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Going backwards
Last week we handed out our Team FAIL gongs. Now, we present the Individual awards. Step forward the weak-willed, the constantly injured, the thuggish and the just plain useless. On a fairly disastrous...
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World Cup Preview: Scotland
Group B Opposition: Argentina, England, Georgia, Romania Pedigree: Perennial quarter-finalists, never once failing to make the last eight. In 1991, they went one better, and were a Gavin Hastings...
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RWC: Anthemwatch
With Egg and Mini Egg having sat through multiple anthems (and enjoyed some of them), it got us thinking – if the match ended after the music stopped (and, mercifully, before the Haki (plural) begin),...
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Dwarf throwing, Retirements, Eye-Gouges and Fudged Drop Goals: We rate your...
We’ve pored over Ireland’s exit in some detail. Here’s a run through the other nations who’ll have fancied their chances to do well. Scotland: Failed to Qualify from GroupPoor wee Scotland. Pipped by...
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The Corpse is Twitching
Scottish rugby has been the sick man of Europe for the last few years. The dismal Six Nations results, the awful rugger, the demise of the Borders, the piddling attendances and the lack of playing...
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Six Nations: Match Previews
After all the drama surrounding team selections, squad announcements and even refereeing appointments, the small matter of the actual games of Six Nations rugby take place this weekend. We’re looking...
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Six Nations Week 1: Wayne (Barnes)’s World
Week 1 has passed, and nothing really has changed. France are still great, England are still rubbish, Ireland still have no gameplan, Scotland can’t score tries, Wales are quite useful and Italy don’t...
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The Cup, the Plate and the Bowl
A non-vintage Six Nations campaign is heading for a straightforward blitz-tournmanent style finale. In the last week, Wales and France will meet to decide the championship winners (The Cup). England...
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Lions Post #3: Our Friends in the North
Given the rather protracted downturn in fortunes of the Scottish rugger team, in the last two Lions squads Jocks have been pretty thin on the ground. In 2005, of the 51 players who went out at any...
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