France (17) 34 / Scotland (7) 21 (Final Score)
France hosted Scotland at Stade de France, Paris at 19:00 SA Time. This was the match thread for discussion of the game. The match was broadcast live on SuperSport 1, SHD & CSN on TV in SA.
For a change a red hot French team pitched to play and they started like a house on fire but the brave Scotland side fought back all the way, till the end.
In the end there was just too much French fire power as reflected in the final score of 34 / 21.
Scorers:
France: 2 Conversions Morgan Parra, 1 Try Maxime Medard, 1 Drop Goal Francois Trinh-Duc, 1 Penalty Try, 1 Try Imanol Harinordoquy, 2 Conversions & 1 Penalty Dimitri Yachvili, 1 Try Damien Traille
Scotland: 2 Conversions Dan Parks, 1 Try Alastair Kellock, 1 Try Kelly Brown, 1 Try Sean Lamont, 1 Conversion Ruaridh Jackson
Teams:
France: 15 Damien Traille, 14 Yoann Huget, 13 Aurelien Rougerie, 12 Maxime Mermoz, 11 Maxime Medard, 10 Francois Trinh-Duc, 9 Morgan Parra, 8 Imanol Harinordoquy, 7 Julien Bonnaire, 6 Thierry Dusautoir (captain), 5 Lionel Nallet, 4 Julien Pierre, 3 Nicolas Mas, 2 William Servat, 1 Thomas Domingo.
Replacements: 16 Guilhem Guirado, 17 Luc Ducalcon, 18 Jerome Thion, 19 Sebastien Chabal, 20 Dimitri Yachvili, 21 David Skrela, 22 Clement Poitrenaud.
Scotland: 15 Hugo Southwell, 14 Nikki Walker, 13 Joe Ansbro, 12 Nick De Luca, 11 Max Evans, 10 Dan Parks, 9 Rory Lawson, 8 Kelly Brown, 7 John Barclay, 6 Nathan Hines, 5 Alastair Kellock, 4 Richie Gray, 3 Euan Murray, 2 Ross Ford, 1 Allan Jacobsen.
Replacements: 16 Dougie Hall, 17 Moray Low, 18 Richie Vernon, 19 Ross Rennie, 20 Mike Blair, 21 Ruaridh Jackson, 22 Sean Lamont.
Date: Saturday, February 5
Venue: Stade de France, Paris
Kick-Off: 18.00 (19.00 SA Time)
Expected weather: Cloudy all day, with a high of 11°C and a low of 9°C
Referee: Wayne Barnes (England)
Assistant referees: Andrew Small (England), Stuart Terheege (England)
TMO: Giulio De Santis (Italy)
A lot of France play has been off Scotland mistakes, not long before half time did well to get deep in their 22 for a bit then drop the ball and France sweep back downfield again. Scrums a BIG headache, maybe need to get Hines in at lock at scrum time to add a bit more strength for the props.
Bullscot, who is the commentator with the squeaky voice ?
@ bdb:
Name escapes me now, but he’s an ex Welsh rugby player awful nasal sounding stemmetjie, never enjoyed his commentary.
What does the 2nd half hold…. seems to have become scrappy.
France forward dominance in the scrums continuing.
Parra misses a French penalty
Hell, the pitch cuts up badly when they scrum…. it is as if they’re plowing the pitch.
Try Harinordoquy for France
France 24 / 7
The lead is now 17… I predicted a 16-point French win on Bru..
Damn, we had 112 guests online simultaneously at 20:08…
Try Scotland and Parks converts
France 24 / 14
33: Jonathan Davies ?
39: wonder hoekom gesels die ouens nie saam nie ?
Scotland the Brave !
41@ bdb:
Meeste was ongeregistreerde gaste….
Penalty France… they go for goal
Yachvili misses
Try by Damien Traille, under the sticks
France 31 / 14
Wil nie by wees as Jonathan ‘Piepstem’ Davies met Snorre ‘Helium’ de Villiers ‘n rugby-onderhoud voer nie. Gaan klink soos ‘n katgeveg.
46@ bdb:
Is Jonathan Davies nie daai drol wat so Anti-Springbokke graag skrywe nie…. nou weet ek hoekom…. die man het net 1 oog, wat beswaarlik reguit kan sien.
Try Sean Lamont for Scotland…. good try
France 31 / 21
McLamont McLamont McLamont !
Skotland het al die passie en toewyding, maar die krag en vaardighede is nie altyd daar om hul een van die bestes in die wêreld te maak nie.
Maar ek ondersteun hul deur dik en dun.
France penalty, Yachvili slots it
France 34 / 21
47: dit kan hy wees, hy is cocky genoeg daarvoor.
Game over
France wins by a margin of 13… not too far off my prediction
Gaan tussen Frankryk en Engeland wees vir die 6 nasies.
53@ bdb:
Ja, Ierland was maar power vandag… Wallis was goed deur die Ingelse afgeslag, nieteenstaande net 7 punte verskil.
So dit lyk vir my ook soos Frankryk en Ingeland.
Nouja, ek het nou genoeg gedoen… ek groet.
Goooooooi Mieliesssssss
Lekker snork almal.
49@ bdb:
Thanks bdb vir die ondersteuning, alhoewel ek dink ons by tye oor-donder was het die ouens ten minste nie gaan le nie en dis goed om te sien hoe ons drie driee gedruk, dit was lank al ‘n probleem van Skotland ‘n sukkel om af te rond en driee te druk. Maar op die einde ook te veel foute waar ons Franse laat score het vannaf ‘turnovers’. Anyway hopefully its onwards and upwards from here and we win the rest of our 6 nation games. What did you think of Anbro at 13? I thought he gave the backline some good direction and seems to be quite confident especially considering how early it is in his test career. Good night that side.
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