6N Round 4: The Calcutta Cup clash

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ENGLAND v SCOTLAND  
Saturday 14 February 2015
KO 17:00 (GMT)
Twickers

Live on BBC1

Referee: Romain Poitey (FFR)
AR1: George Clancy (IRFU)  
AR2: Marius Mitrea (FIR)
TMO: Ben Skeen (NZR)

Teams:

ENGLAND

M Brown (Harlequins); A Watson (Bath), J Joseph (Bath), L Burrell (Northampton), J Nowell (Exeter); G Ford (Bath), B Youngs (Leicester); J Marler (Harlequins), D Hartley (Northampton), D Cole (Leicester), D Attwood (Bath), C Lawes (Northampton), J Haskell (Wasps), C Robshaw (Harlequins, capt), B Vunipola (Saracens).

Replacements: T Youngs (Leicester), M Vunipola (Saracens), K Brookes (Newcastle), G Parling (Leicester), T Wood (Northampton), R Wigglesworth (Saracens), D Cipriani (Sale), B Twelvetrees (Gloucester).

SCOTLAND

Stuart Hogg (Glasgow Warriors); Dougie Fife (Edinburgh), Mark Bennett (Glasgow Warriors), Matt Scott (Edinburgh), Tommy Seymour, Finn Russell (both Glasgow Warriors), Greig Laidlaw (captn) (Gloucester); Alasdair Dickinson (Edinburgh), Ross Ford (Edinburgh), Euan Murray (Glasgow Warriors), Jim Hamilton (Saracens), Jonny Gray (Glasgow Warriors), Robert Harley (Glasgow Warriors), Blair Cowan (London Irish) David Denton (Edinburgh).

Replacements: Fraser Brown, Ryan Grant (both Glasgow Warriors), Geoff Cross (London Irish), Tim Swinson (Glasgow Warriors), Johnnie Beattie (Montpellier), Adam Ashe (Glasgow Warriors), Sam Hidalgo-Clyne and Greig Tonks (both Edinburgh)


The result of the Ireland game beforehand could make things very interesting from an English perspective. Tournament could be blown wide open, & see England looking for a big score with an eye to next weekend & things coming down to points difference.

For us, there's nothing at stake bar pride & some melted Indian Rupees.

Twickenham was always going to be tough, but given how things have gone this tournament I'm absolutely dreading this match.
Our record down South is more embarrassing than Natalie Bennett on LBC! 32 long years since we last won at Twickenham and in the last half century we've managed just one other win in 1971. Stretch things back to the whole century and we can double our total with wins in 1926 & 1938!

Fear we'll see a similar game to England - Italy, valiant start by us & some swashbuckling stuff before ultimately being crushed in the final quarter. Although if we 'defend' the maul like we did against Italy the score will be worse.

On the bright side though, scoring any points would be an improvement on last years Calcutta Cup match...

Preconditions people? Am I being too gloomy?

I wonder if we're actually going to see any ball this half...

RDW_Scotland wrote:

quinsforever wrote:euan murray. is he normally such a tw4t?

For a staunch Christian, he gets in a lot of fights!

As a Christian he can get into fights then ask for forgiveness after

scotland were offside all day long there. thats poor

hoe the last 20 mins are good. if scotland go for it, hopefully some gaps will open up...

Fraser Brown should really help in the loose but we need to avoid scrums now!

Forward!

Forward I think

Yep

Forward

clearly forwards

Can England finally take this opportunity to bin Haskell ffs

is Wood on the bench?

england have now had 6 tries disallowed in the 6Ns so far this year! amazing!

small margins.

So how many chances have England blown now??

This really should be a cricket score

England are doing everything they can not to win this

Gwlad wrote:Can England finally take this opportunity to bin Haskell ffs

Haskell just hasn't rought his prem form to the 6n.

I seriously wonder if the much discussed - Robshaw to 6 find a 7 topic might be the way forward.
The only problem is we then begin the long search for a ready 7. ANd that's been done to death.

Don't like seeing Brown shouting at the touch judge

that was clearly a rip. cant be a knock on if brown is stationary on the floor already.

RDW_Scotland wrote:Don't like seeing Brown shouting at the ref

he shouted at the tmo that it was ripped out of his hands. which it was.

have you never watched a game with Ireland in?

GeordieFalcon wrote:King E

Do you not think Nowell is showing a lot of potential?

Yes he is and hopefully Baxter will develop it

There are no words low enough to describe how dire this game has been.

All-round awfulness. English finishing, Scottish defending and the inept referee.

New 9 please....now

So does Cipriani get on this week - I don't see it myself

kingelderfield wrote:So does Cipriani get on this week - I don't see it myself

10 hasn't been an issue...

Given the importance of points difference next week I'm flabbergasted at the lack of English accuracy

quinsforever wrote:

RDW_Scotland wrote:Don't like seeing Brown shouting at the ref

he shouted at the tmo that it was ripped out of his hands. which it was.

have you never watched a game with Ireland in?

Shouldn't shout at him though...

I'm on the verge of throwing the remote through the TV

Well its safe to say none of the potential WC contenders will be quaking in their boots after watching this.....

Christ, now Russell looks injured!

Getting so so sick of Scotland losing all the time - we never pull off an away win in the 6N except against Italy! At least SHC is getting nearly 10 minutes today I guess.

New 9 please....now

2 scrum halfs & 2 number 8a plus a fb at centre

Stupid from Scotland - don't know why hidalgo-clyne fannied about at that first scrum when the ball was there

You can hear Robshaw calling '1,2,3,4' in the ref microphone

Good finish Nowell

Just our luck again - another kick off the posts that led to a try!

Nowell deserves that. Him, Ford and Lawes Englands best players.

I don't think I've ever seen a team give away two tries from a penalty rebounding off a post two weeks in a row.

Go on bring Cipriani on

Edit; I only had to press save and what do you know!

Ha. That's the second time in the tournament Scotland have conceded a try because the opposition kicker hit the post.

Whats the point in giving someone 3 mins.

Swinson again - he needs to pay attention at penalties!

motm - got to be ford

And if cipriani doesn't score 25 points, this is his last chance...says Farrell senior.

GeordieFalcon wrote:Whats the point in giving someone 3 mins.

Bet he dosn't touch it more than once

Need to keep them out here if the commentators points calculations are right

A severe case of meh 

Well played Scotland

To be fair, he kicked it away with time up on the clock. Stupid. Drop him.

Its a win....but by god its was ugly.

So much to work on. Get the flaming basics right...and yet again...TAKE CHANCES!!!!

How the heck was that just a 12pt match?