Isn't Rome the best Six Nations venue? A friend says it has to be Cardiff, where there is a place nicknamed the Parachute Club, but what do you think?
The is over. Damn, damn, damn and blast, what the heck do I do for the next eleven months? It is without question the best rugby tournament in the world.
Ever since I was a little boy, ushered through to listen to with my glass of milk and ham sandwich, the annual northern hemisphere rugby tournament has been the highlight of my calendar.
Even if had tried to divert me, I am pretty sure I'd have chosen rugby over anything else.
My wife claims lots of things don't last long enough and the Six Nations is right up there.
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Is being small, sometimes, an advantage? I don't mean physically, but if you know you only have, let's say, two stand-offs to choose from, might that give you an advantage over England who, for all I know, may have 12?
Has the small squad system proved that two teams, Edinburgh and Glasgow, can get the key talent training properly without stretching resources?
It's a tale of what might have been: Scotland should have ended up second in the championship with .
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Is it wrong to boo a kick? If you want my honest answer, I don't think it is.
I'm all for it. In every part of the world, in every sporting contest, the crowd at the event likes to get behind its team. Part of that is making a noise to put the opposition off.
We can claim that rugby is somehow a saintly game but I like to hear a crowd getting involved and making a racket to disrupt a kicker.
So there we are. The rock at was good on Saturday night and thanks to the Scottish rugby team for turning up to support the and to Chris Cusiter for playing the guitar.
I am writing this in Heathrow with three hours sleep under my belt and my check-in complete for Penang.
The - for the third time in succession at Murrayfield. And here is my main point. Do England actually know what they are trying to do on the pitch?
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Every underdog has its day, and here's how I want to play. Sounds like a poem but it's not.
When you play rugby for Scotland you are always the underdog. And if you happen to win a game you have been "spoiling" or the other team made lots and lots of mistakes, thereby explaining their mysterious loss.
When you compare two neighbouring countries, the roles of favourite and underdog are never more clearly defined that when it's Scotland against England. It's the smallest country in the against the biggest in terms of players - two million versus 36,000.
I mean why turn up?
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I was born in Borneo, spent my formative years swinging from the trees, and you might know me as an international rugby player, but now I'm off to London to give you my opinion on all things Olympic as part of the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Scotland Sport Nation Olympic team.
