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Let's be fair to Laidlaw. He has copped a lot of criticism, but time and time again, Scotland turned to him to salvage games and campaigns. Loose forwards and halfbacks have been a position of strength for Scotland, and the fact that he saw off plenty of young challengers and became the guy that the team turned to should be worthy of some respect.
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I mostly jest. Laidlaw has been a great servant to Scotland and his control has won them games that they should and could have lost. Excellent leader on the pitch, just never quite got the players around him to take advantage of the game management he excelled in. He was slow and measured in a time when Scotland wanted pace but still a great 9 in what has been a rough time for Scottish rugby. Great singing voice too. Vaders Jester fucked around with this message at 20:00 on Dec 20, 2019 |
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Vaders Jester posted:Great singing voice too. My favorite "Drunk Greig Laidlaw Video" is the one where he gets so plastered, he gains the ability to sing in completely coherant Welsh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8yQOYbwXA
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Important update from 1872 cup, Ruaridh Jackson now has a mullet.
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HappyCamperGL posted:Important update from 1872 cup, Ruaridh Jackson now has a mullet. Nothing else interesting happend in that half.
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On the very last second of the game Sam Daves knocks over a drop goal for the Dragons to beat the Scarlets 22-20. YES!!!!
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Dec 21, 2019 20:09
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A rugby match broke out after 60 mins. Get that right up ye Edinburgh cunts.
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bessantj posted:On the very last second of the game Sam Daves knocks over a drop goal for the Dragons to beat the Scarlets 22-20. YES!!!! The Scarlets are so bad right now even my Cardiff friends think it's funny.
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goatface posted:The Scarlets are so bad right now even my Cardiff friends think it's funny. Their discipline was awful.
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Extract from The Times, Vern Cotter when asked about Greig Laidlaw retiring. Hell of a praise from a guy not exactly known for gushing.quote:“I don’t think I’ve ever coached anybody as committed to his team. If it wasn’t a team we were playing against but a line of machine guns, he would have gone over the top for his team and his teammates.
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What's gone wrong with the Ospreys?
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I blame the coaching.
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Vaders Jester posted:What's gone wrong with the Ospreys? Aren't they in the middle of an injury crisis at the moment? I remember reading they had to loan a prop from the Scarlets as they basically ran out of available players. Not sure that can explain all of the chaos, but maybe is a slight excuse. 44-0 is a hell of a spanking though.
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Possibly, Ospreys seem to always have at least half a dozen players broken at any one time but 44-0 is bleak.
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Vaders Jester posted:What's gone wrong with the Ospreys? I have great news! In 2020, you'll get to experience first hand "what went wrong with the Ospreys"!! https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/50924097
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I blame the coaching for the injury problems. Possibly the physio team, but they generally just do what they're told.
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stavros880 posted:Aren't they in the middle of an injury crisis at the moment? I remember reading they had to loan a prop from the Scarlets as they basically ran out of available players. The team also went through a descent from perpetual contenders and occasional champions into middle-of-the-table battler status. Once referees start routinely making hosed up calls against your team and that becoming the norm, while the same happening to another team is cause for an outcry, that's when you know your team is hosed - case in point the Blues.
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Tyma posted:I have great news! Hoping for his 2012 version and not the 2018 shitshow final form.
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Natural order restored in the 1872.
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Vaders Jester posted:Natural order restored in the 1872. Edinburgh even top the conference, what giddy heights to fall from.
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Aramoro posted:Edinburgh even top the conference, what giddy heights to fall from. You've cursed it already, Leinster let Munster have a pity point so they're back on top. How the mighty Edinburgh have fallen.
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J Gray off to join Hogg at Exeter next year apparently. But Nakawara officially back at Scotstoun until the end of the season to placate the fans. Hopefully a longer deal is in the offing or it seems a bit pointless.
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Munster have gone backwards now JVG has full control. Before they were always there or thereabouts, but never reaching the quality of the top French teams, Saracens or Leinster. Since JVG had his own team in place they've looked worse as things have gone on. Things are not good.
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Okay: Saracens squad could be dismantled, says interim chief executive Edward Griffiths quote:The all-conquering Saracens squad could be dismantled in order for the club to comply with salary cap rules this season, according to interim chief executive Edward Griffiths. So if they're going to do this are they are still over the cap? Will their results so far this season will be wiped from the books?
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goatface posted:Depends if they were given a grace period to sort their poo poo out. Well Wray said they're definitely under the salary cap for the season though I'd sooner believe a Daily Sport headline that anything he says.
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I've no idea how the cap actually works, whether players get appearance or performance bonuses, and whether cap figures prorate if players move abroad or what have you mid season. I would assume they're thinking of encouraging a high earning England player to go to France to make as big a mess as possible out of their punishment
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Toulon need a new scrum half, but that's not particularly helpful in that regard. Fatialofa was having the pressure relieved on his spinal cord Monday, hopefully that went well.
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tarbrush posted:I've no idea how the cap actually works, whether players get appearance or performance bonuses, and whether cap figures prorate if players move abroad or what have you mid season. I would assume they're thinking of encouraging a high earning England player to go to France to make as big a mess as possible out of their punishment Yeah it's weird. You'd never see this in North American sports, I don't know why it's so hard for Saracens or the premiership to know if they're over or not I mean of course they are, but how is it all so opaque
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I read somewhere that a player doesn't count towards the cap until they play in the competition, have any of the Sarries big earners been held out of the Premiership games so far? Seems a straight forward enough way of saving cap space but maybe theres more going on.
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sleep with the vicious posted:Yeah it's weird. You'd never see this in North American sports, I don't know why it's so hard for Saracens or the premiership to know if they're over or not The cynic in me says that Saracens don't know whether they are over it or not because they've set up the most complex system of rewards for players as possible to try and side step the rules. I kind of like the salary cap, I usually really dislike club sports because it is more about how much money you have to buy good players than anything else, which obviously still exists but it's just not as extreme as say, premiership football (soccer).
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They might have it all mixed up in financial structures of nebulous value. Special "pension" pots and variable stock options and the like.
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MyChemicalImbalance posted:I read somewhere that a player doesn't count towards the cap until they play in the competition, have any of the Sarries big earners been held out of the Premiership games so far? Seems a straight forward enough way of saving cap space but maybe theres more going on. Looked like the full team played on Saturday against Worcester so if they are, then the big names like Farrell, Itoje etc. have now played.
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Hmm in that case I really wouldn't be surprised if they're still over the cap and are now scrambling to fix it, will be interesting to see how many players take a cut to stay at Sarries..
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Probably some of the old guard like Barritt and Wigglesworth will take final contract cuts and the top English players, Itoje, Farrell, George, will stay but see the sacrifice of the NEQ players like Taylor, Maitland, etc. going elsewhere. Wouldn't be surprised to see Liam Williams gone before the end of season either.
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Vaders Jester posted:Probably some of the old guard like Barritt and Wigglesworth will take final contract cuts and the top English players, Itoje, Farrell, George, will stay but see the sacrifice of the NEQ players like Taylor, Maitland, etc. going elsewhere. Wouldn't be surprised to see Liam Williams gone before the end of season either. Yeah, he's already on his way to the Scarlets next season but there has been talk of him going sooner. Halfpenny looked good against the Blues, he's lost some weight and looked effective in attack instead of slipping into contact. Things seem to be actually looking up for the Scarlets for once.
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Johnnie Beattie has retired from rugby. Seems strange he only got 38 Scotland caps considering how good he could be on his day. Only Barclay of the 'killer bees' back row still playing.
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https://www.rugbypass.com/news/george-kruis-set-to-leave-saracens-and-england
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HappyCamperGL posted:Johnnie Beattie has retired from rugby. Seems strange he only got 38 Scotland caps considering how good he could be on his day. Only Barclay of the 'killer bees' back row still playing. Will never forget him running over and through Gordon D'Arcy, PoC, and Geordan Murphy for his try in 2010.
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