Scotland v Japan, 23 September

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SCOTLAND V JAPAN
23 September 2015
KO: 14:30 BST
Kingsholm, Gloucester

Live on [tbc]

Referee: John Lacey (Ireland)
Touch judges: George Clancy (Ireland) & Marius Mitrea (Italy)
Television match official: Shaun Veldsman (South Africa)

A. Head to Head

4 Played 4
4 Won 0
0 Drawn 0
0 Lost 4
221 Points 45

B. Recent Form

09 Nov 2013
Scotland 42 - 17 Japan
Murrayfield, Edinburgh

13 Nov 2004
Scotland 100 - 8 Japan
McDiarmid Park, Perth

12 Oct 2003
Scotland 32 - 11 Japan
Dairy Farmers Stadium, Townsville

05 Oct 1991
Scotland 47 - 9 Japan
Murrayfield, Edinburgh

C. Teams

SCOTLAND

15 Stuart Hogg
14 Tommy Seymour
13 Mark Bennett
12 Matt Scott
11 Sean Lamont
10 Finn Russell
09 Greig Laidlaw (c)

01 Ali Dickinson
02 Ross Ford
03 Willem Nel
04 Grant Gilchrist
05 Jonny Gray
06 Ryan Wilson
07 John Hardie
08 David Denton

16 Fraser Brown
17 Ryan Grant
18 Jon Welsh
19 Richie Gray
20 Joshua Strauss
21 Henry Pyrgos
22 Peter Horne
23 Sean Maitland

JAPAN

01- Keita Inagaki
02- Shota Horie
03- Hiroshi Yamashita
04- Luke Thompson
05- Justin Ives
06- Michael Leitch (captain)
07- Michael Broadhurst
08- Amanaki Mafi

09- Fumiaki Tanaka
10- Harumichi Tatekawa
11- Kenki Fukuoka
12- Yu Tamura
13- Male Sa'u
14- Kotaro Matsushima
15- Ayumu Goromaru

16- Takeshi Kizu
17- Masataka Mikami
18- Kensuke Hatakeyama
19- Shinya Makabe
20- Shoji Ito
21- Hendrik Tui
22- Atsushi Hiwasa
23- Karne Hesketh

Laidlaw misses the conversion but Scotland have some breathing space.

Next score critical for determining which way the game is going to go.

Scotland need to hammer home the scoreboard advantage.

Barclay who??

What the Frak was that restart about? Completely missed it. COMPLETELY. Then Japan penalty from that. They're going for the posts.

You don't let restarts bounce for fecks sake

Restarts!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And Japan probably wisely decide to take the three on their next penalty. Close the gap again.

That is a very cheap scoring opportunity to concede after scoring a try. A soft three points to give away if he can make it.

I have never, ever seen a ball allowed to bounce from the kickoff. Embarrassing. Get Wilson off and Strauss on.

Give it a rest TightHead

You can see why Richie Gray was on the bench after that

We are so cr   app



RUBBISH RUBBISH RUBBISH

Japan miss penalty, off the upright. Scotland clear their lines.

Scotland 17 10 Japan.

And Goromaru tries to make it 3 from 4 for today but it hits the upright and Scotland clear.

Good to see the natural positivity of the Scottish fans shining through this thread as usual

Just highlighting the truth, but Japan are not being as clinical as they were at the weekend.

The Japanese scrum half's passing is excellent - fast and straight into the breadbasket every time - no reaching or scrabbling for the ball from receiving players.

Japan attack but Scotland are repelling them .. actually a little better than before.

It's 110 tackles to scotland 69 for japan apparently... tells you something. Scotland clear their lines...again..

at the ground, fecking depressed.

if anyone tells me Seymour is a good winger and Schlong shouldnt be near the side again .

Our hooker/lineout general are dire.Hardie (even taking into account his try) has gone missing on occasions, Scott is fecking stagnant, Seymour has done nothing

The try has papered over a sh1te performance, defensive mentality with no flair in attack

The Messiah

Magic from Hogg

Good play from Scotland to carve the Japanese defence open- twice. At this point, Scotland should pull away.

LOVELY inside pass from Laidlaw using Richie Gray as the outside dummy. Following a wonderful Hogg break.

Scotland 24 - 10 Japan

Looks like Japan done. Good play from Scotland for the that try. I hope Japan can nick a losing bp though

Forward pass and touched down in the dead ball area, no TMO.

And finally Scotland make their running and lines pay. Great move by Hogg in changing his line and then another pass to Gray for him to go over.

Daylight starting to appear between the two teams.

Scotland could start to think about getting the TB here if they keep this up.

Pot Hale wrote:The Japanese scrum half's passing is excellent - fast and straight into the breadbasket every time - no reaching or scrabbling for the ball from receiving players.

Being a Super Rugby champion, he can beat anyone else on the pitch in a 'Show Us Your Medals' competition. Quality player.

I think Scotland are doing a bit better than SA to be fair. I think there's more tries to come, from both Scotland and Japan.

Not sure Eddie Jones' prediction is coming good. I keep waiting for Scotland to fade.

Gaaah restarts!!!!!!!!!!!!

Did he put his foot on the dead ball line before he grounded the ball?

Very close and should have been looked at

Why was that try not referred????

Unfair to only have 4 days to recover from playing the Boks. Ridiculous decision from the RWC organizers.

Obstruction at the restart as well

WELL-PAST-IT wrote:Did he put his foot on the dead ball line before he grounded the ball?

Very close and should have been looked at

I did wonder...

Matt Feicing Scott needs to sort himself out

WELL-PAST-IT wrote:Did he put his foot on the dead ball line before he grounded the ball?

Very close and should have been looked at

Agreed

Can't believe they didn't look at Scott's footing.

chewed_mintie wrote:Why was that try not referred????

Because it's Lacey- Clueless

well past it and chewed mintie That's what I thought too. I thought Bennett didn't put the ball down before his foot went into touch.

Gotta be a power play from this lineout to get back into it.

That should be a yellow card on Scotland for playing on the ground.

If Japan had had a 7/8 day turn around i would not fancy Scotland chances at all.

This surely needs to be looked at for the next RWC. NO team should have to play 3/4 days after their first game.

Come on my BRAVE BLOSSOMS

Nope, just too tired.

WUMs are out in force today I see

There's the game; Scotland absolutely must be ruthless and get the bonus point now. South Africa got 2 even though they lost at the weekend.

Gray took the guy out in the air at the lineout and no pen...

I haven't seen the first half but Scotland are mauling Japan here!

Some really cheap WUMS pouring in though... Sad times

"Scotland don't score in the second half"

Deck you Eddie lol

WELL-PAST-IT wrote:

chewed_mintie wrote:Why was that try not referred????

Because it's Lacey-  Clueless

That is the TMO's job to examine the footage and say whether there was a problem.

And Japan make a mistake and let Seymour away for a length of the pitch run and dot under the posts.

Game over and Try bonus should be a minimum for Scotland here.