URC Final | Glasgow Warriors URC Champions 23/24

RDW wrote:Just finished the game - very similar to last week and Glasgow managed the energy and determination to back it up. Remarkable win.

Ultimately Glasgow's big name players stepped up and the Bulls' didn't. It's also crazy to think the effort involved a bunch of youngsters who we'd never heard of at the start of the season and someone like Henco Venter, who looked like a complete journeyman signing but he's had a stormer of a season and made a huge impact off the bench.

Hopefully Toonie has been paying attention as he has pretty much the opposite approach to how to play these big games, and it's been a failure time and time again. Glasgow showing how it's done!

tigertattie wrote:5 mins to go and jimbo may get to stop calling the weege the once and future champions

BigGee wrote:We'll I made it down to Yorkshire today. After all the hills of the borders, Northumbria and County Durham, which nearly killed me, the road finally flattened out today and I had a much nicer ride through pan flat East Yorkshire

So having had a good day, it just got so much better when I saw this incredible result. Did any of us really Beleive this was possible?

We'll the Warriors players and coaching staff certainly did, there is certainly some steel in that team now.

I am off to Spalding tomorrow, a spin through the Fens, which is also pleasingly flat. 4 days till I get to Dover now. I am looking forward to getting home.

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bsando wrote:I just wish flights were cheaper so fans could travel to SA easier. It would have been an incredible atmosphere at Loftus last night. Looked like a lot of fun. Bulls fans probably didn’t expect to lose like that by looks of it, their fans made a pretty swift exit.

jimbopip wrote:

bsando wrote:I just wish flights were cheaper so fans could travel to SA easier. It would have been an incredible atmosphere at Loftus last night. Looked like a lot of fun. Bulls fans probably didn’t expect to lose like that by looks of it, their fans made a pretty swift exit.

It reminded me of Martin Johnson's pep talk on the pitch before a Wales-England match, "Won't it be nice boys, an hour from now when this place is silent?". I loved Glasgow getting the trophy in front of all those empty seats.

jimbopip wrote:Bsando

My memories of 2015 was that they went for Ulster from the off and it was never really in doubt. This year was very different; the mini-collapse in the last few weeks of the season. The fear that Stormers might put us out. The mountain that was the trip to Thomond. The Everest that was 13-0 down away to the Bulls after 40 minutes. This team have cojones of steel.
No point in comparing them, they both deserve a place in Scottish rugby's heart.

bsando wrote:

jimbopip wrote:Bsando

My memories of 2015 was that they went for Ulster Munster from the off and it was never really in doubt. This year was very different; the mini-collapse in the last few weeks of the season. The fear that Stormers might put us out. The mountain that was the trip to Thomond. The Everest that was 13-0 down away to the Bulls after 40 minutes. This team have cojones of steel.
No point in comparing them, they both deserve a place in Scottish rugby's heart.

Absolutely, well said Jimbo. Hope you had a dram last night to celebrate.

jimbopip wrote:

bsando wrote:

jimbopip wrote:Bsando

My memories of 2015 was that they went for Ulster Munster   from the off and it was never really in doubt. This year was very different; the mini-collapse in the last few weeks of the season. The fear that Stormers might put us out. The mountain that was the trip to Thomond. The Everest that was 13-0 down away to the Bulls after 40 minutes. This team have cojones of steel.
No point in comparing them, they both deserve a place in Scottish rugby's heart.

Absolutely, well said Jimbo. Hope you had a dram last night to celebrate.

I did have a little snifter, but not in a Michael Gove way, obvs.

George Carlin wrote:I have watched the whole game now. Everyone in the team was at least 7 out of 10 and most importantly, our senior test players all stepped up.

Players I was always less than 100% on came of age too. The loose forward trio of Darge, Dempsey and Fagerson looked like it was their last game on earth. Zander Fagerson played yet another 80 minutes against that pack and at altitude - he genuinely could be a Lions test contender if he can sustain that kind of engine. I have never been completely sold on Cummings but he stood up like a giant.

It won't be lost on Scotland fans that this is precisely the sort of game that Scotland would lose at the death 4 times out of 5. However, even when it got wild I never thought in that second half that we looked like losing. So much to be proud of and in some ways better than 2015 because nobody really expected this, I don't think.

The greatest complement you can give Franco is that the team is greater than the sum of its parts and that is something any head coach can be proud of and have attributed to them.

tigertattie wrote:Can Scotland do a Glasgow and turn this around in the second half?

tigertattie wrote:

tigertattie wrote:Can Scotland do a Glasgow and turn this around in the second half?

Guess not

George Carlin wrote:I have watched the whole game now. Everyone in the team was at least 7 out of 10 and most importantly, our senior test players all stepped up.

Players I was always less than 100% on came of age too. The loose forward trio of Darge, Dempsey and Fagerson looked like it was their last game on earth. Zander Fagerson played yet another 80 minutes against that pack and at altitude - he genuinely could be a Lions test contender if he can sustain that kind of engine. I have never been completely sold on Cummings but he stood up like a giant.

It won't be lost on Scotland fans that this is precisely the sort of game that Scotland would lose at the death 4 times out of 5. However, even when it got wild I never thought in that second half that we looked like losing. So much to be proud of and in some ways better than 2015 because nobody really expected this, I don't think.

The greatest complement you can give Franco is that the team is greater than the sum of its parts and that is something any head coach can be proud of and have attributed to them.

jimbopip wrote:Or stick his nose in.

You are on to a good idea Doc.

As I have said previously, if you're in the country we should take in a match. Saints, Warriors, Scotland....I couldn't cheer Engurlund on though.

doctor_grey wrote:

jimbopip wrote:Or stick his nose in.

You are on to a good idea Doc.

As I have said previously, if you're in the country we should take in a match. Saints, Warriors, Scotland....I couldn't cheer Engurlund on though.

Oh, c'mon, you know you want to.....

jimbopip wrote:

doctor_grey wrote:

jimbopip wrote:Or stick his nose in.

You are on to a good idea Doc.

As I have said previously, if you're in the country we should take in a match. Saints, Warriors, Scotland....I couldn't cheer Engurlund on though.

Oh, c'mon, you know you want to.....

jimbopip wrote:Engurlund are the Luvvies of international rugby; they flatter to deceive, rarely live up to the hype and watching them is the visual equivalent of chewing wallpaper paste.

jimbopip wrote:Anyway peeps, as Doc Grey knows I am a big Blues fan. Mississippi blues not South African Blues.
I put on Blind Watermelon MacTavish this morning and he serenaded the neighbours with,

"Woke up this morning and my dog was dead,
The Giro was late and and I've shat the bed
Who cares, who really cares
Cos Glasgow are cham pee onzz
Still.
CHAM  PEEE ONNNZZZZ"

I just love those authentic blues sentiments.

funnyExiledScot wrote:

jimbopip wrote:Engurlund are the Luvvies of international rugby; they flatter to deceive, rarely live up to the hype and watching them is the visual equivalent of chewing wallpaper paste.

Not sure who this is harsh on! From Edinburgh's perspective I don't think we ever flatter, and I'm not sure there's ever any hype to live up to! Does one "chew" wallpaper paste??

I think Jimbo's put downs have gotten sloppy over the many years....[/quote  

I almost spat out my Solvite Ready Mixed Industrial Strength Adhesive when I read that. The Luvvies can put out a back three of Duhan-Banjo Patterson-ADHD Kid and still look slower than Liz Truss when asked how many beans make five. If that's not flattering to deceive what is?
The Knitwear models advertise themselves as a rugby club; if that isn't overinflated hype then Rishi is a political giant.
Of course you chew it: it's too lumpy otherwise.

p.s. Fes...still CHAM  PEE YONZZZ

p.p.s. Dempsey's disallowed try... it was a forward pass which was why the receiver didn't catch it. If it had been flat Turner would have had man and ball, instead of man and no ball. As such it should have been scrum advantage to Glasgow so Dempsey was totally entitled to pick up the ball and sprint 60 metres to score. But I'm not bitter.

BigGee wrote:Just to say guys

I made it to Dover just after 8pm this evening.

What a trip it has been, from the frozen north to the sun baked south. This was far harder than the Lands End to John o Groats I did previously. Both in terms of terrain and aging legs!

Thanks to everyone for the support, it has meant the world to me to have friends along with me for the ride.

Am heading home now and looking forward to sleeping in my own bed tonight.