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 Peter Seabiscuit Wheeler Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:49 am

another strong 22 position wasted by gping for a kick that wasnt on...wilko stop trying to win the game on your own

by Cari Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:49 am

Ah Jebus! great run by Paterson, not enough support though.

by HammerofThunor Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:50 am

Beautiful kick by Ashton

by Peter Seabiscuit Wheeler Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:50 am

Notch wrote:Wilkinson is class, just for those moments. Can't relax when he's on the pitch unless you're sitting on a big lead.

If you ignore that hes missed two drop goals and 3 pks...

by Davie Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:51 am

That Ashton kick deserved a swan-dive

by **rodders** Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:51 am

Next score will win this Cari I think. England are becoming more dominant.

by **Notch** Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:52 am

I do ignore that Smile

To be fair Peter I literally just switched on. Erm

by Gatts Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:52 am

Jonny is doing this deliberately

by **Ozzy3213** Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:52 am

Nailed. This is going to the wire.

by HammerofThunor Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:53 am

Wilkinson always gets the ones that matter (even though they only matter because he's missed a load previously Doh

)

by **rodders** Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:53 am

Great mental strength from Wilko.

Scotland need to up the intensity. The English pack is starting to get on top.

by Cari Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:53 am

Yep...Johnny's hoofed another. Now there's three points in it...Scotland need to be resilient and keep up the pressure.

by alfie Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:53 am

JW puts a penalty over at last clap

Still tight..

by mckay1402 Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:54 am

Do Scotland have a try in them? They have looked threatening at times but more dangerous in the forwards

by Davie Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:54 am

Moody back on with no shirt number. I can hear the complaints building already

by trebellbobaggins Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:54 am

hmm, still completely on a knife edge but scotland in the box seat.

by TheGreyGhost Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:54 am

Yikes, I fell asleep. Did something happen?

by Cari Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:55 am

16 minutes to go...at the moment England are in the QFs...Scotland going home, but this could change...

Arrrrgh! Grey almost down with the try....good save by Croft!

To be fair, Scotland have had two very close chances with tries at the moment. Third time lucky!

by HammerofThunor Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:55 am

by **rodders** Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:56 am

Jeez good stuff from the scots! Great cover from Croft.

Hines on. What a guy to bring off the bench.

by Guest Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:56 am

wow two of the tallest men on the pitch sprinting for that, but Croft shows his speed to touch that ball down before Gray.

Not looking good for Tindall.

by HammerofThunor Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:56 am

Argentina might lose

by trebellbobaggins Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:56 am

again in attack though, Scotland just look sharper to me. have they been this up for a match since 1990?

by Peter Seabiscuit Wheeler Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:56 am

Tindal shouldve been penalised for the high tackle

by Peter Seabiscuit Wheeler Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:56 am

get tindall off

by HammerofThunor Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:58 am

How was that not a knock on?

by Cari Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:58 am

Vicki Pollard (aka Dylan Hartley) on.

Scotland on the attack again....

by **rodders** Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:58 am

This game is there for Scotland but they have to take their chances. It's the same old story with them. Loads of effort and ambition but no end result.

by mckay1402 Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:58 am

He wasn't held. Poor decision

by TheGreyGhost Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:58 am

Scotland losing all composure here. How many times have they been pinged for not releasing? Poor decision, but Joubert has been calling them all day.

by Guest Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:58 am

oh Scotland, stupid again! twice they've been penalised for getting up after being tackled, stupid stupid.

by Cari Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:58 am

Awh no....Ford gives away another penalty. He didn't want to do that.

by **rodders** Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:59 am

Harsh call on ford.

by Cari Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:59 am

....you just know Johnny will nail this now...

maybe not! censored

by Gatts Sat 01 Oct 2011, 9:59 am

Oh Scotland WHY DO YOU ALWAYS DO THIS? CONCENTRATE

by **rodders** Sat 01 Oct 2011, 10:00 am

Justice done there.

by Cari Sat 01 Oct 2011, 10:00 am

Argh!!! I can't watch!

by **Notch** Sat 01 Oct 2011, 10:00 am

Bad decision making from Blair. Bit of territory would have been good for them there.

by HammerofThunor Sat 01 Oct 2011, 10:00 am

Good discipline by England following the turnover

by Cari Sat 01 Oct 2011, 10:01 am

Coming up to ten minutes left...whoever gets a try now will seal the win.

by Gatts Sat 01 Oct 2011, 10:02 am

Good work by the Aussie

by HammerofThunor Sat 01 Oct 2011, 10:02 am

Tackler didn't release Easter

by Gatts Sat 01 Oct 2011, 10:02 am

Cari...remember Kev's psychic prediction

by **rodders** Sat 01 Oct 2011, 10:02 am

Well played Hines. Great player.

by Cari Sat 01 Oct 2011, 10:02 am

Good work Wagga!

Cusiter on for Blair.

by mckay1402 Sat 01 Oct 2011, 10:02 am

Come on Scotland. Just one try please

by Cari Sat 01 Oct 2011, 10:03 am

Come on Psychic Kevin!!! Cat

by mckay1402 Sat 01 Oct 2011, 10:03 am

Blair has had one of the best games i've seen from him for ages. Glad to see Cusiter on though

by Guest Sat 01 Oct 2011, 10:03 am

Harsh on Sctland there, Tuilagi was in from the side, boot or not.

by **rodders** Sat 01 Oct 2011, 10:03 am

Feck sake Tuilagi a mile offside there!

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