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2025 Guinness Six Nations
[2025 Six Nations] Scotland vs Ireland - 09/02/25
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<blockquote data-quote="retired9" data-source="post: 1212122" data-attributes="member: 79608"><p>Had a chance to cool my jets a bit since yesterday, always seem to get a raised amount of anger vs Ireland <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😂" title="Face with tears of joy :joy:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f602.png" data-shortname=":joy:" /></p><p></p><p>First off, fair dos to the men in green they were miles better than Scotland and clearly earned the win. They did what Ireland do, massive physicality and relentless breakdown battling. Prendergast looked decent tbf I can see him becoming a long term feature in all honesty.</p><p></p><p>For Scotland, well we got rattled by Ireland once again - same happened with SA, big aggressive teams throw us off balance early on. VDMs card was clumsy, the double injury a real blow (Darcy out in a superb tackle a few minutes before which was joyous) and we just didn't get much of the 50/50's from the ref - just not our day.</p><p></p><p>I did feel we had some positives, the second half started very well, Zander Fagerson, White, Darge, and Jones all mostly had decent a game. Tom Jordan took a big step up into the 10 slot, had a nervy start but showed some real ability which was impressive given the circumstances. Can see him as a 10 option in future, he's bigger than Finn and has a big pass on him. </p><p></p><p>The back row had a mixed game as a collective, Ireland are masters of fast then slow breakdown control and we just didn't get a proper handle on it - they have an canny knack (have done for years) of just getting in the way long enough to be a nuisance and avoid getting pinged for it. Better management of the referee from Scotland may have tidied this up, it's something Finn can usually do he is extremely intelligent and a wee smile helps the cause.</p><p></p><p>Kinghorn didn't have a great one, some OK runs through but the kicking and missed tackle on Lowe (?) wasn't his finest moment. </p><p></p><p>In summary, it pretty much justifies the world rankings - there are 3 teams in Ire, SA and France who are all in the mix at the top and are notably better than the next ones below them. For Scotland this needs to toughen us up, there is still plenty rugby to play this 6N.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="retired9, post: 1212122, member: 79608"] Had a chance to cool my jets a bit since yesterday, always seem to get a raised amount of anger vs Ireland 😂 First off, fair dos to the men in green they were miles better than Scotland and clearly earned the win. They did what Ireland do, massive physicality and relentless breakdown battling. Prendergast looked decent tbf I can see him becoming a long term feature in all honesty. For Scotland, well we got rattled by Ireland once again - same happened with SA, big aggressive teams throw us off balance early on. VDMs card was clumsy, the double injury a real blow (Darcy out in a superb tackle a few minutes before which was joyous) and we just didn't get much of the 50/50's from the ref - just not our day. I did feel we had some positives, the second half started very well, Zander Fagerson, White, Darge, and Jones all mostly had decent a game. Tom Jordan took a big step up into the 10 slot, had a nervy start but showed some real ability which was impressive given the circumstances. Can see him as a 10 option in future, he's bigger than Finn and has a big pass on him. The back row had a mixed game as a collective, Ireland are masters of fast then slow breakdown control and we just didn't get a proper handle on it - they have an canny knack (have done for years) of just getting in the way long enough to be a nuisance and avoid getting pinged for it. Better management of the referee from Scotland may have tidied this up, it's something Finn can usually do he is extremely intelligent and a wee smile helps the cause. Kinghorn didn't have a great one, some OK runs through but the kicking and missed tackle on Lowe (?) wasn't his finest moment. In summary, it pretty much justifies the world rankings - there are 3 teams in Ire, SA and France who are all in the mix at the top and are notably better than the next ones below them. For Scotland this needs to toughen us up, there is still plenty rugby to play this 6N. [/QUOTE]
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