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what lame excuses will be trooped out this time.....
Played 17 and won 6 is diabolical and we are now 18 points behind that mob from the east,the league table does not lie. What progress has been made by Mr Lineen and his players this season?

Sean said that he will need to pick a team to match the commitment of Connacht this Friday. Does that mean that there were players yesterday in the coaches eyes who were not committed in the eyes of the management?

Its 8 wins from 23 competitive games this season, which is pretty poor in just about anyones eyes.

Maybe we just need to accept that is just about where we are in the Rugby Pecking order. Capable of the odd outstanding win, which fuels the fire of the "we have outstanding potential, we can kick on from this blah blah" brigade. But for every Toulouse win, there are two or three very poor performances

This season has been a regression on where we were this time 12 months ago. Our pack have become toothless and at times seem incapable of stopping potential turnovers legally. The backs have faired ok, but so much relies on the Evans' and the opposition playing an expansive game against us. We started this season with one of the leagues most Dependable Fly Halves we end it with him in limbo.

Chris Cusiter coming in is good news in that he is a star performer and his joining will no doubt improve the side, but at what cost? With so much of the budget apparently getting used up on him, other more pressing problem areas will have to be addressed on the cheap (if at all).

Watched the game on S4c yesterday and have to say that Glasgow shot themselves in the foot. THe defense in the 1st half was appalling and ok James Hook had an excellent game but even still. The pack were second best despite the efforts of Kelly Brown who was immense.

In the 2nd half stupid errors of which Gregor was the main culprit put the game beyond us. Really missed a calming influence as were trying to go wide far to quickly and from the wrong places. Maturer heads to take the game by the scruff of the neck and get the results are needed.

WHY can we not keep 15 men on the field these days? We cant win games playing for half an hour is 14...it just wont happen. From the highlights posted it looks like we gifted them some tries with very soft defense, there doesn't seem to be very much communication or order in the defense! Lome has been in good form this year, proved he has still got bags of pace again on Sunday. The backs aint the problem, well apart from the fact we need a controlling stand off. The forwards need overhauled, only Brown and Barclay have been consistantly good this year. Time for a major re think!

Is Lome out of Contract this Summer?

I have said before on the site that if we had made our kicks this season, then we would have been in a far better league position, and i think we are missing an on form Dan Parks much more than we realise.

I also get the feeling that I have seen a lot of tries this year, and I wonder what our defensive record is against our ML colleagues is this year as opposed to last?

I agree with every comment on this website about our front five. How do we end up with so many yellow cards? How can we be expecting to win games when we concede a kickable penalty every two minutes? (22,26,28 and 32 mins according to the ML website). Do we punish players internally for yellow cards? If not we should.

Anyway, the worst game of rugby is still 10X more entertaining than that turgid, hate filled nonsense that passes for football in Glasgw, judging by Saturday.

Credit where it's due, Lome Fa'atau was really rather good yesterday. He made a couple of good tackles and was strong and fast on attack. Great to see.

Our Pack needs some serious work. We don't need any more backs as they aren't the problem.

Gutted for Max Evans, it looked bad but here's hoping he's back terrorising the opponents soon!

Agree with most comments - the season as a contest was over a good while ago. Some good performances, but mostly bad. The new signings might make a difference, but not with the present set of forwards, unless some miracle happens in the close season. Not much point in having a very good set of backs (which we have) if the forwards can't dominate the opposition, but as i've said before on here, I don't know where the good, hard forwards are going to come from. So we might have to soldier on with basically the same pack next season & hope that a number of the younger members mature & harden up a bit-become more streetwise. Still-i'll be there on Friday for a big finish against Connacht!!

Is anyone looking at Romania or Poland? There are some really horrible forwards over there! Exactly what we need. Hard as nails with an anger management problem.

I presume that Sean will be in Romania with Robinson for the Scotland A tournament. You want a Russian and a Uruguayan also? They are unlikely to be Scottish qualified! Would the SRU let him sign one? Folk on this site would just moan that we shouldn't be signing foreigners anyway!