Scotland v Ireland
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Scotland v Ireland preview: 'Inconsistent' Scots' 'break' as 'miserable' run extends to 11 as Six Nations holders charge towards an unprecedented hat-trick
Round two of the Six Nations leaves the best for last this weekend as Scotland host the defending champions Ireland at Murrayfield.
15 Blair Kinghorn, 14 Darcy Graham, 13 Huw Jones, 12 Tom Jordan, 11 Duhan van der Merwe, 10 Finn Russell (cc), 9 Ben White, 8 Jack Dempsey, 7 Rory Darge (cc), 6 Matt Fagerson, 5 Grant Gilchrist, 4 Jonny Gray, 3 Zander Fagerson, 2 Dave Cherry, 1 Rory Sutherland
Reserves: 16 Ewan Ashman, 17 Pierre Schoeman, 18 Will Hurd, 19 Sam Skinner, 20 Gregor Brown, 21 Jamie Ritchie, 22 Jamie Dobie, 23 Stafford McDowall
15 Hugo Keenan, 14 Mack Hansen, 13 Robbie Henshaw, 12 Bundee Aki, 11 James Lowe, 10 Sam Prendergast, 9 Jamison Gibson-Park, 8 Caelan Doris (c), 7 Josh van der Flier, 6 Peter O’Mahony, 5 Tadhg Beirne, 4 James Ryan, 3 Finlay Bealham, 2 Rónan Kelleher, 1 Andrew Porter
Reserves: 16 Dan Sheehan, 17 Cian Healy, 18 Thomas Clarkson, 19 Ryan Baird, 20 Jack Conan, 21 Conor Murray, 22 Jack Crowley, 23 Garry Ringrose
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@Duluth said in Scotland v Ireland:
Round two of the Six Nations leaves the best for last this weekend as Scotland host the defending champions Ireland at Murrayfield.
15 Blair Kinghorn, 14 Darcy Graham, 13 Huw Jones, 12 Tom Jordan, 11 Duhan van der Merwe, 10 Finn Russell (cc), 9 Ben White, 8 Jack Dempsey, 7 Rory Darge (cc), 6 Matt Fagerson, 5 Grant Gilchrist, 4 Jonny Gray, 3 Zander Fagerson, 2 Dave Cherry, 1 Rory Sutherland
Reserves: 16 Ewan Ashman, 17 Pierre Schoeman, 18 Will Hurd, 19 Sam Skinner, 20 Gregor Brown, 21 Jamie Ritchie, 22 Jamie Dobie, 23 Stafford McDowall
15 Hugo Keenan, 14 Mack Hansen, 13 Robbie Henshaw, 12 Bundee Aki, 11 James Lowe, 10 Sam Prendergast, 9 Jamison Gibson-Park, 8 Caelan Doris (c), 7 Josh van der Flier, 6 Peter O’Mahony, 5 Tadhg Beirne, 4 James Ryan, 3 Finlay Bealham, 2 Rónan Kelleher, 1 Andrew Porter
Reserves: 16 Dan Sheehan, 17 Cian Healy, 18 Thomas Clarkson, 19 Ryan Baird, 20 Jack Conan, 21 Conor Murray, 22 Jack Crowley, 23 Garry Ringrose
Scots will be wanting to use the home ground to their advantage as best they can to avoid 11 straight losses to Ireland.
Interesting that they made three changes to a winning team.
Backs like Kinghorn, Graham, VDM and Russell will want to make a big statement with a Lions tour coming up. Fagerson ( hehe ) brothers too.
Ireland by 10.
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@sparky said in Scotland v Ireland:
Roman O'Gara getting tetchy on the pre-game BBC pundits sofa telling Gabby Logan that she is obsessed with players' ages. A good thing that Martin Johnson is there to calm it all down.
Didn't catch that but thought the bit I did see with ROG he was great value.
Butler in the crowd, Hoy bringing the ball on. MN5 will need several boxes of tissues.
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@sparky said in Scotland v Ireland:
Just dumb by Matt Fagerson.
Player had stopped, offside, a couple of metres away from the ball catcher. Textbook for what they're supposed to be clamping down on. We constantly say players should take the contact if the ref won't call it, then when they do, we say it's dumb?
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Andrew Cotter apologises for not knowing player X wears contact lenses or not. I doubt other commentators would even think about it.
Best around at the moment.
