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+title: "2023 10 09"
+date: 2023-10-09T09:48:41+01:00
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+tags: ['rugby']
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+If you're a Scotland rugby fan, you can't help but be embarrassed by their performance against Ireland on Saturday (a sorry 36-14 loss), for the following reasons:
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+- The pre-match arrogance ("we will end their winning run" - Blair Kinghorn)
+- The failure to take points on offer in the first ten minutes
+- The absolute and total acceptance of defeat within twenty minutes (whenever Ireland scored their second try)
+- The players in tears on the bench (Kinghorn again)
+- The trip on Jonny Sexton by Ollie Smith and the smirking when given the yellow card
+- The pathetic handbags following the trip and little push by Sexton
+- The total lack of creativity and ideas in the face of an admittedly great defence
+- The Finn Russell being a bit of an arse once given the captain's armband
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+There are probably many more reasons.
+I get the difficulty of the task, but as ever, Scotland made it far more difficult for themselves thanks to what seem to be endemic shortcomings.
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+I think it will take years to rebuild.
+Scotland have probably hit their ceiling and the only way is statis for a few years. Perhaps a decade, given the lack of kids coming through.
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+Ref:
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+- [We understand Scotland fans' disappointment](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/scottish)
+- [A total slating by Tom English](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/67047942)
+- [BBC Match Report](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/67043564)