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Re: Edinburgh Rugby FPs & Others

Postby biffer on Wed Jul 29, 2020 11:29 am

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sammy wrote:A pretty harrowing read indeed. I hope some of his suggestions are taken forward. We bemoan the numbers of people playing the game, but for those that do there does not appear to be much of a duty of care.

Wondering if the game should do something at a competition level too e.g. minimal playing hours for each teams squad. It might help level the playing field, and mitigate some players being overplayed too.


I think the SRU do a lot with mental health already. Glasgow had a coach in to deal with it Smith just didn't visit because he thought the coaches would think he was weak. It's very sad, maybe as part of rehab from injuries or game performances there is a mental coach as well as the physical and tactical coaches.


Yeah, mental health has to be built in. Having an 'it's here if you want it' and thereby putting the emphasis on the player themselves to diagnose that they have a problem and decide they need help, doesn't work, for exactly the reasons Smith outlines.
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Re: Edinburgh Rugby FPs & Others

Postby biffer on Tue Aug 04, 2020 4:05 pm

Dougie Fife has signed for MLR team the New England Freejacks for the next two seasons. Interesting move, will be great to be involved in that at this stage of it's development. If it was a choice of MLR or the English championship, I think he's taken the best option.
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Re: Edinburgh Rugby FPs & Others

Postby Pitfitter446 on Wed Aug 05, 2020 12:48 pm

Wish Dougie all the best, he was (imho) an asset to Edinburgh.
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Re: Edinburgh Rugby FPs & Others

Postby robdinsdale on Wed Aug 05, 2020 1:11 pm

biffer wrote:Dougie Fife has signed for MLR team the New England Freejacks for the next two seasons. Interesting move, will be great to be involved in that at this stage of it's development. If it was a choice of MLR or the English championship, I think he's taken the best option.


I think it's definitely a more attractive lifestyle option.
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Re: Edinburgh Rugby FPs & Others

Postby The Feral Goat on Thu Aug 06, 2020 9:18 pm

Briefly an ER player, Alex Grove swam the channel today for charity.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-h ... r-53681108
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Re: Edinburgh Rugby FPs & Others

Postby dolf_lundgren on Fri Aug 14, 2020 2:38 pm

Matt Scott starts for Leicester tomorrow, SHC on the bench for Exeter.

I would be delighted if SHC could find his form again. On best form he is every bit as good as Price and Horne, when he isn't on best form he is just lightly better than me....
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Re: Edinburgh Rugby FPs & Others

Postby Weegie on Sun Aug 16, 2020 2:13 pm

CHH looked decent for Sarries. Good to see him telling senior players what he wanted from them.

SHC had a solid cameo for Exeter. Did the basics well which was often his failing as he tried the flash option too often. Then when there was an opportunity to break he took it.
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Re: Edinburgh Rugby FPs & Others

Postby robdinsdale on Mon Aug 17, 2020 8:30 am

dolf_lundgren wrote:Matt Scott starts for Leicester tomorrow, SHC on the bench for Exeter.

I would be delighted if SHC could find his form again. On best form he is every bit as good as Price and Horne, when he isn't on best form he is just lightly better than me....


Scott had a steady game for Leicester, they didn't really get much of an attacking game going so he was limited to the odd crash ball.

Exeter have got some monsters in their pack and even Hogg seems to have beefed up.

It was the first game I've seen of the new era of rules interpretation. Definitely a bit stop-start with penalties but players were having to stay on their feet more at the breakdown which is a good thing. I'm wondering if this will benefit the genuine jackal specialists that we have like Hamish.

I noticed Channel 5 were playing some canned crown noise and I didn't hate it, even though I knew it was fake.
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Re: Edinburgh Rugby FPs & Others

Postby BigD163 on Tue Aug 18, 2020 9:49 am

Weegie wrote:CHH looked decent for Sarries. Good to see him telling senior players what he wanted from them.


I think the move will work out well for him and maybe Scotland down the line. Yes he will be playing a lower quality of rugby from next season but the environment he is in will be great and a run of starts is exactly what he needs.
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Re: Edinburgh Rugby FPs & Others

Postby Friday Knight Lights on Tue Aug 25, 2020 8:25 pm

SHC just scored a lovely try.

He's playing well but still makes infuriating mistakes.

Edit - won motm on his first start. Well in Sammy.
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Re: Edinburgh Rugby FPs & Others

Postby The Feral Goat on Fri Sep 04, 2020 8:35 pm

SHC playing well for exeter again tonight behind a very good pack. Looks to have a more rounded game so far, not the same highs and lows we saw on occasion.
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Re: Edinburgh Rugby FPs & Others

Postby Wottie on Sat Sep 05, 2020 7:12 am

Former ER loosehead (Currently with Doncaster), Robin Hislop has signed a loan deal that will see him join CHH at Sarries.
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Re: Edinburgh Rugby FPs & Others

Postby joe soap on Sat Sep 05, 2020 9:47 am

The Feral Goat wrote:SHC playing well for exeter again tonight behind a very good pack. Looks to have a more rounded game so far, not the same highs and lows we saw on occasion.


Exeter 2nds again.

They started like an express train, first 2 and a half minutes superb, with SHC at every breakdown as it happened and getting away fast accurate passes; superb. Then he threw one 6 inches off the ground 3 fit in front of the intended receiver. Same old.
TBF he had a good game overall and a typical SHC very clever blind side break but he still has a number of these momentum killing passes every game, and his box kicking while again better last night is still not really up where it needs to be. Really consistent basics are what gets you through when you are maybe just off peak form and flash running isn't coming off. He still does not have that to fall back on.
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Re: Edinburgh Rugby FPs & Others

Postby The Feral Goat on Mon Oct 05, 2020 12:41 pm

On the "Get After It" podcast with Nashy who does the ER Inside the castle podcast this week is former player Tom Philip.

A tough tough listen, the guy is really struggling physically and mentally. Appreciate rugby and mental health awareness has moved on a massively since 2002 ish when he was at his best, but it includes a story of Matt Williams telling him to run off what turned out to be a ruptured ACL and a league doctor who though he was on steroids when we was pysically sick with anxiety and could not face playing. He has been suicidal and in pyschiatirc hospital, painkiller issues it is a harrowing tale.

Hats off for going on the pod and speaking so openly about it, hope getting his story out helps him in future.
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Re: Edinburgh Rugby FPs & Others

Postby biffer on Fri Oct 09, 2020 3:21 pm

The Feral Goat wrote:On the "Get After It" podcast with Nashy who does the ER Inside the castle podcast this week is former player Tom Philip.

A tough tough listen, the guy is really struggling physically and mentally. Appreciate rugby and mental health awareness has moved on a massively since 2002 ish when he was at his best, but it includes a story of Matt Williams telling him to run off what turned out to be a ruptured ACL and a league doctor who though he was on steroids when we was pysically sick with anxiety and could not face playing. He has been suicidal and in pyschiatirc hospital, painkiller issues it is a harrowing tale.

Hats off for going on the pod and speaking so openly about it, hope getting his story out helps him in future.


This is another thing we need a player's association to help with. The NFL PA forces the league to provide care for former players.
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