Scotland 6N lookahead

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Results in aggregate this year for the national team were:

5 February 2022 - Scotland 20–17 England
12 February 2022 - Wales 20–17 Scotland
26 February 2022 - Scotland 17–36 France
12 March 2022 - Italy 22–33 Scotland
19 March 2022 - Ireland 26–5 Scotland
2 July 2022 - Argentina 26–18 Scotland
9 July 2022 - Argentina 6–29 Scotland
16 July 2022 - Argentina 34–31 Scotland
29 October 2022 - Scotland 15–16 Australia
5 November 2022 - Scotland 28–12 Fiji
13 November 2022 - Scotland 23–31 New Zealand
19 November 2022 - Scotland 52–29 Argentina

P 12 W 5 L 7

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formerly known as Sam wrote:Dunno what the TMO is doing but the Scottish 4 is bound round the neck of the Fijian forward for that try. Ridiculous that, that isn't a penalty.

TMO's not Hodnett is it?

Hmm it's as this selected Scottish side haven't been playing very much rugby together... Backline play has been awful so far

Well this is going well…

Wow! Fiji dominating

That is the worst first 20 mins of rugby I've seen under Townsend during his tenure

Penalties are killing Scotland.

Our discipline is honking but where is consistency? Harris lifts a leg while clearing out and gets penalised. Fiji do it and nothing.

Heaf wrote:

formerly known as Sam wrote:Dunno what the TMO is doing but the Scottish 4 is bound round the neck of the Fijian forward for that try. Ridiculous that, that isn't a penalty.

TMO's not Hodnett is it?

actually laughed out loud at that one.

Think we need to hit the gym.

This is honking. Utterly honking.

Almost another try for Fiji there ... looking a handful at the moment - not sure how long they'll be able to keep it up.

Fiji are playing incredibly well. Very impressed with their structure and ambition

Well we got a game now

Why we are getting sucked into a game of chuckabout against Fiji though? That does not usually end well!

Scotland's discipline has been woeful. There's no excuse for that. If some more of those Fijian passes went to hand then Scotland would be in a significantly worse position. Imagine what the Fiji team could do with a real general at 10.

It's an enjoyable watch so far but Scotland have got to start throwing some punches of their own and just temper the territory game a bit because it's not working.

eight Scottish penalties in 28 mins

Scotland are really dawdling at using the ball when it's available.

Fiji are to a man faster and stronger than Scotland.

All Vern has done is get them to play simple basic structured rugby to give them opportunities to do their made running about rugby when it is on.

Vern cotter. 10 times a coach Toonie is

Has Toonie had enough and told the team to lose so he can fall on his sword at full time?

Damn it was only a dream!

I’ve found the Toonie tactics

Box kick, box kick, box kick give away a penalty

Box kick, box kick, box kick

Bloody awful

That was a much better scrum and a good bit of ghosting from Hastings

He needed that, has not had a great game so far

Scotland will be relieved to be going in ahead after that first half ...

The best time to score, maybe we can settle down a bit now

Ashman looks an improvement on Turner already and RG showing that we have missed him, the pick of our forwards so far, though not a high bar to be fair!

BigGee wrote:That was a much better scrum and a good bit of ghosting from Hastings

He needed that, has not had a great game so far

Whole of the Fijian team drifted to tackle hogg and Hastings spotted it and cut in. Clever play by him.

We need to get away from this whole thing of playing cack for 5/10 mins then have a brief minute of good play.

We need to stop box kicking the fecking ball and letting devastating Fijian runners attack us one on one.

Ashman really should be getting more game time. He’s very dynamic seems accurate with his darts. I know the coaches think he’s the future but watching the other options so far this autumn and last 6N, I would say he’s the present for us.
I never said it before but the Scottish coaching team needs cleared out. That first half was wholly unacceptable

Shocking half from Scotland but it is the first international match in a while for several players in that Scotlands starting XV. Regardless, they've got a lot to do in the 2nd half to put this game to bed.

Fiji really should have got a third try in that first half but to be fair to Scotland their defence held out well. Scottish discipline has been horrific again, continue like that and we'll surely concede another yellow card. Fiji giving away poor penalties as well so let's see who has the cleaner second half, it may be the difference.

If we sort out the discipline, we win this game, if we don't we lose

We got to give Fiji credit, they are a good team but we are playing their game at the moment

Clinical from Scotland at the end of the half. Made Fiji regret their errors in the Scottish half and missed kicks.

BigGee wrote:If we sort out the discipline, we win this game, if we don't we lose

We got to give Fiji credit, they are a good team but we are playing their game at the moment

Most concerning in that disgraceful first 20 mins was the time we had the ball. It looked like the players were going through a training pitch drill. Meanwhile Fiji just looked better in every possible way. Fiji can obviously play an exciting natural game but they look very organised, their exit plays have been just as superb as their attacking flair.

Hastings got melted there

That's his game done, that was brutal

See ya Adam. Fookin ouch

Does Kinghorn have to pass long every phase?

Much easier game when your setpiece works well.

Nice try!

Good try, starting to play Fiji the right way now

Who is going to kick?

That's the way to answer the question

Well done BK

Scotland going back to the set piece as a source of ball and penalties. Good call and getting them rewards. Once Fiji are under pressure their discipline isn't great. Botia isn't an openside and it's telling with Fiji struggling to steal anything at the breakdown.

Looks like Scotland will win from here. Probably pretty comfortably. Have to admire Fiji, but you’d expect Scotland to just grind them down now.

White has had a good impact, playing better than Ali Price

Dempsey as well, the bench has worked well today

Ref conference in progress

The Fiji winger is lucky with the yellow there. He tried to pull out once he made contact as he knew he'd done wrong and didn't want to. Shame as he's had a great game before that point.

Bad commentaing after the yellow though suggesting a mistake by the ref when you can clearly hear why its yellow.

No 7&1/2 wrote:Bad commentaing after the yellow though suggesting a mistake by the ref when you can clearly hear why its yellow.

Needs some material for his Times column this week

bsando wrote:

No 7&1/2 wrote:Bad commentaing after the yellow though suggesting a mistake by the ref when you can clearly hear why its yellow.

Needs some material for his Times column this week

Barclay is the Scottish Dayglo, just a stream of jibberish and obvious one eyed observation. Shame given how he played on the edge of the law as a player, thought he'd provide better insight.

Three points surely now

Take the scrum here

bsando wrote:Three points surely now

Nah, Scotland's set piece is dominant. Got to keep turning that screw.

He took him in the air there

formerly known as Sam wrote:

bsando wrote:Three points surely now

Nah, Scotland's set piece is dominant. Got to keep turning that screw.

Just don't want to see Scotland lose

Especially when the ref has it in his mind you are dominant at the scrum so you can get away with not pushing straight.