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'I just instinctively threw the arm up, then realised 'jeez I haven't put it down yet'
By PA
Josh McKay was thrilled to score a try on his long-awaited return from injury as Glasgow put Bulls to the sword in Saturday’s United Rugby Championship clash at Scotstoun.
After four months out following surgery in the summer, the full-back marked his comeback with his side’s fifth touchdown in an emphatic 35-21 victory over the South Africans.
“As soon as I got over the line, I just instinctively threw the arm up, then realised ‘jeez I haven’t put it down yet’!” he told Glasgow’s website.
“If you wanted to know how excited I was to be back in the black jersey again, though, that was just a snapshot of what this club means to me.”
“I’m absolutely stoked to be back out there finally. I honestly can’t put into words how much it means. I was absolutely loving it.
“I want to give a massive shout out to the medical team – they’ve done a bloody good job over the last four months to get me back fully fit and ready to go.”
Saturday’s victory allows Glasgow to fly out to South Africa this week in buoyant mood ahead of their upcoming matches away to the Sharks and the Lions.
“We’re stoked to put in a performance like that in front of our fans, especially against a team like the Bulls,” said McKay. “We know we can still be a lot better – we left a few chances out there and we could really have put them away in the second half.
“That’ll be a good work-on for us in the next week before we go to South Africa, but we’ve shown we can front up physically with the biggest team in the league. Now we just need to go out there and back it up again.
“We’re going down to South Africa to play some footy. We want to put in a couple of performances like that one, and if we do that then we’ll come home happy.
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Agreed. Borthwick will have to write a new excuse book soon .
I have looked at the two world cup final teams from 2003 and 2020.
2003 team scored 187 tries between them in 389 caps
2020 team scored 113 tries between them in 473 caps. As you can see a huge disparity in scoring rate. Only Johnny May with 36 tries in 78 caps scored a higher amount of tries. Elliot Daly comes close but the rest are frankly very poor.
Farrell and Ford scored a pathetic 20 tries between them in a combined 210 caps.
There again , the 2003 team did have Wilko and Greenwood etc whereas 2020 team had Ford and Farrell .
So much people saying that Fords strength is of bringing others into the game .
Really. The figures totally disprove that notion .
It has been mentioned elsewhere that we have accepted mediocrity far too often and the figures would indicate that players are or have been picked far too often without performing .
Go to commentsNot disputing that NZ are ahead of Eng. Also not saying Eng are unlucky (though clearly the tone of the article is not that the ABs were unlucky but that they 'should have' won). Your team are looking great and are on the up. I just felt that Pundits have argued Eng 'should have' won the first test against the ABs, when it's more nuanced than that, and very fine margins determine results that Eng didn't get right. Same applies, therefore, to NZ and other nations. Ben Smith though doesn't seem to see it that way. To be clear: I'm not saying I agree with the 'should haves', but more that I take issue with the phrasing.
Good to see your respect for other nations is so strong! Proper rugby fan you are!!!
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