Lots spoken about TV series that were cancelled too early (or not extended when they should be!) Firefly has to be at the forefront of that. But, hear me out, Space: Above and Beyond is one that ever gets mentioned and could have been huge.

Worst thing about these results is how the two worst results are the World Cup games when Townsend bad about 3 years to plan for them.

Past the emotion of battering England on Saturday, it IS fair and necessary to give Townsend credit. Whatever else you say about the man, he almost always spoils the day of Scotland's oldest rival. That's good. That's great! But it was progress years ago. Not now.

I'm immensely proud of this one Oh Flower of Scotland, you absolute beauty

Once less Scotland qualified players on the pitch then…

Please can someone tell Flatman that his name is Zander Fagerson, not Ferguson!! I mean there are other people in the comms box FFS!! (Edited 17:18 via @skeetsapp.com)

And there was me thinking that us winning our own lineout ball might be the biggest cheer we’d get all day.

Best thing about Scotland selection is going to be seeing McBeth romping over from 20 metres, on the double dummy scissors ✂️ Which is going to be forever known as... ....The Scottish Play.

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Townsend could denounce Irn Bru and he will get to next year’s World Cup unscathed

I listen to a lot of audio books. I live on my own and not a big fan of silence. But, dear God, the abuse of the Scottish accent by some of the narrators is horrific!!

Apologies, a thread. With Everitts’ extension, the thing the SRU seem to have missed, is that many of the rugby viewing public are quite knowledgable. It’s a complicated game, so to be a fan one needs to understand many facets of it. It’s not ‘just’ the results (although those are paramount). 1/6

This 👇

If only there was someone in a role who should take responsibility for that…

Little #Lifehack for you folks. When you’re packing for moving house, and carrying a box into a dark room, and find your feet bumping into something that your think is another box. Don’t kick it out the way. It may, in fact, be a TV… 🙄

This lad has faced off against SA & Ire starters in the URC, as well as Fra & Eng (Lions) in Europe. Townsend’s argument he’s too green is frankly little other than an up yours to those querying his selection . It Toonie was winning then he’s entitled to double down. But he’s not, he’s failing.

That’s an absurd YC!

Hey Bluesky contacts. I remember from back on ‘the dark place’ there was a guy who interacted about Scottish rugby, but was also a women’s ice hockey coach. You still out there or does anyone remember who it was?

This absolutely!

Edinburgh marching on as expected under their newly extended coach! 💪 SRU have been talking up the need for “consistency” in their extension of Everitt, and it’s great to see their coach obliging with that. 👍

Edinburgh’s entire attacking philosophy appears to be let the opponent punch you long enough that eventually Douglas will grab a turnover & you can hit off broken play.

Anthony Watson. England rugby hero, and England Lions legend. Yet forever better known to Scotland supporters as one of two England players Shuggy effortlessly carried ten metres on his back while scoring a try. 🤣

Luckily, Edinburgh supporters can look forward to two more years of these amazing coaching decisions.

To be fair, that penalty against Tom Dodd was dreadful. FB kicks the ball, Dodd stands still and turns his back, FB runs right into him. Penalty!? The lead directly to Bath’s try. Very poor decision.

Glad the SRU locked Everitt in for 2 more seasons just as the best club coach in the world becomes available.

Congratulations Edinburgh!! Your prize is a contract extension for Sean Everitt!!! Go mediocrity!! 🥳

Darcy Graham looks absolutely fed up. We can’t have one of the best wingers in Scotland feeling like that. He either needs to get TF out of Edinburgh or they need to get a coach with a game plan where the strategy can count higher than 12…

So Everitt brings on schoeman and Ashman after only 30 minutes. Glad he’s so confident in his first picks…

Come on Edinburgh! 2 in a row! We know you can do it…😬

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@edinbru.bsky.social Any idea of Lang has played at 10 for Edinburgh before? I honestly can’t recall, but that could easily be a memory thing as anything else!

Rugby Union refs: If Cammy Scott had simply let the kick clock run down with the clock in the red, would it have been game over or would it have been a penalty to Benetton?

OK folks. Help me out. I’m a huge fan of languages in all their forms and I’ve always felt in the languages I l;read that pronunciation is everything. And I know I’m being more than a wee bit picky but…. It’s Auld Lang Syne… Not Old lang Zine… Not difficult you would think…

Seems the lunatics very nearly took over the asylum tonight. Rescued my @scrumchampion.bsky.social Available on all your Podcast outlets. https://www.youtube.com/live/CxCm4lThQ0s?si=wtZYKo318_maB02L

Throwing this out to Scottish Bluesky. Was chatting to a friend today about family oddities at Christmas. I remembered that my gran always called pigs in blankets ‘kilted sausages’ and always did 2 sausages wrapped with a slice of bacon. Anyone else know of this or just an odd McLeod family thing?

Just caught up on the Munster v Leinster game. No skin in the game at all but, dear God, I wish the Scottish Derby game had anything like that fire about it.

So no interview with Sean Everitt after that match then. His excuses google search clearly drew a blank.

Everitt in the coaching booth frantically googling “excuses for persistent failure”.

How fecking deep are Edinburgh standing in attack!!? Had the ball in open play on the Glasgow 10m line. It’s gets put through about 3 sets of hands and Darcy gets it inside his own half! Absolute schoolboy attacking shape.

Jamie Dobie is having an absolutely incredible game.

George Horne, the wind-up merchant’s wind-up merchant, being wound up by Liam McConnell is great to see from a Scotland point of view.

Perpignan finally won a game! "Carried by an immense Jamie Ritchie" with a "captain's performance"! Made up for him

I would need to watch the game back to be sure, but I can’t recall a single Edinburgh attack where they worked to get the ball to the back 3. Darcy came in field looking for work and Duhan chased kicks, but not sure either of them were on the end of a deliberate structure…

Your regular reminder that Duhan Van Der Merwe is now 30 years old. He first capped for Scotland back in 2020. With 50 Caps already to his name, and surely more to come, any individual still rolling out the, ‘That’s a Scottish sounding accent’ needs a swift kick in the Davinas.

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I hope Antoine Dupont sobs his eyes out all the way home knowing be’ll never been Jamie Dobie

Are Glasgow simply becoming the team that won’t go away? 14-0 down against Sale Sharks, then 21-0 down against Toulouse. And still managed to drag out wins… Speaks volumes about how this team works as a unit.

WHAT THE FUCK JUST HAPPENED?!?

Great point from Ryan Wilson (I don’t say that often!). That was a full noise Toulouse team, who went 21-0 up. And Glasgow had the talent and the stones to beat it… Awesome job.

That Munster try looked like a double movement to me. Surprised they didn’t look at it…