6N 2017: Scotland vs Wales, 25th Feb

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Scotland vs Wales


Date: Saturday 25th February 2017
Venue: BT Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh
Kick Off: 2:25pm
Referee: John Lacey (Ireland)
TV Coverage: Live on BBC

Weather Update


Teams

Scotland

1. Gordon Reid (Glasgow Warriors)
2. Faiser Brown (Glasgow Warriors)
3. Zander Fagerson (Glasgow Warriors)
4. Richie Gray (Toulouse)
5. Johnny Gray (Glasgow Warriors)
6. John Barclay (C) (Scarlets)
7. John Hardie (Edinburgh)
8. Ryan Wilson (Glasgow Warriors)

9. Ali Price (Glasgow Warriors)
10. Finn Russell (Glasgow Warriors)
11. Tim Visser (Harlequins)
12. Alex Dunbar (Glasgow Warriors)
13. Huw Jones (Stormers)
14. Tommy Seymour (Glasgow Warriors)
15. Stuart Hogg (Glasgow Warriors)

Replacements

16 Ross Ford (Edinburgh)
17 Allan Dell (Edinburgh)
18 Simon Berghan (Edinburgh)
19 Tim Swinson (Glasgow Warriors)
20 Hamish Watson (Edinburgh)
21 Henry Pyrgos (Glasgow Warriors)
22 Duncan Weir (Edinburgh)
23 Mark Bennett (Glasgow Warriors)


Wales

1 Rob Evans (Scarlets)
2 Ken Owens (Scarlets)
3 Tomas Francis (Exeter Chiefs)
4 Jake Ball (Scarlets)
5 Alun Wyn Jones (C) (Ospreys)
6 Sam Warburton (Cardiff Blues)
7 Justin Tipuric (Ospreys)
8 Ross Moriarty (Gloucester)

9 Rhys Webb (Ospreys)
10 Dan Biggar (Ospreys)
11 Liam Williams (Scarlets)
12 Scott Williams (Scarlets)
13 Jonathan Davies (Scarlets)
14 George North (Northampton)
15 Leigh Halfpenny (Toulon)

Replacements

16 Scott Baldwin (Ospreys)
17 Nicky Smith (Ospreys)
18 Samson Lee (Scarlets)
19 Luke Charteris (Bath)
20 Taulupe Faletau (Dragons)
21 Gareth Davies (Scarlets)
22 Sam Davies (Ospreys)
23 Jamie Roberts (Harlequins)

tigertattie wrote:Pie crust? Really?

Too early - price is looking dangerous

Scottish scrum is killing them.

Great tackle Tim

It popped out the scrum - should have been a re-set

Lol

is webb always this annoying?

Rhys Webb is such a liar

tigertattie wrote:Great tackle Tim

He's the new Maitland!

Someone should tell the Welsh 9 this isn't football, he'll be nominated for an Oscar soon

trebellbobaggins wrote:is webb always this annoying?

Seems like he is. I've stopped judging edgy players, though, after taking an early dislike to Liam Williams, only to reconsider.

Tipuric could be in trouble.

Lol where is the consistency in this game?

I think it was pretty innocuous but had Russell stayed down would it have just been a penalty?

Should be red, ref bottled it

Surely a yellow?

How was that not a card?

That's Wales deployed their oil tanker. Now we go wide with pace

Tips had no need to tip him on his neck, red card every time in my opinion

I don't don't many would have complained about a yellow - weak decision

Does North tackle?

John Lacey seems to be refereeing with the assistance of a random number generator.

Ouf - lucky lucky Wales and Tipuric. Absolutely no malice but Russell hit the ground shoulder first. Yellow for me (compare with eg May's yellow v France). If there are these new rules they have to be applied

Hogg is just an extraordinary player. What a ball.

Tim visser man of the match!!!!

Lovely try

Never mind Cuthbert - North's defence has been beyond crap in this game. What a fall from grace.

Ya beauty!!!

Rory_Gallagher wrote:Never mind Cuthbert - North's defence has been beyond crap in this game. What a fall from grace.

Not a happy place at the Gardens at the moment

North embarrassing again

Is North Cuthbert' twin brother

Clearly unless Scotland are determined to throw it away, I think that's game set and match to Scotland. I had a feeling they'd finally beat us today.

Well done to the Scottish posters, it's been fun taking the mickey out of you for so many long years, so you can have a fun time doing it back now.

Great admiration for Scotland there. Was just thinking how a drop goal would push the gap to nine points, and wondering whether Russell would be too scared to call it, when the try told me to go stuff myself.

Garland crossing off Welsh players from the lions list

nathan wrote:

Rory_Gallagher wrote:Never mind Cuthbert - North's defence has been beyond crap in this game. What a fall from grace.

Not a happy place at the Gardens at the moment

He seems afraid of contact or something - fear of another concussion? Understandable...

Shifty wrote:Clearly unless Scotland are determined to throw it away, I think that's game set and match to Scotland.  I had a feeling they'd finally beat us today.  

Well done to the Scottish posters, it's been fun taking the mickey out of you for so many long years, so you can have a fun time doing it back now.  

Well done Scotland I don't think see this Wales team turning around this game

Gatland doesn't look happy!

We've been a lot better this half but you've got to say Wales have been a lot worse this half

Rugby Fan wrote:

trebellbobaggins wrote:is webb always this annoying?

Seems like he is. I've stopped judging edgy players, though,  after taking an early dislike to Liam Williams, only to reconsider.

yeah fair point. typical gobby little SH I guess.

North is an open door in defence, Gatland looks unhappy as his just realised he can't take his mates to NZ for a jolly this summer! Lol

Bit worried about playing Scotland, some great rugby today. Hogg is unreal!

TightHEAD wrote:North is an open door in defence, Gatland looks unhappy as his just realised he can't take his mates to NZ for a jolly this summer! Lol

Haha.

this sets up the Eng - Scotland game nicely. Going to be a seriously close game.

We were chasing a game anyway at 16-13 or whatever it was when Roberts came on. What a waste of a sub

Scotland are playing with a smile on their faces, As an England fan I'm worried

Completely agree EnglishReign. Playing like this, Scotland look as good as anything else in the NHL. It could/should be a cracker @ HQ

Congrats Scotland anyway. I'll take the Seymour try, Hogg assist and my fifth place Welsh bet still being on haha

Hamish Watson is my man of the match for this one. What a game.

Roberts is was world class, back in 2013 lol

That Hamish Watson looks some player. Don't know much about him. Has he just come on the scene? Is he young?

EnglishReign wrote:Bit worried about playing Scotland, some great rugby today. Hogg is unreal!

Certainly won't be easy and I can see us losing.