Scotland V New Zealand - November 15th

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Scotland v New Zealand

Date: Saturday, November 15
Venue: BT Murrayfield, Edinburgh
Kickoff: 17:30 local (GMT)
Referee: Romain Poite (France)
Assistant Referees: Johnny Lacey (Ireland), Stuart Berry (South Africa)
TMO: Gareth Simmonds (Wales)

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Right this isn't one of your GC fancy pants matchday threads, I'm in charge this time.

Had originally considered calling it the 'Kiwi Krushing Kelebration' thread, but realized that'd be an inappropriate acronym...

Now onto the game, normally you'd expect to read about form / head to head here, but for reasons which I'll go onto none of that really matters because this is the year that we will finally beat the All Blacks!

Now what makes me so sure you ask, well quite simply, I've a cast iron, 100% scientific theory that proves that next weekend we will at long last neutralize New Zealand.  

2003 England win the Rugby World Cup - 3 years later they lose at Murrayfield
2007 South Africa win the Rugby World Cup - 3 years later they lose at Murrayfield
2011 New Zealand win the Rugby World Cup - 3 years later...  

Quite simply and to quote Tinie Tempah, it's "written in the stars".

Teams to be announced (not that it matters).

Scotland

15 Stuart Hogg (Glasgow Warriors); 25 caps
14 Sean Maitland (Glasgow Warriors); 14 caps
13 Mark Bennett (Glasgow Warriors), 1 cap
12 Alex Dunbar (Glasgow Warriors); 9 caps
11 Tommy Seymour (Glasgow Warriors); 11 caps
10 Finn Russell (Glasgow Warriors); 3 caps
9 Greig Laidlaw CAPTAIN (Gloucester); 32 caps

1 Alasdair Dickinson (Edinburgh Rugby); 37 caps
2 Ross Ford (Edinburgh Rugby); 78 caps
3 Euan Murray (Glasgow Warriors); 61 caps
4 Richie Gray (Castres); 40 caps
5 Jonny Gray (Glasgow Warriors); 6 caps
6 Rob Harley (Glasgow Warriors); 8 caps
7 Blair Cowan (London Irish); 4 caps
8 Adam Ashe (Glasgow Warriors); 2 caps

16 Fraser Brown (Glasgow Warriors); 1 cap
17 Gordon Reid (Glasgow Warriors); 4 caps
18 Geoff Cross (London Irish); 33 caps
19 Tim Swinson (Glasgow Warriors); 9 caps
20 Johnnie Beattie (Castres); 32 caps
21 Chris Cusiter (Sale Sharks); 68 caps
22 Duncan Weir (Glasgow Warriors); 16 caps
23 Sean Lamont (Glasgow Warriors); 89 caps

New Zealand

15 Ben Smith
14 Colin Slade
13 Malakai Fekitoa
12 Ryan Crotty
11 Charle Piutau
10 Dan Carter
09 TJ Perenara

08 Victor Vito
07 Sam Cane
06 Richie McCaw
05 Dominic Bird
04 Jeremy Thrush
03 Charlie Faumuina
02 James Parsons
01 Joe Moody

16 Dane Coles
17 Wyatt Crockett
18 Ben Franks
19 Luke Romano
20 Liam Messam
21 Augustin Pulu
22 Sonny Bill Williams
23 Julian Savea.

BigGee wrote:Dan Who?

You really shouldn't have said that, he'll score a 90m try now

Ffs Lamont

Lamont lucky not to get a card for that

Murray off as well, we are going to run out of players soon. Russell back on though

Russell back on.....and breath

Finn back on?

Russel back on but Murray off?

So many soft penalties! We need to be smarter

Scottish support players not getting to the ruck quickly enough

Frak it kick for the corner

We're not playing so well, but when was the last time we were this close nearing half time??

Come on boys. 1 point in it. Nearly half time.
More support at the breakdown and tighten up a bit and we can stay in this

Bet we concede a try before half time

And again, another dumb penalty

Silly mistakes

Laidlaw did a poor kick there, never had the time, should have moved it out

Soft penalty again...


Hmm carter goes for the corner not the posts... He looks low on confidence.

Gray brothers are worth the ticket price alone. Great lads

Too many silly errors from Scotland. Too many coming in from the side of the ruck from NZ

We need to build on the numbers. Our line out is much better than theirs. We need to exploit that.

Decent half from Scotland. Had a go at them, stolen some lineouts, got 'em on the back foot a time or two and still in touch at 40 mins. Not bad

Jee's...! That Vito bloke is very fast for a biggun'

Well I would have taken that half time score before the match, a one score game and we are still in it. A tremendous forward effort and good tackling by all. We are going to tire though, so glad we have Beattie and dents to come on, this is going to be some hard game. The longer we are in it, the greater our chance, so many times we have lost the game by half time!

Scotland need to keep the ball longer, show more patience and support the ball carriers better.

Can't believe we're only 4 points behind despite not playing well (good in defence) - real opportunity here!

Dan Carter is making Priestlands earlier performance look good...! Russell looks set for the lions ten shirt at the moment.

Does Tommy have like muckle long arms or something???

Need to get Hogg attacking first phase more often

Can we?????

This is surely the worst ABs performance in recent memory??

Huge opportunity

Laidlaw has been disappointing.

ABs bringing on the A team...

Richie actually just landed facing the wrong way....

Not Laidlaws best came, I would like to see Cusiter come on

toooooo many mistakes...NZ not doing anything to negate Scotlands tight inside defence, something we knew was key to their match last week.

Give Hogg a bsg to cstch the high ball

TJ Perenara too slow at everything. Missing A Smith.

Oh dear. Here comes the all black big guns

If the ref is going to ping a single squint scrum feed he has to ping every single one. Its such a joke! That last feed was to the 2nd row and he was looking straight at it!

Sean lamont. Excellent flanker I say

Adam Ashe has had some game again! Fantastic effort

maestegmafia wrote:Jee's...! That Vito bloke is very fast for a biggun'

Vito was very good player in the NZ 7s team for a number of seasons.

PS aside from the knock on, there was a NZ obstruction before their try in the preceding passage of play.

Why were we fannying about so much in our 22?:

Russell had another good game

go on scotland...

Kick the bloody ball away!!!!!!!

Jeeeeeeez man

Crikey are we brave or what. Am so proud, they are leaving nothing out there at all, just going for the win!

Why are we doing that??

Poite is a joke!

Time for weir to kick to the corners??? Use our lineout?