The Glasgow Carpet Burns and Cary Grant Appreciation Thread

[Chunks Baws]

Toony taking his backroom with him and JOH and Fatty are joining Glasgow

[hugh_woatmeigh]

Toony taking his backroom with him and JOH and Fatty are joining Glasgow

Rennie not getting a say?

[hp18]

Toony taking his backroom with him and JOH and Fatty are joining Glasgow

Rennie not getting a say?

What makes you say that?

[hugh_woatmeigh]

Toony taking his backroom with him and JOH and Fatty are joining Glasgow

Rennie not getting a say?

What makes you say that?

Why would he choose Jonathan Humphreys?

[Mikey Brown]

I've got to say I was as unimpressed with Earls' behaviour as anyone, and I think he is a bit of a twat, but I totally get that it was a heated encounter and he seems to have apologised. Good on him.

I think a red card was quite a big (deserved) punishment and it certainly wasn't as bad as Tomuua's in terms of the sanction it should have got.

[Big D]

Really not sure what Taylor has done with Scotland to justify being kept on. Scotland's defence has been consistently poor under him. Not too sure about MacFarlane being promoted either. I think it would have been a good idea to bring in someone new to work with Toony.

What is happening to Kenny Murray?

[Big D]

JOH could be a good fit for Glasgow and has coached with Rennie before. Not sure how much of Scotlands attacking patterns he was responsible for in the 6N but the game plan was clear.

[Mikey Brown]

I remember a time Scotland were just 'actually kind of okay at defending, at least in comparison to their complete inability to attack'.

There does seem to have been a massive regression in defence in tandem with a gradual development of (what could be a pretty good) an attacking game. Is it coincidence or is just that we've got a mong in charge of defence at the same time as we finally develop a bunch of threatening attacking players?

Bear in mind I seem incapable of keeping track of who the backroom staff are. I might be chatting balls, but it seems like we were better defenders with a pile of shite team 10 years ago.

[hp18]

Rennie not getting a say?

What makes you say that?

Why would he choose Jonathan Humphreys?

Haven't the foggiest. However iirc Humphries is OOC end of season, there's no need to find a space to save severance pay. Secondly Rennie won't have been short on offers up north, and we sure as shit ain't going to be the best paying option. Why would he join a team where he'd be (relativity) underpaid and have undesirable staff forced upon him?

[hp18]

I remember a time Scotland were just 'actually kind of okay at defending, at least in comparison to their complete inability to attack'.

There does seem to have been a massive regression in defence in tandem with a gradual development of (what could be a pretty good) an attacking game. Is it coincidence or is just that we've got a mong in charge of defence at the same time as we finally develop a bunch of threatening attacking players?

Bear in mind I seem incapable of keeping track of who the backroom staff are. I might be chatting balls, but it seems like we were better defenders with a pile of shite team 10 years ago.

Back when the kiwis would put 60 on us at Murrayfield?

[Adder]

Back when the kiwis would put 60 on us at Murrayfield?

Now that has actually never happened ... I'm surprised! Must be because we are always facing a B/C team.
It's been a very long time since we have we have played them Down Under. Would really like to see what a full, injury-free Scotland
do against the top all Blacks team (although I do not expect much).

15 November 2014 Murrayfield, Edinburgh 16 – 24 New Zealand 2014 Autumn International
11 November 2012 Murrayfield, Edinburgh 22 – 51 New Zealand 2012 Autumn International
13 November 2010 Murrayfield, Edinburgh 3 – 49 New Zealand 2010 end of year rugby tests
8 November 2008 Murrayfield, Edinburgh 6 – 32 New Zealand 2008 end of year rugby tests
23 September 2007 Murrayfield, Edinburgh 0 – 40 New Zealand 2007 Rugby World Cup Pool Match
26 November 2005 Murrayfield, Edinburgh 10 – 29 New Zealand 2005 end of year rugby union tests
24 November 2001 Murrayfield, Edinburgh 6 – 37 New Zealand
1 July 2000 Eden Park, Auckland 48 – 14 New Zealand 2000 Scotland rugby union tour of New Zealand
24 June 2000 Carisbrook, Dunedin 69 – 20 New Zealand
24 October 1999 Murrayfield, Edinburgh 18 – 30 New Zealand 1999 Rugby World Cup Quarter Final
22 June 1996 Eden Park, Auckland 36 – 12 New Zealand 1996 Scotland rugby union tour of New Zealand
15 June 1996 Carisbrook, Dunedin 62 – 31 New Zealand
11 June 1995 Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria, South Africa 48 – 30 New Zealand 1995 Rugby World Cup Quarter Final
20 November 1993 Murrayfield, Edinburgh 15 – 51 New Zealand 1993 New Zealand tour of Britain
30 October 1991 National Stadium, Cardiff 13 – 6 New Zealand 1991 Rugby World Cup Third Place Match
23 June 1990 Eden Park, Auckland 21 – 18 New Zealand 1990 Scotland rugby union tour of New Zealand

I will now stop Hijacking this thread

[hp18]

Fair call. Think I'm mashing g up the time they ended it early with the micker getting pumped in enzed.

[Adder]

Fair call. Think I'm mashing g up the time they ended it early with the micker getting pumped in enzed.

It looks a lot better than what I expected too. During this time, we have only played half the amount of games France has played against NZ.

[hugh_woatmeigh]

Malcolm in for Flynn. Very Scottish squad.

[hugh_woatmeigh]

Superb from Hogg. Any of those 4 lads could have scored it. Treviso are gash.

[hugh_woatmeigh]

Actually that's quite a blunder... I take it back.

[hugh_woatmeigh]

Wow... that is actually shocking. He was under no pressure and dived about a metre too early. Still a brilliant kick though.

[Mikey Brown]

Ha. I thought that looked a bit suspect. Great skill to get there but what a waste.

[Chunks Baws]

Shocking act of fuddery from Hogg. Why dive so early?

[Matt Ha]

Clanger from Hogg but great play to get in the position

[OptimisticJock]

Lovely try

[hugh_woatmeigh]

All to easy though. Time to seriously think about kicking Zebre and Treviso out or limiting the Italians to a single team.

[hugh_woatmeigh]

Complete waste of really, really valuable possession from Finn. A lot can change in the remaining 65 mins... no point doing that unless you've got an advantage.

[Mikey Brown]

The chip? I thought he did it perfectly but it was just very well read.

[OptimisticJock]

What a waste