France v Scotland, 5 September

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FRANCE v SCOTLAND
5 September 2015
21:00 CEST (UTC+02)
Stade de France, Saint-Denis

Live on BT Sport 1

Referee: Wayne Barnes (England)
Touch judges: JP Doyle (England) Luke Pearce (England)
Television match official: Graham Hughes (England)

A. Head to Head

88 Played 88
51 Won 34
3 Drawn 3
34 Lost 51
1,243 Points 1,057

B. Recent Form

7 February 2015
Stade de France, Saint-Denis
15 – 8 France

8 March 2014
Murrayfield, Edinburgh
17 – 19 France

16 March 2013
Stade de France, Saint-Denis
23 – 16 France

26 February 2012
Murrayfield, Edinburgh
17 – 23 France

5 February 2011
Stade de France, Saint-Denis
34 – 21 France

7 February 2010
Murrayfield, Edinburgh
9 – 18 France

14 February 2009
Stade de France, Saint-Denis
22 – 13 France

3 February 2008
Murrayfield, Edinburgh
6 – 27 France

17 March 2007
Stade de France, Saint-Denis
46 – 19 France

5 February 2006
Murrayfield, Edinburgh
20 – 16 Scotland

C. Teams

FRANCE

15 Scott Spedding
14 Yoann Huget
13 Fat Bastareaud
12 Wesley Fofana
11 Noa Nakaitaci
10 Freddie Michalak
09 Sebastien Tillous Borde

08 Louis Picamoles
07 Damien Chouly
06 Thierry Dusautoir (C)
05 Alexando Flanquart
04 Pascal Pape
03 Rabeh Slimani
02 Guilhem Guirado
01 Eddy Ben Arous

16 D. Dzarzewski
17 V Debaty
18 N Mas
19 B Le Roux
20 Y Nyanga
21 M Parra
22 R Tales
23 A Damoulin

SCOTLAND

15 Sean Maitland (London Irish) – 15 caps; 2 tries, 10 points
14 Tommy Seymour (Glasgow Warriors) – 17 caps; 6 tries, 30 points
13 Mark Bennett (Glasgow Warriors) – 8 caps; 3 tries, 15 points
12 Matt Scott (Edinburgh Rugby) – 28 caps; 3 tries, 15 points
11 Tim Visser (Harlequins) – 20 caps; 9 tries, 45 points
10 Finn Russell (Glasgow Warriors) – 10 caps; 1 try, 2 cons, 9 points
09 Greig Laidlaw CAPTAIN (Gloucester) – 40 caps; 3 tries, 43 cons, 85 pens, 356 points

01 Alasdair Dickinson (Edinburgh Rugby) – 46 caps, 2 tries, 10 points
02 Ross Ford (Edinburgh Rugby) – 88 caps, 2 tries, 10 points
03 Willem Nel (Edinburgh Rugby) – 2 caps
04 Richie Gray (Castres) – 45 caps, 2 tries, 10 points
05 Jonny Gray (Glasgow Warriors) – 14 caps; 1 try, 5 points
06 Ryan Wilson (Glasgow Warriors) – 10 caps
07 John Hardie (unattached) – 1 cap
08 David Denton (Edinburgh Rugby) – 27 caps

16 Fraser Brown (Glasgow Warriors) – 9 caps
17 Gordon Reid (Glasgow Warriors) – 11 caps
18 Jon Welsh (Newcastle Falcons) – 6 caps, 1 try, 5 points
19 Tim Swinson (Glasgow Warriors) – 12 caps
20 Alasdair Strokosch (Perpignan) – 45 caps, 2 tries, 10 points
21 Sam Hidalgo-Clyne (Edinburgh Rugby) – 7 caps
22 Duncan Weir (Glasgow Warriors) – 19 caps, 1 try, 6 cons, 9 pens, 1 drop, 47 points
23 Sean Lamont (Glasgow Warriors) – 96 caps, 14 tries, 70 points

cakeordeath wrote:I am not going to be able to watch this game (Mrs Cake thinks Saturday nights should be spent enjoying each others company, a good movie and couple bottles of wine) I don't really care about the result, I just would like there to be no injuries.

Just go easy on the wine and remeber to keep one foot on the floor at all times, Cakey.

jimbopip wrote:

cakeordeath wrote:I am not going to be able to watch this game (Mrs Cake thinks Saturday nights should be spent enjoying each others company, a good movie and couple bottles of wine) I don't really care about the result, I just would like there to be no injuries.

Just go easy on the wine and remeber to keep one foot on the floor at all times, Cakey.

jimbopip wrote:

cakeordeath wrote:I am not going to be able to watch this game (Mrs Cake thinks Saturday nights should be spent enjoying each others company, a good movie and couple bottles of wine) I don't really care about the result, I just would like there to be no injuries.

Just go easy on the wine and remeber to keep one foot on the floor at all times, Cakey.

You have won the internet for today

Jim, I just snorted into my espresso. Thanks for that.

There is a lot of unfounded pessimism about this game. Remember all the clichés; it depends which French team turn up on the day etc etc.
This is the French team that was honking in their first game against England but then pumped them in the return match. I haven't seen the game but going by press comment (admittedly, primarily English press so there may be a bit of bias), it was England's turn to be honking.
That said, if we get our arses handed to us, make room for me on the pessimism bandwagon please.

I think you might win

Wales look light they might be losing Webb and 1/2p - very worried about who we're going to lose

If you start a game worrying about possible
Injuries then you are likely to get them! Hopefully players dont share your concerns RDW! Good luck all. The only player I really would be concerned to lose would be Picamoles. The rest are expendables.

I'm sure players are very much concerned about getting injuries - they'd be lying if they said they weren'r!

And, as fans who have no bearing on the game, we're allowed to be worried about picking up injuries surely?

Especially when France has many, many more players to choose from.

Of course we are RDW. My comment was bit tongue in cheek to be honest ...

Great turnover Denton.

Lineout a shambles!

Anyone have a stream that they can PM me?

How about their guy interfering with our jumper ref?? Picamoles was all over Gray!

Anyone got a link that works on a smart phone ?

George Carlin wrote:Anyone have a stream that they can PM me?

RDW - thanks again - put it on my tab.

Any chance of a PM for me too please? Usual one I use is being buggy...

Huge physicality from Franve - we're just about coping. Big effort from the Gray's and Denton do far

highland_scot wrote:Any chance of a PM for me too please? Usual one I use is being buggy...

Its Time 4 TV for you! If you know what I mean.

RDW_Scotland wrote:

highland_scot wrote:Any chance of a PM for me too please? Usual one I use is being buggy...

Its Time 4 TV for you! If you know what I mean.

I have no idea what you could possibly be on about...

This is intense. A real test match. Hard to believe there won't be injuries at this rate.

We need to sort this scrum out.

Did we seriously just get penalised because our player shouted the word 'set ':?

Got to say, I'm pretty pleased with our defence generally

Laidlaw 's box kicks have been awful

Scotland rush defense quite effective

Know what I hate! Bloomin credit cards!!!!!!

Apparently Barnes only notices Scotland playing the man in the air.

We really need to get the hell out of our own half.

Our lineout is a shambles!

C'mon Barnes, since when you are allowed to spot forward passes!

Good effort getting out of that mess!

That's us down to 8 lives now, presumably?

Spedding so bloody dangerous.

Why has our handling suddenly fallen apart??

If I was Hogg or Bennett I'd think about a crack at goal from there.

Love it when the opposition give away really dumb penalties. That's usually our trick.

Will certainly take that first half!

Leading, defence doing generally good, scrum holding up, lineouts a shambles.

I'm just worried what happens when our bench comes on.

Why is Reid on the field, incidentally?

What happened to Dickinson?

funnyExiledScot wrote:Love it when the opposition give away really dumb penalties. That's usually our trick.

That's because Jim Hamilton is not on the pitch while Pascal Pape is.

Have to say that Seymour's defence has been garbage tonight. He's missed a few easy tackles. Hopefully just a bit of rust.

France are there for the taking mind. They're managing to fck things up themselves with our help.

Dickinson bounced off Pikachu trying to tackle him and went off for a head knock - hasn't come back.

Reid doing well to be fair!

Collision with Picamoles. Not clear if blood or head injury, but he hasn't come back on so head knock most likely. Hopefully just a precaution, as Reid looks to be struggling against the powerful French scrum.

Tattie Scones RRN wrote:Have to say that Seymour's defence has been garbage tonight. He's missed a few easy tackles. Hopefully just a bit of rust.

France are there for the taking mind. They're managing to fck things up themselves with our help.

Agreed on Seymour. He's almost trying too hard, as by coming up so fast he's easy to step.

Wilson hasn't looked too hot either.

Good job we have other good blindside options in the squad.

Oh. Wait.

Wilson is just too lightweight. Thankfully Strauss isn't.

Can't we just blockage a port and stop the game now?

Ah well...40 mins to hold on....

Such a stupid penalty from Gordon Reid!

Silly by Reid. If you're going to put your hands on it, get rid of it.

Visser has no technique whatsoever under the high ball. All arms!

Nice tackle!