Jamie Lyall
Broadcast Journalist, Commentator and Event Host at Freelance
Terminally glaikit freelance sports commentator and journalist 🏉⚽️ 💻🎙️ He/him
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1 week ago |
bbc.com | Jamie Lyall
Image source, SNSImage caption, Hibernian hammered Dundee 4-0 to equal a club-record league unbeaten runOn a Saturday night in late November, as the rain teemed down at Dens Park, Hibernian players trooped off the pitch reeling from a 4-1 annihilation that kept them anchored to the foot of the Scottish Premiership. They had taken an early lead, then capitulated to rampant Dundee. Jordan Obita was sent off.
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4 weeks ago |
rugbypass.com | Jamie Lyall
Alex Masibaka was perched on a rooftop bar in Barcelona, bathing in the Catalonian sun and sipping a cool beer when his phone rang. The barnstorming number eight was on a stag do for his Angouleme team-mate, Jacob Botica, and big plans were afoot for the next few days. He’d only had time for one cerveza but even with a full day session behind him, the caller ID would have sobered him up pronto: Gregor Townsend.
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1 month ago |
sports.yahoo.com | Jamie Lyall
Scotland were "a bum cheek away from converting" as they concluded their Six Nations campaign with a defeat by France, says head coach Gregor Townsend. The Scots went down 35-16 in Paris and end the tournament in fourth place while their hosts clinched the title at England's expense. Scotland made nine visits to the French 22 and forced their opponents to attempt over 200 tackles but scored only a solitary try through Darcy Graham.
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1 month ago |
bbc.com | Jamie Lyall
"We didn't get the breaks - the bad luck before half-time [with a disallowed try] and a mistake and they scored just after half-time. "We were a bum cheek away from converting in the first half when Blair was just in touch. You need to have patience and accuracy and that was little bit missing."Scotland opened their campaign with a staccato home win over Italy, before being comprehensively beaten by Ireland a week later.
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1 month ago |
rugbypass.com | Brett McKay |Jamie Lyall
Super Rugby Pacific is a tough competition, but based on the opening three rounds, it’s gotten even tougher. Across an admittedly small sample size, two very clear trends have developed, fuelling commentary this is the most exciting start to a Super Rugby campaign in recent memory. The initiatives introduced in 2024 to keep the game the moving – which worked very effectively last season – seem to have been dialled up again.
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Thirteen years ago today, Edinburgh felled the Toulousain juggernaut to break new ground for Scottish rugby. Such a special team. Ross Rennie, especially, was a joke. But my abiding memory will forever be the Pans' finest, Chunk Jacobsen, going tonto after the opening try. https://t.co/Q7Q3wpuS33
A fit Sione Vailanu will be - in every sense - a massive weapon for Glasgow's run-in. Colossal ball carrier.
"There will be no stopping him!" 🎙️ @GlasgowWarriors' Sione Vailanu powers over the line and extends his side's lead ⚔️ #InvestecChampionsCup https://t.co/C7LJfcafgJ
Munster in the Champions Cup. Different. Special. Iconic. Another chapter scribed in their remarkable European history.
Munster defeat La Rochelle by one point to advance to the quarter-final stage 🤯🔴 #InvestecChampionsCup https://t.co/WKhiK4NFe8
