Slippery Scots box above their weight

Slippery Scots box above their weight

19 Mar 2006

Scotland, winners against England and France at home in 2006, believe they have a team capable of beating the best in the business.

They’ll get a chance to test the theory in a couple of months when Frank Hadden’s squad plays South Africa in a two-test series.

Hadden, whose side sneaked a 13-10 win against Italy in Rome, was delighted at the win against the Italians. He felt it was one of the most important from his team.

“We’ve laid a few foundation stones to build on. We’ve done enough this year to make people believe that we’re a good side and I would imagine there will be a lot of people not relishing playing Scotland now. I’m quite comfortable with where we are in terms of the progress we wanted to make. There’s a launch pad for the future there now,” said Hadden.
“At the start of this championship I didn’t think we could win it – what we wanted to do was win games and make progress.”

Scotland beat France 20-16 and England 18-12, but lost away from home to Wales and Ireland before finishing with a 13-10 win against the improving Italians. The victory boosted them to third place on the Six Nations table.

To beat the second placed Springboks in South Africa, though, will take a mighty effort and the Scots will have to be more impressive than they were in Rome.


7 Comments

  • 1.tokolosi: Reply to this comment
    19 Mar 2006, 20:37 pm

    No ways will they beat teams like the Boks, Wobblies and the All Blacks. The Scots have an ok etam but they will never have the class to penetrate defenses, or have a scrum capable of stuffing over other teams.

  • 2.Duiwel: Reply to this comment
    19 Mar 2006, 20:55 pm

    yeah,yeah,yeah.
    next thing they’ll be talking of winning the WC.
    As much a one season wonder as the welsh.

    ST.pete,
    if you bump into Rasputin
    please send my regards.
    Whats with “the other site”?

  • 3.Hier kom groot k..: Reply to this comment
    20 Mar 2006, 01:12 am

    We shouldn’t underestimate these Mackies for the 2 tests although I think they still need a year or two to mature. There were good signs from them this season but they are still on a learning curve.

  • 4.CSI:Rugby: Reply to this comment
    20 Mar 2006, 02:44 am

    Any team can “verbally” claim to beat any of the big name teams, but the big name teams (SANZAR) are big name teams because they perform on the day and follow up on what they “verbally” have promised to do. A 13-10 win Italy is not so convincing is it Scotland, just play the game and don’t become a toss pot like your foes from south of Hadrians Wall.

  • 5.BMM: Reply to this comment
    20 Mar 2006, 07:05 am

    “but the big name teams (SANZAR) are big name teams because they perform on the day and follow up on what they “verbally” have promised to do.”

    Like the Boks beat Ireland a couple of years back and Eng at Twickers to “narrowly” miss the Grand Slam they were verbally talking about. And then losing out to France in the first test at home and the only test away from home last year!!

    Away from home we are Big Talk no Stalk if ever there was a team!

  • 6.CSI:Rugby: Reply to this comment
    20 Mar 2006, 07:49 am

    BMM

    I’m an AB supporter, they no problem with walking the talk.

  • 7.wls: Reply to this comment
    20 Mar 2006, 15:26 pm

    I think Scotland will come back down to earth here. Big time.
    And BMM i dont think we are that big talk awy from home. We seem to have learned our lesson. And even though we lost to France on the eoyt we let them win that game not the other way around.

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