Comments on: Scotland’s World Cup Winners & Losers

By: Benjit

Benjit — Wed, 28 Oct 2015 15:18:02 +0000

Am I the only one who finds it slightly ironic that Laidlaw aside all the Scottish winners are not Scottish. Before the accusation of hypocrisy is levelled against me, I will confess that I am less than happy with England using the lax residency laws to bring in the likes of Botha, Fourie, Hape, Vainkolo, Flutey, Freshwater and soon to be Hughes.

However I feel Scotland’s “strategy” of recruiting uncapped foreign players to be pretty reprehensible tbh. I have no interest in watchng NZ or SA essentially playing their B or C teams.

By: Egg Chaser

Egg Chaser — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 22:09:03 +0000

Loser: Stuart Hogg and his diving skills.

By: Matto

Matto — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 21:52:27 +0000

Generally sums it up. However, whilst there definitely remain problems with the mindset, I would say there have been improvements (generally strong second half performances, heads never going down). I don’t think they caved in mentally against Oz, they just made an arse of the line out. Anyway, all in all we did better than most were expecting, but a lot yet to prove against the perennial opposition in the upcoming Six Nations.

By: Pablito

Pablito — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 16:22:18 +0000

Donlt disagree with much of the above (although as with all teams, I’d prefer to see home-grown talent over recent imports) but for the life of me I cannot think when they had a close loss to England under Cotter

Wales yes – 26-23 in the last 6 Nations. But not England unless I’ve forgotten a game?