Three games will be played today in the 6 Nations in what should have been the final weekend of this year’s tournament.
Scotland host Italy at Murrayfield in the match of the day and go into the game with captain Stuart Hogg starting at flyhalf. This due to first choice flyhalf Finn Russell being out with concussion and second choice Adam Hastings serving a suspension. Jaco vd Walt will be on the bench and will hopefully get some deserved game time.
The second game will see Ireland host England in Dublin following their narrow win away from home against Scotland last weekend. This will be CJ Stander’s last 6 Nations match for Ireland who will be hoping to send him off with a win.
The final game which would probably have turned out to be the title decider had COVID-19 not affected France earlier in the tournament. France host Wales in Paris tonight. Wales will be chasing the Grand Slam and have it in their hands to ensure this is the title deciding game with a win having not been beaten in the 6 Nations so far this year. France will be hoping for a win themselves to take the title race into next weekend when they host Scotland in the re-arranged fixture.
Scotland 52/10 Italy
(Final Score)
Kick off at 17:00 (15:00 GMT).
Teams:
Scotland |
Italy |
| 15 Sean Maitland, 14 Darcy Graham, 13 Huw Jones, 12 Sam Johnson, 11 Duhan van der Merwe, 10 Stuart Hogg (captain), 9 Scott Steele, 8 Matt Fagerson, 7 Hamish Watson, 6 Jamie Ritchie, 5 Grant Gilchrist, 4 Sam Skinner, 3 Zander Fagerson, 2 David Cherry, 1 Rory Sutherland. Replacements: 16 George Turner, 17 Jamie Bhatti, 18 Simon Berghan, 19 Alex Craig, 20 Nick Haining, 21 Ali Price, 22 Jaco van der Walt, 23 Chris Harris. |
15 Edoardo Padovani; 14 Mattia Bellini, 13 Ignacio Brex, 12 Federico Mori, 11 Monty Ioane; 10 Paolo Garbisi, 9 Stephen Varney; 8 Michele Lamaro, 7 Johan Meyer, 6 Sebastian Negri; 5 Federico Ruzza, 4 Niccolo Cannone, 3 Marco Riccioni, 2 Luca Bigi (captain), 1 Danilo Fischetti Replacements: 16 Gianmarco Lucchesi, 17 Andrea Lovotti, 18 Giosue Zilocchi, 19 Riccardo Favretto, 20 Maxime Mbanda, 21 Marcello Violi, 22 Carlo Canna, 23 Marco Zanon |
Referee: Pascal Gauzere (France)
Assistant referees: Karl Dickson (England) & Craig Evans (Wales)
TMO: Alex Ruiz (France)
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Ireland 32/18 England
(Final Score)
Kick off at 18:45 (16:45 GMT).
Teams:
Ireland |
England |
| 15 Hugo Keenan; 14 Keith Earls, 13 Robbie Henshaw, 12 Bundee Aki, 11 Jacob Stockdale; 10 Johnny Sexton (captain), 9 Conor Murray; 8 Jack Conan, 7 Josh van der Flier, 6 CJ Stander; 5 Tadhg Beirne, 4 Iain Henderson; 3 Tadhg Furlong, 2 Rob Herring, 1 Jack Kilcoyne. Replacements: 16 Ronan Kelleher, 17 Cian Healy, 18 Andrew Porter, 19 Ryan Baird, 20 Peter O’Mahony, 21 Jamison Gibson-Park, 22 Billy Burns, 23 Jordan Larmour. |
15 Elliot Daly, 14 Anthony Watson, 13 Lawrence, 12 Owen Farrell (captain), 11 Jonny May, 10 George Ford, 9 Ben Youngs, 8 Billy Vunipola, 7 Tom Curry, 6 Mark Wilson, 5 Charlie Ewels, 4 Maro Itoje, 3 Kyle Sinckler, 2 Luke Cowan-Dickie, 1 Mako Vunipola. Replacements: 16 Jamie George, 17 Ellis Genge, 18 Will Stuart, 19 Jonny Hill, 20 Ben Earl, 21 Dan Robson, 22 Ollie Lawrence, 23 Joe Marchant. |
Referee: Mathieu Raynal (France)
Assistant referees: Pascal Gauzere (France), Alex Ruiz (France)
TMO: Romain Poite (France)
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France / Wales
Kick off at 22:00 (20:00 GMT).
Teams:
France |
Wales |
| 15 Brice Dulin, 14 Damian Penaud, 13 Virimi Vakatawa, 12 Gael Fickou, 11 Teddy Thomas, 10 Matthieu Jalibert, 9 Antoine Dupont, 8 Gregory Alldritt, 7 Charles Ollivon (captain), 6 Dylan Cretin, 5 Paul Willemse, 4 Romain Taofifenua, 3 Mohamed Haouas, 2 Julian Marchand, 1 Cyril Baille. Replacements: 16 Camille Chat, 17 Jean-Baptiste Gros, 18 Uini Atonio, 19 Swann Rebbadj, 20 Anthony Jelonch, 21 Baptiste Serin, 22 Romain Ntamack, 23 Arthur Vincent. |
15 Liam Williams, 14 Louis Rees-Zammit, 13 George North, 12 Jonathan Davies, 11 Josh Adams, 10 Dan Biggar, 9 Gareth Davies, 8 Taulupe Faletau, 7 Justin Tipuric, 6 Josh Navidi, 5 Alun Wyn Jones (Captain), 4 Adam Beard, 3 Tomas Francis, 2 Ken Owens 1 Wyn Jones Replacements: 16 Elliot Dee, 17 Nicky Smith, 18 Leon Brown, 19 Cory Hill, 20 James Botham, 21 Tomos Williams, 22 Callum Sheedy, 23 Uilisi Halaholo |
Italy disrupt the Scotland lineout and eventually clear their line, quick throw in by Scotland on Italy 10m
Huw Jones rolling after being held in tackle so gives away the penalty, yet again though it looks like Italy were offside a distance away from the ruck which closes Scotland’s space
Loosehead wrote:
Hi Loosehead – Scotland 24/10 Italy 36th min
@ Loosehead:
How you doing Loosehead, lekker to have the rugby to watch with the spring sunshine out
Lineout a few metres inside Italy 22 to Scotland after Hogg kicks penalty out
Scotland knock on and we have the 2nd scrum in the half 40th min
Penalty to Italy just inside their half and they go for touch, good kick by Garbisse takes play to about 10m from Scotland try line
Italy knock on and it’s halftime 24/10 to Scotland
As good as Scotland have played in the first half they can get better as too often they have too many players in the space behind the ruck so almost getting in the way of quick passing down the backline and also quite often the forwards are taking the ball into contact on their own rather than with more supporting forwards going in with the carrier
@ Bullscot:
All good thanks. Long time no chat.
Surprised the pundits in the studio aren’t picking up on the point about Scotland bunching behind the rucks, maybe they can solve that by committing more players to the ruck and to the ball being carried into contact
Second half underway and Scotland get a penalty on halfway line, kicked out on Italy 22
Takes 3 Italy players to put vd Merwe down
Scotland lineout 5m out
Try Cherry off the maul, close to the touchline, his 2nd of the game
Scotland 31/10 Italy 45th min, super conversion from out wide by Hogg
Yellow card to Negri for knocking ball away and Scotland opt to take the scrum 5m out. Think this is the 1st put in to scrum for Scotland in the game.
Entire Scotland front row was replaced a few minutes ago
Johnson on the burst almost there and then Steele picks it up and scores!
Scotland 38/10 Italy as Hogg converts 54th min
Canna on for Garbisi
Poor high kick by Steele goes out on the full, and he is replaced by Price. Jaco vd Walt on for Maitland with Hogg going to fullback, would have been better to take Hogg off in a straight swap and keep Maitland on
Scotland scrum not far outside their 22, strong scrum
Graham collects a good Price chip and then Scotland get a penalty for a high tackle
Scotland lineout on Italy 22
Long throw skew, Italy scrum
Ahh nice play then a forward by Hogg, but after he releases he is tackled and it looks like a tip tackle, TMO being called to look at it
Only a yellow for Ioane as Hogg landed on his back and not his head
Hogg shakes Ioane’s hand and shows no hard feelings
Scotland against 13
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