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@GlasgowWarriors Clevedon boy done good!!!! @YattonRFC

Just getting started 👊 Macenzzie Duncan has put pen to paper on a first professional contract with your Glasgow Warriors! 💪 More: tinyurl.com/5n6jbfxv #WhateverItTakes ⚔️🛡️

@filippofrati1 Look how many times Ireland were offside in that clip....not one identified by the ref

A perfect team effort finalized by Darcy Graham, 19 phases, 34 passes Every Scottish player touched the ball at least once, 19 times White, 6 Russell, 4 Z. Fagerson and 3 times Kinghorn, his works off the ball has been outstanding. #rugby #6nations #sixnationsrugby #teameffort

@dscottmcrae1 @scrumming_ten Weak

@scrumming_ten Matt Fagerson plays 8 and Euan Ferrie and/or Macenzzie Duncan will take on that role next season, I suspect.

Jack Dempsey leaving Glasgow Warriors at the end of the season So.....how do Glasgow Warriors fans feel about Henry Pollock? 🤣

@StuartWHOGG_ @chrisjonespress It was a pleasure watching you play for Scotland and living the highs and lows with my mates will be lifelong memories. Had the pleasure of meeting you a couple of years ago in York...we had a great night! Look after yourself

@StuartWHOGG_ @chrisjonespress Stand strong, sadly too many people sit at home and achieve nothing in their lives but find pleasure in bashing those who have. What happened in your relationship is noone's business and neither it should be. Protection of your children should be paramount over everything else

I have something I’d like to say…

@Beaverchew @StuartWHOGG_ Tw#t

@StuartWHOGG_ You're a convicted domestic abuser, gimp....who gives a fuck. Anyone want to waste time reading your drivel needs a slap. Now fuck off!!

@rua58080 @DrDeath1776 Doesnt even rhyme

@DrDeath1776 13 gone but not forgotten We got 18 and Mountbatten

In 1979 the IRA ambushed a British convoy with an 800lb bomb vaporizing one of the vehicles. Reinforcements soon arrived only to be hit with a second hidden 800lb bomb concealed in milk cans. 18 Brits died. One was identified by his pelvis being fused to an armored plate

Martin couldn't let St. Patrick's day ☘️☘️ go by without a little song...

@Scrum365 Burke Hutchinson Bayliss Hurd Henderson Christie Reed Warr Millar-Mills Hunter-Hill Redpath Harris (1 year deal) Bring them all to Scotland...Edinburgh need some too

Adam Hastings Huw Jones Jack Dempsey & Jamie Bhatti all heading for the Scotstoun exit at seasons end. Huge few weeks coming up for Glasgow in the transfer market. Need to back Franco or risk losing him.

Yellow Pages “Cleaners” 1999

19 years ago, a high school basketball coach put his team manager into a game for the final four minutes. The kid had never played a single minute of competitive basketball in his life. He scored 20 points. Jason McElwain was diagnosed with severe autism at age two. He didn’t speak until he was five. He couldn’t chew solid food until he was six. He wore a nappy for most of his early childhood. As a baby, he was rigid, wouldn’t make eye contact, and hid in corners away from other children. He tried out for his school basketball team every year and got cut every time. Too small. Too slight. Barely 5’6 and about 54 kilograms. But he loved the game so much that his mum called the school and asked if there was any way he could be involved. The coach created a team manager role for him. For three years, McElwain showed up to every practice and every game. He wore a shirt and tie on match days. He ran drills, handed out water, kept stats, and cheered every basket like he’d scored it himself. On 15 February 2006, the last home game of his final school year, the coach let him suit up in a proper jersey and sit on the bench. With four minutes left and a comfortable lead, the coach sent him in. His first shot missed. His second missed. Then something shifted. He hit a three-pointer. Then another. Then another. His teammates stopped shooting entirely and just kept passing him the ball. He hit six three-pointers and a two-pointer. 20 points in four minutes. The highest scorer in the game. When the final buzzer went, the entire crowd rushed the court and lifted him onto their shoulders. His mum tapped the coach on the shoulder, in tears. “This is the nicest gift you could have ever given my son.” McElwain won the ESPY Award for Best Moment in Sports that year, beating out some of the biggest names in professional sport. He’s 36 now. He works at a local supermarket, coaches basketball, has run 17 marathons including five Boston Marathons, and travels the country speaking about never giving up. When asked about that night, his coach still gets emotional. “For him to come in and seize the moment like he did was certainly more than I ever expected. I was an emotional wreck.”

@gregmgaffney @dab691 @MailSport And???

@alanwalters6 @dab691 @MailSport

He was a colossus in the victories against both England and France. Now Scotland - and Glasgow Warriors - are facing up to losing Jack Dempsey. Just how did they let him get away? trib.al/9XCHSiX

@markgranza His dad must watch his behaviour and be embarrassed

I just watched the Netflix manosphere doc. If you focus only on its themes and subjects, it's pretty boring overall, but if you look at its format, it becomes quite interesting. It might be the most unintentional work of art ever made (and I don't mean it as a compliment toward the producers). This scene alone is one of the most surreal I've ever seen (so much to unpack that it would take me years). For context: the scene takes place towards the end, when the host returns to Marbella for one last follow-up interview with one of the influencers. At this point, the influencer has received plenty of negative feedback from his own followers about the host, having live-streamed the making of the doc several times, so he's well-aware of his and his producers' intentions (i.e., to essentially do a hit piece), so he tries to set them up by asking his own "cameraman" to live-stream the whole encounter. This time, however, not just for the sake of live-streaming, but to expose them as biased, corrupt, etc. IOW, to engineer a "hit piece" on them (whether his attempt backfires is irrelevant). On top of that, by the time the encounter takes place, the host has been live-streamed multiple times by almost all the subjects he had been profiling (over the course of weeks or months, not sure), which in turn has generated not only lots of discussion on socials (I've never heard of any of the influencers before this so I missed it), but also news articles about the making of the doc, the subjects profiled, the host, their views, and so forth, not to mention content about the news articles and the streams by other influencers... *before the doc has even wrapped up filming*. So it's already kind of unique. Now, though, that the documentary has come out, here are some Qs: Who's producing it? The host or the influencers? Their followers? The media? The other influencers? A combination of all of these? Who is the subject? Is the host making a documentary about himself by making a documentary about the influencers, or one about the influencers by making one about himself? Both? The whole thing is like a production within a series of streams within multiple reality shows within news stories within a debate within multiple platforms within (more layers I'm probably not even thinking of), which can also work in reverse, depending on how you look at it and/or how you've come across it. It's an unintentional work of art insofar as it perfectly captures the absurdity of today's "cultural" production—the way we consume it, contribute to it, engineer it, let it affect us (or the other way around). It also reveals in part why many of us online are prone to describe culture as "stuck". I think the reason we can't seem to ever get to the bottom of why is that we are not really describing "culture" when we say that. We are describing ourselves. Those comments that appear in the chat within the stream within the documentary? That's "us".

@dab691 @gregmgaffney @MailSport Because Greg knows nothing about rugby

@gregmgaffney @MailSport Why?

@gregmgaffney @MailSport 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

@MailSport He shouldn’t be eligible for Scotland full stop,

On this day in 1995, the last clan chief in history known to have led his men into battle died at the age of 83. Simon Fraser, the 15th Lord Lovat, was the Chief of Clan Fraser. He was the man Winston Churchill described, in a letter to Joseph Stalin, as “the mildest-mannered man that ever scuttled ship or cut a throat.” The Scottish Commando chief whom Hitler placed a 100,000 Reichsmark bounty on, dead or alive. He was a well respected man that already had a serious war record before D-Day. The night before D-Day, Lovat addressed his men. He closed with this: “A hundred years from now, your children’s children will say - they must have been giants in those days.” Then came June 6th, 1944. Sword Beach, Normandy. As Brigadier of the 1st Special Service Brigade, Lord Lovat waded ashore leading 3,000 commandos into hell. And behind him came the sound that made the whole scene unforgettable. The English War Office had strictly banned bagpipes in battle. They said it was too conspicuous. Too dangerous. Lovat brought his personal piper, Bill Millin, and gave the order: “Play us ashore.” When Millin hesitated, citing the regulations, Lovat smiled and replied: “Ah, but that’s the English War Office. You and I are both Scottish, and that doesn’t apply.” So Millin played Highland Laddie, The Road to the Isles, and All The Blue Bonnets Are Over the Border. Men fell around them. Bullets tore through the surf. The noise of artillery was deafening. And through it all, the unmistakable scream of the bagpipes. Captured German snipers later admitted they had Millin in their sights, but didn’t shoot him because they assumed he had gone completely mad. Lovat’s mission was to reach Pegasus Bridge, where British glider troops were desperately holding on. The schedule said 1pm. Lovat and his men fought their way off the beach and arrived at exactly 1:02 PM. He calmly walked up to the commanding officer under enemy fire and apologised for being two and a half minutes late. His commandos then marched across the bridge in the open. Lovat had ordered his men to wear their green berets instead of steel helmets, so the Germans would know exactly who was coming for them. Twelve men were shot through their berets that day. After that, they finally put their helmets on. But they held the bridge. For Clan Fraser, there was something almost mythic about it. Their ancestors had come from Normandy centuries earlier. Now their chief had led Highland soldiers back onto those same shores in one of the most decisive battles in modern history. Six days later, Lovat was given his last rites after being hit by friendly fire from a stray artillery shell. Against all odds, he survived. He returned home a hero. He went on to serve in Parliament, judge cattle internationally, and manage his massive 250,000-acre Highland estate. But his final years were marked by grief. Two of his sons died within weeks of each other in 1994. Beaufort Castle, his ancestral home, had to be sold that same year. When Lord Lovat died on 16 March 1995, an era died with him. Bill Millin later played at his funeral, bringing the story full circle. The last clan chief who went to war. The brigadier who brought bagpipes onto D-Day. The Highlander with a price on his head. Scotland does not produce many men like that ⚔️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@king4409 @AndyBurke_ What academy players...none of them are any good! They have been sheltered in private schools and never tested at high level academies. This myth of let the younger players have a chance is not something Scotland can afford to do

@AndyBurke_ He can still play for Scotland but will be playing less in Japan than he would in URC. Frees up money for Glasgow and chance for academy players to come through.

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

@AndyBurke_ @Shona055 The SRU are an embarrassment - pay the man whatever it takes to keep him...same for Huw Jones. Small minded, amateur executives making rugby related decisions. Honestly fed up with how our development and retention systems are run...

@wallinator1 @CorkGourmetGuy He played very well under lots of pressure from a brilliant defence...Ireland were the better team. Why cant the Irish just be happy with that? Why do you all have to fire insults and shots for no reason and no gain? Worse than the English when they were at their worst!!!

@alanwalters6 @CorkGourmetGuy Finn had his usual blow up in the Aviva. Absolute spoofer

Finn Russell has been comprehensively outplayed by Jack Crowley today. Ireland have done a great job of keeping Russell quiet for the most part but Crowley has had far more influence on the game with an assured, mature performance. #IREvSCO #SIXNATIONS

@JYHYCN Don't waste your time mate....they are so arrogant they cant enter a debate with an open mind...

It must be great playing for Ireland, you are never offside when defending…. #IREVSCO