Wilson Follow the Test Match live Rugby match between Scotland and South Africa with Eurosport. exemplified by that great Jones run followed by sheepishly giving the ball right back …was almost a crime. Graham could also be a good option as back up 7 to Watson. 9. we won’t be doing much at RWC. Toolis has not had a great Autumn so that leaves Gray and Gilchrist. 20- GGraham Matt Taylor’s time is up. Unrelated…but not getting the ball out of the scrum/maul when we don’t have the upper hand is getting infuriating…I just don’t understand, you can see the penalty/free kick coming and they wont get the ball out of there. The maul has sucked in a load of defenders, you’ve got Jones, Hogg, Russell, Seymour et al. Pollard's perfect kicking record went horribly awry as after he struck a post from range, he scuffed his next effort low and wide to keep Scotland within three points with 13 minutes remaining. Berghan Home > Autumn Internationals 2018 > Scotland. SA are not all that…. The stadium is awesome! Brown (c) Skinner/Gilchrist might be a better combo against some sides (horses for courses) but against a tier 1 side I would always pick Jonny over either. Russell and Hastings seem to have the same problem at 10 – passing to their 12. Finn tried to take the pressure off with a long range drop goal which wasn’t all that far off and Hogg went off after that. Maitland As to your other other comments, it’s pretty difficult to avoid Horne’s brain farts – they are so spectacular. If this zone is him smiling and appearing too relaxed, then so be it. A trip to Cardiff for the inaugural Doddie Weir Cup match saw Scotland lose to Wales on the first weekend. Scotland won two and lost two during their 2018 autumn campaign. What on earth happened to Price? Seymour and Kinghorn pushing, the talent that is Darcy Graham. Largely agree with what you’ve said there. Wales led 14-3 at half-time following tries for prop Tomas Francis and full-back Liam Williams . Missed opportunity, that was the moment the game was lost. 17- A traffic cone that isn’t called Dell Skinner Strauss 18 Aug 2012: Newlands, Cape Town : very good Ref: LM-prinsaar12 - £12.00 Ali Price’s decision making – what the hell was he doing trying to run down the blindside from that scrum at the end? We really missed Barclay – he would have made a huge difference. Russell, Hastings or Hogg could all kick for goal. none of them are good enough…next up please! 22. Tennis. Your fans are knowledgeable, but generous. I’m off to put £5 on a IRE/SA final at the world cup. Gilchrist South Africa: 15 Willie le Roux, 14 Jesse Kriel, 13 Lukhanyo Am, 12 Damian de Allende, 11 Makazole Mapimpi, 10 Elton Jantjies, 9 Herschel Jantjies; 1 Ox Nche, 2 Bongi Mbonambi, 3 Trevor Nyakane, 4 . Could have done with Barclay today. Jonny Gray against Wales, lineout drives up cul de sacs today, simple mistakes from restarts. Great credit to him that barring injury he’ll be there and probably first choice. Contrast with Brian Moore. On reflection , SA are a powerful team who are gaining momentum yet we scored a couple of amazing tries. We too often hesitated, making what would have been a good move look pedestrian. From 20 mins in it was obvious that Finn was having one of those games so should have taken him off there and then. There is no 10 in the world with an attacking style as good as his who has close to his consistency except Barrett. BT Murrayfield, Edinburgh. Australia last battled with the Scots in 2017 and Scotland were victorious in a 53-24 game while Tonga lost 37-12 to Scotland when they last met in 2014. Gray Think we’ll see several players rested including anyone who has started all 3 so far. Do we even know what our best side is?….If thats it? 3. Assume Hogg will be rested give his limping off yesterday. Frozen North on November 18th, 2018 - 1:53pm . 5- Gray 14- DGraham 14. Laidlaw! 19. Jones has never convinced me defensively – which isn’t the end of the world when you consider what else he brings to the table. Still have the feeling we are trying to force things when we don’t need to and playing too much rugby in the wrong areas of the pitch. Price has slumped, I now question what can we expect at peak . Backs largely the same, the more time Horne and Jones have together the better. P Horne decent in attack and defence. As much of a response as I can muster to that nonsense. The second half was more of the same, with South Africa led by captain Siya Kolisi imposing themselves physically and occasionally illegally, but Scotland were given some respite when an ill-judged pass from Pete Horne was slapped down by Willie le Roux. We are defensively feeble. Adults going off, not kicking the penalty, blame the second rows, talk Hogg up, talk Horne up, blame McInally , blame the very muted Finn, all missing the elephant on the room. Huw Jones Why have we forgotten the basics and stopped playing rugby? 22- Dunbar (or Grigg) Steyn will become the first South African rugby player to play test rugby for over 15 years. Scotland are not ruthless enough against 14 men. We are progressing as an attacking unit….but flirt between stagnation and regression in defense. That’s not a bad selection or gameplan that’s lack of player concentration. Sbu Nkosi (Cell C Sharks, 5 . Jonny Gray was left in charge, in the absence of the any of the many vice-captains and going into the final ten minutes, that wacky Hastings/Russell combo was back in full effect. Z.Fagerson, Barclay, Thompson, R Gray, Taylor, Dunbar, Bradbury, Kinghorn, D Graham….+ a few others…. • South Africa's first Test against Scotland at BT Murrayfield took place on 6 January 1932, when Bennie Osler's Springboks beat Scotland 6-3 in front of 74 000 spectators. Yes it would be good to see some off the passion and ferocity of Ireland rub off on Scotland. Jones Most of all they benefit from continuity of selection and familiarity with their chosen attacking ploys and defensive system. Those were the negatives but there was much to be pleased about too. Glad you had a great first visit to Edinburgh. On the bright side we were within a score of one the form teams in the world, Hoggy looked back to his best and Pete Horne and Huw Jones weren’t far behind – not Finns day though! 6. Horne runs in to score Scotland's opening . We’ll just float around the next tier of teams until we improve significantly in that regard. Not going for the 3 points when 23-20 down. I think Finn should have used more of a kicking game varying it more with chips in behind the defence, landing in front of the 15, to put some more doubt in the defence, and make them think about turning. And Gray is consistently quality for us internationally and powers the scrum, whereas Harley hasn’t been involved in international rugby in ages, although he’s been great for Glasgow. If we beat Arg next week then Toonie will once again be vindicated – he will write off SA as, let’s face he talked them up too much yesterday – a win yesterday wouldn’t have been the best of his career and he knew it. All original content is ©2007–2021 Scottish Rugby Blog and the respective post author: strictly no reproduction of material without permission. Most were calling for Strauss to start and GT benches him and you are still annoyed. It often looks to me…that we keep trying to play the same way…even when we dont have the talent to execute what we strive for. Kriel (6), Pollard (21) 3. Ashe Pretty good performance, not a lot to complain about, just we didn’t have quite enough. Tell us then Ben. Townsend needs to learn that the Tombola is not suitable for international rugby and the best side needs picked every game – like Ireland. Tommy Seymour. In both games if we had taken the opportunity to score 10 points (which the statistical types say ) is the average for a 10 min yellow at professional level we would have won. This site uses cookies to remember logged in users/commenters and for statistical analysis. The Springbok team to face Scotland in Edinburgh (in order of name, surname, province, Test caps, Test points): 15. Saffers). Laidlaw's conversion drew Scotland level, but at the next scrum WP Nel was penalised for a second time, Pollard kicking South Africa into a 20-17 lead. 14. Ford McInally some good tackles and runs but some poor line out throws. We should be settled on our best pack of forwards by now and give them the entire 6 nations playing together for continuity and familiarity prior to the world cup this would help our defence as well as attack (Watson and Wilson were at sea for the first S.A try yesterday). * Losing physical battle – we did, but not by much, and not entirely surprisingly given that we were giving away a stone a man in the pack Calls for Cummings are premature, if you’ll excuse the expression. LONDON COUNTIES V SOUTH AFRICA 1969 RUGBY PROGRAMME. Dell Hogg and Jones were world class today. Trailing at the interval the world champions upped the ante in the second period, which they dominated 5-22 on the scoreboard and were utterly relentless in the forward exchanges, to maintain their 11-year unbeaten record against Scotland. 15- Kinghorn, 16- McInally To be honest, I’m not sure we managed any of that, though possibly the midfield defence was a bit better than the Fiji game, although there are question marks over both tries. They backed up their win against Wales with a typically powerful performance, and despite trailing at the break, pulled away in the second half, eventually winning 30-15. We can have no complaints about our play in broken field and on turnover ball. 21. 9. Scotland are going brilliantly so far this autumn and will give South Africa a hard-fought game, but the Springboks should have enough up front to get the upper hand at the set-piece and breakdown, which will build a platform from which to win the game. 9. South Africa to win by 10 points. I think getting the facts out and acknowledging reality is the start. Catch the latest Scotland and South Africa news and find up . Berghan Scotland vs South Africa LIVE: Rugby result, final score and reaction from 2021 Autumn international fixture. We can take a bit of solace in the fact we were in it up to the end despite being outplayed for 40mins they only won the 2nd half 6 – 3. Wisden 2000-2018 Original Hardback Wisdens. Follow the Test Match live Rugby match between Scotland and South Africa with Eurosport. All in all at half time it was a good game and was anyone’s game. Willie le Roux (Wasps, England, 51, 60 - 12t) 14. Watson and Hogg also very good. Blair Kinghorn, 16. *They make the rash decisions not us. Never really got into a proper rhythm but took our chances reasonably well. Then you want to put out what is effectively our second string against a tier 1 side that is only a couple of places below us in the rankings? NZ never really looked like constructing a try which is something to say! Ireland won their first test on South African soil when they beat the Springboks by 26-20 at Newlands, Cape Town, on the 11th June 2016. Last modified on Sun 14 Nov 2021 00.34 EST Still some way to go then. What more is there to be said, only one thing , the same flaw in Cardiff repeated again in Edinburgh. A strong maul doesn’t need to score tries, and if you keep turning over possession then your maul isn’t going to be perceived as strong. Only one bad call which, to me, shows we have yet to master our composure… 20mins to go 20-23, no time pressure, no massive score gap, easy 3points on offer and we don’t take it. Maybe we just are not going to have the personnel to outmuscle teams like the springboks and need to find innovative ways work around it. Laidlaw Great first half, the better team won, we only just , came second. His father is Scottish. If we can force the same number (or more) of turnovers. Massive Russell fan but unfortunately that was the worst I have seen him play for Scotland. This is what happens when you experiment with your squad in the most important game of the Novembers matches. 13. 2- Brown Seymour not much ball did ok. Russell played too much rugby in wrong areas one of his poorer games. Results for Scotland away and South Africa at home. A trip to Cardiff for the inaugural Doddie Weir Cup match saw Scotland lose to Wales on the first weekend. Disappointing that some “fans” don’t appreciate him. 15. 2. Backs You then factor that in when coming up with your defensive strategies. Two good tries were a positive but we need to evaluate our approach to the physical side of the game which is light years behind SA, NZ, Ireland, England, Wales and France. One thing I’ve noticed from the 3 games this autumn is we’re getting in to really good positions with our lineout maul but there seems to be a big reluctance to release the ball to the backs quickly when we stop going forward. 13. Follow Rory on twitter @scotrugbyblog. Open your BET . Finn’s decision making. We should take Steffan Kitchoff from you, he looks completely Scottish anyway. Referee Roman Poite’s arm was pointing the same way as it had in the first half; sadly for Scotland the teams had switched direction. Scrum-half Embrose Papier wriggled clear after a stunning break from Pollard and three offloads that even involved the prop Steven Kitshoff resulted in Kriel plunging over for his 11th Test try from a metre out. effectively 2nd string side?, I’M AN IDIOT. I understand the basics of a “Warrenball” type approach of one-up runners to suck in the defence and give Hogg and Jones some more space to play with; but the wide pass needs to come a lot sooner than it is currently imo. . Simon Berghan 20. Actually, a really good game of rugby and I still love Scotland, this is a side full of good rugby , I am just so disapointed for them, it must be so frustrating. Against Wales (WR 3rd) we scored none. To say Macinally can’t throw in is ridiculous based on the stats. The only one who is abit of a look at is Murray Mcallum. His freckles fill in, at summer time. 1. Off the bench, Reid can shore up the scrum if necessary and McCallum needs a run. Angela Monclova and her father, Librado Monclova were shot and killed at Angela's home around 6 p.m. at the 700 block of Second Street in Scotland, according to court documents. Homepage. On the attack side we dont have make the opposition look average when we get through and have half a dozen lined up to score. Scotland v South Africa rugby tickets for the match 2021 at Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh. Gilchrist/Cummings Book your ticket-inclusive travel package for South Africa vs. Scotland at P1-Travel. What is the elephant in the room that you have mentioned 3 times now. He was bang average, I’d say. Interesting he takes most of the touch-finding penalties now, presumably to ease pressure on Russell and capitalise on his seige gun boot. ADVERTISEMENT. That left it all square for a few minutes, until Pollard kicked a scrum penalty to restore the visitors lead going into half-time. That is a good start to Soton’s Challenge. I agree regarding rush defence…we just didn’t seem to have an answer…Although we tried the kicking/chip game from fly-half many times…and it didn’t seem to work. The Springbok team to face Scotland in Edinburgh (in order of name, surname, province, Test caps, Test points): 15. Ahhhbut we will just score more tries you might cry, but not if we perform like yesterday. How is Gilchrist/Skinner With Harley on bench madness ? Russell Although BBC pundits suggested that the way the ref controlled that let South Africa away with alot. Pollard's second penalty established a three-point half-time lead for the visitors before both he and Laidlaw added a penalty apiece in a cagier second period. Scotland started with a nice attacking lineout move but it ended with a penalty against for holding on. If we take our chances. G. Horne way ahead of him…if it wasn’t for Laidlaw’s penalty conversions would be top choice. Nel? Sorry! Argentina may be a good chance to play Cummings, who to me , plays similar R Gray minus the experience. We never got close to front foot ball, allied with Laidlaw’s pedestrian service and it’s easy to see why Russell might not have been given the best environment to display his prodigious skills. *Conservative decision making (no finsanity) G Horne Hastings. The best players play when they are fit. Russell…. Compare Japan, they took a try immediately England went down to 14 and a second one before England were restored to 15 men . Skinner has looked good but he should be slotting into an established pack not thrown in as part of an experiment. Born in Aliwal North, the two-time World Cup winner will be key for the Boks when they face the Scots at Murrayfield this weekend.
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