Scotland (17) v France (19), 8 March

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Scotland    vs France   

RBS 6 Nations
Murrayfield, Edinburgh
Saturday 8th March, 2014
KO 1700

Referee: Chris Pollock



Assistant Referees: George Clancy, JP Doyle

A. Squads

Scotland Squad REVISED:

Forwards: Johnnie Beattie (Montpellier), Kelly Brown (Saracens), Geoff Cross, David Denton, Alasdair Dickinson, Ross Ford (all Edinburgh Rugby), Chris Fusaro (Glasgow Warriors), Grant Gilchrist (Edinburgh Rugby), Ryan Grant, Jonny Gray (both Glasgow Warriors), Richie Gray (Castres), Jim Hamilton (Montpellier), Scott Lawson (Newcastle Falcons), Moray Low, Pat MacArthur (both Glasgow Warriors), Euan Murray (Worcester Warriors), Alasdair Strokosch (Perpignan), Tim Swinson and Ryan Wilson (both Glasgow Warriors).

Backs: Chris Cusiter (Glasgow Warriors), Jack Cuthbert, Nick De Luca (both Edinburgh Rugby), Alex Dunbar (Glasgow Warriors), Max Evans (Castres), Dougie Fife (Edinburgh Rugby), Stuart Hogg, Ruaridh Jackson (both Glasgow Warriors), Greig Laidlaw (Edinburgh Rugby), Sean Lamont (Glasgow Warriors), Matt Scott (Edinburgh Rugby), Tommy Seymour (Glasgow Warriors), Duncan Taylor (Saracens) and Duncan Weir (Glasgow Warriors).

NO HARLEY, RENNIE or K LOW

French Squad:

Vincent Debaty, Thomas Domingo, Yannick Forestier, Brice Mach, Dimitri Szarzewski, Nicolas Mas, Rabah Slimani, Alexandre Flanquart, Yoann Maestri, Pascal Pape, Sebastien Vaahamahina, Virgile Bruni, Alexandre Lapandry, Wenceslas Lauret, Bernard le Roux, Damien Chouly, Antonie Claassen, Jean-Marc Doussain, Maxime Machenaud, Morgan Parra, Jules Plisson, Remi Tales, Mathieu Bastareaud, Gael Fickou, Remi Lamerat, Maxime Mermoz, Yoann Huget, Maxime Medard, Hugo Bonneval, Brice Dulin

B. Previous matches

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd7YAfmRSls  2013  L
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_7_quuZcsY  2012  L
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zpi55BQmRM 2011    L

C. Teams

France Team:


France team: B Dulin (Castres); Y Huget (Toulouse), M Bastareaud (Toulon), M Mermoz (Toulon), M Medard (Toulouse); J Plisson (Stade Francais), M Machenaud (Racing Metro); T Domingo (Clermont Auvergne), B Mach (Castres), N Mas (Montpellier), Y Maestri (Toulouse), P Pape (Stade Francais, capt), S Vahaamahina (Perpignan), A Lapandry (Clermont Auvergne), D Chouly (Clermont Auvergne).

Replacements: G Guirado (Perpignan), V Debaty (Clermont Auvergne), R Slimani (Stade Francais), A Flanquart (Stade Francais), A Claassen (Castres), J-M Doussain (Toulouse), R Tales (Castres), G Fickou (Toulouse).

Scotland Team:



Stuart Hogg (Glasgow Warriors), Tommy Seymour (Glasgow Warriors), Alex Dunbar (Glasgow Warriors), Matt Scott (Edinburgh), Sean Lamont (Glasgow Warriors), Duncan Weir (Glasgow Warriors), Greig Laidlaw (Edinburgh); Ryan Grant (Glasgow Warriors), Scott Lawson (Newcastle Falcons), Geoff Cross (Edinburgh), Richie Gray (Castres), Jim Hamilton (Montpellier), Johnny Beattie (Montpellier), Kelly Brown (Saracens, capt), David Denton (Edinburgh).
Replacements: Ross Ford (Edinburgh), INJ OUT Alasdair Dickinson (Edinburgh) IN Moray Low, Euan Murray (Worcester Warriors), Tim Swinson (Glasgow Warriors), Ryan Wilson (Glasgow Warriors), Chris Cusiter (Glasgow Warriors), Duncan Taylor (Saracens), Max Evans (Castres).

D. Watch out for...

Richie Gray https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSpiYWB-5Sk

Yoann Huget https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYWJyeLoUAs

PS Thanks to George Carlin for previous match threads. I've tried where possible to continue your style and structure.

123456789 wrote:If we win our last two games, France beat Ireland, Wales beat England and England beat Italy then five teams will finish with three wins and two defeats.

Lot of if there.

If Scotland beat Wales by about +120 then they will win the 6Ns!

Interesting. Weir lining up this kick.

Huget now seems to be suffering from Parisse syndrome: When you're the only player on the team who seems to be capable of playing rugby.

Second attempt success

Come on scotland

123456789 wrote:Huget now seems to be suffering from Parisse syndrome: When you're the only player on the team who seems to be capable of playing rugby.

Dulin can play too,

but they are both responsible for Scotland's first try

wales606 wrote:

123456789 wrote:If we win our last two games, France beat Ireland, Wales beat England and England beat Italy then five teams will finish with three wins and two defeats.

Lot of if there.

If Scotland beat Wales by about +120 then they will win the 6Ns!

Scott Johnson is a tactical genius, believe.

Need to get hamilton off or france will get a pen

How would you know if Big Jim was concussed or not?

wales606 wrote:

123456789 wrote:Huget now seems to be suffering from Parisse syndrome: When you're the only player on the team who seems to be capable of playing rugby.

Dulin can play too,

but they are both responsible for Scotland's first try

That's true but aside from that they seem to be limited, we should be 15 points clear by now.

George Carlin wrote:How would you know if Big Jim was concussed or not?

  

Come on boys, lets get back into them.

Did Pollock just call Clancy "Georgie" ...????

God this game is dull...

French no8 did a great job of tackling the French no15

This puts the Welsh win in perspective.

Oh sh!t. Can we watch Fickou forensically please.

You know when you have those days where everything you are trying to do, is just unnecessarily, unexpectedly more difficult...?

Well I never thought I would see so many people having that same issue in one place at the same time.

LeinsterFan4life wrote:This puts the Welsh win in perspective.

How so, France are missing 3 very influential players in Picamoles, Nyanga and Fofana.

LeinsterFan4life wrote:This puts the Welsh win in perspective.

And the England loss in Paris?

Bill McLaren would never have used the word 'squint'.

George Carlin wrote:Bill McLaren would never have used the word 'squint'.

"The wee ball wobbled off course like an errant Murray Mint".

wales606 wrote:God this game is dull...

It wasn't bad in the first half. But much like those birds who look quite attractive in their thirties and then lose their shape and look like a bag of burst broad beans in their 50s and 60s, this game has lost all semblance of a real match all too quickly in the second half.

This half feels like a 40 minute scrum reset.

This thread is far more entertaining than the match. Well done everyone.

George Carlin wrote:Bill McLaren would never have used the word 'squint'.

Isn't Squint one of those obsure towns the great man would say they'd be dancing in tonight after a Scotland win?

France got lucky in Paris. England more than deserved the win.

Now, I would have gone to the corner here myself.

dont see how scotland are getting the last few scrum decisions. poor by pollock who has been good on open play.

yet another game being determined in the scrum interpretation. not an attractive part of NH rugby, especially on such a boggy pitch.

GloriousEmpire wrote:This half feels like a 40 minute scrum reset.

Chris Pollock with George Clancy advising from the touchline. Add the poor state of the infected pitch and you could have predicted this final quarter.

Crouch, Touch, Disengage the viewing audience and make them curse their decision to watch this second half.

LeinsterFan4life wrote:France got lucky in Paris. England more than deserved the win.

Frances winning try was skill and poor English defence not luck mate.

scottish 19 complete idiot

Heartbreak for Scotland, a penalty to France.

Breadvan wrote:

George Carlin wrote:Bill McLaren would never have used the word 'squint'.

Isn't Squint one of those obsure towns the great man would say they'd be dancing in tonight after a Scotland win?

  

maestegmafia wrote:

LeinsterFan4life wrote:France got lucky in Paris. England more than deserved the win.

Frances winning try was skill and poor English defence not luck mate.

and the first two were lucky. but of course you ignore that

Only got ourselves to blame

So because France scored a good try at the end means that the rest of their trys weren't lucky?

why the booing?

Lordy...another prediction almost point perfect! It's like I'm MAKING IT HAPPEN.

France are the luckiest side ever. How they won against England and Scotland now despite being second best...

Duncan weir won us the game against Italy but he cost us the game this week.

Well we threw that away. Didn't deserve the win when it came down to it. Still lacking mental toughness, which the win in Italy should've helped to build.

Well done France. In the end they just wanted to lose that little bit less.   

2 quick penalties against Swinson who badly let his team down.

So that's two games France have won against the run of play. England and Scotland will be kicking themselves.

LeinsterFan4life wrote:So because France scored a good try at the end means that the rest of their trys weren't lucky?

all england tries are lucky, and all tries scored against them are opposition skill or english ineptitude...in his neutral opinion...

Again, as in the England - France match, the better side lost today.

Heads up Scotland, performances are improving.

Two poor teams, how are France still in the championship?

LeinsterFan4life wrote:So because France scored a good try at the end means that the rest of their trys weren't lucky?

Why were they lucky?

Are France lucky because England defence was poor at dealing with chip kicks because they rush up to quick without good cover?

Luck was how Ireland lost at Twickenham. Why didn't Ireland get the penalty at the end of the game when Courtney Lawes collapsed the Irish maul???

didnt realise denton was a saffa...