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

France have been offside all game

Visser is playing himself out of the World Cup it seems

Another daft penalty from France.

Oh good. Time to get physical.

France'a defence is relentless!

And offside a lot

The French bench scares me.

Awful kick there from Maitland.

funnyExiledScot wrote:The French bench scares me.

Scotland's bench scares me.

There's a feeling of the floodgates about to open.

The lack of someone who can kick from hand makes our game so one dimensional and predictable. What would I give to have someone like Russel or any other home nation FH.

I meant for Scotland.....obviously!

Where did that come from??

Ooooh, could be some history here for Scotland

Think it's telling that Laidlaws best contribution to this game came when he was standing at out half. Seymour caught 'em napping.

Laidlaw has vision, kicking skills, passing skills but he doesn't bring tempo. And Scotland need tempo. Think Laidlaw should be on your bench-covering 9 and 10. Don't rate Weir.

Another stupid kick...

Another stupid Scotland penalty

Jon Welsh looks scared!

Fantastic scrum!

We're getting a yellow soon though

Come on Scotland! Lets have an underdog victory to brighten my evening after today's horror show in Cardiff.

Notch wrote:Think it's telling that Laidlaws best contribution to this game came when he was standing at out half. Seymour caught 'em napping.

Laidlaw has vision, kicking skills, passing skills but he doesn't bring tempo. And Scotland need tempo. Think Laidlaw should be on your bench-covering 9 and 10. Don't rate Weir.

Absolutely right

Fantastic scrum again - that's the game over with the yellow though

Am I the only one that finds the constant penalty fishing from scrums really ... cynical. Eg italy Scotland this six nations. Thank God this referee actually saying use it

Incredible defence Scotland!!

Had to drop off - what's the score and how long to go and who just got binned and should I really get my hopes up that we might win this?

You have to respect that defence.

STOP DROPPING THE BALL!!

Lineout failure costing us again

Some really bad decision made by france tonight. So many better things to try when scrummaging against a team without their 8...

George Carlin wrote:Had to drop off - what's the score and how long to go and who just got binned and should I really get my hopes up that we might win this?

12-16, 8; Denton, we'll soon see!

Gutting.

This is the most courageous Scotland performance I've seen in a very long time.

Ps Barnes has clearly decided who the winners ought to be tonight...

Nicely finished. Our flaw was not escaping our 22 once we had the line out. Criminal after all that hard work.

RDW_Scotland wrote:

George Carlin wrote:Had to drop off - what's the score and how long to go and who just got binned and should I really get my hopes up that we might win this?

12-16, 8; Denton, we'll soon see!

Thanks.

funnyExiledScot wrote:Nicely finished. Our flaw was not escaping our 22 once we had the line out. Criminal after all that hard work.

Absolutely - we'd already done the hard bit

Gaaaah what a chance!!!

That was Scotlands chance. Not sure what happened with that pass, it was on.

Whatever the outcome this has proved a great run out ahead of the World Cup.

Sounds citing wish I was watching!

Have we had any injuries

Going all out for the win! Good on you Scotland

Brave effort!

No. Should have taken the draw. Now we are the unlucky losers again

Well that is gutting - what a performance from Scotland though!

We could, and probably should have won that!

Yep fair play to Scotland, could have got a draw but went for the win instead.

So close! Well played Scotland.

WTF take the frigging draw WTF WTF WTF.

Great game by Barnes it sounds!

Scotland South Africa last minute chance to take a draw and go points difference to win the group? NO BRAINER

wtf!!!!!!!

Ineffable wrote:Ps Barnes has clearly decided who the winners ought to be tonight...

Now now, never blame the ref! It's ugly, ugly, ugly.