iceblink Posted March 13, 2016 Share Posted March 13, 2016 Can Scotland beat France at Murrayfield today? My last Scotland v France game was the time we won against the odds and scored a couple of tries in the process. Hopefully I'm a lucky mascot. Anyway, thoughts? Unbelievably, Scotland are marginal favourites... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmothecat Posted March 13, 2016 Share Posted March 13, 2016 Unbelievably, Scotland are marginal favourites... I noticed that yesterday. Although France have been poor, and Scotland have played well, I'm surprised we are favourites. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
honestly united Posted March 13, 2016 Share Posted March 13, 2016 (edited) Overall so far as much as it pains me to say it England have been the best team, not quite as one dimensional as they have been, but still unspectacular. They are good, but dont have the backs to be a great team yet The Welsh playing Warrenball got slaughtered, it wasn't until the last 10 minutes that they started to play, and that is the best 10 minutes of rugby from any team in the 6 nations so far, just ahead of the 10 minutes Scotland put in against Wales after losing the first try. The welsh really need to vary their tactics as at the moment they are very predictable, they have great backs (apart from Cuthbert who had a shocker) and really should use them more. England on the other hand have backs who are very average but caused Wales problems as they were getting quick ball out to them. Think all the confidence has gone from the Italian side and fear for them next week. They have played some good rugby in patches, but defensively they look poor. I had said to a mate during the game against us last time out, that they look like a Scotland team from a few seasons ago, can have loads of possession and territory, batter away at the line for 10 - 15 minutes, but never look like scoring, then will lose tries from nothing. However yesterday's 2 games were a vast improvemenet on some of the games so far, the last round, apart from Scotland v Italy the other 2 games were some of most boring games I have ever watched! Edited March 13, 2016 by honestly united 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmothecat Posted March 13, 2016 Share Posted March 13, 2016 Overall so far as much as it pains me to say it England have been the best team, not quite as one dimensional as they have been, but still unspectacular. They are good, but dont have the backs to be a great team yet The Welsh playing Warrenball got slaughtered, it wasn't until the last 10 minutes that they started to play, and that is the best 10 minutes of rugby from any team in the 6 nations so far, just ahead of the 10 minutes Scotland put in against Wales after losing the first try. The welsh really need to vary their tactics as at the moment they are very predictable, they have great backs (apart from Cuthbert who had a shocker) and really should use them more. England on the other hand have backs who are very average but caused Wales problems as they were getting quick ball out to them. Think all the confidence has gone from the Italian side and fear for them next week. They have played some good rugby in patches, but defensively they look poor. I had said to a mate during the game against us last time out, that they look like a Scotland team from a few seasons ago, can have loads of possession and territory, batter away at the line for 10 - 15 minutes, but never look like scoring, then will lose tries from nothing. However yesterday's 2 games were a vast improvemenet on some of the games so far, the last round, apart from Scotland v Italy the other 2 games were some of most boring games I have ever watched! I missed both games yesterday but I've felt there have been a lot of poor matches in this six nations. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted March 13, 2016 Share Posted March 13, 2016 Only going by the highlights, but Wales did their usual of trying to batter their way through the middle and got nowhere. England targeted Cuthbert and his defensive frailties were shown up. I can never get my head round why Wales don't get their backs into the game more. They told you one fact on 5live the other week after they had beaten France. Jonathan Davies at 13 did not throw a single pass in the whole match. I find that stunning. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted March 13, 2016 Share Posted March 13, 2016 Brian Moore hit the nail on the head with this tweet earlier. "Scot v France- Please stop saying we don't know which French side will turn up today. We do; it will be the big, ponderous and unsubtle one." If Scotland's set piece can function like it did against Italy then I fancy us to win. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted March 13, 2016 Share Posted March 13, 2016 Loving the build-up to the Scotland game. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gianfranco Posted March 13, 2016 Share Posted March 13, 2016 Is kick off half 2? Bit shite that it clashes with the cup final 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted March 13, 2016 Share Posted March 13, 2016 Loving the build-up to the Scotland game. Not put it on yet, have they actually mentioned Scotland or France yet? Just a wild guess like. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted March 13, 2016 Share Posted March 13, 2016 Opened telling us that England could win the Championship today, and showed 15mins of highlights from the England game, which they are now reviewing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted March 13, 2016 Share Posted March 13, 2016 Opened telling us that England could win the Championship today, and showed 15mins of highlights from the England game, which they are now reviewing. To be fair they did mention last night that the show started at 2 with highlights of the two games from yesterday, then the build up to today's match. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted March 13, 2016 Share Posted March 13, 2016 Good start, then give France the chance to get out of trouble with a cheap penalty letting them get upfield to score. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkoRaj Posted March 13, 2016 Share Posted March 13, 2016 Lovely try 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted March 13, 2016 Share Posted March 13, 2016 Pete Horne is absolutely on fire. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted March 13, 2016 Share Posted March 13, 2016 Some try by Taylor! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkoRaj Posted March 13, 2016 Share Posted March 13, 2016 This has been brilliant after a poor first 15 minutes 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE KING Posted March 13, 2016 Share Posted March 13, 2016 Brilliant, thought that was getting overturned there 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmothecat Posted March 13, 2016 Share Posted March 13, 2016 Great first half. Really enjoying this. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GAD Posted March 13, 2016 Share Posted March 13, 2016 Anybodies game at the moment, great to watch. Horne has been excellent since he came on and Hogg is a superstar. Disappointing to lose the try at the end though. Need a big second half, we really need to win this. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted March 13, 2016 Share Posted March 13, 2016 (edited) GIRFUY Cas*****nede ETA: the filter Edited March 13, 2016 by Mark Connolly 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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