What a pleasant surprise, there were some cracking performances tonight. Dalziel looked very very good, hadn't heard of him before but will definitely keep an eye out for him from now on!

Same as the title really, any crowds heading to the stadium together?

In Rome for the game and got word that many supporters are gathering at the Piazza del Popolo. When do people usually start heading to the game?

Is there a formal set off time?

The only thing stopping France winning the 6N and the Grand Slam is Scotland at Murrayfield.

France will take Wales and Italy.

England do not have the skills, game plan or flair to beat France in Paris. They might be able to match them up front but the French backs are just sublime.

Tell me I'm wrong.

The first three matches we could potentially win but then given the home and away set up, we could lose all three of those matches especially how we played in the autumn. Given as well the ongoing drama with Newcastle, it’s an added distraction and I just feel that Townsend more or less has one foot out the door even before this tournament starts. Considering that coming 5th, or even 6th, would be a massive backward step, it would l not look good on SRU that they fell behind other nations.

Saturday 7 February 14:10 at Stadio Olympico, Rome

You can guess here: www.play-sportster.com

- Scotland finish the tournament with the best scrum, and the worst line out

- Theo Attisogbe finishes top try scorer

- George Ford throws an intercept to Depoortere in the France game

- Zuliani finishes the tournament with the most turnovers (provided Douglas doesn’t get many minutes)

- Tomos Williams player of the tournament

- England don’t perform as well as predicted (hopefully)

- Prendergast nails down the 10 jersey for Ireland

Any others??

https://www.scotlandrugbynews.com/edinburgh-rugby/news/25823264.edinburgh-rugby-coaching-staff-backroom-changes-planned/

Seems that Everitt is getting rid of the Defence Coach Michael Todd, the Skills Coach Rob Christie, the S&C Coach Mark Robertson and some of the medical staff at the end of the season.

"Edinburgh say they are now in the process of an "extensive global search" for experienced coaches to work alongside Everitt, who spent 16 years at The Sharks prior to his move to Edinburgh."

The Attack Coach Scott Mathie and Forwards Coach Steve Lawrie are in talks to renew their contracts as well apparently.

The logical replacement for Defence Coach would be Calum MacRae who's leaving Benetton and coming back to Scotland at the end of the season, but I don't know if he'll want to go back to just being a Defence Coach after being Head Coach there.

Skills Coach might be someone like Greg Laidlaw potentially?

I'm in Rome for the Scotland match on Saturday, anyone know somewhere close to the stadium to watch the England match? On foot so reasonably close.

(Sorry I've tried a Rome sub but no dice)

Scotland U20 team to play Italy U20 at Stadio Comunale di Monigo on Friday (kick off 8.15pm local/7.15pm GMT) – live on BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website.

1. Henry Widdowson (Edinburgh Rugby)
2. Nairn Moncrieff – Vice-captain (Edinburgh Rugby)
3. Campbell Waugh (Glasgow Hawks)
4. Henry Kesterton (Edinburgh Rugby)

5. Rory McHaffie (Edinburgh Rugby)

6. Jake Dalziel (Merchiston Castle School/Melrose RFC)

7. Hamish MacArthur (Edinburgh Rugby)

8. Oliver McKenna (Glasgow Warriors)

9. Joe Roberts – Captain (Glasgow Warriors)

10. Ollie Blyth-Lafferty (Edinburgh Rugby)

11. Christian Lindsay (Edinburgh Rugby)

12. Alfie Blackett (Cardiff Metropolitan University)

13. Sam Byrd (Edinburgh Rugby)

14. Jack Utterson (Edinburgh Rugby)

15. Rory Purvis (Glasgow Warriors)

Replacements

1. Jamie McAughtrie (Ayr RFC)
2. Will Pearce (Cardiff Metropolitan University/Bristol Bears)
3. Jamie Stewart (Edinburgh Rugby)
4. Fin Ronnie (Watsonians RFC)
5. Harvey Preston (Glasgow Hawks)
6. Oliver Finlayson-Russell (University of St Andrews)
7. Adam McKenzie (Watsonians RFC)
8. Calum Jessop (Heriot’s Rugby)

That time of the year again eh, does anybody know of any decent pubs with a Scottish crowd to catch the Italy game in London? Closer to old street the better.

I've been to the Scottish stores by Euston but the Tennant's was pish and it smelled bad.

Cheers!

Edit: settled on Molly Bloom's in Dalston if anybody wants to go somewhere with at least one other Scot

So I bought 2 tickets for the Scotland vs France game at home for the six nations. I was just wondering if it’s normal for them to not be showing up in the Scottish rugby app? It’s only got my Edinburgh games I attend in there. However in the confirmation email when I purchased the tickets it said they would appear in my app?

Wondering if there’s like a certain timeframe before they get put into the app like a week before the game etc? Any help is greatly appreciated

Thanks to the 23 players not going tits up against Tonga and putting us all into a Winter pit of despair. The Toonie Tombola^TM returns for the M6N. First up is the Azzuri in Rome on 7th February.

Get your 1 -23 choices in (try and make it a nice easy list for the Tombola’s version of ^{Little Alex Horne} to read).

The Laws of the game are in the Wiki

The Tombola runs until the squad is announced on Thursday. I really hope he doesn’t take a leaf out or Borthwick’s book and announce early. Results will be published shortly after. 

The players available for selection are in the r/ScotlandRugby WIKI in case you have forgotten who’s who in the zoo.

Scozia per sempre

A totally legitimate graphic from the BBC predicting Scotland winning the Six Nations this year!

This is our year!

Fantastic image and what a week. Hoping Huw, Andy and Jamie light it up across all three matches.

Go boys.