The Glasgow Carpet Burns and Cary Grant Appreciation Thread

[Tobylerone]

Great ambition in all departments.. Though rather scary at times..
Interesting to see how the full on N.Z. style works out against Munster..

[General Zod]

Team's oot.

But for some reason I can't put the wee picture in, so here we go...

Bhatti
Turner
Zander
Swinson
Cummings
Wilson (C)
Gibbins
Ashe

Price
Russell
Hughes
P. Horne
Grigg
Jones
Jackson

Replacements: Macarthur, Allan, Rae, Brian, Harley, Pyrgos, Johnson, Sarto

[General Zod]

Surprised Rozza made it, but pleased he did. He was playing well until his injury v Ospreys (when he dropped it, he had already been injured and was trying to play on before he got another thump).

Pity Dunbar's out. It's a pity there are a few of them out, to be fair, but if they can get something from this with several "top performers" to come back in later in the season, it would be a good win/ BP. Although the Cardiff performance wasn't the best, the attitude shown to get the W was good. As was the Welsh bloke missing the kick.

Anyway, standing legs in the crosshairs and away we go!

Edit - might have started Big Brian.

[hugh_woatmeigh]

Surprised he's kept the same tight 5.

Apparently Kebble is out long term. Weeg should be looking for a medium term replacement at LH. They were already light on numbers in the propping ranks IMO.

[Matt Ha]

Just three games into the season and that injury list is shocking.

[Wylie Coyote]

That is a pretty dismal set of outside backs IMHO.
Compare:
11. Hughes
12. P. Horne
13. Grigg
14. L. Jones
15. Jackson

To a first choice:
11. Sarto
12. Dunbar
13. H. Jones
14. Seymour
15. Hogg

and the difference is dramatic. How often we'll get to see the first choice run out is in doubt, one or two replacements you could live with but having NONE of them play makes the back three in particular look average at best. I see that Glasgow team as clear underdogs vs Munster I'm afraid. I would be delighted with a win of any kind.

[Cameo]

That is a pretty dismal set of outside backs IMHO.
Compare:
11. Hughes
12. P. Horne
13. Grigg
14. L. Jones
15. Jackson

To a first choice:
11. Sarto
12. Dunbar
13. H. Jones
14. Seymour
15. Hogg

and the difference is dramatic. How often we'll get to see the first choice run out is in doubt, one or two replacements you could live with but having NONE of them play makes the back three in particular look average at best. I see that Glasgow team as clear underdogs vs Munster I'm afraid. I would be delighted with a win of any kind.

Yeah, when you show it like that it is a pretty big step down. Relying on systems and attitude rather than individual brilliance I suppose

[Big D]

That is a pretty dismal set of outside backs IMHO.
Compare:
11. Hughes
12. P. Horne
13. Grigg
14. L. Jones
15. Jackson

To a first choice:
11. Sarto
12. Dunbar
13. H. Jones
14. Seymour
15. Hogg

and the difference is dramatic. How often we'll get to see the first choice run out is in doubt, one or two replacements you could live with but having NONE of them play makes the back three in particular look average at best. I see that Glasgow team as clear underdogs vs Munster I'm afraid. I would be delighted with a win of any kind.

Big drop off, although they could have chosen Sarto and HJones isn't their player yet. I reckon Weeg fans will be lucky if Jones plays for them before the AIs barring injuries. It is difficult to throw him straight into European cup games.

[Mikey Brown]

Has Sarto actually had a start yet? Looks to be playing well.

[switchskier]

That is a pretty dismal set of outside backs IMHO.
Compare:
11. Hughes
12. P. Horne
13. Grigg
14. L. Jones
15. Jackson

To a first choice:
11. Sarto
12. Dunbar
13. H. Jones
14. Seymour
15. Hogg

and the difference is dramatic. How often we'll get to see the first choice run out is in doubt, one or two replacements you could live with but having NONE of them play makes the back three in particular look average at best. I see that Glasgow team as clear underdogs vs Munster I'm afraid. I would be delighted with a win of any kind.

Fair enough, but looking at Munsters back line for this game I wouldn't say that they're in that much a better position. Some talent there but pretty callow in many ways. Should be a good game.

Munster: A Conway, D Sweetnam, C Farrell, R Scannell, A Wootton, T Bleyendaal (capt), D Williams; L O'Connor, R Marshall, S Archer, J Kleyn, B Holland, S O'Connor, T O'Donnell, J O'Donoghue.

Replacements: N Scannell, D Kilcoyne, J Ryan, F Wycherley, R Copeland, J Hart, J Taute, S Zebo.

[ARM]

Gotta admire Munster...

...but it's Feckin great to beat them.

[OptimisticJock]

Not a bad start

[General Zod]

Due to technical issues, I am having to follow this match here and on twitter.

Anyway, am watching Cheetahs v Leinster. Half time 19-5 Cheetahs. They like to run it down there!

[OptimisticJock]

The Weegies munster niggle continues

[OptimisticJock]

Some good handling there and good support running. Gibbins has a bit of pace. Great end to the half.

[Matt Ha]

Good to have a bit of distance on Munster now. Russel's passing is scary at times. It's great, it works but it's always knife-edge stuff.

[hugh_woatmeigh]

This is some serious arse raping from the weeg so far despite being a million miles from top form. Would love to be at Scotstoun right now

[Mikey Brown]

This sounds great. I love hating Munster.

[Big D]

Great pass off the left hand by Horne for the 3rd try.

Pretty poor effort by Turner for their try.

[hugh_woatmeigh]

Sure Turner makes a mistake here and there but what about the other contributions? Guy thinks he's keven Meleamau ... how did Edinburgh miss this fella?

[General Zod]

[OptimisticJock]

FFS

[hugh_woatmeigh]

How is D'arcy Rae butt f*cking their LH a penalty against the Weeg exactly? Nigel has always been a Munster boy.

[Matt Ha]

and Leinster get humped. Turn up for the books that

[hugh_woatmeigh]

Is this the best team in the pro12 or what? Missing half their starting XV and all.