Glasgow and Edinburgh: Ongoing Banter Thread V - The Fun Continues

[IanBru]

First topic message reminder :

Banter through the ages:

https://www.606v2.com/t48240-glasgow-and-edinburgh-ongoing-banter-thread
https://www.606v2.com/t51313-glasgow-and-edinburgh-ongoing-banter-thread-ii
https://www.606v2.com/t53119-glasgow-and-edinburgh-ongoing-banter-thread-iii
https://www.606v2.com/t54519-glasgow-and-edinburgh-ongoing-banter-thread-iv

Well friends, the pre-season has come and gone, now things get real.

A. Edinburgh Rugby


1. Pre-Season

Edinburgh 10-11 Leicester Tigers
Edinburgh 21-15 Newcastle Falcons

2. Results
Munster 13-14 Edinburgh
Edinburgh 13-14 Connacht
Ospreys 62-13 Edinburgh
Edinburgh 20-20 Scarlets
Ulster 30-0 Edinburgh
Edinburgh 24-10 Newport Gwent Dragons
Bordeaux-Bègles 13-15 Edinburgh

3. Upcoming Fixtures

Friday 24 Oct 2014 - 19:45 (TBC)
Lyon   (H)   -   European Rugby Challenge Cup

B. Glasgow Warriors


1. Pre-Season Results
Glasgow Warriors 23-24 Harlequins
London Scottish 19-38 Glasgow Warriors

2. Results
Glasgow Warriors 22-20 Leinster
Cardiff Blues 12-33 Glasgow Warriors
Newport Gwent Dragons 13-33 Glasgow Warriors
Glasgow Warriors 39 - 21 Connacht
Benetton Treviso 23-40 Glasgow Warriors
Ulster 29-9 Glasgow Warriors


3. Upcoming Fixtures

Sat 18 Oct 2014 - 15:15 (Live on BT Sport 2)
Bath   (H)   -   European Rugby Champions Cup

Sat 25 Oct 2014 - 18:15 (Live on Sky Sports)
Montpellier Herault   (A)   -   European Rugby Champions Cup

Any and all discussion of things rugby-related is welcome. Restaurant recommendations are openly sought. Introductions to eligible young people would be fantastic. Bullying, jingoism, and wang-measuring is not on.

We need to move forwards not backwards, upwards not forwards, and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom.

[EWT Spoons]

Given our injury list, my guess is the tea lady and GC's uncle Dougie have to be in with a shout.

[George Carlin]

Given our injury list, my guess is the tea lady and GC's uncle Dougie have to be in with a shout.

 He'll be delighted. So will the local community, whom I think would appreciate a 'rest' from his freely flowing opinions.

[tigertattie]

Is Strauss being injured a blessing in disguise?

Never condone being happy about players being injured, but is this the exception?

[funnyExiledScot]

Given our injury list, my guess is the tea lady and GC's uncle Dougie have to be in with a shout.

 He'll be delighted. So will the local community, whom I think would appreciate a 'rest' from his freely flowing opinions.

Are we talking playing for Edinburgh or for Scotland? If the latter probably worth mentioning a few things not to say to the Argentina players in the tunnel.

[George Carlin]

Given our injury list, my guess is the tea lady and GC's uncle Dougie have to be in with a shout.

 He'll be delighted. So will the local community, whom I think would appreciate a 'rest' from his freely flowing opinions.

Are we talking playing for Edinburgh or for Scotland? If the latter probably worth mentioning a few things not to say to the Argentina players in the tunnel.

I have already told him he cannot wear his 'Bye Bye Belgrano' t-shirt, offer to lend the country a tenner or suggest that tango is in any way only done by effete, hairy young men who are unable or unwilling to 'have sex for real'.

[RDW]

Is Strauss being injured a blessing in disguise?

Never condone being happy about players being injured, but is this the exception?

Well given Scott and Burleigh are out, and probably Beard too, we certainly need Strauss. I'd like to see him paired with Chris Dean.

[R!skysports]

Given our injury list, my guess is the tea lady and GC's uncle Dougie have to be in with a shout.

Well as long as he does not come straight into the world cup squad - that would be unfair to the rest of the world

[tigertattie]

So many injuries! Is this what Solomons wanted with his "pre-season" that he was always on about???

[RDW]

A team announced - haven't got a clue who most of them are!

2nite's A team v Ontario: Lockington Hoyland Dean Auld Brown Howarth Hart; McQuillin Kerr Berghan Carmichael Turley Turner Graham Hill

A team subs: McGregor Sutherland Sheldon Hunter-Hill Nagle Glashan Purdon Anderson. K/o 7.30 at Meggetland v Ontario Blues

Great to see Hoyland, Dean, Auld and Brown playing - surely some of them will get their chance on Friday.

No idea who those 2nd row and back row players are

[RDW]

Better lost on Facebook - 10 of the players are from Premiership clubs

George Turner - the hooker - playing blindside!

[funnyExiledScot]

The key thing here is for Dean, Brown and Hoyland to come through unscathed so that they are available on Friday. All should make the match day 23 on Friday, and I have Brown and Hoyland down as starting. George Turner should also make the bench as cover for Hilterbrand.

[Imperialbigdave]

Better lost on Facebook - 10 of the players are from Premiership clubs

George Turner - the hooker - playing blindside!

To be fair Turner has played on the flank for heriots quite a lot. Including the cup final last season where he totally outplayed Tyrone Holmes.

[Imperialbigdave]

All things considered its actually a good team.

Turley and Hill are cornerstones of the Heriots pack which has become probably the best in the premiership. Both massive guys, and I wouldnt mind seeing either of them playing pro12 in the future. Gary Grahams been a constant in the Gala pack for a while now, and was a scotland u20. Same for Nagle with melrose, and interestingly hes been playing 12 for them this season due to injuries, and looking remarkably good. Carmichaels a current u20 and melrose lock and got all the talent, but hes so lightweight hed be underpowered playing 9. Calum Andersons been on the scene for a long time. Im sure he was in the melrose team that won their own 7's a couple of years ago. Purdon is one of those south africans who appeared out of thin air ahead of the previous A game.

[EWT Spoons]

Anyone at the game?  Looking at twitter and it seems brown is doing well.  Good to have him back

19-5 ht

[RDW]

Don't think we can read too much into the score given it is a random Canadian touring team, but it is good for these guys to get a run around together

[EWT Spoons]

I've heard on the grapevine that this canadian team are actually the All Blacks in disguise!

The ABs get tired of all the media attention so they randomly pretend to be a Canadian team. Don't look it up, or seek any form of confirmation, just take my word for it.

[Imperialbigdave]

tbf a few of the players were in the canada team that nearly beat scotland in the summer

[RDW]

41-15ft and what looks like no injuries

[George Carlin]

https://www.606v2.com/t56214-leinster-rugby-v-edinburgh-rugby-31-october

[EST]

Getting a bit of insider info that the Stirling County 10, Fraser Lyle, has signed for Glasgow until the end of the season.

[InjuredYetAgain]

Of course, i forgot. 3 international standard stand off's not enough.
What is he going to do - clean the toilets ?
Strange one. Would they not be better sending him to Edinburgh?

[RDW]

Young Howarth has done well for Edinburgh A this season, so we'll keep developing him.

Once he breaks through and shows he's a good player, we'll send him to Glasgow!

[IanBru]

The thing is, with Scott Wight playing with the 7s boys, Russell and Weir playing for Scotland, Furra Linee plumping up Dunbar's pillow in the recovery room, and Connor Braid caught somewhere on the M6 on his way back from Richmond, there really is no one in the Glasgow squad who can actually play stand-off.

We can thank our lucky stars that our next opponents are the Parma No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency 2nd XV or we'd have to call Dan the Man out of retirement.

[RDW]

We can thank our lucky stars that our next opponents are the Parma No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency 2nd XV or we'd have to call Dan the Man out of retirement.

He is bringing on the match ball tomorrow...

[RDW]

Interesting Twitter Q&A with Maitland and cusiter tonight - when asked who the strongest player was they said zander fagerson - not bad for an 18 year old!

[funnyExiledScot]

That is some accolade, particularly with Cusack, Welsh and of course the mighty Big Al in the squad.

I wonder who would win that award at Edinburgh. Berghan is a unit but I'm not convinced that muscle has much to do with it.

[RDW]

I wonder who would win that award at Edinburgh. Berghan is a unit but I'm not convinced that muscle has much to do with it.

I suspect it will be Ford. Dickinson is a unit though, and is a weightlifting enthusiast (as is his girlfriend - she could bench press both of us!) and Hamish Watson is apparently one of the strongest in the squad despite his relatively small frame.

[RuggerRadge2611]

Berghan Radge is a unit but I'm not convinced that muscle has much to do with it.

My wife tells me that all the time.

I tell her she is wrong.

[RuggerRadge2611]

By the way why is the server clock wrong? RDW? GC? Sort it out!

[RDW]

By the way why is the server clock wrong? RDW? GC? Sort it out!

Read the global announcement!

[RuggerRadge2611]

Read the global announcement!

As you were....

[RDW]

Al Kellock to captain the barbarians against Australia - great honour for him!

[jimbopip]

Big Al captaining the BaaBaas if ever a man deserved it.

[RuggerRadge2611]

We do take the mick about him inspecting many rucks etc but I'm very happy for him in this regard. He does seem to have excellent leadership qualities.

[George Carlin]

We do take the mick about him inspecting many rucks etc but I'm very happy for him in this regard. He does seem to have excellent leadership qualities.

And not of the 'Mike Coman' variety.

[IanBru]

Outstanding!

I imagine it will be an interesting experience for some young buck southern-hemisphere flyer to be led by the big man from Bishopbriggs.

[George Carlin]

A natural on telly too:

[BigGee]

He is good on TV, comes over as very informed and knowledgeable. I have a feeling we will still be seeing plenty of big Al once he finally decides to hang up the boots.

[TJ]

Al Kellock to captain the barbarians against Australia - great honour for him!

Nice one - recognition for him.

[funnyExiledScot]

Congratulations Big Al. A fine honour.

He's a great public speaker, but I think he'll end up in a coaching role at Glasgow. He'd be excellent.

[SecretFly]

It's a pity the Australians now enlisted a Barbarian of their own though. Kellock better be careful Cheika doesn't try to eat him in the tunnel, he likes players raw and saltless I hear

[madmaccas]

Just read some pretty exciting new from Townie in the Scotsman.

Our whole group has also taken a big lift from Mike Cusack’s return to training in the last couple of weeks

http://www.scotsman.com/news/gregor-townsend-warriors-learning-all-the-time-1-3588156

Sounds like his mystery illness could be behind him...and just in time if he is to have any chance of a WC spot. Either way great to hear the big guy's back.

[George Carlin]

Just read some pretty exciting new from Townie in the Scotsman.

Our whole group has also taken a big lift from Mike Cusack’s return to training in the last couple of weeks

http://www.scotsman.com/news/gregor-townsend-warriors-learning-all-the-time-1-3588156

Sounds like his mystery illness could be behind him...and just in time if he is to have any chance of a WC spot. Either way great to hear the big guy's back.

Thanks for this Maccas. This also caught my eye:

But before that encounter at the Stade Ernest Wallon there is an awful lot of rugby to be played, with three Test matches and three fixtures in the Guinness Pro12, with the first of these league games coming tomorrow night with the visit of Treviso to Scotstoun.
 
This period is likely to see a return from injury of several of our longer-term absentees. Ryan Grant, Ryan Wilson and Jon Welsh have all had game time under their belts in the club game in recent weeks and are not far away now from a return to our playing squad.

Oh thank feck for that.

[VinceWLB]

Some absolutely great news! Still early days bu Welsh, Murray and Cusack is a great set of THs and i would feel a lot more confident going to Toulouse if 2 of the 3 are available.

[MacKnocked-on]

Is Cusack now SQ?

[RuggerRadge2611]

Just saw this on the Munster Sarries thread.

Complaints about this thread have reached the point at which we have moved from 'over-ripe' to 'rotten'. The relevant posters can PM each other or throw stones at each other's cars if they wish to continue with their tadger comparison exercise.

Thanks to those whose contributions were consistently positive

GC giving a world class display of how to lock a thread down!

[IanBru]

Toonie's tombola tumble coming up...

[RDW]

https://www.606v2.com/t56198-glasgow-warriors-v-benetton-treviso-31-october

[George Carlin]

Amazing to see the two Ryans back (Wilson and Grant).

Also really want Bordill to get some game time. He's too good to be in the gym all the time.

[madmaccas]

Is Cusack now SQ?

Yep, he qualified in June. Long way to go to get back to form, but front row isn't always our richest area so he could be invaluable. I'm keen to see how he adjusts to the new scrum laws. If he's starting for Glasgow come to 6Nations then who knows!

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