Scotland v Australia

[sparky]

This is an excellent Scotland.

Better, on this weekend's showings, than that of a famous international Rugby team who play in black.

[Billy Tell]

Harry Potter with some magic…

[sparky]

Wizardry by Harry Potter. TMO looking at it.

[Jailbreak7]

@sparky Would have loved it if we had played with the same energy that Scotland is.

[sparky]

Hogwarts is in Scotland isn't it? No wonder Harry Potter has them spellbound.

[sparky]

TMO makes a judgment from the Chamber Of Secrets and awards the try.

[sparky]

27-13 with five minutes to play.

[sparky]

Australia over the line but don't have it down.

[nostrildamus]

@sparky said in Scotland v Australia:

TMO makes a judgment from the Chamber Of Secrets and awards the try.

"Do or do not, there is no try."

That said, apparently there was.
27-13 to Scotland with 1 minute to play.
I might have to concede defeat and admit the power and skill of the mighty kilted Muggles.

[sparky]

Held up. Scotland win 27-13. Very impressive in the second half.

[Jailbreak7]

Well deserved win to Scotland

[Dodge]

Scotland, flopping, laying and rolling on the wrong side of the ruck since 1879.

Played well in the second half and deserved to win in the end but Jesus I can’t understand how the ref just ignored how often they were off feet on the wrong side and not moving, let alone walking around the side of rucks.

[MiketheSnow]

Impressive win fair play

[Bones]

@Dodge said in Scotland v Australia:

Scotland, flopping, laying and rolling on the wrong side of the ruck since 1879.

Played well in the second half and deserved to win in the end but Jesus I can’t understand how the ref just ignored how often they were off feet on the wrong side and not moving, let alone walking around the side of rucks.

I'm sure you'll be keeping an eye on Jamie George in the England game then 😉

[MN5]

Never in doubt.

Scotland emphatically showing Australia where they really sit in the pecking order.

[W32]

Great game of rugby. Australia looked like they had been reading their own press at the start. Full of piss and vinegar.. Scotland the much better team. How in the hell did the wobbs beat England?

[NTA]

@W32 said in Scotland v Australia:

How in the hell did the wobbs beat England?

Barely, that's how.

And this is the lesson: everyone was very emotional after the tight win at Twickenham over a middling England, and the expected thrashing at the mill against a poor Wakes.

However, I said we would need to go to several gears to beat Scotland, and so it proved.

Townsend put out a very experienced and settled team, while we gave away 14 penalties and missed 34 tackles.

Those are the bad habits lurking just underneath the surface of every Wallaby performance, and hopefully this squad have learned from it.

[NTA]

Haven't seen the game btw. This is a good Scottish team that make the most of the systems available to them, and they're generally enjoyable to watch, so I'll watch it in full between meetings today 😁

[NTA]

Positive note: only losing by 2 tries in a reportedly poor performance isn't all bad.

[MN5]

@NTA said in Scotland v Australia:

Haven't seen the game btw. This is a good Scottish team that make the most of the systems available to them, and they're generally enjoyable to watch, so I'll watch it in full between meetings today 😁

This probably is a bit of a generational Scottish team ( is that an oxymoron ? ) relatively speaking.

They’ve always had excellent loosies but they have lots of talent and creativity in the backs now too as opposed to some leaden footed plodders they’ve had in the past.

Duhan Van De Merwe is a big winger ( not unusual for Scotland who have fielded Lamont, Danielli, Walker, Visser etc ) but he can damn well move too.

Russell is mercurial, Tuipulotu seems a strong leader, Jones is class and Graham is electric.

I’d love to see them have a crack at the ABs and do what Ireland and Argentina have done.