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kevin04 · Standing in a Council Ward Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 462

On to tomorrow and France.

Nice to see the Evans' Brothers given a go, alongside Stroksch being brought in. I'd rather have seen Paterson in Danielli's position but we'll see how it goes, if we can keep it under 10, It's probably a decent result for us. Shocked

Hope you lads win tomorrow Cymro, hope you win the tournament in fact. Excellent squad, you have there.
Whatever happened to Aled Frew?from the wee glimpses that I seen of him, I always thought he looked like a real gem of player and surprised not to see him push on from a few years ago.

I'm considering coming down next year for the Wales game, My pal's stag party is on the 14th of March (Sco-Ire) and I cannot make it back as I'm abroad working but I said that I'd treat him to a tic for one game next year and fancying Wales.
Is it quite hard/difficult to get tickets for this game?
Thanks in advance,

Cymro · Getting on a bit! Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 1645

Nah, shouldn't be too difficut for you to get tickets if you go after them in enough time. It was sold out on the day last year, but had I bothered my arse to get them earlier I would have been able to get them fairly easy. Best option though is to join a rugby club. The membership subs are usualy only something like £30 a year and gives you a better chance.

I'm nervous about today's match, before the tournament I was actually more worried about the Scotland match, but not on the day, all the talk having been during the week of Wales being favourites is making this match high risk now. Not too worried that loosing Shane Williams is going to punish us as while he's a fantastic player and can make something of nothing, there is more than enough strength in the squad to make up for that and go for good old fashioned brute force as well as flair, but the potential of an upset is high.

Alasdair · Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2009 8:32 am Post subject:

I had a dream about the Scotland game last night, the scotland were down by a point in the dying minutes of the game when in an unexpected move Hadden asked me if I could play, I went on and scored two tries winning the game by a huge margin ... a preminition perhaps? The win, not me playing Rolling Eyes

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kevin04 · Standing in a Council Ward Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 462

Cheers Cymro for the info, my pal (the one who's getting married) is a member of a rugby club and plays for them. I never actually thought of asking him about tic's for Cardiff Embarassed

Will let you know if we make it down next year.

As for the game today;
A much improved performance from the Scots and we played decent in spells but again too many very basic errors including the usual knock on's or silly penalties.
We have 'potential' to be a decent team.
Some of Hadden's decision making is questionable to say the least, but I would give him the rest of the Championship to see how we get on. Some folk are on about firing him, but I don't know if that's the answer just yet, we played some decent stuff in the Autumn and today at times but if we could cut out the mistakes and sloppy passing. We could certainly become a decent side.

We need to go out against Italy in 2weeks similar to the game today. They are an improving side as we will know (the amount of times we've lost to them) but in front of Murrayfield, give the fans something to shout about before we take on the Irish the week after.

Thought the Wales-England game was a great match to watch at times, the free flowing rugby that I've not seen for a long time as a Scotland fan. Wales were deserved winners.

Wales-Ireland is looking very appealing on the last day now...

Reluctant Hero · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 10:16 pm Post subject:

Yeah, Scotland result was quite disappointing although some good play in bits.

Cymro must be pleased about the Wales result though Very Happy

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Alasdair · Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 7:58 am Post subject:

Finally! A win for Scotland, Ok, it was against Italy but the two tries showed good flair and handling, despite a number of earlier handling fluffs. Should've been three tries really, but c'est la vie.

Frank Hadden must be relieved though!
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Cymro · Getting on a bit! Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 1645

Gutted by the Wales result on Friday night. At the beginning of the tournament I believed we had a great chance of retaining the 6 Nations but would loose one match (probably against Scotland or England) thus not getting our first back to back Grand Slam for a century, but I thought we had a great chance of beating the French as we have a great record against them in recent time at the Parc de France. As we went on to beat Scotland and then England the level of expectation rises and I believed we'd be looking at a winner takes all situation at the Wales vs Ireland closing match.

Great result for Scotland yesterday. I had a good feeling you'd win convincingly after the good performance vs France. The ability is there, it just seemed that the belief in the ability wasn't there for the 1st two matches resulting in just getting the basics wrong. I can see Scotland going on to win a second match too against England.

It's also worth noting that England this season have been responsible for the 2 more awful, boring matches in the RBS 2009 6 Nations - the first match against Italy and lastnight against Ireland. I enjoy the 6 Nations, I watch all the matches but yesterday I was bored to tears and spent the time playing Super Mario Bros on the Nintendo DS instead!

kevin04 · Standing in a Council Ward Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 462

On to tomorrow, and I am feeling reasonably optimistic but maybe should wait until tomorrow night but I even stuck a few quid on us to win tomorrow.
We have been quite unlucky in the past 2 seasons against the Irish and although we are making tons of silly mistakes, I fancy us tomorrow but see how it pans out come 8pm and the game is over.

Alasdair · Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 9:13 am Post subject:

Personally i always go into these games thinking "we're going to get humped", anything more than that is a bonus ... stops me becoming depressed should we lose Smile

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kevin04 · Standing in a Council Ward Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 462

Oh well, my pre-match optimism.... Confused

Again, we played alright in spells. First half we were excellent but too many errors second half as per along with Ireland really digging in. Saying all that, Ireland deserved their win going by their 2nd half performance.

Next week should be very interesting, our best chance to win at Twickenham in a long time and if England lose tomorrow an added incentive to finish above them.

Alasdair · Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 8:17 am Post subject:

First half was excellent (for scotland!) and there were a couple of moments where something could hav come of it, disapponting in the end, but not particularly surprising.
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Reluctant Hero · Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 10:46 pm Post subject:

Big match tomorrow.

Could be Hadden's swansong. What a way to go out. A win over the Auld Enemy Very Happy

Pretty sure that would be the end of the obnoxious English coach as well.

And I think there is a 50:50 chance we could pull it off.
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Alasdair · Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 6:52 am Post subject:

Rubbish, we've not won on english soil since year dot, our hay-day is long gone, and we've hardly shown any consistent form during the tournament ... accept the truth now, it'll save tears later on Wink

Of course, if we do win Hadden'll probably get a reprieve and if he doesn't ... who replaces him?!
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Scott2006 · Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 9:49 am Post subject:

Could they afford to hire Sean Lineen or employ him or someone else to do a club/country job at the same time?
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Alasdair · Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 7:21 pm Post subject:

Final Score: Why am I not surprised ... for 1:55 in the first half I thought we might have a chance!
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Cymro · Getting on a bit! Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 1645

Very dissapointed obviously by the Wales result. Thought it was a fantastic match, a true rollercoaster. Sickening that Wales ended up finishing 4th. Though saw a good article in the Western Mail which noted that had we won or came 2nd it may have hidden some of the problems which existed.

On a wider level though this was a pretty boring tournament due in no small way to the new experimental rules bought in after pressure from the Southern Hemisphere trinations sides which was supposed to encourage running rugby but ended up turning several matches into what was more like tennis as sides ended up hoofing the ball from one end to the next.

Looking forward to the 6 Nations 2010 now!

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...watched the Scotland game in a bar in Malmo with my mate; was absolutely rubbish, and it was too expensive to drown my sorrows!

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