Col Shivers

[Col Shivers @Col_Shivers]

@FinMorrison @ssimpsonsound I would say any game where you can go from 1st to 4th at this time of the season is pretty much must win

[Col Shivers @Col_Shivers]

@Gav_S_Harper Ask your pal Bruce about what a tactical and motivational genius Townsend is.

[Col Shivers @Col_Shivers]

@AndyBurke_ Seems like GTs time has been one massive game of snakes and ladders. The France game was a huge ladder up but lose in Dublin and it’s a long snake down to where Scotland were in 2020 and 2021. Solid campaigns, big result or two but still just mid table.

[Col Shivers @Col_Shivers]

@ChrisSru880101 Did it take the Scottish media to finally give Toonie & the squad a really hard time to get this squad into the required headspace? Or was that happening anyway but just very slowly? 🇮🇪 is the real acid test as lose and it’s just another version of 2020 or 2021.

[Col Shivers @Col_Shivers]

@TEnglishSport De ja vu all over again. Until they get a result - or perhaps more importantly an 80 minute performance in Dublin this result changes nothing.

[Col Shivers @Col_Shivers]

@grandpa_flump @TEnglishSport Apart from all his snarky answers aye? Listen, put a 80 performance on in Dublin next week and win or lose that should silence ‘most’ of the critics. Otherwise it’s another season of what could have been.

[Col Shivers @Col_Shivers]

@AndyBurke_ @Johnnie_Beattie @TEnglishSport Seems foolish to try and play unstructured rugby against this France team. Where/how can Scotland find success in attack?

[Col Shivers @Col_Shivers]

@AndyBurke_ @TEnglishSport Kind of seems like just reliving 2024. Underperform & lose in 🇮🇹 , great performance & win against 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 , just about limp over the line against 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 . At least in 2024 the games against 🇫🇷 &🇮🇪 were close, if this squad truly has learned lessons, now is the time they have to show it

[Col Shivers @Col_Shivers]

@will_owen9 From a non Welsh point of view (so probably wrong!) Beard is a real nightmare at opposition lineouts and mauls. Scotland will look to use those to set attacking plays. If Beard isn’t there will Wales struggle to get the same disruption on Scottish lineouts?

[Col Shivers @Col_Shivers]

@TEnglishSport @AndyBurke_ I imagine Wales will really go after the Scottish lineout with Beard in particular. Need locks and backrow that give as many solid lineout options as possible.

[Col Shivers @Col_Shivers]

@AndyBurke_ @TEnglishSport Excellent win and performance. It does feel now that a win against England doesn’t prove a lot unless it’s backed up by another performance at the same level. GT and Sione might have been better to keep their media receipts until after the game in Wales (hopefully).

[Col Shivers @Col_Shivers]

@AndyBurke_ Is GT doubling down and trying to prove a point that he didn’t get it wrong last week and it was due to the weather?

[Col Shivers @Col_Shivers]

@thepaulwilliams He’s had five meaningful, impressive results in 8 6N and 2 RWC. That’s 10% of games.

[Col Shivers @Col_Shivers]

@mangorugby @Tarbie82 ‘lost badly’ sounds like a 52-0 loss to Leinster. Losing 16-14 is not that. Was it a bad result and poor 2nd half performance? Yes. not the same as ‘lost badly’ You could say ‘worded poorly but my wider point is sound’. You won’t though, apparently no ground can be conceded!

[Col Shivers @Col_Shivers]

@mangorugby @Tarbie82 That’s not what you said though, you said lost badly. That clearly implies the manner of defeat not the quality of the opposition. But listen, it’s clear that you think everyone and everything apart from GT is at fault so and won’t accept otherwise so I’ll politely leave now.

[Col Shivers @Col_Shivers]

@mangorugby @Tarbie82 Glasgow didn’t lose ‘badly’ to Benetton, that’s simply incorrect. I doubt Glasgow fans had any impact on GT getting the Scotland job, GT demanding he be given the job or else was more of the reason. And if you demand the job you kinda need to do better than the last guy….

[Col Shivers @Col_Shivers]

@MrSTeaches22 @JohnRossBeattie So you in no way think it’s odd that an ex Scotland international would make no comment post a Scotland game and instead make a random comment on attendance at another game?

[Col Shivers @Col_Shivers]

@MrSTeaches22 @JohnRossBeattie Why is it stupid?

[Col Shivers @Col_Shivers]

@TEnglishSport He’s gone backwards for years. People like you desperate to make sure the SRU give your access to interview players and coaches fence sit with chat like ‘well he’s done so much to move team forward’ and ‘I mean, who says they would go backwards under another coach?’

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@AndyBurke_ @Wright33Peter @Shorty10x @TEnglishSport But Andy….what if the next coach isn’t very good? Isn’t that the usual crap excuse you give Toonie?