𝙍𝙤𝙨𝙨 𝙇𝙖𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙩

Born to lose, live to win

[𝙍𝙤𝙨𝙨 𝙇𝙖𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙩 @hellarossa]

@SynonymUnion @FinMorrison This is overreaction easily. We are definitely getting out the pool this time.

Funny descriptor for a guy who won a 5N with Scotland as a player and the first of two lone trophies as a club coach…. Not sure bottle merchant fits in context of an underdog nation.

[𝙍𝙤𝙨𝙨 𝙇𝙖𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙩 @hellarossa]

@TomOHanlon17 @ChrisSru880101 @mangorugby True 2024, still fact remains it wasn’t a full loaded Scotland side, in their back garden, convincingly winning.

No longer a surprise package unless they’ve further evolved or gotten better.

Nobody is worrying about the bottom two. It’s the top scalp that’s the Everest here.

[𝙍𝙤𝙨𝙨 𝙇𝙖𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙩 @hellarossa]

@ChrisSru880101 This WC looks favourable we’d make it out the group, which would be a first for Townsend 3rd time of asking.

[𝙍𝙤𝙨𝙨 𝙇𝙖𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙩 @hellarossa]

@ChrisSru880101 Yeah I think it could have. We’ve beaten two of the drawn teams convincingly within the year
As a top tier opponent, we do have the worst draw there but beating Ireland is not impossible, and if we don’t, we’ve met expectation. RD16 with France, a side we have better luck facing

[𝙍𝙤𝙨𝙨 𝙇𝙖𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙩 @hellarossa]

@TomOHanlon17 @ChrisSru880101 @mangorugby We beat Uruguay at their stadium with a rotated team minus many regulars this summer.

They do not have the surprise element they had last WC. That’s tier 2/3 speciality, nobody has expectation of them. They now do and Scotland have faced them recently to boot.

[𝙍𝙤𝙨𝙨 𝙇𝙖𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙩 @hellarossa]

@deano_j85 Issue is the union doesn’t get invited to face multiple great teams because we have the smallest audience, meaning we aren’t worth the same £££ to come play us all that often.

Give a good game to anyone most of the time.
As for pointless, well it’s put Toonie under pressure.

[𝙍𝙤𝙨𝙨 𝙇𝙖𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙩 @hellarossa]

@crossgatescynic @RugbySco Can’t see him going or the SRU booting him early unless the wheels fall totally off the bus. Cotter had the improvements to rely on, and the WC knockout that could’ve been more. Toonie doesn’t really have as many statements, just a consistent track record.

[𝙍𝙤𝙨𝙨 𝙇𝙖𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙩 @hellarossa]

@crossgatescynic @RugbySco He always had doubters but a big component of the reservations was the lack of statement wins I think. England had us riding high and Australia, then France more than we expected, then Wales eventually became a reality but shouldn’t have been so tight.

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[𝙍𝙤𝙨𝙨 𝙇𝙖𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙩 @hellarossa]

@existdaybyday @Scrum365 Wins are wins stop underselling the achievement.

They lost to Leinster, as everyone did bar Northampton last season. Hardly the indictment you make it out to be.

Best option to date. Also making European knockouts every year now too, a first for a coach on two fronts.

[𝙍𝙤𝙨𝙨 𝙇𝙖𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙩 @hellarossa]

@existdaybyday @Scrum365 They didn’t blow a home semi. They lost to the eventual winners with a red card misstep from Jordan in his first season.

Scotland never have expectations what are you on? When’s the last time they won anything to have expectation? Glasgow have gone the distance at least.

[𝙍𝙤𝙨𝙨 𝙇𝙖𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙩 @hellarossa]

@sheenyp1970 @jaredwright17 Well considering we had the regular beating of England, Italy and Argentina quite confidently until this season, that would be a bare minimum.

It’s a downturn compared to their upturn. He’s been in charge longer than any of their coaches he should have the measures of them.

[𝙍𝙤𝙨𝙨 𝙇𝙖𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙩 @hellarossa]

@jaredwright17 Gotta agree on the cold hard light of results. He’s plateaued the last 2/3 seasons, but England, Italy and Argentina haven’t and this year we see the result of their hard work 3/3 vs Scotland for the first time in a loooong time.

Union far too risk averse with the big job.

[𝙍𝙤𝙨𝙨 𝙇𝙖𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙩 @hellarossa]

@Fotoman_ZA @ScotRugbyNews 3 scores ahead at home with 35 on the clock. It’s a collapse.

[𝙍𝙤𝙨𝙨 𝙇𝙖𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙩 @hellarossa]

@existdaybyday @Scrum365 Mentally he took them to Thomond Park and Loftus Versfeld back to back and won.

No other coach of a Scottish side had claim to a tougher series of away fixtures, at the pinnacle of the season, with wins to back that up. True grit.

[𝙍𝙤𝙨𝙨 𝙇𝙖𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙩 @hellarossa]

@andy_thomas1989 Franco Smith. Proven to get results under crunch time with the Glasgow players, Edinburgh plenty are capable of the same, combined he’d form a tough unit to beat, plays entertaining rugby, his selection and bench use decisions and rotation make sense, and he’s been chased loads.

[𝙍𝙤𝙨𝙨 𝙇𝙖𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙩 @hellarossa]

@ChrisSru880101 Overselling much. It was against the USA. If he keeps going then I’d get it, but to reiterate. Who are you leaving out of Darge, Ritchie, Dempsey, Fagerson, Bradbury, Onyeama Christie, Bayliss and Brown to include McConnell…. He has no claim over any of them at this point.

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