The SRU know how to create a spectacle.  A decent crowd had amassed inside Murrayfield as strobe lights and smoke machines filled the air.  Music, singing, then silence, as Remembrance day was commemorated.  A Chinook helicopter hovered above, then the flood lights came on and the fun ended!  As ever, Scottish rugby promised much, but failed to turn pressure into points.

There is such a difference between the Murrayfield and Hampden clientele.  Could you broaden it to an Edinburgh Glasgow divide?  A rugby and football one?  It is very interesting to compare the two, but with so many people travelling to internationals from all around the country it is hard I guess to limit it to a contrast of cities.

The name’s Bond, James Bond.  Or should that be James in association with Sony Ericsson Bond!  In future, I’ll be turning up late to these movies.  Having to sit through half an hour of blatant product placement was hard work.  Luckily Quantum of Solace made up for it.  I rather like the tougher, grittier Bond.  Surely a more realistic agent for these hard times?  I’ve been a fan of Daniel Craig since the awesome Layer Cake.  Once again there are great chase scenes, a significant amount of fighting, but a distinct lack of gadgets.  Although there are the usual girls present, Bond seems too preoccupied!  We may well see the reappearance of one of them, and there is no doubt that this mysterious organisation will surface again and again.  My comment of this being the middle of a good trilogy was shot down by Neil, saying there would be a whole lot more than that!  I guess this is extremely possible.