The new jersey, minus some sponsors



I think ll stick with the training shirt

How can you get something so simple so wrong?

Those shorts! F*ck me!

I'm certain I had a pair like that when I went on my first unsupervised holiday to Ibiza in 198.... I was clearly a leader of fashion.

There's a lot going on there

I'm assuming he hasn't just accidentally put his pants on after his shorts. How terribly embarassing.

I actually think both kits are nice. The home shorts are a bit gash though.

Is it me or has Jackson put on a bit of beef

Gstrings

Is that Morrison's new nickname?

Atiga drops out with a hip injury to be replace by Visser (s) and Houston moves in one.

Hope this isn't a sign of things to come.

And Basilia gets himself ten minutes in the bin


3s up

Atiga was a perma crock down south wasn't he?

He'd been out the game for a while for sure. Not sure of the reasons.

So a centre/FB who's constantly injured........






2 Ben Cairns there's only.....

I hope not. Bad craic if he's signed an injury prone player.

Michael Bradleys Edinburgh will be the making of Atiga, the ABs will be calling in no time.

10-3 btw

No change at half time.

21-3 full time.

WTF is S Visser still getting game-time this year? Surely his performances last year told us everything we needed to know.

I don't think we'll see much of him this year.

No centres available last night; NDL, Scott rested, Cairns, King, Atiga broken. That's why S Visser played.

What's Visser the younger like? Any use?

No - he's also played for Holland - another reason he should be nowhere near an Embra squad.

Not really. hopefully it was only a 2 year contract.

Fair enough.

Cheers, lads.

I'd not realised until I read the Hootsmon that there are no Glasgow clubs (by Glasgow I mean from the city not the old region) in the Premier League. How did that happen?

It'll be interesting to see if Dundee can maintain their momentum and if Aberdeen really is as much of a rugby city as NL suggests.

No doubt the sheep will have done their usual and imported 6 or 7 Aussie/Keewees.

Chalmers has done his usual and signed nothing but backs - I cant see Melrose winning again this season - Gala will plateau and I remain unconvinced by Dundee. Ayr and Currie will be ahead of Dundee and Aberdeen IMO.

Be interesting to see if Ayr can challenge again this season, the loss of Kelly, Bennett, Climo, Reid etc seemed to really hit them.

They had all of last season without them - it's in the past.

Melrose have lost Fraser Thomson - I know he will still be at the club if the Weegies dont use him, but he will be a huge loss to them - he always used to get him them out of a hole.

Well they were good enough to beat Boroughmuir yesterday, and Edin Accies, and we were at least ten short. Coo jnr played all 120 minutes

Well done junior Coo - unless their defence gets better then they will struggle IMO. Teams that come out of nowhere with big attacking gameplans like Dundee get found out in the second season - but of course Rankin is a smart chap.

Melrose were pretty gash last season - but I dont think the old cliche about playing poorly and still winning will apply this year. They haven't recruited well and have lost White and will only see Thomson fleetingly - couple of last year under 18s in backs, including Chalmers son, but the better one is Hutchison who's season was ruined last year by injury but is a Scotland age group player, big and strong in the centre.

It is pretty shocking there is no weegie city side in the league this year though.

Hmmm, defence. For another place I think. Is this not their fourth season in the top flight? Its certainly their third. The young loose head who has come from Melrose is a good player, pretty unlikely looking but a very effective scrummager and gets through a power of work in the loose.

I am amazed that there has not been a massive influx of players with the B&I cup place, but its been pretty modest. Speaking to guys from all the clubs at Meggetland yesterday it is clear that there is strain showing in the club game. I don't have a solution but to my mind the SRU needs to invest more in the club game.

Apparently half a dozen or more Hawks players have opted to go to Ayr so I don't know how they will do. I'm pretty underwhelmed by their coaching team. GHA were supposed to be at Raeburn Place yesterday but called off (and EA came to Meggetland to take Wharfedale's place). I was told GHA were supposed to bring two teams but during the week said they couldn't even raise a first XV!

The strain has always been there - clubs have to stop paying players and coaches and focus on being an amateur game. As you know it costs a great of money to run a club - before you even thinking about paying players - it has to stop, it doesn't IMO improve the game and it certainly doesn't help it long term. But the idea of ever getting consensus amongst the clubs is a fantasy. Look at what is happening at Biggar this year, a sugar daddy and it all changes.

Robertson is a good player isn't he - he's only up there on loan at uni though - I would love to see him back - felt he was underused in the u20 RWC.

Indeed, but you will never get the genie back in the bottle. Perversely, the biggest payers with the best sugar daddy(s) - Ayr - also have the most viable enterprise. They get good crowds and their hospitality numbering 100 or more sells out every week. I know what money they are paying some players and the comment that their wage bill exceeds Ayr United's is probably true.

I was chatting to Coby yesterday who is very proud of what they've achieved at Lasswade. I didn't have the heart to ask what money was involved and where it came from. And I was shocked when I saw Henry limping (he's now coaching at County)

Who's Biggar's sugar daddy?

What's Henry done, I saw him at the County 7s before his redundancy and he was fine - he's not been taking part in training again has he?

Frillage, dont know his name.

Dunno, but walking like he was I wouldn't be surprised to see him with a stick never mind doing any training.

He's around the age for a new hip

I wouldn't know

Fuck off