6N 2017: Scotland v Ireland, 4 February

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SCOTLAND v IRELAND 
4 February 2017
KO: 14:25
BT Murrayfield, Edinburgh

Referee: Romain Poite (France)
Touch judges: Jaco Peyper (South Africa) and Nick Briant (New Zealand)
TMO: Glenn Newman (New Zealand

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

A. Head to Head

132 Played 132
66 Won 61 
5 Drawn 5
61 Lost 66
1,380 Points 1,475

B. Recent Form

19 March 2016
Aviva Stadium, Dublin
35 – 25 to Ireland

15 August 2015
Aviva Stadium, Dublin
28 – 22 to Ireland

21 March 2015
BT Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh
10 – 40 to Ireland

2 February 2014
Aviva Stadium, Dublin
28 – 6 to Ireland

24 February 2013
Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh
12 – 8 to Scotland

10 March 2012
Aviva Stadium, Dublin
32 – 14 to Ireland

6 August 2011
Murrayfield, Edinburgh
10 – 6 to Scotland

27 February 2011
Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh
18 – 21 to Ireland

20 March 2010
Croke Park, Dublin
20 – 23 to Scotland

C. Teams

SCOTLAND 

15-Stuart Hogg; 14-Sean Maitland, 13-Huw Jones, 12-Alex Dunbar, 11-Tommy Seymour; 10-Finn Russell, 9-Greig Laidlaw (capt); 1-Allan Dell, 2-Fraser Brown, 3-Zander Fagerson, 4-Richie Gray, 5-Jonny Gray, 6-Ryan Wilson, 7-Hamish Watson, 8-Josh Strauss

Replacements: 16-Ross Ford, 17-Gordon Reid, 18-Simon Berghan, 19-Tim Swinson, 20-John Barclay, 21-Ali Price, 22-Duncan Weir, 23-Mark Bennett

IRELAND

15-Rob Kearney; 14-Keith Earls, 13-Robbie Henshaw, 12-Garry Ringrose, 11-Simon Zebo; 10-Paddy Jackson, 9-Conor Murray; 1-Jack McGrath, 2-Rory Best (captain), 3-Tadhg Furlong, 4-Iain Henderson, 5-Devin Toner, 6-CJ Stander, 7-Sean O'Brien, 8-Jamie Heaslip

Replacements: 16-Niall Scannell, 17-Cian Healy, 18-John Ryan, 19-Ultan Dillane, 20-Josh van der Flier, 21-Kieran Marmion, 22-Ian Keatley, 23-Tommy Bowe.

RDW_Scotland wrote:3-0 Ireland so far!

Munster beat Edinburgh by a point
Ireland under 20s win by a point
Ireland ladies win thanks to an 83rd minute try

It all points to tomorrow being very close!

Those are bad omens to be sure to be sure. And I don't mean the closeness... I mean the three wins. Three wins shouldn't have happened tonight. The odds of a 4th have now been officially crapped on! Damn you women!!!!! No wonder they should never have been given the vote!

Sweet dreams everyone!

Oh god. Same old.

Faint nausea. Difficulty peeing. Anticipation, knowing that pain and failure will mostly likey come.

It must be the opening weekend of the 6 Nations again.

We all know what's going to happen, right?

- Yooj pre-match build up.
- Scotland will score a couple of wonderful midfield tries.
- The rest of the match will be watching 10 man Ireland march upfield with Murray booting everything into the corner.
- Line-out, driving maul, try.
- Line-out, driving maul, try.
- Wind will come out of Scotland.
- Barclay will come on, get frustrated and get yellow carded again.
- During the sin bin period, Ireland will score another 2 through line-outs, followed by a driving maul.
- Post match commentary will ignore how utterly mundane and utterly f###ing predictable the whole thing was.
- The studio will do their earnest faces and say 'but a win's a win at the end of the day'.

Did I miss anything out? Is there any point in me actually watching the game?

George Carlin wrote:Oh god. Same old.

Faint nausea. Difficulty peeing. Anticipation, knowing that pain and failure will mostly likey come.

It must be the opening weekend of the 6 Nations again.

We all know what's going to happen, right?

- Yooj pre-match build up.
- Scotland will score a couple of wonderful midfield tries.
- The rest of the match will be watching 10 man Ireland march upfield with Murray booting everything into the corner.
- Line-out, driving maul, try.
- Line-out, driving maul, try.
- Wind will come out of Scotland.
- Barclay will come on, get frustrated and get yellow carded again.
- During the sin bin period, Ireland will score another 2 through line-outs, followed by a driving maul.
- Post match commentary will ignore how utterly mundane and utterly f###ing predictable the whole thing was.
- The studio will do their earnest faces and say 'but a win's a win at the end of the day'.

Did I miss anything out? Is there any point in me actually watching the game?

NO. I mean if you know what is going to happen Why bother.

Very honest interview with Stuart Hogg - worth a read:

http://www.scotsman.com/sport/rugby-union/hawick/interview-stuart-hogg-on-rugby-tragedy-and-growing-up-1-4357538

majesticimperialman wrote:

George Carlin wrote:Oh god. Same old.

Faint nausea. Difficulty peeing. Anticipation, knowing that pain and failure will mostly likey come.

It must be the opening weekend of the 6 Nations again.

We all know what's going to happen, right?

- Yooj pre-match build up.
- Scotland will score a couple of wonderful midfield tries.
- The rest of the match will be watching 10 man Ireland march upfield with Murray booting everything into the corner.
- Line-out, driving maul, try.
- Line-out, driving maul, try.
- Wind will come out of Scotland.
- Barclay will come on, get frustrated and get yellow carded again.
- During the sin bin period, Ireland will score another 2 through line-outs, followed by a driving maul.
- Post match commentary will ignore how utterly mundane and utterly f###ing predictable the whole thing was.
- The studio will do their earnest faces and say 'but a win's a win at the end of the day'.

Did I miss anything out? Is there any point in me actually watching the game?

NO. I mean if you know what is going to happen Why bother.

Sorry - am just a bit 'Corporal Jones' today.

I would be very nervous but knowing that tattie is going to be at the game has given me a good feeling

Right. Work finished, wife and kids at the in-laws, I best get my drinking shoes on.
I want to say I'm confident of the win, but I just can't.
Let's hope we make it 4 from 4 this weekend
And on a side note the women's 7s ain't done to bad this weekend either

I know a lot of Irish do not like Wayne Barnes but I really do. Think he is a very good ref and in that segment on high tackles, spoke very well.

45 mins into BBC coverage and all they've done is talk about England, the lions and Italy.

How about talking about the two teams playing ???

Its been a pretty poor introduction to todays game that's for sure tigertattie.

Both teams look pretty relaxed. Heres to a good match

Best of luck to the Scottish fans on here, great bunch of lads but I still hope yiz get done

Game on

Jaysus, Murray near fed that to Heaslip's feet... Ban the overhead cam.

tigertattie wrote:45 mins into BBC coverage and all they've done is talk about England, the lions and Italy.

How about talking about the two teams playing ???

The first part was billed as a preview for the whole six nations, they then went into the teams for today at 2pm

Irish scrum well on top

Great scrum from Ireland, but Scotland looking very physical in the loose.

But there lineout continues to be woeful.

Rubbish from Best and Hendy.

Rory_Gallagher wrote:Great scrum from Ireland, but Scotland looking very physical in the loose.

It does help that Connor is feeding directly to CJ so Best does not need to hook.

Scotland well on top here.

Yassssss

Tactics today. Keep the ball.

Good try from Scotland.

Good thing Scotland don't do restarts...

Restarts!!!

Why not opt for the scrum?

This might actually work in our favour.

Surely that should have been a penalty not scrum?

Very aggressive defence so far

Superb defence from Scotland. Ireland looking very rusty here but that is down to Scotland rushing them at every chance.

Basics man. Basics!

Scotland's defence looking very good. Winning the collisions.

Holey crap... Hogg is an absolute star

We are completely second best in this game, bar the scrum.

Earls and Kearney defended that horribly.

Earls has to at least knock Hogg off balance there, poor defending.

Where are the Irish forwards?

Hoggy Hoggy Hoggy!!!

Hogg. Lions fullback. Surely???

Rory_Gallagher wrote:We are completely second best in this game, bar the scrum.

And restarts

Just throw it wide and you'll score against Ireland.

Except restarts

Have Ireland woken up?

No try. Forward pass from Seymour

Earls makes up for his defensive blip earlier.

Great game this.

Is Farrell with us for the Six Nations after his call up for the Lions?

Hogg is the Lions 15, bet Gatland goes for 1/2p

Rory_Gallagher wrote:Is Farrell with us for the Six Nations after his call up for the Lions?

The coaches go to the Lions much later so should he be with you. Howley is 6N coach for Wales before linking up with the Lions.

Conor Murray dummies a box kick. And you wonder why folk try to tackle him???

This is unbelievable.

Lol