Six Nations 2016 Wales vs Scotland

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Wales v Scotland

4:50pm - Saturday the 13th of February 2016

Principality Stadium, Cardiff

Teams

Wales
15 Liam Williams
14 George North
13 Jonathan Davies
12 Jamie Roberts
11 Tom James
10 Dan Biggar
9 Gareth Davies
1 Rob Evans
2 Scott Baldwin
3 Samson Lee
4 Luke Charteris
5 Alun Wyn Jones
6 Sam Warburton (c)
7 Justin Tipuric
8 Taulupe Faletau

Reps: Ken Owens, Gethin Jenkins, Tomas Francis, Bradley Davies, Dan Lydiate, Lloyd Williams, Rhys Priestland, Gareth Anscombe

Scotland

15. Stuart Hogg
14. Sean Maitland
13. Mark Bennett
12. Dunc Taylor
11. Tommy Seymour
10. Finn Russell
09. Greig Laidlaw (c)

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

Reps: McInally, Reid, Fagerson, Swinson, Cowan, Hidalgo-Clyne, Weir, Lamont



Referee is unfortunately George Clancy (IRFU) which ruins the game generally.

Touch judges: John Lacey (IRFU) & Federico Anselmi (UAR)

TMO: Graham Hughes (RFU)

TJ wrote:Does anyone else feel we are just setting ourselves up for the heroic defeat?
Scotland however are looking a bit more like it.  got to stop trying to maul tho - if Clancy is allowing a lot of freedom in the mauls then we have to not use them
What happened to Maitland?

Nope. Scotland can win this game - on their own terms.

Wales have no plan B so we had better start playing our plan A. Sorry, but we have underestimated Scotland and are making them look better than they are.

Seymour having a stupendous game.

Scotland should take this.

I don't care whether George Clancy is having a good game or bad game... he is always painful

Another worry is we're still to bring our subs on...

What is going on with Wales, kick kick kick, we need a new attacking coach.

am getting fed up of wales now, so many basic errors. sadly this expansive game isnt suiting us at all. i wamt liam williams amd tipuric off now and go back to basics.

Gethin Jenkins is becoming a liability.

Costly error from Williams.

The Welsh tactics are confusing, particularly when one considers how well they started.

Shifty wrote:am getting fed up of wales now, so many basic errors. sadly this expansive game isnt suiting us at all. i wamt liam williams amd tipuric off now and go back to basics.

The problem is the poor decision making when going out wide. If I were to have a drink each time I heard Jonathan Davies groan when he saw an overlap butchered by Roberts or one of the forwards taking the ball into contact, I would probably wake up in a hospital bed.

What on earth are Wales trying to do in this game?

I wish refs would grow a pair and tell players to stop whinging for a call to go there way.

Tom James is still a waste of time, clueless. Scotland are going to win this doing very little.

What a tackle Duncan Taylor!

wales606 wrote:What on earth are Wales trying to do in this game?

I know were so bad were making Scotland look good.

What the hell was that lineout???

What a man sausage up laidlaw

Right ball out quickly and smash North up the middle.

Anyone noticed how much better the atmosphere at Paris seemed to be than Cardiff?

Any mods able to tell me if I'm allowed to call Clancy an incompetent twaat of a human being?

Baws

tigertattie wrote:Any mods able to tell me if I'm allowed to call Clancy an incompetent twaat of a human being?

+1

tigertattie wrote:Any mods able to tell me if I'm allowed to call Clancy an incompetent twaat of a human being?

What did he do wrong?

tigertattie wrote:Any mods able to tell me if I'm allowed to call Clancy an incompetent twaat of a human being?

I don't think anyone from Wales would disagree with you, he's messed up so many Pro12 games all of us dread seeing his name.

Come on officials. Scotland demolished that scrum. Then Wales hold onto the ball in the ground. Then there is a neck grab by Wales and not s single official saw anything!!!!!!!

Can't see Wales letting this slip now

Need a try and we bring weir on???

Very long advantage from a knock on Clancy!

Our composure is totally non existent.

Can I just check a point of law - if a player moves towards the ball from an offside position after a kick before being run onside by other players isn't that a penalty offence?

RDW_Scotland wrote:Can't see Wales letting this slip now

Possibly via an interception... Wales look like they might give one away, this expansive style is reckless to be honest. I'd rather win through brutal attrition than play like this from this point.

The Scots are fading they have given a good peformance but it is game set match.

Really feel for Scotland.

Big swetty hairy baws.

We deserve so much more from this game - as always as a Scotland fan!

Heaf wrote:Can I just check a point of law - if a player moves towards the ball from an offside position after a kick before being run onside by other players isn't that a penalty offence?

In theory yes.

Yay! That should seal things,

North is back

What a try, George North.

Chalk it up as another missed opportunity for the Scots.

HammerofThunor wrote:

Heaf wrote:Can I just check a point of law - if a player moves towards the ball from an offside position after a kick before being run onside by other players isn't that a penalty offence?

In theory yes.

Only penalised if they interfere with play

Thank you Wales and Scotland for providing a very exciting match after the damp squid earlier. Loving this

Surely he'll put Hidalgo-Clyne on now??

eirebilly wrote:Thank you Wales and Scotland for providing a very exciting match after the damp squid earlier. Loving this

Not been exciting for me until the last 10 minutes

wales606 wrote:

HammerofThunor wrote:

Heaf wrote:Can I just check a point of law - if a player moves towards the ball from an offside position after a kick before being run onside by other players isn't that a penalty offence?

In theory yes.

Only penalised if they interfere with play

Yeah. I think the judgement is whether they would have got there anyway by the time they get involved.

Scotland will probably need to do more than crash into the Welsh team like that. Warburton, Lydiate, Roberts, and Faletau are all on the field and their hitting us close to the rucks. Silly idea.

HammerofThunor wrote:

Heaf wrote:Can I just check a point of law - if a player moves towards the ball from an offside position after a kick before being run onside by other players isn't that a penalty offence?

In theory yes.

So why didn't they ping the 9 for the first Welsh try - he was miles in front of the kicker and moved forwards a long way before being finally run onside just before Roberts knocked the ball back to him.  They even went to the TMO to look for a knock on (there wasn't one) but didn't seem bothered about him running forwards to a position to take the knock back from Roberts long before he was put on side ...

Heaf wrote:

HammerofThunor wrote:

Heaf wrote:Can I just check a point of law - if a player moves towards the ball from an offside position after a kick before being run onside by other players isn't that a penalty offence?

In theory yes.

So why didn't they ping the 9 for the first Welsh try - he was miles in front of the kicker and moved forwards a long way before being finally run onside just before Roberts knocked the ball back to him.  They even went to the TMO to look for a knock on (there wasn't one) but didn't seem bothered about him running forwards to a position to take the knock back from Roberts long before he was put on side ...

Didn't interfere with play until he was put onside

Because refs miss stuff.

wales606 wrote:

Heaf wrote:

HammerofThunor wrote:

Heaf wrote:Can I just check a point of law - if a player moves towards the ball from an offside position after a kick before being run onside by other players isn't that a penalty offence?

In theory yes.

So why didn't they ping the 9 for the first Welsh try - he was miles in front of the kicker and moved forwards a long way before being finally run onside just before Roberts knocked the ball back to him.  They even went to the TMO to look for a knock on (there wasn't one) but didn't seem bothered about him running forwards to a position to take the knock back from Roberts long before he was put on side ...

Didn't interfere with play until he was put onside

wales606 wrote:

Heaf wrote:

HammerofThunor wrote:

Heaf wrote:Can I just check a point of law - if a player moves towards the ball from an offside position after a kick before being run onside by other players isn't that a penalty offence?

In theory yes.

So why didn't they ping the 9 for the first Welsh try - he was miles in front of the kicker and moved forwards a long way before being finally run onside just before Roberts knocked the ball back to him.  They even went to the TMO to look for a knock on (there wasn't one) but didn't seem bothered about him running forwards to a position to take the knock back from Roberts long before he was put on side ...

Didn't interfere with play until he was put onside

He wasn't put inside. Even Martyn Willisms said it should not have been given

HammerofThunor wrote:Because refs miss stuff.

And it's Clancy. He normally uses a stick and dark glasses when he's on the field, he probably lost them before this game though.

Argggg, there goes the points difference,

and Scotland will have a chance to win it.