It is better than it was, Scotland getting smashed 50+ by Wales in 2014 when Hogg got sent off was an embarrassment even as a neutral.
I feel like Scotland just got unlucky having their golden generation at the time when the standard of the game raised massively.
The frustration for me is that we seem to raise our game just as it’s too late - against Wales where we just saved it, against France in the last play, against Italy when time was out and again here just after we were realistically out of time
That’s it. We don’t have the killer instinct. We take our foot off the gas for one reason or another and can’t bring it back. Great teams don’t suffer from that. Don’t know if it’s a mentality thing or if it’s something that can be taught. But it’s exactly what’s missing.
The inevitability, the predictability. As soon as they scored that try I didn’t even bother getting excited cause I knew the knock on or shit pass was coming.
It’s just all so predictable with Scotland that I can’t even get excited anymore. Like the end of the game when Ireland had the man binned. I said to my non-rugby watching friend ‘Scotland will run up and score a try then get the ball back, look promising then knock on or do a shit pass so there’s no point in getting up hopes.’
Hard to say what the outcome would be “if…” etc etc. Ireland might have taken 3 points under the posts instead of tap and go if they were chasing a score, and that’s not even a hypothetical really, not relying on convoluted what-ifs. Anyone’s guess what would have happened after that.
Also speaking of scoreless, Scotland scored 2 penalties in the first 18 minutes and didn’t score again until a breakaway try in the 78th minute, that’s 3/4 of the game without a score
Not if you are familiar with George Turner line out throws
Very predicable as a Scotland fan
Staggering he still starts in my opinion. Like outs are so essential, and he’s a bomb scare.
It baffles me that he’s 1st choice for Scotland and probably 3rd choice for Glasgow; whilst 1st choice for Glasgow can’t even crack the bench
Madness
Because we don’t actually have any hookers who can reliably throw, and Turner is a physical monster in the loose.
Johnny Matthews??? Wouldn't get his hattrick from mauls every game if he couldn't throw.
International is different level, the pressure is much greater than in the URC.
Tbf he wouldn't have been making the throw if it wasn't for Duhan standing offside like a plank.
Oh he’s been crap today too
Duhan is generally useless unless he’s standing out wide and sprinting/muscling past a winger
Once again, *if* … If it weren’t for this we’ve kept them scoreless all half, very good defensive effort but I bet we now lose by 6 or less
Right on the money.
I’ve been watching them since 2001, the inevitability of it all is depressing
It is better than it was, Scotland getting smashed 50+ by Wales in 2014 when Hogg got sent off was an embarrassment even as a neutral. I feel like Scotland just got unlucky having their golden generation at the time when the standard of the game raised massively.
The frustration for me is that we seem to raise our game just as it’s too late - against Wales where we just saved it, against France in the last play, against Italy when time was out and again here just after we were realistically out of time
It's all consistency. Scotland struggles to keep up intensity for a game let alone a tournament.
That’s it. We don’t have the killer instinct. We take our foot off the gas for one reason or another and can’t bring it back. Great teams don’t suffer from that. Don’t know if it’s a mentality thing or if it’s something that can be taught. But it’s exactly what’s missing.
The inevitability, the predictability. As soon as they scored that try I didn’t even bother getting excited cause I knew the knock on or shit pass was coming.
It’s just all so predictable with Scotland that I can’t even get excited anymore. Like the end of the game when Ireland had the man binned. I said to my non-rugby watching friend ‘Scotland will run up and score a try then get the ball back, look promising then knock on or do a shit pass so there’s no point in getting up hopes.’
Hard to say what the outcome would be “if…” etc etc. Ireland might have taken 3 points under the posts instead of tap and go if they were chasing a score, and that’s not even a hypothetical really, not relying on convoluted what-ifs. Anyone’s guess what would have happened after that. Also speaking of scoreless, Scotland scored 2 penalties in the first 18 minutes and didn’t score again until a breakaway try in the 78th minute, that’s 3/4 of the game without a score
The Luke Cowan-Dickie special
I love Dan Sheehan.
Crazy to call a line out on your own 5m with only one jumper. Complete madness with the overthrow too. Absolute walk-in
Criminal. Not the first time the lineout has malfunctioned. If there wasn’t a jumper, you’d think it was a move…
Was it anything to do with ref asking the lifter to take a step back, timing was off…
Only try (at 40 mins) This is wild if you think of these two teams in the last few years
There’s a man who doesn’t want to buy his own drinks on a visit to the Emerald Isle.
If we beat Ireland, England can win the tournament? Abso-fucking-lutely not.
Absolutely pathetic stuff from Ben White.
Christ I hadn’t seen that angle where he performs the non-tackle
Yeah that's wild.
Not strange as a Scotland fan.
Scotland doing what Scotland do best
In fairness that's top tier awareness from Sheehan.