Scotland vs Wales (13th Feb, 4.45pm KO)

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Scotland vs Wales

Referee: Matthew Carley (England)
Assistant Referee 1: Pascal Gauzere (France)
Assistant Referee 2: Andrea Piardi (Italy)
TMO: Karl Dickson (England)

Teams

Scotland

1 Rory Sutherland
2 George Turner
3 Zander Fagerson
4 Scott Cummings
5 Jonny Gray (Vice Captain)
6 Blade Thomson
7 Hamish Watson
8 Matt Fagerson
9 Ali Price
10 Finn Russell (Vice Captain)
11 Duhan van der Merwe
12 James Lang
13 Chris Harris
14 Darcy Graham
15 Stuart Hogg (Captain)

16 David Cherry
17 Oli Kebble
18 WP Nel
19 Richie Gray
20 Gary Graham
21 Scott Steele
22 Jaco van der Walt
23 Huw Jones

Wales

1 Wyn Jones
2 Ken Owens
3 Tomas Francis
4 Adam Beard
5 Alun Wyn Jones (Captain)
6 Aaron Wainwright
7 Justin Tipuric
8 Taulupe Faletau
9 Gareth Davies
10 Dan Biggar
11 Liam Williams
12 Nick Tompkins
13 Owen Watkin
14 Louis Rees-Zammit
15 Leigh Halfpenny

16 Elliot Dee
17 Rhodri Jones
18 Leon Brown
19 Will Rowlands
20 James Botham
21 Kieran Hardy
22 Callum Sheedy
23 Uilisi Halaholo

Recent Results

2017: SCO 29 - WAL 13
2018: WAL 34 - SCO 7 & WAL 21 - SCO 10
2019: SCO 11 - WAL 18
2020: WAL 10 - SCO 14

Overall

Scotland are slipping. Need to score next

Great pace by the old hooker there

Time to get Zander off. He’s just not controlling his aggression today

At least Wales are putting up a fight. I thought it was game over when Scotland went over for the non-try.

Discipline has gone right out the window!

Fagerson potentially in trouble, not sure what to make of this one.

The Oracle wrote:At least Wales are putting up a fight.  I thought it was game over when Scotland went over for the non-try.

Was thinking BP win for them, to be honest.

Why? Why do it? He saw O’mahony getting binned. Utterly mad

Oh Zander. Why? Just why?

He’s off

Another ruined game

Ouch. Fagerson just needed to get an inch lower.

Another brainless action.

Big call

Clear out with an arm under the head. It’s not hard.

Turning point was not passing the ball to Cummings, it’s look as if it could go Wales’ way now, seeing as we only beat 14-man teams...

That is a poor decisions.

Nothing like POM.

Yellow at most.

Just madness. One man’s idiocy costs a whole nation

I thought that challenge was OK.  No red for me.

Edit: I could just not be understanding the rules though .

king_carlos wrote:Oh Zander. Why? Just why?

It's an active ruck. The player is moving. That's a harsh decision. He's trying to clear the man. You have to drive the player off the ruck and he's clearly wrapped his left arm, his right arm is down because he's trying to get his shoulder underneath Jones. We've got to work to remove contact with the head from the game as much as possible but that's a red card for someone trying to play the game.

Karl Dickson as TMO is never good he's barely capable as a ref.

I give up. F**king hell.

And that is why as a Scotland fan you can never allow yourself to truly believe!

As a neutral that is harsh

Gary Graham gets pulled, that might be his Scotland career done

I actually think the 'mitigation' of the player being lifted up made that better for Fagerson. If he doesn't shift up then Fagerson just dives into the top of his head, because he was lifted up it's more of glancing blow and looks better. A fair red in my opinion. Straight on his feet, arm in no position to bind and contact with the head.

Harsh yes but all he had to do was not hit the head with his shoulder.

You can’t whack the head these days, simple as that

TheMildlyFranticLlama wrote:And that is why as a Scotland fan you can never allow yourself to truly believe!

Another opportunity butchered. Only way we know how. At least we won't get the spoon. So pi**ed off right now.

I think most referees would have allowed the mitigating factor and given a yellow - as the TMO was angling for - but this referee was far stricter.

Probably game over unless Wales get a man in the bin in the next ten or so minutes.

Well Scotland are still clearly in it. Strange game.

tigertattie wrote:Harsh yes but all he had to do was not hit the head with his shoulder.

You can’t whack the head these days, simple as that

Exactly. At least try to tuck an arm under the body or something to move him.

That was a clear red unfortunately. He was always going to hit the head, without any movement it was straight onto the head, with movement it still onto the head, silly all the way.

Don’t be disheartened Scotland, you saw how Wales struggled against 14 man Ireland last week.

AWJ given a few penalties away today, none of which were penalties and he’s clearly being targeted...

Can Scotland still do this?

Can we?

Or is the hope going to kill us again?

Take the points

mikey_dragon wrote:AWJ given a few penalties away today, none of which were penalties and he’s clearly being targeted...

I've never been in the AWJ being overrated camp. I think he's quality. But he's also absolutely blowing and that does lead to ill discipline. The ball has been in play a lot today and the Scotland second row have been more prominent. AWJ is coming off injury and limited game time. Tough game given that.

Hoggy slightly more attacking minded than Farrell!

hugehandoff wrote:Hoggy slightly more attacking minded than Farrell!

That decision seemed to come from the renowned level head of Finn Russell looking at it live...

Bloody awful defence.

Scotland the truly brave.

There’s that hope again

Terrific finish from Hogg. Delivery when his side needs it.

Hugely important conversion this now.

Weak tackling from Wales. Absolutely balls weak.

Garbage defence. One back less

Game of the tournament by a mile so far. Loving it as a neutral

My heart ..........

king_carlos wrote:

mikey_dragon wrote:AWJ given a few penalties away today, none of which were penalties and he’s clearly being targeted...

I've never been in the AWJ being overrated camp. I think he's quality. But he's also absolutely blowing and that does lead to ill discipline. The ball has been in play a lot today and the Scotland second row have been more prominent. AWJ is coming off injury and limited game time. Tough game given that.

In my opinion he milks his reputation as a captain to get away with what would see most players sin binned for accumulating penalties. Which is great if you can get away with it, he's very good at playing the ref. I think his physical abilities are starting to fade though he was top quality at his best so not overrated by the fans and coaches (unlike Farrell) but certainly overhyped by the media.

Liam Williams with Alun Wyn Jones outside him. FFS!

Talented boy is LRZ

Never been much of a Hogg fanboy but he's showing what all the fuss is about this tournament. Playing himself into the Lions starting berth surely.

Ha apparently my streams a couple of minutes behind, goosed by LRZ on the next play after crafting him out of a try!