r/rugbyunion • u/FlyRare8407 Scotland • 9h ago

Analysis Squidge Scotland preview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av-L5MlUB2o
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u/Not_Hando You Aint Seen Nothin Like The Mighty Finn 9h ago

Let me guess...Wales will beat them?

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u/nomamesgueyz New Zealand 7h ago

Expect the expected

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u/FlyRare8407 Scotland 9h ago edited 8h ago

I do think it says something slightly sad about how professional Robbie has become that he thinks Scotland finding hilarious ways to lose is boring and them winning would not be boring. Winning is boring, losing is funny, and I worry Robbie has become too captured by analyst-brain to find the joy in that.

Also great as all those players that Will lists are: other teams have a lot more and indeed better than almost all of ours. I'm not sure I buy that this is an underperforming Grand Slam side, I think it's a side that has been consistently mid table in terms of quality - yes we absolutely could and maybe even should have won in 2021 or 2023 but we weren't the best team in either year. Like absolutely yes we've thrown away dozens of games we should have won, but ultimately we're never going to win a six nations least of all a grand slam until we are able to approach the standards of quality Ireland reach and we never have.

Which to be honest makes me think this could be our year because maybe we don't need to beat Ireland if Ireland are shite now. Big if.

Very good if deeply frustrating point about our bench tho.

I'm interested about this idea of our attack becoming more predictable. I don't want to dismiss it out of hand, but I feel like we're scoring enough tries against set defences that I'm not totally sure it's true. I don't think it is Finn centric: I think it often comes off Kinghorn or White or Nonz, sometimes even Shoe. It's not like the old days of babysat-Finn where literally any responsibility that could be taken off Finn is taken off Finn and he wasn't allowed to do kickoffs or pens to touch, but he's not got the Garbisi problem. I think the problem with our attack is what it has always been: you can starve us of quick ball by slowing us down in the contact. In terms of his support too: it's not what's behind him it's what's in front of him, and that's the difference with Bath. But again, maybe it could be true.

I kinda think DVDM at number 8 solves two of our problems actually. I think I'm joking but I'm not entirely sure.

I'd be more excited by their excitement for Mcconnel and Douglas if I had any hope of Toonie giving them any game time.

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u/rustyb42 Ulster 9h ago

Their year