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Re: Matt Scott

PostPosted: Tue Feb 06, 2018 7:51 pm
by disco
joe soap wrote:
New Gunner wrote:I had a look for the 'ridiculous hype', 'next messiah' and 'juvenile' comments, but couldn't find them.


Gowrie:
"a backline of Kinghorn, Van der Merwe, Bennett, Scott, Graham, Hickey, SHC could be real box office"

oh and this one, recognise it?
"But if true this would be brilliant, get Scott back partnering Bennett, Hickey/Kinghorn/Hoyland around them and that's some real attacking quality."

an uncapped player who has not really established himself anywhere,who is approaching his mid 20s and hasn't pulled shirt on for Edinurgh parachuted in to the exciting box office back line; no qualification like "if he fulfills potential" or "Hickey or Van der Walt"

No, no hype there, no juvenile expectations, no sir. You guys crease me up at times

Is suggesting comments like "real box office" and "real attacking quality" are equivalent to posters saying it'll be "the most exciting backline ever" not an example of the usual juvenile over hyping?? :D

Re: Matt Scott

PostPosted: Tue Feb 06, 2018 8:26 pm
by joe soap
disco wrote:Is suggesting comments like "real box office" and "real attacking quality" are equivalent to posters saying it'll be "the most exciting backline ever" not an example of the usual juvenile over hyping?? :D


not unless you have numbers to back it up. Stick to numbers :roll:

Re: Matt Scott

PostPosted: Tue Feb 06, 2018 9:56 pm
by djphilp
joe soap wrote:
disco wrote:Is suggesting comments like "real box office" and "real attacking quality" are equivalent to posters saying it'll be "the most exciting backline ever" not an example of the usual juvenile over hyping?? :D


not unless you have numbers to back it up. Stick to numbers :roll:


WTF have you been smoking/drinking Joe?

Re: Matt Scott

PostPosted: Tue Feb 06, 2018 11:40 pm
by joe soap
djphilp wrote:
joe soap wrote:
disco wrote:Is suggesting comments like "real box office" and "real attacking quality" are equivalent to posters saying it'll be "the most exciting backline ever" not an example of the usual juvenile over hyping?? :D


not unless you have numbers to back it up. Stick to numbers :roll:


WTF have you been smoking/drinking Joe?


good stuff, thanks, out of this

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which is much better than this which few have been ODing on again

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Re: Matt Scott

PostPosted: Tue Feb 06, 2018 11:42 pm
by gowrie
I never actually said bringing Hickey in would make us the most exciting backline to ever grace a rugby field

but I'm saying it now, and don't even try proving me wrong because you know deep down I'm right.

Re: Matt Scott

PostPosted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 7:22 am
by New Gunner
Oh dear, Joe.

Re: Matt Scott

PostPosted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 9:21 pm
by royc
I don't think anyone is saying that a couple of good additions to the backs will turn our backline into the primus inter pares (first among equals) of the Pro 14! We all know that Edinburgh and Warriors don't have the deepest pockets for star signings and that, in our case, a good whack of the player budget is taken up by our international cast of forwards.

Cockers/Johnson are going to have to recruit backs in particular most judiciously for next season and also hope for a bit of luck with fitness and form from the new signings, which we didn't get so much from this season's new intake. The budget will not be much larger than Solomons had, so surely no one is expecting miracles.

However, we have IMO the beginnings of a wee nucleus of potentially classy, stand-out backs in Bennett, van der Merwe and Kinghorn, with some very good players around them like Fife and Johnstone. Add in Matt Scott, if we can get him, and Hickey, if he measures up, and we could have a pretty decent backs 1st XV coming together that is a step up from recent years.

While JS is right to keep feet on the ground, we have to be optimistic and I think Cockers' signings so far show that he knows what he's doing and knows what needs fixed - within the limits of a slim budget.

Re: Matt Scott

PostPosted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 11:24 pm
by germain
No matter how you look at it, a backline of Van Der Walt - Scott - Bennett - Van Der Merwe - Hoyland - Kinghorn is really appealing. Each one of hose players is a threat. When you also have around the likes of Hickey, Weir/Tovey, Burleigh, Dean, Johnstone, Fife, Brown and Graham, it begins to be very interesting.
So hopefully, the rumors are true.

Re: Matt Scott

PostPosted: Sun Feb 11, 2018 1:28 am
by djphilp
Really hoping we do get Scott back...

He came on again for Gloucester today as an early replacement and scored again as well.

Re: Matt Scott

PostPosted: Tue Feb 13, 2018 5:56 pm
by Oldsalt
Watched the highlights last night and thought that Matt could lose 5-10 kgs. He looked much "bigger" and "slower" than when he was an Edinburgh player. He isn't exactly small to start with.