The Rugby Thread

[Red_Polo]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-49739345

Apologies if this has been posted elsewhere, but this is horrendous, the press in this country are scum. The stuff with Ben Stokes and this with Gareth Thomas in the same week

Leveson worked out well didn't it?

[Irishnev]

No Kearney, Earls or Henshaw......if I was Scotland I test Larmour with some high stuff. Not as confident now

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[Buzzo]

Some mind games this week eh! Happy with our team but no idea what to expect. On our day amazing, off our day ****e, predicting which day it is - impossible!

Scotland: Hogg; Seymour, Taylor, Johnson, Maitland; Russell, Laidlaw; Dell, McInally (captain), Nel, Gilchrist, Gray, Barclay, Watson, Wilson.

Replacements: Brown, Reid, Berghan, Cummings, Thomson, Price, Harris, Graham.

[Irishnev]

Some mind games this week eh! Happy with our team but no idea what to expect. On our day amazing, off our day ****e, predicting which day it is - impossible!

Scotland: Hogg; Seymour, Taylor, Johnson, Maitland; Russell, Laidlaw; Dell, McInally (captain), Nel, Gilchrist, Gray, Barclay, Watson, Wilson.

Replacements: Brown, Reid, Berghan, Cummings, Thomson, Price, Harris, Graham.

Genuinely this be a close game- Larmour is a big prospect but this is a massive test for him.

The most annoying thing is that our best full back is tearing it up in France and the national team wont pick him......Simon Zebo

[Buzzo]

Genuinely this be a close game- Larmour is a big prospect but this is a massive test for him.

The most annoying thing is that our best full back is tearing it up in France and the national team wont pick him......Simon Zebo

Until we know who wins out of NZ and SA and how they look you could argue that ether of us losing the game is not fatal either. Those ****ers waiting in the 1/4's is brutal.

Winning will build confidence and momentum though, and thats why it is an intriguing match up.

[Irishnev]

Until we know who wins out of NZ and SA and how they look you could argue that ether of us losing the game is not fatal either. Those ****ers waiting in the 1/4's is brutal.

Winning will build confidence and momentum though, and thats why it is an intriguing match up.

I had lunch with a mate today and we were discussing this. Yourselves, Samoa and Japan are all similar- play the game off the cuff and at breakneck speed.

We are slow, methodical and (usually) v accurate- ye might beat us and lose to one of the others in an insanely high scoring game.

The 1/4 final is where it ends for both of us

[Buzzo]

Or where it begins!

[Zapater]

Kolbe is brilliant under the high ball.

[Buzzo]

Good win for the French earlier. They and the Argies be a couple of stern tests for the English I reckon.

Good start by RSA.

[Buzzo]

SA defensive line smothering the all blacks they can’t get forward at all.

[Zapater]

Moody's elbow glued to the ground on scrums. 3 in a row, no call on it yet.

[Buzzo]

That’s why they are so good.

20 mins under the cosh and they capitalise on a couple of mistakes to go 10-3 up.

[Buzzo]

Offloading game starting to click now.

SA looking leggy after the effort put in in first 20. Amazing turn around.

[Zapater]

Pollard's missed kick started the demise. Can't afford to miss basic kicks like that at this level.

[Buzzo]

Pollard's missed kick started the demise. Can't afford to miss basic kicks like that at this level.

Yep, that led to the loose pass from de Klerk, and since then the ABs have come to life.

A tough score board to take after such a strong start from you lot.