6N 2016: Scotland v England, 6 February

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SCOTLAND v ENGLAND
6 February 2016
KO: 16:50 GMT
Murrayfield, Edinburgh

Live on BBC, RTE, FR2, DMAX / ITV(H)

Referee: John Lacey (Ireland)
Touch judges: [tbc]
Television match official: [tbc]

A. Head to Head

133 Played 133
42 Won 73
18 Drawn 18
73 Lost 42
1,132 Points 1,547

B. Recent Form

14 March 2015
Twickenham, London
25 – 13 to England

8 February 2014
Murrayfield, Edinburgh
0 – 20 to England

2 February 2013
Twickenham, London
38 – 18 to England

4 February 2012
Murrayfield, Edinburgh
6 – 13 to England

1 October 2011
Eden Park, Auckland
16 – 12 to England

C. Teams

SCOTLAND

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

01. Alasdair Dickinson
02. Ross Ford
03. Willem Nel
04. Richie Gray
05. Jonny Gray
06. John Barclay
07. John Hardie
08. David Denton

16. Stuart McInally
17. Gordon Reid
18. Zander Fagerson
19. Tim Swinson
20. Blair Cowan
21. Sam Hidalgo-Clyne
22. Duncan Weir
23. Duncan Taylor

ENGLAND

15. Mike Brown
14. Anthony Watson
13. Jonathan Joseph
12. Owen Farrell
11. Jack Nowell
10. George Ford
09. Danny Care

01. Joe Marler
02. Dylan Hartley
03. Dan Cole
04. Joe Launchbury
05. George Kruis
06. Chris Robshaw
07. James Haskell
08. Billy Vunipola

16. Jamie George
17. Mako Vunipola
18. Paul Hill
19. Courtney Lawes
20. Jack Clifford
21. Ben Youngs
22. Alex Goode
23. Ollie Devoto

Good time to bring on MacInally

Scotland really are perennial losers.

Well done referee

Taylor for Seymour

Interesting...

nathan wrote:

maestegmafia wrote:Awful feeding of the scrum by Youngs, right in front of the ref and nothing. Ends with a dubious penalty for a retreating England scrum.

Unlucky for the scots there

Retreating?

It was going sideways!

You'd almost think mm didn't like England

Seriously Mike?

He just missed a Scottish player going in at the side too

Laidlaw passing is so slow even when he has passes it, floating to his man give time for the defence to smash the receiver.

Scottish backline play has been awful recently.

Absolutely devoid of ideas... So far below par for such a talented midfield. But they are always using the centres as decoys, get the ball through the hands and make some gaps open

So impressed. England and Scotland are going to scare the hell out of the other teams in the 6 Nations............

doctor_grey wrote:So impressed.  England and Scotland are going to scare the hell out of the other teams in the 6 Nations............  

After two games this weekend isn't living up to the pre-championship excitement.

doctor_grey wrote:So impressed.  England and Scotland are going to scare the hell out of the other teams in the 6 Nations............  

Both seem very average.

Moor opened his other eye

Youngs has been bloody awful since he came on.

Farrell. What a boobie

Farrell - what a plonker.

Petulant play by Farrell

Daft lad Farrell...

Farrell ain't Einstein.

No need for that from Farrell. D**k.

Brown ain't Einstein.

I was about to write that Scott's are kicking away too much ball but what a mistake by Mike Brown...

You feel that Scotland could play a third 40 minutes after this one finishes and still not create a try chance.

Scotland are so impatient in attack. Controlled phase play will open this defence up..

If England wins the scrum, they better not kick it away............

Hartley goes off and the scrum improves

Good scrum England, Jamie George adding a lot there eh...!!!

Jamie George on the pitch for 4 minutes... the outrage from beshocked later on will be rather hilarious for a spectator such as myself.

Another good sub but Jamie should have come on sooner.

maestegmafia wrote:I was about to write that Scott's are kicking away too much ball but what a mistake by Mike Brown...

The quick throw in by Nowell and kick by Brown ending up in a pen for Scotland earlier on wasn't too clever either - 9 points up at the time just take the line-out which wasn't in a bad position and keep building ...

Those two posts couldn't have lined up any better could they

beshocked wrote:Another good sub but Jamie should have come on sooner.

You certainly don't disappoint my friend!

Bully Vunipola has been the man who made the difference today.

The Tongan Welshman get's MOM for England.

In that sequence, I was concerned Youngs might give the ball to the backs or kick it away. Amazing I could feel that way.

Not a classic but I'll take it..

As a Wales fan, these first 2 matches couldn't have gone better. France and Scotland were poor, England average and Italy look competent but not likely to shock Cardiff.

Just hope Ireland are as poor tomorrow and Wales avoid a rusty start.

Played 1, won 1. But England will have to improve by a great margin.

Scotland have missed a glorious chance to defeat a tame and average England side.

Rory_Gallagher wrote:

beshocked wrote:Another good sub but Jamie should have come on sooner.

You certainly don't disappoint my friend!

BS is right though, Hartley was not impressive, ignored by the referee when ever he approached him.

A decent win for England but I cant help but feel the game was ruined as a spectacle by some seriously poor refereeing by Lacey. Both sides suffered from his ineptitude.

Bully? hole..

nathan wrote:

TJ wrote:

TightHEAD wrote:

Heaf wrote:

VinceWLB wrote:England score a try despite a massive obstruction missed by the ref.

??? where?

There wasn't one

Yes there was - Care blocked Laidlaw - not that Laidlaw would have stopped Vunipola much quicker

That's stretching the trust a bit as Care didn't move, Laidlaw just grabbed him off the ball though.

Have a look again at the replays later. Laidlaw was foolish to get conned but Care clearly blocked him and opened the channel for Vunipola

eirebilly wrote:A decent win for England but I cant help but feel the game was ruined as a spectacle by some seriously poor refereeing by Lacey. Both sides suffered from his ineptitude.

I agree. He was awful.

Same old same old!

eirebilly wrote:A decent win for England but I cant help but feel the game was ruined as a spectacle by some seriously poor refereeing by Lacey. Both sides suffered from his ineptitude.

This +10000

Well is might not of been one the most exciting games. But England came her to win and win they did.

Scotland still have not scored a try against England in the Calcuta cup.

Well played England a nice start to the 6ns.

Very professional performance from England. To make an exciting Scotland team look so average takes some doing.

Very happy with that win, good showing from an improving English side.

Scotland will never win anything with Laidlaw as a scrumhalf.

Poor poor game. Two good sets of backs on the park. None of them got much ball or did anything with what they got. Englands power as typified by Vunipola won them the game. Scotland couldn't get enough control, couldn't get the turnovers they were set up for, couldn't make the pace count

Haskell put in a great shift, guess you were wrong Beshocked

Good showing from Hartley too, another good call from Jones.