Scotland Summer Tour, Game 1: USA v Scotland, 7 June

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United States of America v Scotland
Saturday 7 June, 19:30 local  
BBVA Compass Stadium, Houston, Texas

[TV to be confirmed]

Referee: Pascal Gaüzère (France)
Assistant referees: Francesco Pastrana (Argentina), Chris Assmus (Canada)
TMO: Alan Hosie (Scotland)

A. Teams:

I. US Eagles

1. Olive Kilifi - OPSB
2. Phil Thiel - Life University
3. Eric Fry - Newcastle Falcons
4. Louis Stanfill - OPSB
5. Hayden Smith - Saracens
6. Todd Clever (c) - NTT Shining Arcs
7. Scott LaValla - Stade Français
8. Cameron Dolan - Northampton Saints
9. Mike Petri - NYAC
10. Shalom Suniula - Belmont Shore
11. Luke Hume - RC Narbonne
12. Andrew Suniula - London Wasps
13. Seamus Kelly - California Golden Bears
14. Blaine Scully - Leicester Tigers
15. Chris Wyles - Saracens

16. Tom Coolican - Richmond
17. Nick Wallace - James Bay
18. Titi Lamositele - Saracens
19. Tai Tuisamoa - London Welsh
20. Danny Barrett - USA Eagles Sevens
21. Folau Niua - Glasgow Warrior
22. Chad London - Glendale Raptors
23. Tim Maupin - University of Utah

II. Scotland

15 Stuart Hogg (Glasgow Warriors), 20 caps; 4 tries, 20 points
14 Sean Maitland (Glasgow Warriors), 9 caps; 1 try, 5 points
13 Sean Lamont (Glasgow Warriors), 86 caps; 60 points
12 Duncan Taylor (Saracens), 10 caps
11 Tim Visser (Edinburgh Rugby), 12 caps; 30 points
10 Finn Russell (Glasgow Warriors), uncapped
9 Greig Laidlaw (C) (Gloucester), 29 caps; 3 tries, 242 points

1 Gordon Reid (Glasgow Warriors), uncapped
2 Scott Lawson (Newcastle Falcons), 43 caps; 2 tries, 10 points
3 Geoff Cross (London Irish), 28 caps; 1 try, 5 points
4 Richie Gray (Castres), 37 caps; 1 try, 5 points
5 Jim Hamilton (Montpellier), 55 caps; 1 try, 5 points
6 Alasdair Strokosch (Perpignan), 38 caps; 2 tries, 10 points
7 Blair Cowan (London Irish), uncapped
8 Johnnie Beattie (Montpellier), 30 caps; 3 tries, 15 points

16 Pat MacArthur (Glasgow Warriors), 4 caps
17 Alex Allan (Glasgow Warriors), uncapped
18 Moray Low (Exeter Chiefs), 26 caps
19 Grant Gilchrist (Edinburgh Rugby), 4 caps
20 Kieran Low (London Irish), 1 cap
21 Grayson Hart (Edinburgh Rugby), uncapped
22 Ruaridh Jackson (London Wasps), 23 caps; 18 points
23 Max Evans (Castres), 42 caps; 3 tries, 15 points

B. Form - head to head:

(includes Scotland A games)

4 Played 4
0 Won 4
4 Lost 0

C. Form - recent

2010 Autumn Internationals
Scotland A 25 - 0 US Eagles

2003 IRB Rugby World Cup, Australia
US Eagles 15-39 Scotland

wtf is scot johnson doing on the damn touchline ?

Laidlaw looking sharp

alive555 wrote:wtf is scot johnson doing on the damn touchline ?

Planning what ridiculous drivel he's going to say to the media after the match?

Ref's right next to it and goes to the TMO?!

Refs being kind to US at the scrums - should have been a pen at each one

Think he heard you there TJ!

Had to be the pen try.

The US Commentators are brilliant!

You'd never have seen that one coming - a Scotland restart balls up! Please Vern get this area sorted

WTF is Hogg doing? Bit harsh to call the double movement I thought

That looked like a try to me. US unlucky.

that was a try , no doubt . unlucky

So twice in a row we miss touch from a penalty.
Also big Jim off

Thought that was an Eagles try

Don't think Cotter is going to be too happy at half time, so many little unforced errors that are killing any momentum

Scrum going well. Laidlaw and Visser look sharp. Hogg trying to play to much too soon and why did he kick that last ball away when time was up?

A far from convincing first half from Scotland, some poor decisions. We can consider ourselves very lucky that the US aren't within a few points

Interesting to see Chris Wyles whining like a wee girl to the referee about the clock - I guess that the Saracens attitude has rubbed off on him a bit.

agree. lots of silly mistakes.

but this could open up next half. i reckon we should kick to corners. too hot for expansive rugby. 94 degrees    

An area of real concern for me is that my beers seem to be evaporating very quickly, and its certainly not 94 degrees where I am!

Agreed that the double movement call was very harsh indeed

Anyone have a working feed for this, that will work internationally?

Does the record one not work? My usual ones don't work

Few points.

1. High quality feed from the record. Shame I need to watch it on my phone coz the play station won't run the feed and air play to the tele won't load (live stream perhaps?)
2. Love the yank commentators. Scatland, stra-cosh, lad-law. Epic
3. Dunno if it's the heat. But we're playing pish

Alba gu brath wrote:Anyone have a working feed for this, that will work internationally?

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/rugby/watch-scotland-v-usa-eagles-3643893#.U5Lh51ybfW4.twitter

working in asia

It's not working, no

Its on universal sports network in the US, maybe have a google for a stream of that?

Alba gu brath wrote:It's not working, no

must be its no encrypted

try changing to firefox or chrome

Already using chrome. Been trying that too, Llama, no luck either. Just doesn't seem to be one that will work

The ref really needs to get a grip of these scrums, letting the US off with far too much

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/

go to link straight from here

go to settings reset settings

This is very flat. Need a bit of spark from someone

http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer.html

Everyone fallen asleep?

Might as well given how poorly we are playing

Its garbage eh, Scotland seem to have forgotten that they are all professional players

Poor game. Scotland are letting US back into it. too hot for them?

Nice take and finish from Hogg.

Anyone know if the US coaches have a rugby league background? A fair few of their players seem to have a very league-esque passing style

hogg = class  

Who is Rudy Jackson? He seems to have the scots 22 shirt on

"Rudi Jackson"

Gentlemen, we have a nickname.

When was the last time someone didn't drop the ball?

Summary:

Daily record feed - excellent
US commentators - surprisingly entertaining
Match - mostly dreary with a touch of shambolic

RDW I'm jealous of your decision to not watch it live.

Gents (those of you still awake) it's been a pleasure, i'm off to bed!

My bed calls lovingly....

Not sure if its genuine tiredness or the error strewn game.

Debrief in the morning.

G'night y'all

[Flips cowboy hat onto the bed post, like a pro]

How much do you pay these pro's Ian?
I still think if your 9 kicks everything away you'll always find it difficult to build any kind of momentum.

Hogg is the host broadcasters man of the match?
Good try yes, but apart from that it wasn't a great shift from him.   

Jim, you pay top-dollar for any services you find in Blytheswood Square.

Well gents, my plan of not hearing the score and watching the rerun on the website failed when the first thing my girlfriend told me this morning was 'oh looks like Scotland won!'   

Anyway having seen the score and description of the tries it sounded very positive, but then I come on here and it actually sounds pretty dire!

Gonna watch the match obviously - anything in particular to keep an eye on?

Good effort those that stayed up   

God bless the Record - the whole game is available here:
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/rugby/usa-eagles-6-scotland-24-3661167

Nice to start with a win. All the rustiness that you would expect in the circumstances, but no matter. On to Canada now.