QF4: Australia v Scotland, 18 October

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AUSTRALIA v SCOTLAND

18 October 2015
16:00 BST (UTC+01)
Twickenham, London

Live on telly

Ref: Craig Joubert (South Africa)
ARs: Glen Jackson (New Zealand) and Pascal Gauzere (France)
TMO: Ben Skeen (New Zealand)

A. Head to Head

28 Played 28
19 Won 9
0 Drawn 0
9 Lost 19
671 Points 330

B. Recent Form

23 November 2013
Murrayfield, Edinburgh
15 – 21 to Australia

5 June 2012
Hunter Stadium, Newcastle
6 – 9 to Scotland

21 November 2009
Murrayfield, Edinburgh
9 – 8 to Scotland

25 November 2006
Murrayfield, Edinburgh
15 – 44 to Australia

20 November 2004
Hampden Park, Glasgow
17 – 31 to Australia

C. TEAMS:
AUSTRALIA

15 Kurtley Beale; 14 Adam Ashley-Cooper, 13 Tevita Kuridrani, 12 Matt Giteau, 11 Drew Mitchell; 10 Bernard Foley, 9 Will Genia;

1 Scott Sio, 2Stephen Moore, 3 Sekope Kepu, 4 Kane Douglas, 5 Rob Simmons, 6 Scott Fardy, 7 Michael Hooper, 8 Ben McCalman.

Substitutes: 16 Tatafu Polota-Nau, 17 James Slipper, 18 Greg Holmes, 19 Dean Mumm, 20 Sean McMahon, 21 Nick Phipps, 22 Matt Toomua, 23 Quade Cooper.

SCOTLAND

15 Stuart Hogg; 14 Sean Maitland, 13 Mark Bennett, 12 Peter Horne 11 Tommy Seymour; 10 Finn Russell,  9 Greig Laidlaw;

1 Alasdair Dickinson, 2 Ross Ford, 3 Willem Nel, 4 Jonny Gray, 5 Richie Gray, 6 Blair Cowan, 7 John Hardie, 8 David Denton. 


Substitutes: 
16 Fraser Brown, 17 Gordon Reid, 18 Jon Welsh, 19 Tim Swinson, 20 Josh Strauss, 21 Henry Pyrgos, 22 Richie Vernon, 23 Sean Lamont.

nathan, Fanster, good points both and well made but I think these things even themselves out over the game as a whole when the ref 'is actually having a good, two-eyed game': Maitland's 10 mns may have cost Scotland 7 points net, but he may also have stopped a try (moot point, cover looked to be there) and the correct spot of Genia's knock on saved Scotland 7 undeserved points against.

Fanster: note I definitely didn't say Joubert's a good ref! I agree with you that he can be ...erm... inconsistent, at best. Meanwhile, it's now 25-24 - the latter being Scotland's highest ever score v Aus, apparently.

Nematode wrote:Whatever the final result, we're doing the NH proud!

Very much so!

Is that not double movement?

If that's not a double movement then nothing is!!!!

Just seen how worked up jk Rowling gets over Scottish rugby, great to see

eirebilly wrote:Is that not double movement?

No, you're allowed to reach out and place the ball after stopping.

Good decision to take point

eirebilly wrote:Is that not double movement?

No, I think the decision was that he was prone on the ground, but didn't move his body and stretched his arm out over the line which I believe is legal. If the covering player had not slid beyond him, the Oz player wouldn't have had the space to place it over the line without making a further, ie illegal, double movement (ie of more than just his arm).

Griff wrote:

eirebilly wrote:Is that not double movement?

No, you're allowed to reach out and place the ball after stopping.

I thought that you were only allowed to do that with momentum? There was no momentum there.

The Aussies living a very charmed life at the breakdown, how they are not penalised I will never know.

PS, this is not me being bitter and wanting a NH side in the 1/2 finals

Griff wrote:

eirebilly wrote:Is that not double movement?

No, you're allowed to reach out and place the ball after stopping.

Your allowed to reach out and place the ball, but you must still be in the same motion, once youve stopped you have to present or offload.

eirebilly wrote:

Griff wrote:

eirebilly wrote:Is that not double movement?

No, you're allowed to reach out and place the ball after stopping.

I thought that you were only allowed to do that with momentum? There was no momentum there.

The Aussies living a very charmed life at the breakdown, how they are not penalised I will never know.

PS, this is not me being bitter and wanting a NH side in the 1/2 finals

When momentum is stopped you may not crawl closer, the "one moevement" available once tackled then is placing the ball.

Fanster wrote:

Griff wrote:

eirebilly wrote:Is that not double movement?

No, you're allowed to reach out and place the ball after stopping.

Your allowed to reach out and place the ball, but you must still be in the same motion, once youve stopped you have to present or offload.

Or place the ball...no issues with it

Fanster wrote:

Griff wrote:

eirebilly wrote:Is that not double movement?

No, you're allowed to reach out and place the ball after stopping.

Your allowed to reach out and place the ball, but you must still be in the same motion, once youve stopped you have to present or offload.

No. As long as the torso is not moved, e.g. crawling further on knees, then it is not a double movement to reach out and place the ball down. Players do it all of the time.

Intercept, wow, this is going down the wire

What the hell...

CMON SCOTLAND!!!

Ahhhhhhh!!!!!!!

Christmas is early this year, what a screw up must kick in the rain

He's not going to throw an interception pass is?... - wtf, he just did!!!!

SCOTLAND!!!

(PS: yes, I'm English)

COME ON SCOTLAND!!!

Come on Scotland, hold on, 5 big minutes.

This rain will make Scotland feel right at home

Scotland have a great chance with the rain to spoil Aust handling

I can't handle this!

I can't believe this is happening! Come on Scotland!

The next 4 and a half minutes will decide what Scotlands top selling DVD in the next few months.
If they win it will be this game.

This is amazing.

Seriously can't remember a better World Cup than this, ever.

Standard heartbreaking last minute penalty time.

It'll be absolutely heart breaking to lose it for that penalty

It came of an Australian?

That came off an Aussie?

please miss <3

ah shít!

Joubert makes a bad call for the winning penalty, came off an Australian hand...

Why kick deep???

Looks like he last touch 'might' have been a Scottish shoulder.

Edit: commiserations Scotland.

That is absolute bullschmidt

Absolutely devastating

Unlucky lads you gave it everything

You've got to feel for Scotland, magnificent performance but... that was the most quintessentially Scottish finish to a game in history.

Who said knockout rugby was boring? 35-34!!

tigertattie wrote:If that's not a double movement then nothing is!!!!

Nope - he is allowed to place it. Its OK

Full credit to Australia, great game. But we cannot take restarts and it has cost us a trip to the semis.

Proud of the lads though!

Bugger

Gutting, absolutely gutting. Joubert, sprinting off, that is absolutely pathetic.

Yellow card that's never a yellow card leading to a try and a shocking decision to give a penalty at the end.

Joubert, hang your head in shame.

Truly horrible way to go out. So close

Messed up restarts and lineouts costing us again.

Feel for Scotland, a lot to be proud of though

The crowd were shocking during that kick.

Well done Scotland determination for 80 mins.

Well done Australia great entertainment