thanks.

Strahan Road and walk over ravelston dykes. 15 minutes walk, easy parking and straight onto Queensferry road after the game.

That's my parent's part of town and somewhere I always recommend to people.

Alternatively park near Mary Erskins girls school, but you might not get a space so easily.

by teh_Dingmeister Wed 28 Jan 2015, 8:25 pm

6N Round 1: France v Scotland, 7 February - Page 3 B8b3SvwCQAAbnj5

Sorry to derail the thread lads, let's get this back on topic with these awfully cringe photoshoots Shocked

Grieg's looking ready and bursting to go for the trophy.

by teh_Dingmeister Wed 28 Jan 2015, 8:31 pm

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6N Round 1: France v Scotland, 7 February - Page 3 Rsz_1inpho_00888175_rdax_80

Captions when you're ready

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Don't really want to see that mulleted aussie hackjob in there. Why is it not VERN? Headscratch

by TheMildlyFranticLlama Wed 28 Jan 2015, 8:32 pm

Dear lord I just threw up in my mouth a little bit when I saw that last photo!

by **RDW** Wed 28 Jan 2015, 8:36 pm

Is the coaches one not last year's given gatland is holding the trophy? Vern was definitely there today!

by funnyExiledScot Wed 28 Jan 2015, 8:38 pm

Terrible photos!

by jimbopip Wed 28 Jan 2015, 8:39 pm

Thanks for that RDW. I think I may try that.

by Nematode Wed 28 Jan 2015, 8:50 pm

teh_Dingmeister wrote:

Sorry to derail the thread lads, let's get this back on topic with these awfully cringe photoshoots

Grieg's looking ready and bursting to go for the trophy.

6N Round 1: France v Scotland, 7 February - Page 3 Star-trek-picard-facepalm-eccbc87e4b5ce2fe28308fd9f2a7baf3-1381

by whocares Wed 28 Jan 2015, 8:58 pm

Are they doing a video this year? (Maybe it was bbc who did one, can't remember)

by 123456789 Wed 28 Jan 2015, 9:09 pm

Oh god why does Laidlaw look like someone's wee brother who's been taken out to give his mum a break? And could they not do it outside so that they can wear actual rugby boots rather than trainers. How awful is the Italian Kit as well?

by teh_Dingmeister Wed 28 Jan 2015, 9:18 pm

RDW_Scotland wrote:Is the coaches one not last year's given gatland is holding the trophy? Vern was definitely there today!

Ah glad to hear that it was Vern appearing today, just pulled this off planet rugby and since the background is dark whilst the background for this year is light so it is probably last years photo.

by Majestic83 Wed 28 Jan 2015, 9:57 pm

RDW_Scotland wrote:
jimbopip wrote:Numbers, I'll forego those sunny and exotic locations. It is a little known fact that all the French ladies GC chooses all suffer from two afflictions; elongation of the lower limbs and a fondness for cuddly Glaswegians. Bonjour tristesse, as they say. That is French for "I'll take one for the team"

On a practical note; as I'm taking Pipetto to Murrayfield for the Wales game I had best stay off the sauce. Can anyone offer advice as to the best place to park. I'll be approaching from the west and don't want to drive into the city centre. Thanks.

Strahan Road and walk over ravelston dykes. 15 minutes walk, easy parking and straight onto Queensferry road after the game.

That's my parent's part of town and somewhere I always recommend to people.

Alternatively park near Mary Erskins girls school, but you might not get a space so easily.

Saughton sports ground is pretty good for parking. About 15 min walk and then easy to head back west from there. Used it a couple times and quite a lot of scotland fans use it.

The main one I use when driving is a small street just of gorgie road, it's called fords road and is behind some council buildings so isn't totally obvious. Only 10 min walk from Murrayfield and then about 5 mins back out to the bypass. I've arrived 2 hours before kick off and also 20 mins before kick off and always got a space.

by alive555 Thu 29 Jan 2015, 12:39 am

[quote="Tattie Scones RRN"][quote="George Carlin"]Absolutely - topics to be discussed in the intervening two weeks surely have to include:

- what Alive555 really gets up to living in Bangkok;
- whether GLove really does get sunburned watching fireworks;
- why Numbers has been ignoring us all recently;
- whether we can convince Asbo and Schiz to re-join the group for this tournament;
- why MacKnocked-on chose that as a user name;
- how big BigGee actually is;
- why teh_Dingmeister cannot correct the spelling mistake in his user name;
- where Nematode is now that he's been forced to move from Edinburgh's pitch;
- how much tigertattie likes BVC;
- why EWT Spoons is called EWT Spoons and WTF that actually means;
- what cakeordeath's favourite cake is;
- whether there is any truth to the rumour that highland_scot cannot post more frequently due to the sporadic nature of internet connection in the Highlands;
- what jimbopip thinks about DevoMax;
- how young Bru's stones are currently getting on;
- whether who cares is French, actually Scottish or a hard drinking hybrid of the two;
- whether Bsando has worked through his complicated heritage issues and decided whether to be an Aussie or a Jock;
- what the riskiest sport is that Riskysports has ever tried;
- why lostinwales doesn't just use the satnav on his phone to get out of Wales;
- what Radge thinks is the best thing about Dunfermline;
- whether madmaccas has punched an old woman, urinated in a shop's cash register or done anything properly, certifiably mad;
- whether CP10 lives in Stockbridge or somewhere that, well, just isn't as good as Stockbridge;
- what Miss Dotty Mantooth thinks about life;
- how Maj knows so freakishly much about Scots players and whether, in fact, he uses his brainpower for anything else;
- whether Baby FES has already asked her dad if her formula milk is organic;
- why Prothero chose to live in Salisbury;
- why TheMildlyFranticLlama doesn't already have 3 pubs named after him; and
- why RDW cannot stop making fun of Sean Maitland.

by **George Carlin** Thu 29 Jan 2015, 7:08 am

Check out the first two videos listed here:
http://www.rbs6nations.com/en/matchcentre/video_highlights.php

The first shows how the made the new trophy.

The second is delightful for other reasons. Very Happy

by **RDW** Thu 29 Jan 2015, 8:36 am

Well as always there wasn't anything overly interesting said at the launch yesterday, but there were a few key points:

- Joe Schmit (Vern's assistant at Clermont) confirmed that Vern is a big scary son of a gun
- Hogg is expected to be fit
- If not, Seymour is being touted as his replacement at 15, with Visser and Lamont on the wings probably

by highland_scot Thu 29 Jan 2015, 9:38 am

alive555 wrote:
Tattie Scones RRN wrote:
George Carlin wrote:Absolutely - topics to be discussed in the intervening two weeks surely have to include:

- what Alive555 really gets up to living in Bangkok;
- whether GLove really does get sunburned watching fireworks;
- why Numbers has been ignoring us all recently;
- whether we can convince Asbo and Schiz to re-join the group for this tournament;
- why MacKnocked-on chose that as a user name;
- how big BigGee actually is;
- why teh_Dingmeister cannot correct the spelling mistake in his user name;
- where Nematode is now that he's been forced to move from Edinburgh's pitch;
- how much tigertattie likes BVC;
- why EWT Spoons is called EWT Spoons and WTF that actually means;
- what cakeordeath's favourite cake is;
- whether there is any truth to the rumour that highland_scot cannot post more frequently due to the sporadic nature of internet connection in the Highlands;
- what jimbopip thinks about DevoMax;
- how young Bru's stones are currently getting on;
- whether who cares is French, actually Scottish or a hard drinking hybrid of the two;
- whether Bsando has worked through his complicated heritage issues and decided whether to be an Aussie or a Jock;
- what the riskiest sport is that Riskysports has ever tried;
- why lostinwales doesn't just use the satnav on his phone to get out of Wales;
- what Radge thinks is the best thing about Dunfermline;
- whether madmaccas has punched an old woman, urinated in a shop's cash register or done anything properly, certifiably mad;
- whether CP10 lives in Stockbridge or somewhere that, well, just isn't as good as Stockbridge;
- what Miss Dotty Mantooth thinks about life;
- how Maj knows so freakishly much about Scots players and whether, in fact, he uses his brainpower for anything else;
- whether Baby FES has already asked her dad if her formula milk is organic;
- why Prothero chose to live in Salisbury;
- why TheMildlyFranticLlama doesn't already have 3 pubs named after him; and
- why RDW cannot stop making fun of Sean Maitland.

Remains a mystery!

by funnyExiledScot Thu 29 Jan 2015, 11:18 am

RDW_Scotland wrote:Well as always there wasn't anything overly interesting said at the launch yesterday, but there were a few key points:

- Joe Schmit (Vern's assistant at Clermont) confirmed that Vern is a big scary son of a gun
- Hogg is expected to be fit
- If not, Seymour is being touted as his replacement at 15, with Visser and Lamont on the wings probably

Has Vern been speaking with Scott Johnson again!? We really should find a way of stopping that happening.

If Hogg is out, then Maitland should play 15. If Maitland is out, then Murchie should play 15. If Murchie is out, then I think it's a toss up between Tonks, McColl and Cuthbert.

Either way, Seymour is our form winger and not a fullback. Lamont is neither in particularly good form nor is he a right winger (assuming they keep Visser on the left). How on earth could we end up with 11.Visser 15.Seymour 14.Lamont??

I genuinely cannot think of another rugby country so eager to shoe horn players out of position.

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