Scotland v Georgia Friday 24th October

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Scotland v Georgia
Friday 24th October 2020

BT Murrayfield

KO 19.30

Live on ITV 4


Well at long last we have an international game coming up for Scotland fans to enjoy, a warm up game for the final 6N fixture against Wales the following weekend.

It will be an interesting line up though, as a fair few players will be missing due to the English Premiership final that weekend and it also being outside of the international window.

So what kind of lineup will we see?

My guess is something along these lines:


1. Sutherland
2. Brown (Captain in Hogg's absence)
3. Fagerson Z
4. Cummings
5. Harley (Been the form lock in Scotland these past weeks)
6. Ritchie
7. Watson
8. Fagerson M
9. Price
10. Hastings
11. Graham
12. Lang (Johnson to get a run out with Glasgow)
13. Grigg
14. VDM
15. Jones H

Subs:

Keeble
McInally
Nel
Gray R
Cowan
Steele (I fancy he might have a look at him off the bench)
Weir
Hoyland (Kinghorn to have a run with Edinburgh as well)

Georgian scrum is awesome

tigertattie wrote:

NeilyBroon wrote:

tigertattie wrote:Jimbo. Is this a haiku?

Duhan
Like Visser
Though he tackles

I'd still pick Sean "my Corona" Maitland over him on this game so far.

Lang and Harris are not drawing defenders or straightening up. When Scotland are passing the ball it’s all moving diagonally and duhan is getting the ball to close to the touchline. He needs a bit of help from those inside him

Sounds like we need the Scott Bennett combo of auld.

Not that that will ever happen!

Think we’re about to see the Hastings Russell axis

I’m assuming Kinghorn knew we had an advantage? I didn’t.

tigertattie wrote:I’m assuming Kinghorn knew we had an advantage? I didn’t.

I hope so! I'd be cross if he didn't!

Well that was a a bit anticlimactic

bsando wrote:Georgian scrum is awesome

On their 4th choice tighthead here, sadly. Beka Gigashvili is the usual starter, Levan Chilachava usually second choice and Giorgi Melikidze (on the bench today) has been picked ahead of Kaulashvili in the past. I'd have really liked to see Sutherland and Gigashvili in a head-to-head.

Kote Mikautadze who is a rock in the scrum at lock is missing as well. Gigashvili, Chilachava and Mikautadze are all in the extended Georgia squad so I'd presume they are being held back for Wales.

Can’t complain with the scoreline but really need to see scotland step things up in the second half. The forwards are linking well with the backs and although it’s not very high quality I like the way Scotland are going about their business. Watson and Cummings my players of the match so far.

tigertattie wrote:Well that was a a bit anticlimactic

First game back test wise after 7 months, I can't complain at that, I think a few players have added to their game. Fagerson Jr is showing a bit more of his club form at this level now. In fact our back row have largely stolen the show from the backs and looked pretty good on the whole.

Our centre pairing has been a bit... Eh. Kinghorn has looked desperate to show he can run with a ball and been okay but made some pretty stupid errors because of it. Graham always plays with some bite. VdM seems to have settled in nicely but needs a bit of space. Hastings looks solid but needs to occasionally pass deep rather than pancake flat. Also I think he should be given all kicking duties, I feel he performs better when the responsibility is on him.

Forgive me nelly, my comment was on the last phases of play. Lots of knocking at the door and then failed to get over the line.

Overall I’d say pass marks for the half in general

Hard to argue with three tries to nil and total domination, but we have looked pretty stodgy in midfield. Early days to be fair but would like to see an improvement in the second half.

Do we have centres on the pitch? Been struggling to notice any

tigertattie wrote:Forgive me nelly, my comment was on the last phases of play. Lots of knocking at the door and then failed to get over the line.

Overall I’d say pass marks for the half in general

That seems fair!

BigGee wrote:Hard to argue with three tries to nil and total domination, but we have looked pretty stodgy in midfield. Early days to be fair but would like to see an improvement in the second half.

So the question is... Could Harris do a reverse Richie V? He'd be a great back row...

Deserved score there. Simple ball over the top of the Scottish defenders who were all too narrow

Well that should shake any complacency away, good try from Georgia, who have started second half better than Scotland

Apart from it being a mile forward of course!

It did look like it touched Cummings finger though, so fair try

Well, 1/4 mile maybe

Time for some finnsanity I think

Melikidze coming on at tighthead has made an impact at the scrum. A better contest against Sutherland now.

Zander is possessed at the breakdown. Just keeps smashing folk

Perhaps he needs to calm it just a tad before he’s pinged

tigertattie wrote:Zander is possessed at the breakdown. Just keeps smashing folk

Perhaps he needs to calm it just a tad before he’s pinged

His hands are possessed by jubblies it seems

Another penalty though, a card can't be far away

Georgia love to be offside eh

Nothing much wrong with our driving mauls tonight though

Lang is making a real difference in our mauls

BigGee wrote:Nothing much wrong with our driving mauls tonight though

But worrying they're our main source of scoring! It's certainly the most helpful our centres have been!

BigGee wrote:Nothing much wrong with our driving mauls tonight though

Cummings and Toolis impressing in the lineout that's for sure!

tigertattie wrote:Lang is making a real difference in our mauls

It all feels a bit Morrison-esque at the moment!

Kinghorn tried to offload??? Are we seeing evolution??

Yaaasss let the madness begin!

Big Ollie comes on for his first cap and Russell gets his 50th

Hastings/Russell 10/12 combo

Well fair to say the subs made a difference!

Great defence from Georgia

God we already look so much better in attack!

Russell pinging the fast pass out Already. Near paid off too

And then Russell near chucks an intercept lol

Centres too slow and uninspiring.
Kinghorn is trying to do it all himself. He needs s few weeks at club level.

Different team once Russell comes on. Looks a much wider pitch and much harder to defend. Puts us much doubt in defenders minds.

tigertattie wrote:And then Russell near chucks an intercept lol

Aye but this is so much more fun to watch! The players seem to enjoy it too!

NeilyBroon wrote:

tigertattie wrote:And then Russell near chucks an intercept lol

Aye but this is so much more fun to watch! The players seem to enjoy it too!

Young outside backs must love playing outside Russell to be fair. Not perfect but it's a lot of fun.

and another drive over try

looks like our line out has improved!

After all that another driven maul try anyway

and Hastings finally manages to avoid the posts!

BigGee wrote:and another drive over try

looks like our line out has improved!

Well... We seem to put 13 players in these days!

Cracking shift from Hamish

TheMildlyFranticLlama wrote:Cracking shift from Hamish

He must be a step closer to being a lion, if not a starter for the lions!

There’s duhan in space

DVDM gets his first try for Scotland

I doubt it will be his last

NeilyBroon wrote:

TheMildlyFranticLlama wrote:Cracking shift from Hamish

He must be a step closer to being a lion, if not a starter for the lions!

My bets would be Watson will tour in the initial party and Ritchie will be one of the approx dozen players usually called up as injury replacements.