1872 First Leg Fri 18th March

[Friday Knight Lights]

Boan Venter is a lethal finisher.

[dolf_lundgren]

Who need Duhan when you have try machines like Young and Venter?

[dolf_lundgren]

AlanLewis. Well taken try though.

We were just starting to excert some pressure.

[dolf_lundgren]

How many turnovers and pens won by Boyle?

For all the debate re Darge, I think Boyle is showing why it wasnt black and white

[Friday Knight Lights]

How many turnovers and pens won by Boyle?

For all the debate re Darge, I think Boyle is showing why it wasnt black and white

Sure but they both didn't get gametime because of Ally Miller...

[dolf_lundgren]

True

[dolf_lundgren]

Lack of discipline is killing us.

Thompson tried to milk a card by staying down there.

[Tichtheid]

Ally Miller was our best back row last season

[Friday Knight Lights]

Ally Miller was our best back row last season

Stalled the development of the vastly higher potential player Boyle, saw Darge leave who in the rainbow was immediately better and Miller was always likely to leave too.

Poor poor poor squad management.

[Tichtheid]

Ally Miller was our best back row last season

Stalled the development of the vastly higher potential player Boyle, saw Darge leave who in the rainbow was immediately better and Miller was always likely to leave too.

Poor poor poor squad management.

Aye it makes sense to drop your best performing player right enough, it wasnae even the one or two games, it was week after week

[Friday Knight Lights]

Ally Miller was our best back row last season

Stalled the development of the vastly higher potential player Boyle, saw Darge leave who in the rainbow was immediately better and Miller was always likely to leave too.

Poor poor poor squad management.

Aye it makes sense to drop your best performing player right enough, it wasnae even the one or two games, it was week after week

He was fine during a bad season let's not go overboard. And what benefit did it do us? Awful season, one extremely good (and unarguably better than Miller) player left and another who is better than Miller ever was on the bench.

A wrong decision then, an obviously wrong decision now.

Miller doesn't get near the Glasgow team and did absolutely nothing off the bench. Darge starting for Scotland tomorrow and Boyle the best player on the pitch. What a poor decision in hindsight.

[Tichtheid]

He was fine during a bad season let's not go overboard. And what benefit did it do us? Awful season, one extremely good (and unarguably better than Miller) player left and another who is better than Miller ever was on the bench.

A wrong decision then, an obviously wrong decision now.

Miller doesn't get near the Glasgow team and did absolutely nothing off the bench. Darge starting for Scotland tomorrow and Boyle the best player on the pitch. What a poor decision in hindsight.

How was it a wrong decision to play Miller?

That is crazy talk.

Miller was playing better than his illustrious international team mates.

I ken ye have a bee in your bonnet, but this is just silly

[Tichtheid]

What's your opinion on Murphy Walker Tichtheid? Looks a decent talent who injury has maybe hampered given he's 22 and only has a few games under his belt at pro level. I know he played loosehead for the under 20s but I did think he was a tighthead, the next Murray McCallum? Flitting from side to side.

I concentrated on him because of your comment.

He was excellent tonight, if anything he was better on the tighthead side against a much stronger opponent when he switched over - a serious looking talent.

[JDCSR]

What's your opinion on Murphy Walker Tichtheid? Looks a decent talent who injury has maybe hampered given he's 22 and only has a few games under his belt at pro level. I know he played loosehead for the under 20s but I did think he was a tighthead, the next Murray McCallum? Flitting from side to side.

I concentrated on him because of your comment.

He was excellent tonight, if anything he was better on the tighthead side against a much stronger opponent when he switched over - a serious looking talent.

He was good wasn't he! Hope he keeps it up.

[Friday Knight Lights]

He was fine during a bad season let's not go overboard. And what benefit did it do us? Awful season, one extremely good (and unarguably better than Miller) player left and another who is better than Miller ever was on the bench.

A wrong decision then, an obviously wrong decision now.

Miller doesn't get near the Glasgow team and did absolutely nothing off the bench. Darge starting for Scotland tomorrow and Boyle the best player on the pitch. What a poor decision in hindsight.

How was it a wrong decision to play Miller?

That is crazy talk.

Miller was playing better than his illustrious international team mates.

I ken ye have a bee in your bonnet, but this is just silly

How was it a wrong decision?

Simple. So there's a concept called player development. Sometimes - and hear me out here - you have a young high potential player, maybe even two if you're lucky. They haven't played much rugby yet because they're young, so usually aren't top performers immediately and probably a bit worse than the older guys (and for the sake of the argument we'll ignore within 10 pro games Darge was obviously a very special player and outplayed Edinburgh's backrow a few weeks after being sent across) but you give them gametime over guys who aren't high potential so the younger guys improve. And you reap the rewards when then young player gets very good. Not a method Richard Cockerill knew, granted. Boyle has taken a wee bit of time to get up to speed, but the faith has been repaid the last two weeks with barnstormers and now a very real selection decision for Blair. Miller isn't giving Glasgow even a hint of a tough decision.

See also Savala and Chamberlain with Van Der Walt. Who had another shocker so should be an easier decision.