[jhuntley93]

TIM VISSER IS SCOTTISH TODAY! wonder if scotland will start scoring tries now?

[maherro]

HEC draw for next year is out:

Pool 1
Munster
Edinburgh
Saracens
Metro

Pool 2
Toulouse
Tigers
Ospreys
Treviso

Pool 3
Biarritz
Quins
Connacht
Zebre


Pool 4
Saints
Ulster
Glasgow
Castres

Pool 5
Leinster
Clermont
Scarlets
Exeter

Pool 6
Cardiff
Toulon
Sale
Montpellier

[marcusmerehay]

Ouch, really tough draw for the Chiefs there. And Leicester's isn't much nicer.

[Angry cucumber]

I don't think we could have pulled a much harder group

(Chiefs fan )

[dews1290]

Pool 5 looks mental - just hope the scarlets can scrape through !!!

[maherro]

From an Irish view:

Clermont a-****ing-gain, some rivalry we're developing with them. Should top the group though with Clermont coming 2nd.

Ulster should defo top theirs, no excuses

Connacht might be looking at second place but the weather at the sports ground will be important!

Munsters qualification hopes depend on which version of Sarries and Racing show up

[Mufasaa]

(Original post by maherro)
Ulster should defo top theirs, no excuses

Saints will have something to say about that...


Pools 2 and 5 look fun.

[jhuntley93]

scotland beat fiji 37-25 this morning, the flying dutchman tim visser got 2 tries, laidlaw got 1 and a penalty try for the other

[pinkpenguin]

Ireland ahead vs. NZ after twenty minutes - that counts as a win lads yeah?

EDIT:

[Roobsa]

England are ****ing useless. Can't do anything right. This is going to be a very long 60 minutes. Cricket score incoming.

On another note, the Ireland and Wales games were excellent. Gutting for them to come so close, but great games nonetheless.

[Mufasaa]

This is ****. Forwards aren't getting about, defence isn't good, Flood isn't good... I'd bring Dickson and Farrell (think he's the bench FH) on for Youngs and Flood, see what happens.

One or two bright spots, scrum's not bad (other than the SA try), Joseph looks decent.

[Roobsa]

Didn't know about the scrum rule that Will Greenwood just picked up on. It's awesome when referees don't know the rules. Steve Walsh must be a popular man in SA right now.

[Mufasaa]

I honestly didn't notice it, and I'm front row player too. I had that called a bit too much when I player hooker more than prop...

[Mufasaa]

Great effort in the 2nd half, but SA were just too good in the 1st.

I'm getting annoyed at this pro-Youngs bias... "penalty taken quickly by Dickson" is "quick thinking by Youngs on that penalty", "Dickson passes..." after a run is "nice run by Youngs, he passes". Youngs 2 triies were things that should've been done by any player with those oppotunities. Dickson is as good, if not better, at every facet of the game and his passing and leadership are well beyond Youngs'.

[Idris Dragon]

(Original post by Roobsa)
Didn't know about the scrum rule that Will Greenwood just picked up on. It's awesome when referees don't know the rules. Steve Walsh must be a popular man in SA right now.

One of the oldest rules in the scrum. It happens so rarely now since the ball never goes in straight, the chances of it going straight through the tunnel are slim.

Still trying to work out who was more clueless, Walsh or the massive clown in the Wales v Australia game...

[OGB]

And Wales f**k it up yet again, another opportunity on a plate lost. Just goes to show how poor the forwards have been in the breakdown when up against a team like the Aussies with 8 penalties in the first half alone

[Roobsa]

That's a result we can be content with I think. I feel like we should have held out longer at the end though for the drop goal.

[jhuntley93]

another win down under for scotland! and another debut try scorer, maybe scotland should play southern hemisphere opposition instead of 6 nations and we might do well! also good to see wales choke again, for me the welsh are massivly overrate and shouldnt be considered the best northern hemisphere side untill they can consitently beat southern hemisphere sides. in the last 3 years they have only beaten argentina, samoa x2, fiji and namibia. compared to scotland who have beat australia home and away, samoa home and away, fiji, home and away, south africa, and argentina twice away.

I admit wales do have lots of quality individuals in their side and most of the lions back next year will probably be welsh though

[TheGreatest21]

Swag.

[KelvinR]

Have any of you been watching the Super Rugby?