6N Round 2: Scotland v Wales, 15 February

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SCOTLAND v WALES
Sunday 15 February 2015
KO 15:00 (GMT)
BT Murrayfield, Edinburgh

Live on BBC1

Referee: Glen Jackson (NZR)
AR1: George Clancy (IRFU)
AR2: Dudley Phillips (IRFU)
TMO: Simon McDowell (IRFU)

A. Teams:

1. SCOTLAND

15 Stuart Hogg (Glasgow Warriors);
14 Sean Lamont (Glasgow Warriors);
13 Mark Bennett (Glasgow Warriors);
12 Alex Dunbar (Glasgow Warriors);
11 Tim Visser (Edinburgh Rugby);
10 Finn Russell (Glasgow Warriors);
9 Greig Laidlaw CAPTAIN (Gloucester);

1 Alasdair Dickinson (Edinburgh Rugby);
2 Ross Ford (Edinburgh Rugby);
3 Geoff Cross (London Irish);
4 Richie Gray (Castres);
5 Jonny Gray (Glasgow Warriors);
6 Rob Harley (Glasgow Warriors),
7 Blair Cowan (London Irish);
8 Johnnie Beattie (Castres);

16 Fraser Brown (Glasgow Warriors);
17 Gordon Reid (Glasgow Warriors);
18 Jon Welsh (Glasgow Warriors);
19 Jim Hamilton (Saracens);
20 Alasdair Strokosch (USA Perpignan);
21 Sam Hidalgo-Clyne (Edinburgh Rugby);
22 Greig Tonks (Edinburgh Rugby);
23 Matt Scott (Edinburgh Rugby);

2. WALES

15 Leigh Halfpenny (Toulon)
14 Alex Cuthbert (Cardiff Blues)
13 Jonathan Davies (ASM Clermont Auvergne)
12 Jamie Roberts (Racing Metro)
11 Liam Williams (Scarlets)
10 Dan Biggar (Ospreys)
09 Rhys Webb (Ospreys)

01 Gethin Jenkins (Cardiff Blues)
02 Richard Hibbard (Gloucester)
03 Aaron Jarvis (Ospreys)
04 Jake Ball (Scarlets)
05 Alun Wyn Jones (Ospreys)
06 Dan Lydiate (Ospreys)
07 Sam Warburton (Cardiff Blues, CAPT)
08 Taulupe Faletau (Newport Gwent Dragons)

16 Scott Baldwin (Ospreys)
17 Paul James (Bath Rugby)
18 Scott Andrews (Cardiff Blues)
19 Luke Charteris (Racing Metro)
20 Justin Tipuric (Ospreys)
21 Mike Phillips (Racing Metro)
22 Rhys Priestland (Scarlets)
23 Scott Williams (Scarlets)

B. Form (last 4 games):

1. SCOTLAND

07/02/15 - France 15 - 8 Scotland

22/11/14 - Scotland 37 - 12 Tonga

15/11/14 - Scotland 16 - 24 New Zealand

08/11/14 - Scotland 41 - 31 Argentina

2. WALES

06/02/15 - Wales 16 - 21 England

29/11/14 - Wales 12 - 6 South Africa

22/11/14 - Wales 16 - 34 New Zealand

15/11/14  - Wales 17 - 13 Fiji

C. Head to Head:

120 Played 120

48 Wins 69

69 Losses 48

3 Draws 3

180 Tries 227

80 Conversions 112

130 Penalties 142

30 Drop Goals 25

1,204 Points 1,578

Interesting - consensus on Scrum V (Rob Jones, Phil Bennett, Gareth Llewellyn) that Rhys Webb should have been yellow-carded and there should have been a kick-off at the end.

To be fair to Jackson, he did blow for time out and also checked with the official timekeeper before allowing the kick-off. That was the right thing to do. The problem was the official timekeeper, George "Clownshoes" Clancy, who is completely and utterly useless.

I think Al "leadership" Kellock once said something mean to Clownshoes a few seasons back. Probably some sort of accurate assessment of how good he is at his job. The response has been a litany of remarkably useless decisions against Glasgow and now Scotland. He's reffing the Glasgow vs Ulster game this coming weekend. He'll be more valuable to Ulster than a world class pack!

funnyExiledScot wrote:To be fair to Jackson, he did blow for time out and also checked with the official timekeeper before allowing the kick-off. That was the right thing to do. The problem was the official timekeeper, George "Clownshoes" Clancy, who is completely and utterly useless.

I think Al "leadership" Kellock once said something mean to Clownshoes a few seasons back. Probably some sort of accurate assessment of how good he is at his job. The response has been a litany of remarkably useless decisions against Glasgow and now Scotland. He's reffing the Glasgow vs Ulster game this coming weekend. He'll be more valuable to Ulster than a world class pack!

Agreed, Jackson had less of a shocker than some people have been saying, the bad decisions came from all the reffing team and not one man.

Clancy as time keeper... If someone had been asked to predict what would happen if Clownshoes was time keeper in a test match, they'd proably describe the last 3 minutes of the scotland wales match.  

HTF is he on the IRB elite ref panel? Pick the odd one out.
Wayne Barnes (England)
George Clancy (Ireland)
Jérôme Garcès (France)
Craig Joubert (South Africa)
Mark Lawrence (South Africa)
Nigel Owens (Wales)
Romain Poite (France)
Chris Pollock (New Zealand)
Steve Walsh (Australia)

Has Allain Rolland retired?

Now that the dust is beginning to settle, just beginning mind. I must take the time to point out something which mustn't be lost in all the controversy.
On Sunday I took young Pipetto to his first ever match. He thought the Welsh singing was "awesome" during the anthems, and "Flower of Scotland" blew him away. He was amazed and impressed by the friendliness and camaraderie between the fans. The game itself he thought was thrilling right up to the last minute. I think I can safely say he is more in love with this game than he was this time last week.
In the hurly burly of opinions and allegations which are being batted about let's not lose sight of the fact that what brings us together on 6 Nations weekends is much more important than incidental details like Glenda Jackson, Clownshoes Clancy, mid -air collisions or even the scoreline.
So, let's keep it in perspective. Thanks to everyone who was there and contributed to a great day and we'll shoot Clownshoes and Jackson at the first available opportunity.

jimbopip wrote:Now that the dust is beginning to settle, just beginning mind. I must take the time to point out something which mustn't be lost in all the controversy.
On Sunday I took young Pipetto to his first ever match. He thought the Welsh singing was "awesome" during the anthems, and "Flower of Scotland" blew him away. He was amazed and impressed by the friendliness and camaraderie between the fans. The game itself he thought was thrilling right up to the last minute. I think I can safely say he is more in love with this game than he was this time last week.
In the hurly burly of opinions and allegations which are being batted about let's not lose sight of the fact that what brings us together on 6 Nations weekends is much more important than incidental details like Glenda Jackson, Clownshoes Clancy, mid -air collisions or even the scoreline.
So, let's keep it in perspective. Thanks to everyone who was there and contributed to a great day and we'll shoot Clownshoes and Jackson at the first available opportunity.

I thought Glasgow was more a "glassing" sort of town.

Anscombe, Andrews, Davies and Evans have been released back to the Regions this weekend but no mention yet if any of the Os or Dragons have been released back.

bedfordwelsh wrote:Anscombe, Andrews, Davies and Evans have been released back to the Regions this weekend but no mention yet if any of the Os or Dragons have been released back.

BW, Jarvis, Baldwin, King and Tipuric have gone back to the Os, it is in the Fail.

Ah ok didnt see that on the beeb web page, surprised Jarvis, Baldwin and Tipuric been released.

jimbopip wrote:Now that the dust is beginning to settle, just beginning mind. I must take the time to point out something which mustn't be lost in all the controversy.
On Sunday I took young Pipetto to his first ever match. He thought the Welsh singing was "awesome" during the anthems, and "Flower of Scotland" blew him away. He was amazed and impressed by the friendliness and camaraderie between the fans. The game itself he thought was thrilling right up to the last minute. I think I can safely say he is more in love with this game than he was this time last week.
In the hurly burly of opinions and allegations which are being batted about let's not lose sight of the fact that what brings us together on 6 Nations weekends is much more important than incidental details like Glenda Jackson, Clownshoes Clancy, mid -air collisions or even the scoreline.
So, let's keep it in perspective. Thanks to everyone who was there and contributed to a great day and we'll shoot Clownshoes and Jackson at the first available opportunity.

well said