Abusing or threatening a rugby referee is always wrong. Criticising them when they make mistakes is the way you drive standards.
Nic Berry and his TMO presided over a decision making that resulted in no points being awarded when a try was scored. That should be criticised.
@Mike_Fabricant
1) Irrelevant - lots of people have colleagues;
2) Irrelevant - open air gatherings, even with colleagues, were illegal;
3) Irrelevant - see 2
4) Irrelevant - lots of people work hard
Basically this is an admission of guilt, with a defence of ‘but we’re special’. You aren’t. 1/2
There are people on this planet who will disagree that Russell and Van der Merwe are welded-on starters for the Lions. It’s rugby’s flat-earther syndrome.
The amount of misplaced rage at Scotland is hilarious.
They’re a rugby team in a rugby tournament, who criticised the organisers for refusing to reschedule a rugby match.
The idea that NZ, England, Wales and the others wouldn’t have acted the same way is laughable.
#RWC2019
@Femi_Sorry
OMG You're so right. It's like when the Queen says she doesn't get involved in government financial policy when *her face is on all the money*.
Just reliving this. The unexpected joy of watching without the commentary is being able to hear someone (I think Farrell) shout “OHHH Foookin’ HELL!” during Duhan’s initial line break.
A couple thoughts on
#WALvSCO
:
1. We won. By a point, and it was closer than it should have been, but we won. If we’d beaten Wales by 1 in 2021, instead of losing by 1, we’d have won the Six Nations that year.
It’s how you play in the other four games that matters far more.
@paulhutcheon
Do the Scottish Government actually do anything? I hate to be cynical, but it just seems like an endless stream of announcements of policies that never actually go anywhere.
@garwboy
The one I’m getting right now is about my wedding: “All you have to do is turn up! Har har har!”
Ummm, no. I’m helping with organisation because I can’t wait to marry my best friend. I can have opinions about flowers, food, first dances and hymns, and still be a man.
The Blair Kinghorn contract negotiations with Edinburgh apparently fell apart last week, when his agent said, “he wants Toulouse” and the Edinburgh management thought, “so why’s he leaving?”
@Mike_Fabricant
Worse, the Government can’t seem to grasp the fundamental point: the vast majority of people complied, not through fear of enforcement, but from a sense of common endeavour.
If they’d known what the government was doing, they would not have complied and more would have died. 2/2
@ArtyBagger
When we lived the the US, my dad ripped up half the garden for a vegetable patch. I’m pretty sure our neighbours thought he was a communist.
The way Russell, Redpath and Tuipulotu have played this weekend, Scotland's midfield is the rugby equivalent of a stag weekend in Monaco. Bloody fun and oh so classy.
#BATvR92
@PhillipsPOBrien
It’s looking more and more that the Russians saw Bakhmut as a chance to draw Ukraine into a Verdun, not realising they were themselves being being Ver-done.
@twlldun
It could be, but if it is, my five year old nephew is going to absolutely destroy the Fringe with his joke about a lack of painkillers in the jungle.
@btsportrugby
Welsh is a former junior boxing champion, and I’m pretty sure he’d be a handy heavyweight these days. Genge would do well not to start something with this particular Glaswegian.
I’m just so tired of Joe Marler and his bullshit. Yes he’s a ‘character’, but as with characters at work or at home, what that usually means is ‘someone you have to apologise for’. It’s misstep-scandal-apology, repeat ad infinitum, but it’s all just ‘bants’ to the idiots.
With everyone now googling ‘Finn Russell pregnant’ to find out how far along his partner is, it’s going to be another normal day in Scottish rugby Twitter.
@SixNationsRugby
If it was 2017-era Itoje there might be a conversation to be had, but on current form it’s Etzebeth and about a dozen other locks ahead of Maro.
@bigbenn1e
@afneil
Ah ok, so can you tell me which of the Copenhagen Criteria Scotland complies with, or which would mysteriously cease to apply if Scotland become independent?
There’s a good chap.
@lionsofficial
@Springboks
Great team. The only thing I can really disagree with Curry ahead of Watson (just don’t see the Curry hype), but granted the idea of Watson, Beirne and Sutherland blasting onto the pitch with 20 to go is pretty exciting.
Ref: "OK, so I'm got a clear shotgun blast to the face of the Glasgow player by 8 red."
Ben Whitehouse: "Let me first show you the opening 30 minutes of Dune: Part 2."
#LIOvGLA
@GerardAraud
Ah, that will be news to my great-grandfather, a non-commisoned officer in the 51st Highland Division who fought on, was captered at St. Valery, and was a prisoner of the Germans for the next five years.
So I guess that didn't happen?
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Leinster Rugby can confirm the signing of Jordie Barrett, on a short-term deal next season.
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@ExeterChiefs
@ugomonye
You still play the Tomahawk Chop on loudspeakers at your stadium. Don’t expect to be taken seriously when it comes to standing up to racism. You promote and perpetrate it, and your fans follow suit.
While Duhan is amazing, outstanding, mesmeric, there will always be a demographic of Scottish rugby fans (including myself) who will always think of him as ‘the other van der Merwe’.
#DTH4Life
#WarriorNation
The highlight of this trip to Rome is the restaurant I’m sat in, gobbling spaghetti carbonara, as table after table of Scotland fans form a collective Mensa conference to work out the bonus point situation after that England win.
#ITAvSCO
#ENGvIRE
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The truth of course is that there’s no such thing as
#rugbyvalues
. That died when we lionised Neil Back for cheating, when Richards wasn’t banned for life after Bloodgate, when Exeter Chiefs’ culture was called ‘wholesome’ instead of ‘massively racist’.
Rugby’s just a sport now.
This would never have happened if
@GarthMDarkplace
had got its second season. Dagg and Sanch really steered me back into the straight and narrow, but I worry for the younger kids who missed out.
@brianmoore666
Thanks for many years of excellent commentary, analysis and passion.
I hope the highest praise a non-English supporter can give is to start watching a game and think “oh good, Brian Moore’s on”. I’ve felt that many times.
3. Ben O’Keefe largely got the big calls right, but he clearly gets swayed by a narrative. Scotland are dominant, then Wales are indisciplined; Wales are resurgent, so Scotland are basically Idi Amin at the breakdown. 12 straight penalties against Scotland simply isn’t credible.
@ScotRugbyBlog
No. I know I should be, but I’m genuinely not. I’m tired of this; we’re better than them and we should beat them. So rather than all the self-doubt, let’s do that instead.
@CNDuk
@STWuk
Excellent work! So presumably you’re demanding:
1) All Russian troops leave Ukraine immediately;
2) Any Russians too far from the border to surrender arms immediately; and
3) An international commission to establish reparations to be paid by Russia, payable in USD.
@RugbyInsideLine
This is really simple: Price passes the ball backwards *relative to himself*, and because he’s running forwards, the ball still travels forward. The try was good.
This stuff really shouldn’t have to be explained to you.
@premrugby
“We use hashtags like
#RugbyAgainstRacism
to promote our brand to sponsors, but when we’re faced with actual racism from a top English team and its fans, we do nothing.” 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩
@joshgardner
the wording of the proposed self-identification amendments to the GRA. I want a clear structure and the proposed law isn’t at all clear. Does that make me a transphobe? I really really hope not. 2/2
@SunScotNational
@ScotNational
Hang on, the SNP has existed for 86 years and they’re only now setting up an independence task force?
It’s almost like this will make no difference...
Well done to
@ExeterChiefs
for bringing their branding into the 21st century. Absolutely the right decision.
It’s important to be magnanimous at moments like this, but a word (many, in fact) has to be said for the fine folks at
@ExChiefs4Change
. Well done! This is YOUR victory.
@ScotGovFM
@HumzaYousaf
@scotgov
‘Air disaster’ implies some kind of accident, maybe a mechanical failure, bad weather or simply bad luck.
What we all know, and for some reason you can’t say, is this was the single most deadly terrorist attack in British history. This was the cold-blooded murder of 270 people.