- a thread for the Weegies & all other unpleasant things Scottish.Lets start with this:
Aren't they just fecking wonderful? If ever I've seen a CEO trying to justify his existence, this man can put Fit to shame any day of the week.Glasgow Warriors fans will benefit from the preparatory work done by Scottish Rugby to attract the Fijian winger Taqele Naiyaravoro, claims Mark Dodson.
The 23-year-old, 6ft 5in Waratahs star arrives at Scotstoun this summer.
Scottish Rugby's chief executive said: "Four or five years ago, there wasn't a queue of people knocking at the door wanting to play in Scottish rugby.
"But that guy is probably one of the biggest box office draws in world rugby and he's chosen to come to Glasgow."
Dodson added: "We spotted Taqele some time ago.
"Gregor Townsend (Warriors' head coach) was down in New South Wales and realised there was a chance he could fit in because we knew about approaches from clubs for Sean Maitland and Niko Matawalu.
"We spotted him just before he broke into the Waratahs first team and started to destroy defences.
"We do a lot of due diligence on a player and Gregor in particular looks at the human being.
"Scott Johnson (Scotland's director of rugby) went out and spoke to his family and explained what we were about. We show people love when we go out there. We don't just say, 'we'll write the cheque', we spend an awful lot of time preparing the ground."
Dodson says there has been an improvement on recent years when "there was no parade of agents" outside his door at Murrayfield.
"The best players were all gone by the time we got to the market," he admitted.
"Usually we were late going to the market and we were paying bottom dollar. Now we go early and we pay reasonable dollar. We get ahead of the wave."
Still he has confessed to previous incompetence and for that he should be fired, though his secret deal with BT Sport on Murrayfield for the meagre price of selling out the HC & in so doing, saving the SRU from penury doubtless stands in his favour with the Ginger, skirt wearing, haggis munching, gloating ballixes who have suddenly swollen the Weegie fan base from 3000-4000 to about 6K plus glory-hunters who are prepared to sing when they're winning.
Disciplinary allegations apart, lets not forget that Scotland successfully seized the wooden spoon in this years 6Ns having looked as good as their weemins team in being spanked stupid by Ireland 10-40 a day of Scottish shame.
Speaking of Scottish Weemin, the also seized the wooden spoon with a solid nil return, losing their last match 3-73 to the Weemin's 6Ns champions Ireland.
Anyone spotting a recurring theme?
In Scottish news, Glasgow have terminated the contract of Saffer prop De Klerk. He is accused of stalking a young woman.
