Glasgow and Edinburgh 29 - Buckfast & Bollinger

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I see the Luvvies have given tickets to 1500 Ukrainian refugees for Friday.
That's tripled the home crowd.
However have those poor people not suffered enough?

Bru’s stone to the mast time

Edinburgh 34 - unwashed grio collectors 16

Last I heard Bru had two stones.
Luvvies will only score 34 points if they put 1500 Ukranians in the pack.
Perfumed Ones 9 Once And Future Champions 28

Glasgow Warriors team to face Edinburgh at BT Murrayfield, Friday 30 December, kick-off 7.35pm. You can watch the match live on Viaplay Sports, or follow all the action in our Live Match Centre at glasgowwarriors.org.

1. Jamie Bhatti (77)
2. Fraser Brown (131)
3. Lucio Sordoni (5)
4. Sintu Manjezi (11)
5. Richie Gray (92)
6. Matt Fagerson (85)
7. Sione Vailanu (6)
8. Jack Dempsey (28)

9. Ali Price (118)
10. Tom Jordan (10)
11. Kyle Steyn (C) (56)
12. Stafford McDowall (45)
13. Sione Tuipulotu (28)
14. Sebastian Cancelliere (18)
15. Ollie Smith (22)

Replacements

16. George Turner (85)
17. Nathan McBeth (10)
18. Simon Berghan (19)
19. JP du Preez (10)
20. Lewis Bean (25)
21. Cameron Neild (2)
22. George Horne (90)
23. Domingo Miotti (13)

Unavailable for selection: Gregor Brown (foot), Scott Cummings (foot), Rory Darge (ankle), Allan Dell (calf), Zander Fagerson (hamstring), Angus Fraser (calf), Oli Kebble (shoulder), Jack Mann (head), Enrique Pieretto (chest), Ross Thompson (ankle), Ryan Wilson (knee).

I thought we might see a bit more rotation from Glasgow for this game, but it looks like he is pretty much going all in.

The changes and resting I guess we will see next weekend away in France.

Looks a pretty solid team though, looking forward to the game

So FES gets his wish and Jordan-Stafford come in at 10-12. FES also got his wish when Hot Legs Truss sashayed into Downing Street.

I'm looking forward to tomorrow evening.

Luvvies would probably have been better running a raffle for the Ukranian visitors: two lucky ticket holders get tp be half backs for the evening.

Venter Cruse Nel
Skinner Gilchrist
Richie Crosbie Mata
Pyrgos Kinghorn
Van der Merwe Lang Bennett Goosen
Boffelli

subs
Harrison Schoeman Williams Sykes Boyle Sheil Savala Hutchieson

Seriously

King Boff signs on for another couple of years at Edinburgh, that is a seriously good bit of business. You can bet plenty clubs were interested in him!

Huge signing - he's right in his prime and will have had plenty of offers.

He'll be away a lot with Argentina but great when we have him.

The Boff is a great player.

Covers wing and 15 and has a deadly boot.

Not going to lie, he could be the difference tomorrow night

Definitely shows that the SRU are in the game moneywise atm, there would no doubt have been some serious offers coming his way.

ATM though, PLR are skint and awash with good players looking for contracts. France is where the money is, but there are limits on foreign players now and an active Argentinian international, who will miss chunks of the season and be in revovery for other bits, may not be as attractive as an ex international All Black or Saffer.

Edinburgh will no doubt be paying decent money for him, but from what we have seen so fsr, he will be well worth it.

Similarly the Irish press press are running with Toonie asking Ben Healey to sign for either Scottish side so he can play for Scotland with a clear conscience. Does seem to indicate that perhaps, possibly, just maybe Blarehorn isn't really the world class 10 Toonie said he would become.

Not so sure about that Jim

Maybe more about the future. Neither side are stacked with FH talent and consequently any SQ FH needs to be looked at. The jury is out if he is international quality atm, but he is certainly a better option than Duncy or VDW now and likely as good/better than Thompson and Savala.

If he is available, then we should be looking. His career has stalled at Munster, but no doubt he is a good player.

The new contract for Boff is terrific news.

Pyrgos at 9 is less good news. Advantage Glasgow until Shiel comes on!

The only worry the signing Boffelli was the Edinburgh management appear to have done absolutely everything in their power to keep him.
By which I think they mean spending a massive wad of cash.
What will the knock on effect be on other contacts that are negotiated in the next couple of seasons ?

This, in conjunction with signing DTH on a multi year deal. The SRU seem to be throwing a decent sledge of cash at Edinburgh at the moment!

Either they've seen the cost that's required to compete or we are about to see some big money earners get punted on

Bill mata maybe, Nel to retire at some point, Watson is slowly becoming decrepit (admittedly like a granite boulder under an ice flow), pyrgos to retire or move on?

There's a surprising amount of edinburghs old guard who are becoming pushed out by younger pretenders

Tramptastic wrote:This, in conjunction with signing DTH on a multi year deal. The SRU seem to be throwing a decent sledge of cash at Edinburgh at the moment!

Either they've seen the cost that's required to compete or we are about to see some big money earners get punted on

Bill mata maybe, Nel to retire at some point, Watson is slowly becoming decrepit (admittedly like a granite boulder under an ice flow), pyrgos to retire or move on? quicker, occassionally.

There's a surprising amount of edinburghs old guard who are becoming pushed out by younger pretenders

Fixed that for you

We'll likely see a few of the old guard moving on east and west at the end of the season.

Weir and Wilson at Glasgow surely, maybe Brown as well.

Nelly, HP and McInally at Edinburgh spring to mind as well.

There will likely be others as well

First joke scrum penalty of the night!

Followed by some joke Edinburgh defending.

The Steyn of Destiny touches down!

Great start from Glasgow

Woeful tackling from Edinburgh

7-0 Glasgow

Piss poor defending from Edinburgh - that was embarrassing.

I'm at Murrayfield tonight and am sitting in that corner - was a woeful effort!

Welcome back to live rugby watching eh

Useless kick from McDowall there!!

Good response.

Poor from Price there.

Edinburgh getting back up the other end of the pitch with relative ease.

High scoring game on the cards?

Straight back come Edinburgh following a charge down

7 all

Deliberately killing the ball defending in the 22 - yellow!

RDW wrote:Deliberately killing the ball defending in the 22 - yellow!

Crossed my mind as well. Not sure that the refs justification that it was slow ball therefore not cynical makes any sense!

funnyExiledScot wrote:

RDW wrote:Deliberately killing the ball defending in the 22 - yellow!

Crossed my mind as well. Not sure that the refs justification that it was slow ball therefore not cynical makes any sense!

It was slow because of the penalty indiscretion!

Mata is having a good game, looks almost back to his best. It seems to take him some time to regain full fitness.

Showing the real strength difference in the scrums when the ref lets them happen

Yeh, makes an utter nonsense of that prior penalty, and Jim Hamilton's suggestion that Glasgow have the better scrum!

If Price is starting at Twickenham in February we are going to be taken apart.

Such an obvious penalty!

Glasgow pack being bossed.

Edinburgh completely dominating since the opening try

sensisball wrote:If Price is starting at Twickenham in February we are going to be taken apart.

He looks rusty doesn't he. Perhaps Horne should have started as he was decent in the first leg.

Edinburgh put the power down

Crosbie, also having a good game, scores from a lineout

17-7 Edinburgh

Tuipolotu is terrific, I must say. Made something out of nothing.

Jez, Tuipolotu is some tank

Mata should have been carded there, killed that on the floor

BigGee wrote:Mata should have been carded there, killed that on the floor

Ref has been consistent at least...

Clever try. Glasgow look well drilled at the lineout and attacking maul.

Back come Glasgow, a great 5m scrum with McDowell doing the jump

Fagerson gets the score

17-12 Edinburgh

We have got a game tonight

Best use of McDowall I've ever seen. Dummy jumper...

Boff kicks one to end the half

20-12 Edinburgh

Been a surprisingly good game for a derby, hopefully it continues into the second half

I thought that for Crosby's try Cruse ran in front of him just before the line and cleated out Price and Cancelliere.
The ref is not having a great evening.

jimbopip wrote:I thought that for Crosby's try Cruse ran in front of him just before the line and cleated out Price and Cancelliere.
The ref is not having a great evening.

I've just watched that replay. I don't see that at all!!

But I agree the ref has been poor. The first scrum pen was a complete joke, and both sides have been cynical at the breakdown without warning, particularly in opposition 22.