Norman Ford

@AndyBurke_ That's a sore one for Glasgow and Scotland. He deserves his payday but he is so important to both sides 😪

Another big departure coming at Glasgow Warriors this summer with Jack Dempsey heading for Japan. Read ⬇️ bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-un…

@TVietor08 @MarinaPurkiss Sounds like Netanyahu words. He had been saying that about Iran since the 90s. No nuclear weapons so far🤷

This is just absolute, unequivocal bullshit. The IAEA says this is a lie. The UN says its a lie. The US intelligence community can't back up this assertion, nor can the Israelis. This is as bad as claims that Iraq had WMDs if not worse.

@Sadie44689664 @JinkyCostanza @franco_carroll1 @ReformUKScot @Malcolm_Offord Reforms policies will destroy Scotland. They are absolutely the worst option anyone could make. To not see that suggests some other agenda 🤷‍♂️

@JinkyCostanza @franco_carroll1 I think @ReformUKScot can make positive changes. Not saying it will be perfect. If you didn’t listen to @Malcolm_Offord speech give it a try. Reform have a plan and passion to improve our economy. We have nothing to lose now

Cannot believe how many Scots will vote SNP not because they are doing a great job but because they hate WM and Labour. I’m at a total loss. These are adults living in deprivation Towns and cities in total disrepair under SNP and they still can’t see past hatred.

@AndyBurke_ This was the chance to involve Douglas, Craig and most of all Hiddleston. Townsend and his benches 🤷‍♂️

Thoughts on the team?

@AndyBurke_ @TEnglishSport Delighted with a Scotland win but still baffled by the bench selections. What is Townsend thinking that the rest of us aren't? And what has happened to the Scrum? Something is going wrong there.

Recording our latest rugby podcast with @TEnglishSport tomorrow and as always we’d love your questions and comments. We’ll reflect on 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 epic win over 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 & throw forward to Cardiff this weekend. If you haven’t subscribed to the pod, you can do so here ⬇️ bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07…

@RugbyPigHibs @will_owen9 Already made the difference between Scotland moving to 9th and 7th in the world rankings

@will_owen9 How was that pass not checked?! Points difference could be pivotal this tournament.

Gregor Townsend 900 year contract extension incoming

@Forestfan03 @LWaunfawr He has spent too much time working with Townsend. Baffling selections are his speciality 😂

@LWaunfawr The thing is hes given us nothing to show okay we get the situation but you seem decent. Game plan every game has been shit bar all blacks where we looked okay. His team selections are baffling to everyone. He just doesnt fill me with confidence at all

I’ve never seen so many turn on a new Welsh head coach so quickly. Tandy’s task is even greater than I thought.

@willgkelleher @TimesSport That was an abomination - let's see the scrums

Ok so the in-game adverts weren’t a disaster — but showed lack of faith in scrums; rugby’s iconography. Rugby, you must protect your glorious oddities, not encourage your own fans to miss them. Some quick thoughts on the ads @TimesSport thetimes.com/sport/rugby-un…

@TEnglishSport Yes, 6-2 would have been the way to go but Townsend doesn't seem to get its a 23 man game these days. It could be a wee touch of rotation but I have my doubts.

Would Scotland have been better off going 6-2 bench with extra back-row plus Horne and Kinghorn/Rowe/Smith as utility? A risk no matter how you slice it. Luck required with injuries in-game.

@AndyBurke_ Pleasantly Surprised, great to see form picks. Kind of wish he'd gone 6-2 on the bench but maybe actually trying to rotate squad a tiny bit considering what has still to come. Loving Horne on the bench

Thoughts on the team?

@Lattman_ @FinMorrison McConnell injured

@FinMorrison From this surely: 1.) Schoeman 2.) Ashman 3.) ZF 4.) Cummings 5.) Gilchrist 6.) JR/MF 7.) Darge 8.) JD/MF 9.) White 10.) Finn 11.) Steyn 12.) Sione 13.) Huw 14.) Darcy 15.) BK/TJ McConnell on bench amongst Dobie & TJ?

Can see what the SRU are trying to do here with this teaser announcement (to try and appease some of us detractors!) but that's a potentially lethal backline and some very abrasive forwards here in this A team. Hope they go well.

@martynziegler It's an abomination 😲

ITV to show adverts during play in Six Nations rugby for the first time. A step towards football following suit? thetimes.com/sport/rugby-un…

@TheScotsman @RugbySco There is only 15 named, it's a 23 man game these days and let's face it, it has been poor use / selection of the bench that has caused Scotland problems

Scotland Six Nations team to play Italy: back-row calls, winger gets nod, second row poser trib.al/HLhWU4y

@cnicholl33 @TelegraphRugby @CharlesRTel As a viewer of the URC, the TV coverage is great. Previously I was having to pay for BT sport then TNT. It costs more for 3 months of TNT than it does for a year of Premier sports.

@TelegraphRugby @CharlesRTel Have coverage on a channel that most people can access. Having to pay for yet another service is detrimental to the competition. Why have interest if you can't watch the game?

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Prem Rugby is actively exploring a revamp of the Champions Cup - with backing from French and URC - which could see the competition reduced to 16 teams. @CharlesRTel has more ⬇️ telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/20…

@AndyBurke_ The hookers is the only weird one. Surprised if both cherry and turner make it to the world cup. I suppose the A game is a fallback for keeping the other hookers in the loop but also one or two other position as well (tight head - Blyth-Lafferty to name one)

Thoughts on the squad?

@RazerWithAKnee I grew up in the 70s and I well remember the hardship, poverty and grinding dank industrial landscape. Then thatcher came along and the jobs disappeared. It got worse. It's taken decades but it is so much better now. Memories are so short it seems...

Sorry, Katie. You're not old enough to know what Britain was like 40+ years ago. It's probably sounds patronising but it's not meant to. Believe me when I say, Britain is unrecognisable to everyone who grew up between the 50s and 80s.

@t1meforchange23 Lloyd George and Churchill during the 1st and 2nd World Wars. Plenty of democracies cancel general elections but mainly at times of conflict. A few local elections being postponed is just normal governance

Here’s a list of leaders that have cancelled elections:) 1️⃣ Keir Starmer 2️⃣ Adolf Hitler 3️⃣ Joseph Stalin 4️⃣ Benito Mussolini 5️⃣ Francisco Franco 6️⃣ Augusto Pinochet 7️⃣ Saddam Hussein 8️⃣ Muammar Gaddafi 9️⃣ Mao Zedong 🔟 Vladimir Lenin

@RobertJenrick You should know. You were part of the government that broke it!

Britain is broken. Britain needs Reform. And Reform needs you.

@GoodwinMJ Reform dont represent the people, they are for the millionaires and support rampant capitalism to exploit the people!

What you are witnessing in British politics -with the defections- is the realignment of the entire system Something I have called for, and written about, for 13 years Labour and the Tories - the Uniparty that presided over the managed decline of our country for the last 30 years - are now imploding The Uniparty is philosophically, politically and electorally bankrupt, supported only by its self-serving cheerleaders in legacy media who still do not realise how out-of-touch they are They betrayed the people, they betrayed the country With Reform, we are now genuinely on the cusp of a historic political revolution - a revolution that will be led by the people and which will bring politics and power back to the people Ultimately, as has always been the case in Britain, it will be the people who end up saving the country But in order for that revolution to happen, in order for it to fulfil its true potential, both Reform and the people who defect to it must stay committed to the things that make us distinct from the Uniparty. End mass uncontrolled immigration. Leave the European Convention on Human Rights. Do whatever is necessary to fix Britain’s borders. Reverse the Boriswave. Scrap Indefinite Leave to Remain. End Net Zero. Strip out woke ideology and DEI from taxpayer-funded public institutions. Lower the tax burden. Slash the state. Remove regulation and red-tape. Ban Muslim Brotherhood, take on Islamism and defend British Jews. Stop tolerating those who do not tolerate us. Pursue pro-family policies. Defend free speech. Protect individual liberty. Overturn the Blairite regime. And above all, put the hardworking, taxpaying, law-abiding forgotten majority of British people first. Reform cannot become a Tory tribute act. If it does, it will collapse. So long as Reform remains committed to this vision then it will thrive and prosper. So long as anybody who joins Reform remains committed to this vision then its members will welcome them with open arms. And so long as the movement as a whole remains committed to this vision then the realignment and the restoration our once great country will continue.

@MrMBrown Public sector worker here - 3% this year, and they was after striking as they offered 1.8%. No idea where these figures come from

This is absolutely f***ing mental "Annual average regular earnings growth was 7.6% for the public sector and 3.9% for the private sector" - ONS