Scotland v Australia, 23 November

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Scotland v Australia
 
23 November 2013, KO: 18:00
Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh
 
Referee: Jaco Peyper (RSA)
AR1: Pascal Gauzere (FRA)
AR2: Francisco Pastrana (ARG)
TMO: Geoff Warren (ENG)
 
LIVE on BBC
 
A. Teams:
 
1. Jessies
 
15 Sean Maitland (Glasgow Warriors) 7 caps, 1 try, 5 points
14 Tommy Seymour (Glasgow Warriors) 4 caps, 2 tries, 10 points
13 Nick De Luca (Edinburgh Rugby) 40 caps, 1 try, 5 points
12 Duncan Taylor (Saracens) 5 caps
11 Sean Lamont (Glasgow Warriors) 81 caps, 12 tries, 60 points

10 Duncan Weir (Glasgow Warriors) 7 caps, 1 try, 2 conversions, 9 points
9 Greig Laidlaw (Edinburgh Rugby) 23 caps, 3 tries, 23 conversions, 49 penalties, 208 points

1 Ryan Grant (Glasgow Warriors) 12 caps
2 Ross Ford (Edinburgh Rugby) 70 caps, 2 tries, 10 points
3 Moray Low (Glasgow Warriors) 22 caps
4 Grant Gilchrist (Edinburgh Rugby)
5 Jim Hamilton (Montpellier) 49 caps, 1 try, 5 points
6 Johnnie Beattie (Montpellier) 25 caps, 3 tries, 15 points
7 Kelly Brown (Saracens) 59 caps, 4 tries, 20 points CAPTAIN
8 David Denton (Edinburgh Rugby) 16 caps
 
16 Pat MacArthur (Glasgow Warriors) 2 caps
17 Alasdair Dickinson (Edinburgh Rugby) 29 caps, 2 tries, 10 points
18 Euan Murray (Worcester Warriors) 57 caps, 2 tries, 10 points
19 Jonny Gray (Glasgow Warriors)
20 Kieran Low (London Irish) uncapped
21 Chris Cusiter (Glasgow Warriors) 63 caps, 3 tries, 15 points
22 Ruaridh Jackson (Glasgow Warriors) 23 caps, 3 conversions, 2 penalties, 2 drop-goals 18 points
23 Max Evans (Castres) 36 caps, 3 tries, 15 points
  
2. Wallabies

15 Israel Folau
14 Joe Tomane
13 Christian Leali'ifano
12 Mike Harris
11 Chris Feauai-Sautia
10 Quade Cooper
9 Will Genia
 
8 Ben Mowen (capt)
7 Michael Hooper
6 Scott Fardy
5 James Horwill
4 Rob Simmons
3 Sekope Kepu
2 Stephen Moore
1 James Slipper
 
16 Saia Fainga'a
17 Ben Alexander
18 Paddy Ryan
19 Sitaleki Timani
20 Ben McCalman
21 Nic White
22 Nick Phipps
23 Bernard Foley
 
B. Recent Form - last seven
 
1. Scotland
 
Scotland - South Africa 0-28
Scotland - Italy 30-29
South Africa - Scotland 30-17
Samoa - Scotland 27-17
France - Scotland 23-16
Scotland - Wales 18-28
Scotland - Ireland 12-8
 
2. Australia
 
15-32 Ireland - Australia
20-13 England - Australia
41-33 New Zealand - Australia
17-54 Argentina - Australia
28-8 South Africa - Australia
14-13 Australia - Argentina
12-38 Australia - South Africa
 
C. Recent Form - head to head
 
5 June 2012, Hunter Stadium, Newcastle
Scotland Tour of Australasia
Australia 6 – 9 Scotland
 
21 November 2009, Murrayfield, Edinburgh
2009 Autumn International
Scotland 9 – 8 Australia
 
25 November 2006, Murrayfield, Edinburgh
2006 Autumn International
Scotland 15 – 44 Australia
 
20 November 2004, Hampden Park, Glasgow
2004 Autumn International
Scotland 17 – 31 Australia
 
6 November 2004, Murrayfield, Edinburgh
2004 Autumn International  
Scotland 14 – 31 Australia

I'm liking the old skool looking shirts on the Scottish players. Better than what they were wearing last week.  

Phew that was close Weir.

Advantage Scotland! Come on laddies!

Ha! Maitland's letting his Kiwi side out.  

Good start Scotland!

Weir started well

Sean Maitland's been feisty

Great play Laidlaw.

Australia are rattled - need to build a few points before they find their rhythm again

Interesting how Oz opted for the line out instead of the scrum there. Are they worried about their scrum or is their line out working for them?

With the Murrayfield pitch as it is I don't think either team wants to scrum

Soft oenalty there for Scotland.

Big opportunity for MacArthur now

Go Scotland - looking good!

Shame Ford's had to come off now, but good for player development.

Scotland cannot win if they keep giving away penalties at this rate.

Can someone explain to me WHY:

- People even try touch people in the air in lineouts (Scot do this in their lineouts often but rarely get pinged but it's heart in mouth every time they do it)
- Box kick from a dodgy ruck? Reset, recycle and do it THEN.

Cari wrote:Shame Ford's had to come off now, but good for player development.

Cari the irony is that almost nobody on these boards wanted Ford to play this match, so we don't find it a shame. He's good but a bit of the boil of late: consensus is he needs a break and MacArthur needs some time in the 2 shirt.

Please no crap box kick from here

They're definitely winning the kicking battle just now

Poor defence there from Scotland.

Oh well

Oz get the first try unsurprisingly.

That was very soft.

Good heads up play from Weir on the advantage - poor execution tho

C'mon Scotland

Laidlaw just elbowed Kellybrows out of the way

Surely Australia due a yellow card warning soon

GWAAAAN SCHLONG!!!! Good run Maitland.

RDW_Scotland wrote:Surely Australia due a yellow card warning soon

They should've had one a while back.

If Scotland got a try now it would really lift them. Come on laddies!

TJ wrote:Laidlaw just elbowed Kellybrows out of the way

Would make a great GIF animation!

If we can stay in touch here I'd be happy

How badly did we mess that up??

How badly did we mess that up??

Oh bummer. Big chance gone.

SO close...

Lamont is a donkey

That was v, v good by Folau.

That's EXACTLY when you needed to hear the name "Visser" instead of "Lamont" (or Maitland under the assumption Hogg would've been the full back taking it up)

Maitland passed too early! Didn't commit Folau.

RDW_Scotland wrote:How badly did we mess that up??

In the spirit of English ten year anniversary celebrations, we Ben Kayed that

Maitland should have gone for that , he's much quicker

Surely they were pushing early there!

Oz should've been pinged there. Chance gone for Scotland then.

HT 12-13

Poor decision from the ref, 2 poor decisions actually. 1st Australia go early then after that an early shove

Good work by the scots...

Causing the Aussies a lot of problems

A very good match so far, Scotland are playing quite well and really should have scored.

Switched off - that lady who's talking the stats doesn't understand rugby you can tell. This is not a sexist comment btw before someone jumps me for it

Think that last 5 minutes was harsh on Scotland. Should have been 1 man or 1 scrum up there

Thi is one heck of a lot better than last week. If we had had visser that would have been a try

Scotland is playing much better than last week, their biggest issue tonight is their lasses and offloads don't stick.

If Maitland stepped inside of Folau on his weak shoulder he would have scored that try, Folau's defence is not that great, by passing to Lamont he played into Folau's hands as all He had to do was sheperd Lamont into the corner.

The last scrum should have been a free kick to Scotland, the Scottish captain will do well to whisper into Jaco Peyper's ear that on their own ball Australia doesn't stop pushing once they set the scrum, it is their way to gain any possible momentum.

They did the same thing in the rugby Championship and got away with it a lot of times.

Well a much better performance so far. The left/right flankers working quite well, Brown and Beattie both playing well. Pack playing well and we are in the game.

They are due a yellow card though

If Maitland had just drawn his man the worst he was going to have was a simple offload to lamont, what a butchering..

Biltong wrote:
The last scrum should have been a free kick to Scotland, the Scottish captain will do well to whisper into Jaco Peyper's ear that on their own ball Australia doesn't stop pushing once they set the scrum, it is their way to gain any possible momentum.

They did the same thing in the rugby Championship and got away with it a lot of times.

They did it every scrum last week against Ireland. It drives me mental because it means the opposition hooker needs to push before the ball goes in and can't strike for the ball.

Ineffable wrote:Switched off - that lady who's talking the stats doesn't understand rugby you can tell. This is not a sexist comment btw before someone jumps me for it

Gaby Logan is actually very educated in most sport - including rugby.  And she should be, she's an ex-international gymnast, her dad was a famous professional footballer and she's married to an ex (Scottish) international rugby player.

Incidentally, I'm not disagreeing with you because she's female and I think you're being sexist - I just think you're wrong. I think she's one of the better pundits on TV compared to some of the other numpties they have.

That last scrum was a free kick to Scotland and the ref hasn't been consistent with his warnings. Ridiculous

I don't see what they see in Denton though

Come on Scotland
Keep it