Scotland and France went head to head at Murrayfield, Edinburgh, Scotland today at 17:00. The match was broadcast on SuperSport 1 in SA. This is the match thread for discussion of the game. France won convincingly yet it was a scrappy affair, specially in the 2nd half.
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Scores:
Scotland: 3 Penalties Chris Patterson
France: 2 Tries Mathieu Bastareaud, 2 Penalties & 1 Conversion Morgan Parra
Previous Tests:
Feb 2009 6N, France won 22-13, Stade de France, Paris
Feb 2008 6N, France won 27-6, Murrayfield, Edinburgh
Mar 2007 6N, France won 46-19, Stade de France, Paris
Feb 2006 6N, Scotland won 20-16, Murrayfield, Edinburgh
Feb 2005 6N, France won 16-9, Stade de France, Paris
Mar 2004 6N, France won 31-0, Murrayfield, Edinburgh
Oct 2003 WC Pool B, France won 51-9, Stadium Australia, Sydney
Feb 2003 6N, France 38-3, Stade de France, Paris
Mar 2002 6N, France won 22-10, Murrayfield, Edinburgh
Feb 2001 6N, France won 16-6, Stade de France, Paris
Mar 2000 6N, France won 28-16, Murrayfield, Edinburgh
Apr 1999 5N, Scotland won 36-22, Stade de France, Paris
The Teams:
Scotland:
15 Chris Paterson, 14 Thom Evans, 13 Max Evans, 12 Graeme Morrison, 11 Sean Lamont, 10 Phil Godman, 9 Chris Cusiter (captain), 8 Johnnie Beattie, 7 John Barclay, 6 Kelly Brown, 5 Alastair Kellock, 4 Nathan Hines, 3 Moray Low, 2 Ross Ford, 1 Alastair Dickinson
Replacements: 16 Scott Lawson, 17 Allan Jacobsen, 18 Richie Gray, 19 Alan MacDonald, 20 Rory Lawson, 21 Alex Grove, 22 Hugo Southwell
France:
15 Clement Poitrenaud, 14 Benjamin Fall, 13 Mathieu Bastareaud, 12 Yannick Jauzion, 11 Aurelien Rougerie, 10 Francois Trinh-Duc, 9 Morgan Parra, 8 Fulgence Ouedraogo, 7 Imanol Harinordoquy, 6 Thierry Dusautoir (captain), 5 Pascal Pape, 4 Lionel Nallet, 3 Nicolas Mas, 2 William Servat, 1 Thomas Domingo
Replacements: 16 Dimitri Szarzewski, 17 Luc Ducalcon, 18 Julien Pierre, 19 Julien Bonnaire, 20 Jean-Baptiste Elissalde, 21 David Marty, 22 Vincent Clerc
Date: Sunday, February 7
Venue: Murrayfield, Edinburgh
Time: 15:00 (15:00 GMT)
Expecting weather: Max. Temperature is just 4°C with a mild wind expected. White clouds overhead.
Referee: Alain Rolland (Ireland)
Assistant referees: George Clancy (Ireland), Simon McDowell (Ireland)
TMO: Jim Yuille (Scotland)
Oh fluck I see that I am 14th on the log, hope that it isn’t a bad omen for the VRYSTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!
Penalty Parra
Frogs now 18 / 6
Trin-Duc ain’t no Morne Steyn
I think my prediction was France by 19… they’re already 12 ahead.
Penalty Patterson
Frogs 18 / 9
Come on Frogs…. I need to bloody score on Bru
Fark, Parra misses
The game is now a “wille getjommel”
Come Frogs… a converted try would do well now from this scrum
Scrum goes up….
Scots get a penalty… oi
Freddie Michelac the Froggie now on
Kick, kick, kick….
Grrrrrr, I’ll have the win correct but my margin will be wayward…. flok!
Last minute
Game over
France 18 / 9
Imanol Harinordoquy is deserved MOTM!
I’ve updated the SuperBru standings… and fark, I’m still a bottomdweller on the log!
Watched all of the 6N games, and can honestly say I saw no distinctly noticeable difference in the way the games were referreed (in comparison to previous years).
Who’se pulling who’s leg regarding the strict policing of the breakdown? Are the NH ref’s trying to give that famous Irish referree Paddy O’Brian the middle finger?
GBS@47 – Good morning all.
Where do we see the logs?
Will you publish teams for Super 14 – going to be very difficult to predict if I don’t have access to the teams.
Think I could enjoy this game. 😆
Big one this coming weekend – France vs Ireland.
49 – Irish, Morning to you too mate.
Well done to Ireland, though knew they would beat Italy.
The bigge this Friday for sure. After watching France against Scotland think Ireland will nip them.
S14 starts Friday too. BIG, rugga this weekend. Also the test cricket is on Proteas/India. We playing in India at the moment. Have 3 wickets this morning but after that it has dried up a bit.
49@ Oirish – The Logs and SuperBru standings are available here on the web site, open your eyes, it is just under the header graphics!!
Regarding Teams and Picks…. we do a PREVIEW of all Super 14 games on the Thursday before the weekend, well in time for the picking deadlines… but only after full team announcements have been done by the respective teams….
This is going to be a marvelous week, this is our 1st normal Super 14 lead up to the 1st games of 2010.
GBS@51 – Thanks! I feel like a naughty school boy who has just been whipped by his teacher. 😆
This is all new to me. Now I know. hehehehe
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