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Horne can be very proud of his career.

Nice player to watch but unfortunately some criminally under rated him. Great club player and decent international.

Mikey Brown wrote:Good luck to him. Always great to watch. Occasionally frustrating, yes, but a brilliant skillset and had some fantastic moments for both Scotland and Glasgow.

Remember watching one of his first games when he played fullback. He was horrendous, all over the place positionally and dropped numerous high balls. I think he was subbed off in the first hakf. But he was back a few weeks later at inside centre and was great. He was able to put mistakes and bad performances behind him and always displayed really strong resilience, which I think is what I liked most about him.

switchskier wrote:Remember watching one of his first games when he played fullback. He was horrendous, all over the place positionally and dropped numerous high balls. I think he was subbed off in the first hakf. But he was back a few weeks later at inside centre and was great. He was able to put mistakes and bad performances behind him and always displayed really strong resilience, which I think is what I liked most about him.

That was Lineen who was determined to make him the full back to replace Stortoni, who had started (and finished) just about every game for years. It was shit wet night with a gale blowing all over the shop. It could have killed his career stone dead, and I've never forgiven Lineen for that. I remember watching Horne for the U20s and that was a joy to see
Luckily for Glasgow, Lineen and Horne, it wasn't too long before they found a replacement for the irreplaceable Stortoni. Some kid called Hogg turned up

Horne was always an awesome player. Another underrated player who just got on with the day job

Looks like it could be a fun game tonight. Some interesting weather. Expecting a few bombs to be landed on Hogg.

I used to love training/ playing in weather like this.

that was a performance. Bullied Exeter, There, I said that, and its true

Very good performance.

That was great. Every time Exeter looked to come back into the game, Glasgow just increased the pressure.

Glasgow can be hard done by the fog. A performance that good should have been rewarded with more trys. Also brace forgetting that 16 penalties needs a yellow or two.

Yeah as Scottish as the weather seemed, Exeter are surely one of the worst teams to face in those conditions with their tight, grind game.

Only saw the highlights but the physicality was impressive. Some massive collisions all over the pitch.

I guess Glasgow rotate a fair bit anyway but will be interesting to see how much time Wilson, Fagerson and Dempsey get, and in what configuration. I really like Matt Fagerson but there’s still that nagging feeling he can’t do it all on his own as a carrier in the Scotland backrow. Seeing him alongside someone like Dempsey is interesting.

Anyone watching? Is Darge already demanding to start for scotland ahead of Watson? He looks a class above ar this level already and just powerful and quick?

Like the radio description of Turner as "that lunatic off the back of the maul".

Ha. I didn't catch that but it's very appropriate.

Darge is certainly a similar ball of energy to Watson.

switchskier wrote:Anyone watching? Is Darge already demanding to start for scotland ahead of Watson? He looks a class above ar this level already and just powerful and quick?

he should be. He is a force of nature, nothing he can't do. And Watson was anonymous today, again

It is getting close. Would imagine Townsend will stick with Watson at least to begin with.

Players who "have the jersey", especially those that have had it for a while tend to be given a bit of leeway in club performances. Watson needs to get up to speed quickly though.

Neither of them are nearly as good as the peak Glasgow team but would it be fair to say that, taken together, the pro teams might be in as good a position as they have ever been?

Cameo wrote:Neither of them are nearly as good as the peak Glasgow team but would it be fair to say that, taken together, the pro teams might be in as good a position as they have ever been?

Glasgow as you say not as good as peak Glasgow, but building, more to come I think
Edinburgh look in a good place, a better one than the last 15 seasons anyway. But they are also still building and in the league he fixtures so far have been kind to them - don't think they have played an Irish side yet, so still early to judge

switchskier wrote:Anyone watching? Is Darge already demanding to start for scotland ahead of Watson? He looks a class above ar this level already and just powerful and quick?

Like the radio description of Turner as "that lunatic off the back of the maul".

Darge was great. Would like to see him given serious minutes in the 6N. Not anything against Watson, I would just be keen to see how he goes!

General Zod wrote:

switchskier wrote:Anyone watching? Is Darge already demanding to start for scotland ahead of Watson? He looks a class above ar this level already and just powerful and quick?

Like the radio description of Turner as "that lunatic off the back of the maul".

Darge was great. Would like to see him given serious minutes in the 6N. Not anything against Watson, I would just be keen to see how he goes!

Tricky thing though is whether you want a specialist 7 on the bench - especially as Ritchie can play there too.

Putting it here as a particular Glasgow connection but thought you lot might be interested in the latest scrumv podcast with Finn Russell and Danny Wilson as guests:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0bgm37c

Annoying game that. Played pretty well for sixty iah minutes then completely collapsed. They might point at Poite for a couple of things but you can't just implode.

Darge great again and the two Fagersons were very good. Just such a waste of a good position.

Poite poited it, but exeter adapted and Glasgow didn’t. Last 20 was headless chicken stupidity

Cameo wrote:Annoying game that. Played pretty well for sixty iah minutes then completely collapsed. They might point at Poite for a couple of things but you can't just implode.

Darge great again and the two Fagersons were very good. Just such a waste of a good position.

yep. Poite was very odd yesterday. He allowed 3 Exeter jackals when their player clearly put hands on ground beofre getting near the ball - pen should be other way. Also I though Glasgow had 3 clear turnover pens not awarded, very very inconsistent reffing. Then in the scrums, Glasgow had the upper hand but he changed tack and rewarded their LH for driving in and up having earlier warned him about his earlier hits and push (and didn't really deal with the apology of TH they started who couldnae push his grannie aff a bus and kept taking a knee).

All these change the pattern of the game - a pen one way rather than the other is a 60m shift in field position, at least.

However those last 30mins were simply inexcusable. Poite may have been weird or just wrong but he was still on the aprk, Glasgow were all at sea. Simply all at sea, no structure and the usual headless stuff from Horne. And I doubt Forbes, who was promising last season will see much game time for a while unless its needs must during the 6N and we have to play the postponed games

septic 9 wrote:

Cameo wrote:Annoying game that. Played pretty well for sixty iah minutes then completely collapsed. They might point at Poite for a couple of things but you can't just implode.

Darge great again and the two Fagersons were very good. Just such a waste of a good position.

yep. Poite was very odd yesterday. He allowed 3 Exeter jackals when their player clearly put hands on ground beofre getting near the ball - pen should be other way. Also I though Glasgow had 3 clear turnover pens not awarded, very very inconsistent reffing. Then in the scrums, Glasgow had the upper hand but he changed tack and rewarded their LH for driving in and up having earlier warned him about his earlier hits and push (and didn't really deal with the apology of TH they started who couldnae push his grannie aff a bus and kept taking a knee).

All these change the pattern of the game - a pen one way rather than the other is a 60m shift in field position, at least.

However those last 30mins were simply inexcusable. Poite may have been weird or just wrong but he was still on the aprk, Glasgow were all at sea. Simply all at sea, no structure and the usual headless stuff from Horne. And I doubt Forbes, who was promising last season will see much game time for a while unless its needs must during the 6N and we have to play the postponed games

Yeah Forbes seems to have lost some of his initial spark and confidence.

Not quite sure where McLean has gone too. Hasn't played for ages but wasn't listed as unavailable. Maybe some Covid after effects?

Brains just turned to shit as soon as they entered the 22.