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Hard, hard outing away from home. Good win given all the missing talent. Kingo had few opportunities to go full ninja ball in hand, wasn’t that type of game. But he evidently had a point to prove over bravery. Up for everything in the air & on the floor. Sore body today, I suspect.

Kingo starts at 15 for Toulouse, away to Stade. Wonder how he feels? Never easy being left out of a national squad. Especially for a player with his ability. On the bright side, bragging rights over Willis and other exiles!

Adam Beard looks like the type of bloke who'd betray his whole village to bandits in the 1300s. Just has that kind of face

Feel much the same about France vs Scotland tbh!

Don’t know about all of you, but I’m pretty disappointed Danny Care has been given such an easy ride today on BBC comms, instead of being ruthlessly called out for his pre-Calcutta Cup ‘predictions’.

My pal just told me that Amazon is selling England Rugby's Magic Prism - £9.99.
By all accounts, when an English journo or TV pundit looks through it, he can immediately declare - with certainty - that England is the greatest rugby nation of all time and odds on favourite to win the next World Cup.

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Le brutal.

Just mental stuff.

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Whoever came up with a defensive pattern that lined up Dewi Lake opposite Louis Bielle-Bierry should go to prison for a very long time.

Oh, Wales 🤦

Good score!

Some truly generational meltdowns afoot this year. For example:
Started - Going.

Powerful video showing the Ukrainian athletes depicted on Vladyslav Heraskevych’s helmet who were killed by russia.

Only a week ago, England were ‘on their way to a Grand Slam’. Now they’ve been handed their proverbial by a team with only one functioning feeder club, a part time Head Coach, and a part time Defence Coach. For shame, RFU. For shame!

Suspect that was a large part of it. Don’t feel like Zander is carrying injuries, but disappointed he allowed himself to be manipulated given all his experience.

Been quite extraordinary hearing/reading England supporters claim they blew three/four scoring chances that could have won them the game. As if a) Scotland didn’t do likewise, which would have seen them hit 50, & b) England were ever actually close to Scotland the entire 80 minutes. Delusional.

Listen to the reaction there. Real Irish people, cheering on the debut of another real Irish man.

Don't pay too much attention to what anonymous blue tick accounts based in Tel Aviv, Bangladesh, or the US think.

Well worth a read. Then add the extra frustration that we are currently, at best, providing the odd cameo to those sort of performances. Scotland are operating with an arm (team) tied behind their back. Without more real competition for spots, we're left solely feasting on these sort of games

Not just for Scotland either. Glasgow will fell that loss across both competitions. Massive blow to their hopes of silverware.

If interested, there’s scrum just after 50 mins. Angles limited & no spider cam. But from ITV camera it looked like Zander went flat because Genge melted under strong drive. Eng still got the pen & likely because other times Zander lost feet & was to blame. Poor call - but used ‘picture’ as basis.

Not seen an update post A game.

Ritchie out a real blow. His form this season in France earned a justified recall. However, Douglas & McConnell are both ready to Flank. As is Christie. Demmo a harder punch to ride out. Maggie is a solid unit. But he lacks the mobility - and the accuracy, Demmo offers.

There is undoubtedly difference. It affects how you set up & how you distribute/shift weight, which also impacts timings for Front Row & Locks. But with Zander especially there can be few excuses. However, as said there were also times when Sco were wrongly penalised (or looked that way from angle)

Race to the middle this year.

Young lad needs to reach out to Finn to understand how to best deal with it/ignore it. Russell has had to deal with it his entire career, including from Ireland supporters. So there’s a lot of niche & geo-specific advice there too!

Apologies it’s so brief - and don’t mistake me. There many times especially first half, where Zander was caught out either trying to be too cute, or getting spacing wrong, which was very poor given his experience. But there’s loads more & really needs a full discussion rather than max characters.

Targeting Mitchell may well be a feature of the rest of the 6N to see if opposition teams can get the yellow card machine to reappear.

So much excellent shithousing work yesterday...Sione asking Pollock if he wished he'd chosen Scotland now and Hornito asking Ben Earl why he wasn't celebrating anything when Earl got driven out were my highlights

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Kyle Steyn coming for all the balls in the air.