Scotland v England

[Machpants]

@victor-meldrew said in Scotland v England:

@duluth said in Scotland v England:

13 Elliot Daly (Saracens, 52 caps)
12 Henry Slade (Exeter Chiefs, 43 caps)

England making loads of changes in the midfield again, I see. Maybe Jones is looking to build everything around Marcus Smith. Or he's taking the NZ approach...

Eddie talks all the time of 'removing numbers from shirts' and playing in multiple positions. He's a big believer in multi role players

[MiketheSnow]

@mn5 said in Scotland v England:

@mikethesnow said in Scotland v England:

English bench to romp home

England by 11-15

Do you even watch rugby bro ?

Oh I thought this was the netball thread

[MN5]

@arhs said in Scotland v England:

Not often that Scotland looks comfortably better than England on paper. Steward and Smith may be big threats though. Interesting matchup

I wouldn’t choose a single English player in a combined 15.

[Nepia]

@mn5 said in Scotland v England:

@arhs said in Scotland v England:

Not often that Scotland looks comfortably better than England on paper. Steward and Smith may be big threats though. Interesting matchup

I wouldn’t choose a single English player in a combined 15.

Not even the god on earth Maro Itoje?

[MN5]

@nepia said in Scotland v England:

@mn5 said in Scotland v England:

@arhs said in Scotland v England:

Not often that Scotland looks comfortably better than England on paper. Steward and Smith may be big threats though. Interesting matchup

I wouldn’t choose a single English player in a combined 15.

Not even the god on earth Maro Itoje?

No, I’ll just google who’s playing lock for Scotland…..Jonny Gray and Grant Gilchrist ( who I wouldn’t actually know from a bar of soap )

They’ll do. Give me an honest toilet over a dynamic, athletic superstar anyday

[nzzp]

Come on Scotland!

[MN5]

@nzzp said in Scotland v England:

Come on Scotland!

It’s not in doubt. This is their year

[nostrildamus]

@mn5 said in Scotland v England:

@nzzp said in Scotland v England:

Come on Scotland!

It’s not in doubt. This is their year

Yes but for what?

[nostrildamus]

@mn5 said in Scotland v England:

@mikethesnow said in Scotland v England:

English bench to romp home

England by 11-15

Do you even watch rugby bro ?

When barracking for Scottish rugby I find the trembling fingers over my eyes can indeed interfere with the viewing.
But the last time I landed in Scotland they won their game, beating Australia comfortably. Today I am not in Scotland. As their unknown good luck charm, I worry for them.

[sparky]

Love those flamey things the Scots have when they run out at home. 🔥

[sparky]

Scrums taking forever......

[sparky]

England 3 Scotland 0.

Not a looker this one so far. England have more about them.

[sparky]

Bad defence by Joe Marchant.

Ben White with a try on debut. Scotland 5 England 3.

[Victor Meldrew]

England's defence shredded. Itoje comes up fast and Hogg slips the ball to Graham who wrong-foots the rush defence.

[sparky]

England doing quite a lot of dumb shit. Eddie Jones will be tearing his hair out.

[sparky]

Brian Moore and Nigel Owens doing a great job as commentary box summarisers. Both men know their onions.

[sparky]

Marcus Smith with a penalty. Scotland 7 England 6 after 34 minutes.

[sparky]

Finn Russell with a penalty from 40 metres out on the stroke of Half Time.

Scotland 10 England 6 going into a break. England dominated territory and possession in that half but Scotland ahead on the scoreboard.

[Victor Meldrew]

@sparky said in Scotland v England:

Brian Moore and Nigel Owens doing a great job as commentary box summarisers. Both men know their onions.

With Andrew Cotter there, it's hard to find a better trio in the commentary box.

EDIT: Chris Patterson is pretty good too.

[sparky]

@victor-meldrew BBC doing a superb job all round of covering this game. Gabby Logan, Martin Johnson, Sam Warburton and John Barclay all good value at half time.