Scotland vs England - Match Thread - Team News - etc...

by HERSH Tue 27 Sep 2011, 12:20 pm

First topic message reminder :

How the teams line up

England team: B Foden; C Ashton, M Tuilagi, M Tindall, D Armitage; J Wilkinson, B Youngs; M Stevens, S Thompson, D Cole, L Deacon, C Lawes, T Croft, L Moody (capt), J Haskell.

Replacements: D Hartley, A Corbisiero, T Palmer, N Easter, R Wigglesworth, T Flood, M Banahan.

Scotland team: C Paterson; M Evans, J Ansbro, S Lamont, S Danielli; R Jackson, M Blair; A Jacobsen, R Ford, E Murray, R Gray, A Kellock (capt), A Strokosch , J Barclay, R Vernon.

Replacements: S Lawson, A Dickinson, N Hines, R Rennie, C Cusiter, D Parks, N De Luca.

Last 10 meetings

2011 England 22 - 16 Scotland
2010 Scotland 15 - 15 England
2009 England 26 - 12 Scotland
2008 Scotland 15 - 9 England
2007 England 42 - 20 Scotland
2006 Scotland 18 - 12 England
2005 England 43 - 22 Scotland
2004 Scotland 13 - 35 England
2003 England 40 - 9 Scotland
2002 Scotland 3 - 29 England

England 7 - Scotland 2 - Draw 1

England 273 pts - Scotland 143 pts

IMO on paper the Scots might as well start packing their bags, but I have a strange feeling they might just pull it off, Chris Paterson will have plenty of shots at goal if England continue getting penalised at the breakdown and we all know what that means, he very rarely misses unless his wearing cherry and White!

Or am I being silly?

RWC so far

England

Argentina 9 - 13 England
England 41 - 10 Georgia
England 67 - 3 Romania

England PF 121 pts - PA 22pts

Scotland

Scotland 34 - 24 Romania
Scotland 15 - 6 Georgia
Argentina 13 - 12 Scotland

Scotland PF 61 - PA 43

Missed this one,

England 17 tries to Scotlands 4

Discuss

by Breadvan Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:00 am

27 mins in and i've just seen Ashton for the first time!

by TheGreyGhost Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:01 am

Smit like deliberate knock on from Cole...Yellow card surely Wink

by **Biltong** Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:01 am

Gatts wrote:england france...should be a cracker

by **rodders** Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:01 am

Parks! Keep the ball man!

by **Biltong** Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:01 am

TheGreyGhost wrote:Smith like deliberate knock on from Cole...Yellow card surely

by **Biltong** Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:03 am

I love the New zealander commentary, they state the obvious.

Marshall " Scotland are playing the conditions perfectly"

Doh

They probably think they are at home.

by Thomond Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:04 am

Biltong,the conditions are slightly better than their home. Wink

by Cari Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:04 am

Johnny's showing some bottle attempting the kicks though - they're huge and in those conditions...

by **Biltong** Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:05 am

Tindall doesn't really have very quick hands, does he?

by TheGreyGhost Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:06 am

biltongbek wrote:Tindall doesn't really have very quick hands, does he?

That's not what they're saying in Queenstown...

by Cari Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:06 am

I bet Evans was tempted to wallop Ashton there...

by **Biltong** Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:06 am

Thomond wrote:Biltong,the conditions are slightly better than their home.

Yeah, like a nice summer day?

by Breadvan Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:06 am

Come on JW, for the love of god, come on..... Erm

by Peter Seabiscuit Wheeler Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:06 am

Gatts wrote:england france...should be a cracker

youre rather assuming that england are going to turn this aorund there Gats!

by Gatts Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:06 am

Toby Flood: Just get hold of all the balls and puncture them!!

by Cari Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:06 am

He keeps trying...fairdo's...and he gets one!

by Cumbrian Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:07 am

Finally! We done Jonny!

by **Biltong** Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:07 am

Good kicking by johnny tonight. thumbsup

by Thomond Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:07 am

Wilko lands one,6-3.

by Breadvan Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:07 am

Thank feck for that.... thumbsup

by Peter Seabiscuit Wheeler Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:08 am

Always good to see the scrum half try and pick a fight with the second row

by **rodders** Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:08 am

Scotland are hanging off the tackles too much and giving away too many penalties at the breakdown.

by mckay1402 Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:08 am

England are going to get a roasting from Johnson at half time. Hope the boys in blue can keep this up...

by Guest Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:08 am

da iawn johnny.

Youngs needs to watch himself, starting to lose his temper a bit.

by **rodders** Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:09 am

Good defence by armitage. Too much slow ball there.

by Cari Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:09 am

Good attacking position from Scotland....tackled into touch though.

Paterson not looking 100%...he may get replaced soon.

by QuickBall Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:11 am

Keep up the running score guys, at work and can't watch a thing...

by Peter Seabiscuit Wheeler Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:11 am

Vickery talking sense for omnce...why did england mess about with that maul in their 22 only to gain 3 yards and worse possesion whilst risking goiving away pennalties?

If youre going too kick it clear kick it clear dont muck about first

by mckay1402 Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:11 am

would like to see much better kick chases from Scotland. Parks is putting some really good kicks in but not enough pressure

by Cumbrian Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:12 am

Nasty little cheap shot from Murray there.

by HammerofThunor Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:12 am

Nice to see the Christian morals raise to the fore there.

by Guest Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:12 am

Really good Scotland scrums here.

by **rodders** Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:12 am

Scotland have England rattled for sure. They can't take their foot of the gas though. In fact they've been pretty sloppy themselves and need to improve in the 2nd half.

I don't think either coach will be happy, especially Johnson.

by Guest Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:13 am

they might have England rattled but they aren't scoring points rodders! England will come back into this for sure, Scotland have got to make all this pressure count.

Lots of improvement needed for both teams.

by TheGreyGhost Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:13 am

Jouert doing great work reffing that scrum. Stevens has been found out.

by **rodders** Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:13 am

Murray giving Stevens a nightmare, just like I predicted Wink

by mckay1402 Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:13 am

Come on Scotland, drive it over

by **rodders** Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:14 am

Great play parks!

by Gatts Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:14 am

Wee jock Mcplop has wood!!!

by mckay1402 Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:14 am

bad decision. would have scored a try had they kept going Doh

by Guest Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:14 am

DG Parks! woo!

by **Biltong** Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:14 am

Do scotland have to score 4 tries here, or just win by more than 7?

by Thomond Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:15 am

Mon Scotland! I predicted it on SG!

by TheGreyGhost Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:15 am

Win by more than 7 Biltong I think.

by Guest Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:15 am

win by more than 8 I think biltong, they didn't mention anything about tries in the build up.

Just win by 8 and deny england any sort of BP.

by Countnefarious Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:15 am

I noticed that "good Christian," Euan Murray, maliciously digging his elbow into another man's face there. Oh well, at least he doesn't play on Sundays: far more important sign of a man's character.

by Peter Seabiscuit Wheeler Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:15 am

TheGreyGhost wrote:Jouert doing great work reffing that scrum. Stevens has been found out.

typical sanzar prop has no idea how to scrum when up against an NH'er Whistle

by HammerofThunor Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:15 am

TheGreyGhost wrote:Jouert doing great work reffing that scrum. Stevens has been found out.

Not really, he's never really been that much cop in the scrum. If only we had the greatest scrummaging prop in the World playing (Sheridan for those that know nothing about rugby)

by Cari Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:16 am

Scotland only need to win by eight points or more as far as I know.

HT 9 - 3.

by Gatts Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:16 am

Countnefarious wrote:I noticed that "good Christian," Euan Murray, maliciously digging his elbow into another man's face there. Oh well, at least he doesn't play on Sundays: far more important sign of a man's character.

Dude, whatever you think leave the guys religion out of it, there is a line and you just crossed it

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