Scotland V USA 27th September

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SCOTLAND V USA
27 September 2015
KO: 14:30 BST
Elland Road, Leeds

Live on ITV

Referee: Chris Pollock
Touch judges: John Lacey, Mike Fraser
Television match official: Ben Skeen

A. Head to Head

4 Played 4
4 Won 0
0 Drawn 0
0 Lost 4

C. Teams

SCOTLAND

15 Stuart Hogg (Glasgow Warriors) – 34 caps; 9 tries, 1 pen, 48 points
14 Sean Maitland (London Irish) – 17 caps; 2 tries, 10 points
13 Mark Bennett (Glasgow Warriors) – 10 caps; 5 tries, 25 points
12 Peter Horne (Glasgow Warriors) – 11 caps, 1 try, 1 con, 1 pen, 10 points
11 Tim Visser (Harlequins) – 21 caps; 9 tries, 45 points
10 Finn Russell (Glasgow Warriors) – 12 caps; 2 tries, 2 cons, 14 points
9 Henry Pyrgos (Glasgow Warriors) CAPTAIN – 16 caps; 4 tries, 20 points

1 Ryan Grant (Glasgow Warriors) – 24 caps
2 Ross Ford (Edinburgh Rugby) – 90 caps; 2 tries, 10 points
3 Jon Welsh (Newcastle Falcons) – 8 caps, 1 try, 5 points
4 Richie Gray (Castres) – 47 caps, 2 tries, 10 points
5 Grant Gilchrist (Edinburgh Rugby) – 11 caps, 1 try, 5 points
6 Alasdair Strokosch (Perpignan) – 46 caps, 2 tries, 10 points
7 Ryan Bloody Wilson (Glasgow Warriors) – 12 caps
8 Josh Strauss  (Glasgow Warriors) – 1 cap

16 Kevin Bryce (Glasgow Warriors) – 2 caps
17 Alasdair Dickinson (Edinburgh Rugby) – 48 caps, 2 tries, 10 points
18 Willem Nel (Edinburgh Rugby) – 4 caps
19 Tim Swinson (Glasgow Warriors) – 13 caps
20 Fraser Brown (Glasgow Warriors) – 11 caps
21 Greig Laidlaw (Gloucester) – 42 caps; 3 tries, 48 cons, 92 pens, 387 points
22 Duncan Weir (Glasgow Warriors) – 19 caps, 1 try, 6 cons, 9 pens, 1 drop, 47 points
23 Matt Scott (Edinburgh Rugby) – 30 caps, 3 tries, 15 points

USA

(Yes I know she was born in Ukraine but who cares!

1. Eric Fry
2. Phil Thiel
3. Titi Lamositele
4. Hayden Smith
5. Greg Peterson
6. Al McFarland
7. Andrew Durutalo
8. Samu Manoa

9. Mike Petri
10. AJ MacGinty
11. Blaine Scully
12. Thretton Palamo
13. Seamus Kelly
14. Takudzwa Ngwenya
15. Chris Wyles (C)

16. Zach Fenoglio
17. Olive Kilifi
18. Chris Baumann
19. Cameron Dolan
20. John Quill
21. Danny Barrett
22. Shalom Suniula
23. Folau Niua

What else was strokosh meant to do there?

Oh god, Hoggy goes for the posts...

I'll now eat my words.

RDW_Scotland wrote:What else was strokosh meant to do there?

Not get in front of the ball carrier and prevent the defenders from getting to him? Pretty clear-cut penalty.

Notch wrote:

RDW_Scotland wrote:What else was strokosh meant to do there?

Not get in front of the ball carrier and prevent the defenders from getting to him? Pretty clear-cut penalty.

You just see that happening all the time without being penalised

Use the bloody ball Scotland!

HOOK!!!!!

Ross Ford didn't fancy hooking that one then

Oh dear Henry, needs to calm down. Tap and go wasn't on then gives the penalty away

Have we had more than two rucks without the ref blowing for a penalty?

Both teams need to adapt to the ref

Their hooker is bloody awful

RDW_Scotland wrote:Have we had more than two rucks without the ref blowing for a penalty?

Both teams need to adapt to the ref

He's very whistle happy - infuriatingly so!

Pyrgos has made some poor decisions so far

Scotland seems to be getting more settled and gaining the upper hand. Slowly but surely.

USA not offering very much with the ball, and not getting much from their up and unders either

Blow losing Gilchrist - he's had a promising start.

Plus Swinson is a midget in international terms.

RDW_Scotland wrote:USA not offering very much with the ball, and not getting much from their up and unders either

The commentators just said essentially the same thing. The American fly half kicking possession away too much. He does do this far too much in all games he plays. Shame as the Americans can do good things with the ball.

Poor defence from Scotland there - they got through the midfield with ease

What the point of that kick from Hogg. USA had just been warned by the ref. We have in the line out. Kick for the corner and put pressure on them. Instead we concede a penalty from the drop out and are now down a try.

We seem to have reverted to the old p1sh again

Our midfield have missed too many tackles so far

What have we done to Maitland?! He didn't even look outside him there!

That's the second hospital pass by Hogg

Awful awful pass!

The USA should have had a second try had they passed the ball. Not excuse for the Scottish forward pass a minute later.

Welsh is falling out of favour with the ref

We're very much missing Matt Scott - no physicality in our midfield at all

jesus Frak

We need to stop going for these long shots at goal - we're just letting them off the hook

This is dire.

Is strockosch playing?
Is Strauss on the field?
Where is Horne?

Only Bennett is acquitting himself

Our kick chase is bloody awful too

Come on USA!

These handling skills

Can we keep the score the same please and I'm £100 up....thank you

Time to hook Horne. Found wanting at international level AGAIN.

Matt Scott has to come on at half time

I've got an old pair of jeans with less holes than this Scottish defence.

Scotland need to be in front at half time, I was afraid of this for them. USA at the moment hope to win, if their in front at half time they will be sure they CAN win, and will pull it all together. USA aren't even playing that well and can tighten things up a lot.

Credit to USA for playing very well, but the Scotland performance so far has been pathetic

This is awful from Scotland, just awful

This World Cup doesn't fail to disappoint!

USA very much the better team here.

We've been second best all over the park. Disappointing from Scotland so far.

2nd half needs to be considerably better

After SA being beaten by Japan, Scotland had a great chance to top the group but the needed to get bonus point wins I felt. A lot of work to be done in the second half from them but based on last game, they are a second half side.

tigertattie wrote:Time to hook Horne. Found wanting at international level AGAIN.

Matt Scott has to come on at half time

Agreed. Horne a total waste of space.

Our errors are killing us and the USA are lethal with the pick and drives. Really physical.

I think we'll lose this. Our composure will not improve as the pressure mounts.

I feel so sorry for RDS and Risky Sports, I REALLY want Scotland to do something good in rugby, but Scotland always do this, you get a bit of hope then Scotland do what they always do.

USA will come out flying in the second half now. Scotland need to make early changes and score first in this second half.

Can see our bench being emptied very early.

Na no need to panic lads, a couple of passes sticking and it would be a very different position right now. We need to cut out the stupid errors but I think we'll come out stronger in the second half

Want to find me at the ground.... I am the annoyed, depressed and frustrated scotsman trying to drown out that half....what there are others that looks like me?

RDW_Scotland wrote:Can see our bench being emptied very early.

I'd get Nel, Laidlaw and Scott on at half time. We HAVE to win this game.

So my policy of getting stuck at work and only being able to watch the second half looks to be paying off once again. Just turned the game on. Have we just been absolutely rank?

I can't watch the half time report because that would mean I need to look at Jim Rosenthal's 'sad face' and listen to his condescending arsebiscuits. If any face does not belong in high definition, it's Jim Rosenthal's.