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Tichtheid wrote:Our heroes
15. Darcy Graham (23)
14. Dougie Fife (123)
13. James Johnstone (40)
12. Chris Dean (85)
11. Duhan van der Merwe (40)
10. Simon Hickey (18)
9. Henry Pyrgos (23)
1. Pierre Schoeman (22)
2. Stuart McInally (136) CAPTAIN
3. WP Nel (133)
4. Ben Toolis (109)
5. Grant Gilchrist (136)
6. John Barclay (4)
7. Hamish Watson (99)
Replacements: 16. Ross Ford (198); 17. Rory Sutherland (74). 18. Simon Berghan (66); 19. Callum Hunter-Hill (17); 20. Magnus Bradbury (64); 21. Charlie Shiel (5); 22. Jason Baggott (1); 23. Mark Bennett (19)
The Feral Goat wrote:
I know it is only Glasgow but are we so confident we don't need a number 8?
disco wrote:Match preview for Glasgow v Edinburgh pt 3 - and given Ryan Wilson is on the bench in the trilogy this is clearly The Dark Knight Rises...
https://wp.me/p68WtH-8cA
- A new captain for Glasgow.
- The Warriors' bogey side back at Scotstoun.
- Too many milestones and 1872 Cup debuts to mention - just read the article! I guarantee there's stats and info in there that you will not get anywhere else...
Tichtheid wrote:disco wrote:Match preview for Glasgow v Edinburgh pt 3 - and given Ryan Wilson is on the bench in the trilogy this is clearly The Dark Knight Rises...
https://wp.me/p68WtH-8cA
- A new captain for Glasgow.
- The Warriors' bogey side back at Scotstoun.
- Too many milestones and 1872 Cup debuts to mention - just read the article! I guarantee there's stats and info in there that you will not get anywhere else...
Cheers Disco, my only real gripe in the head to heads would be in your selection of Allan over Sutherland, I'd take a fit Sutherland over Dell most days of the week, he's a very strong scrummager and his work close in to the line in those pick'n'goes is where his brute strength really comes into its own. Allan is a ways behind Dell or Sutherland in my book.
disco wrote:Couple of years back I was convinced Sutherland was the heir apparent to Dickinson for Edinburgh and Scotland but unfortunately since his injury issues it feels like he's not managed to get back to where he was let alone continue his development. In the last 5 months he's had 1 start (against the Kings at Murrayfield at the beginning of 2019) and apart from that 28 minutes total game time. Against Benetton away, which was an absolutely crucial game, Cockerill left him unused on the bench. Allan has had regular game time plus Scotland squad selections - including adding to his cap tally in the Autumn Tests and 6 Nations.
I'd agree that a fit and in form Sutherland would be the best SQ loosehead but I don't think that's where he is right now.
dolf_lundgren wrote:I agree, and I think uncomfortable decisions are being made, the likes of Ford, Dell and Hamilton leaving and if the story I heard this morning is correct, there may be one coming with Bennett in the summer too.
The only disagreement I would have is that football teams, and possibly Sale are talking about putting teams together as the majority of their squad will be bought in. We need to grow our own and probably need at least 50% of the squad from there, so success will be cyclical, in terms of players coming through and the ability of the coach to influence that. We need to augment, but as we have seen with Solly, you cant try to bring in the spine of the team and augment with locals.
Hopefully we can get to a position where we have good enough yongsters that we can augment with really high calibre players, as the irish teams seem better at doing.
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