Glasgow and Edinburgh - Unceasing Banter Thread 27

[George Carlin]

First topic message reminder :

For those Scottish and Scottish-rugby interested posters who just cannot seem to shut the feic up about it.

26,000 posts of abject nonsense and incorrect usage of the quote function (and counting).

We should be proud.

[jimbopip]

Tartan or fleecy Disney Princess ones?

[tigertattie]

Tartan or fleecy Disney Princess ones?

Oooo. Fleecy Disney princess ones please

[jimbopip]

Glasgow go into the break 10-7 up but the scoreline massively flatters the Scaaalets.  
Ollie Kebble went off after 9 minutes and Murphy Walker is doing well in his place.
Can't see Glasgow losing this tbh.

[jimbopip]

Mind if the ref keeps disallowing perfectly good tries
That's a 14 point swing there.

[Guest]

Glasgow go into the break 10-7 up but the scoreline massively flatters the Scaaalets.  
Ollie Kebble went off after 9 minutes and Murphy Walker is doing well in his place.
Can't see Glasgow losing this tbh.

[jimbopip]

I get the feeling that at half time someone said, " Lads, they've had the ball for 38 minutes and scored one try; we've had it for two minutes and scored one. Let's stop being so timid and run at the buggers."
No excuses, no blaming the ref.
Well done Scaaalets

[bsando]

What happened?? That’s a hammering.

[bsando]

Meanwhile Jones and Maitland picking up more trys for their clubs and Hastings playing in their win over Northampton. None likely to be involved against Italy or Ireland.

[RDW]

Glasgow go into the break 10-7 up but the scoreline massively flatters the Scaaalets.  
Ollie Kebble went off after 9 minutes and Murphy Walker is doing well in his place.
Can't see Glasgow losing this tbh.

That aged well..

What happened?!

[BigGee]

Jez, that was pretty disappointing from Glasgow who just folded when the pressure came on and Scarlets suddenly found some form.

Not much to take that from that game at all, other than Ollie Smith looking decent again and them him taking a bad looking injury!

Who is going to bench at LH for Scotland next weekend now that Ollie Keeble is injured again? Back to Alan Dell you would imagine.

[BigGee]

There is some talk of a sickness bug inn the Glasgow camp this week.

Wilson cryptically referred to an interesting build up to the game in his pre match interview and the team as a whole just looked completely off the pace in the second half. Sam Johnson was apparently subbed as he started vomiting on the pitch during the game.

Hard to know what to make of that, if it was a problem, then to Wilson's credit, he does not seem to be using it as an excuse. It did seem a really odd performance though in the way they disintegrated during the second half.

[jimbopip]

Glasgow go into the break 10-7 up but the scoreline massively flatters the Scaaalets.  
Ollie Kebble went off after 9 minutes and Murphy Walker is doing well in his place.
Can't see Glasgow losing this tbh.

That aged well..

What happened?!

I'm seeing comments on other forums about a winter vomiting type bug running riot at Scotstoun during the week. But, as the truism has it, once you step out on the field there are no excuses.
N.B. I always gave this advice to younger teachers; if you are ill stay home, if you struggle in and then fecc up no-one will remeber your noble sacrifice they will only remember the fecc up.

[Hazel Sapling]

Did not see either game but saw the text commentary on the try. It seemed to kill our game. The rumours about the sickness bug would probably fit as Glasgow's bench looked decent for this one.

At least if it is a vomiting bug, we should have it sorted quite quickly and in time for Edinburgh. Hopefully Kebble was precautionary and Smith is not too bad. We could do with Lambert and McBeth getting fit regardless.

Edinburgh had a great and very necessary result. A loss there and that might have been playoffs in doubt. Two more wins from six should be enough.

[BigGee]

Did not see either game but saw the text commentary on the try. It seemed to kill our game. The rumours about the sickness bug would probably fit as Glasgow's bench looked decent for this one.

At least if it is a vomiting bug, we should have it sorted quite quickly and in time for Edinburgh. Hopefully Kebble was precautionary and Smith is not too bad. We could do with Lambert and McBeth getting fit regardless.

Edinburgh had a great and very necessary result. A loss there and that might have been playoffs in doubt. Two more wins from six should be enough.

Neither Keeble or Smith looked that good coming off unfortunately

[Hazel Sapling]

At least with Smith, we have Forbes and McKay to step in there. McLean has been injured so I am guessing Fifita, Tagive or Cancelliere will take a wing spot. Regardless, hopefully it is not a year, or even season, ender. Glasgow have the chance to make a run in the Challenge Cup that would be great experience for him.

Kebble hurts as we already have three injured LH's for Glasgow and two for Scotland. Lambert has been out all season and I have no idea how serious McBeth's injury is. Fingers crossed two more weeks lets them come into contention or else our academy TH Walker will be starting LH with god knows who backing him up. Edinburgh's TH's should have a field day.

[funnyExiledScot]

Only just caught up with the weekend rugby, which can best be summarised as Edinburgh = good, Glasgow = bad.

Bradbury off to Bristol next season. All the best I say. A frustrating player all be told, and although he's put in some stellar shifts this season, he's still fallen well short of potential for me. If I were honestly picking the best Edinburgh match day squad, he isn't in it, and with young Muncaster looking pretty ruddy awesome, I think his salary is probably one we can do without.

That all said, looking forward to seeing him have a crack at the Prem next season.

[jimbopip]

Rory Darge extends his stay at the rugby club.

[funnyExiledScot]

Rory Darge extends his stay at the rugby club.

Yeh, I'm really pleased that Edinburgh let him go. He looks rubbish...

[BigGee]

Glasgow Warriors team to face Edinburgh at Scotstoun, Friday 18 March, kick-off 7.35pm, live on Premier Sports 1. You can also follow all the action as it happens in our Live Match Centre at glasgowwarriors.org.

1. Murphy Walker (3)
2. Johnny Matthews (23)
3. Simon Berghan (6)
4. Scott Cummings (86)
5. Richie Gray (75)
6. Ryan Wilson (C) (205)
7. Thomas Gordon (46)
8. Jack Dempsey (14)

9. Jamie Dobie (30)
10. Duncan Weir (119)
11. Cole Forbes (18)
12. Stafford McDowall (34)
13. Robbie Fergusson (13)
14. Sebastian Cancelliere (5)
15. Josh McKay (7)

16. Grant Stewart (45)
17. Nathan McBeth (3)
18. Ewan McQuillin (3)
19. Kiran McDonald (47)
20. Ally Miller (7)
21. Jordan Lenac (2)
22. Ross Thompson (28)
23. Sione Tuipulotu (13)

Unavailable for selection list: Lewis Bean, Jamie Bhatti, George Horne, Oli Kebble, Sean Kennedy, Tom Lambert, Rufus McLean, Enrique Pieretto, Ollie Smith.

International duty: Rory Darge, Matt Fagerson, Zander Fagerson, Sam Johnson, Ali Price, George Turner.

[BigGee]

Solid looking team for Glasgow, front 5 looks solid with Cummings and Gray coming back in.

Hopefully Duncy finds some form with his boot this time and can get the ball moving.

[TheMildlyFranticLlama]

Edinburgh side

15. Henry Immelman (12)
14. Ramiro Moyano (8)
13. Matt Currie (9)
12. Chris Dean VICE-CAPTAIN (114)
11. Emiliano Boffelli (10)
10. Jaco van der Walt (80)
9. Henry Pyrgos CAPTAIN (62)

1. Harrison Courtney (4)
2. Dave Cherry VICE-CAPTAIN (50)
3. Angus Williams (9)
4. Pierce Phillips (6)
5. Glen Young (6)
6. Ben Muncaster (8)
7. Connor Boyle (16)
8. Mesulame Kunavula (20)

Replacements

16. Adam McBurney (6)
17. Boan Venter (21)
18. Luan de Bruin (4)
19. Jamie Hodgson (33)
20. Magnus Bradbury (104)
21. Ben Vellacott (13)
22. Charlie Savala (9)
23. Cammy Hutchison (10)

Unavailable due to injury: Rudi Brown, Jamie Campbell, Luke Crosbie, Nick Haining, Damien Hoyland, James Johnstone, Viliame Mata, Jamie Ritchie, Marshall Sykes, Ben Toolis

That's a very inexperienced pack! Fortunately they're up against Ryan Wilson, so it should be a walkover

[Anglobraveheart]

If you exclude Magnus Bradbury, Ryan Wilson has more appearances than the rest of the Edinburgh forwards subs and starting forwards put together.
The backs look very evenly matched though.

[BigGee]

Well a 1872 cup match is just what we need to distract us from the Scotland camp this evening!

[BigGee]

That's a YC for the knock on

[BigGee]

Try Glasgow, that was coming and Edinburgh very lucky to still have 15 men on the pitch!

[BigGee]

Glasgow make a complete horlicks of a restart and Edinburgh score

7 all

[BigGee]

VDW kicks a dolly straight back to the Glasgow wing and we run it straight back in!

Second try for Tom Gordon!

14-7 Glasgow

[BigGee]

Edinburgh take a penalty

14-10 Glasgow

[BigGee]

Duncy kicks one back for Glasgow

17-10 Glasgow at HT

[jimbopip]

A very interesting first 40. If the MFL can hold on to the ball for more than 20 seconds they could win this. Henners is looking nippy but VDW isn't doing much

[jimbopip]

A very interesting first 40. If the MFL can hold on to the ball for more than 20 seconds they could win this. Henners is looking nippy but VDW isn't doing much

[BigGee]

Thats one YC to each side for a deliberate knock on not given

[BigGee]

Venter goes over from short range, Edinburgh start the second half like Glasgow did the first

17 all

[BigGee]

For a derby match, this has been some entertaining game

[BigGee]

Glasgow go coast to coast and McKay scores

Thompson on and kicks a difficult conversion

24-17 Glasgow

[jimbopip]

So that'll be twice VDW has kicked the ball straight to a Glasgow player and we've scored.
What chance a hat trick?

[BigGee]

That try has galvanised Glasgow, we were under the cosh at that point

[BigGee]

Thompson kicks another penalty to make it a 10 point gap

27-17 Glasgow

[BigGee]

and another one from Thompson, a bit of clear water now

30-17 Glasgow

[BigGee]

What a shift from Murphy Walker, first half as LH and second half at TH and wins a pen at 75 mins on his first start!

[BigGee]

Connor Boyle has also had some game!

[BigGee]

Lot of good performances on the Glasgow side, but Jamie Dobie gets MoM

He has been very good and improves the more game time he gets

[funnyExiledScot]

Well played Glasgow. The smarter and more accurate side. Really frustrating performance from Edinburgh (Muncaster and Boyle aside). VDW was mince, and the passing from Pyrgos was all over the place.

[BigGee]

Well what was Sione doing there?

There was a BP up for grabs

Still a comprehensive win for Glasgow, as you would expect!

[funnyExiledScot]

The turning point was Ryan Wilson coming off. Just saying...

[BigGee]

Edinburgh never really got back into the game after the C2C try it really knock the stuffing out of them.

Some good young players out there on both sides though

Walker, Muncaster, Dobie, Boyle - surely they will all run up a few Scotland caps

[BigGee]

The turning point was Ryan Wilson coming off. Just saying...

There is some truth in that and maybe a bit of a changing of the guard in the west. No Harley, Wilson subbed off and the subs upping the pace considerably.

[jimbopip]

Sione has been spending too much time drinking with Dancer.
A number of young Scottish players looked good tonight.
Better team won to be fair.

[BigGee]

Dobie just looks a class player though, the speed of his pass and his reading of the game, hard to believe he is only 20!

Probably done him no harm leaving him out of the Scotland squad to get some proper game time with Glasgow.

[funnyExiledScot]

The turning point was Ryan Wilson coming off. Just saying...

There is some truth in that and maybe a bit of a changing of the guard in the west. No Harley, Wilson subbed off and the subs upping the pace considerably.

I do think the time has come for Harley and Wilson, particularly when you see what you get from Darge, Gordon and Dempsey (what a terrific player he is).

The other Weegie player who was really good tonight was Cancellieri. Really good.

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