Argentina 26-18 Scotland: ‘Loss exposes soft underbelly of team spinning into reverse’
The Test loss to Argentina exposed a soft underbelly in the team and it's sending Scotland spinning into reverse, writes Tom English.
Gonzalo Bertranou try gives Argentina win after Scotland fight back
- First Test: Argentina 26-18 Scotland
- Poor first-half display costs Gregor Townsend’s side
Scotland paid the price for a meek first-half performance as they suffered a 26-18 defeat in the first Test of their three-match summer series against Argentina in San Salvador de Jujuy.
Gregor Townsend’s side trailed the Pumas 18-6 at the break after shipping two tries in the closing 10 minutes of a half in which they failed to enter the hosts’ 22. A spirited response early in the second half saw the Scots hit back with two tries to level things up again, but a try from Gonzalo Bertranou allowed the Pumas to regain the initiative.
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Doddie Weir: ‘The government has not given motor neurone disease the money it promised’
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“I’m still here, I’m still fighting,” says Doddie Weir even though motor neurone disease traps him inside his paralysed body. Courage and hope define Weir but he is being tested as never before. The former Scotland lock, who won 61 Test caps and played for the Lions on their triumphant tour of South Africa in 1997, was diagnosed with MND just before Christmas in 2016. He has now reached a brutal stage of deterioration.
Weir once gave a talk and asked his audience to sit on their hands. Everyone was then given a glass of water. To take even a sip they had to ask someone else to lift the glass to their mouths. When people eventually asked if they could free their hands Weir, with a trademark grin, would not give them permission.
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