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Rugby World Cup: Home nations wrap

All the home nations big guns - and Scotland - have played at the weekend, and it is with great surprise that I write here that it is the Scots who are actually managing to look like a rugby team.  Yes, they only played Portugal; yes, the win was expected; yes, their kit looks like something designed by a wino after a particularly heavy session on the 9% cider; but, they were the only home nation to not only get their much-expected win with some measure of control and assuredness.

England, Wales and Ireland were very poor indeed.  England have looked garbage since, well since 2003 actually, so no great surprise there then; and Wales are simply continuing their filthy form of the last 18 months.  Ireland's start is the major surprise.  This tournament is seen as their big chance to lay down a marker as the best team in Europe.  However, after their performance in a stutterring (and by that I mean shit) performance against Namibia, they are struggling to simply be the best team in Ireland.

With France famously losing to Los Pumas on Friday night as well, it was not a good weekend for the northern hemisphere all told.

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Rugby World Cup: Home nations wrap

All the home nations big guns - and Scotland - have played at the weekend, and it is with great surprise that I write here that it is the Scots who are actually managing to look like a rugby team.  Yes, they only played Portugal; yes, the win was expected; yes, their kit looks like something designed by a wino after a particularly heavy session on the 9% cider; but, they were the only home nation to not only get their much-expected win with some measure of control and assuredness.