6N 2016: Scotland v France, 13 March

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SCOTLAND v FRANCE
13 March 2016
KO: 15:00 GMT
BT Murrayfield, Edinburgh

Live on BBC, FR2, RTE, FR2, DMAX / ITV(H)

Referee: Glen Jackson (New Zealand)
Touch judges: [tbc]
Television match official: [tbc]

A. Head to Head

85 Played 85
34 Won 49
2 Drawn 2
49 Lost 34
1,009 Points 1,150

B. Recent Form

5 September 2015: Stade de France, Saint-Denis
19 – 16 to France

7 February 2015 : Stade de France, Saint-Denis
15 – 8 to France

8 March 2014: Murrayfield, Edinburgh
17 – 19 to France

16 March 2013: Stade de France, Saint-Denis
23 – 16 to France

26 February 2012: Murrayfield, Edinburgh
17 – 23 to France

5 February 2011 : Stade de France, Saint-Denis
34 – 21 to France

7 February 2010 : Murrayfield, Edinburgh
9 – 18 to France

C. Teams

SCOTLAND 
 
[tbc]

FRANCE

[tbc]

I'm getting behind the sofa. This is too tense already!

Why do they shout ENGLAND whilst signging flower of Scotland?

Great, now France are good again

We really can't have Horne playing 10 for the rest of the match. Please please be ok Finn!

Both teams come to play so Rugby. Should be good for the neutral but I am joining the Lama behind the sofa

Peter Horne at 10.

Just give France the win now then!

Feckin French brass band next to me - this is going to be a long 80 minutes!

France here to jouer jouer.

EnglishReign wrote:Great, now France are good again

Yeh great, hopefully they won't back it up with a performance next week too.

Trinh Duc no need to keep Scotland in this game

Have France suddenly become good? Or are Scotland poor?

Laidlaw pass is all over the shop, this is awful to watch.

French players being picked on again. Pushing and shoving them around. Tsk tsk.

That was jock No1 turning in, how did Jackson miss that?

Have to say it does please me to see Scottish players clearly trying to wind up the opposition, we've been far too nice on the whole recently (apart from big Jim obviously)

RDW_Scotland wrote:Feckin French brass band next to me - this is going to be a long 80 minutes!

Could be worse could be bagpipes!

Too many handling errors and not even the excuse of the rain

Right, so can we not fall asleep a third time when its a short arm penalty?

That would be super.

What happened to Russell by the way?

What a try!!

Great team try. Even good play by Horne.

Need frodo to quicken up his service

Oh my god. Taylor take a bow son that was unreal

Great run Taylor. Great NFL blocking by Horne

Breathless stuff.

18-5

I'll feckin take that

two good tries one after the other

Fun game

I'm pooped just watching this

Can I come out from behind the sofa?

Scotland playing a lot better than i was expecting them too.

Half time Scotland 18 v France 12.

Fantastic match. Not good for my blood pressure though!

Horne is playing very well to be fair to him. Would like Laidlaw to put a couple of snipes in around the fringes to pull defenders in closer to the ruck, at the moment the french defensive line is pretty well set as they know we aren't going to pick and go or have Greig attack the fringes. Throw a couple of darting runs in there to mix it up a bit. Otherwise he's playing well

All a bit too easy for France at times - they just need to keep the ball in our half and they score.

Need to stop giving away cheap penalties around half way.

George Carlin wrote:What happened to Russell by the way?

George Carlin wrote:

George Carlin wrote:What happened to Russell by the way?

Head knock I think. He looks fine tho

This is a very open match, cant call it either way at the moment. the try on halftime will hurt Scotland though.

TJ wrote:

George Carlin wrote:

George Carlin wrote:What happened to Russell by the way?

Head knock I think.  He looks fine tho

John Barclay got fed up of his pish and put the boot on him (alternately, he accidentally caught Barclay's boot and went off for HIA and never returned)

Great kick by Hogg

Very entertaining game so far

Soft penalty here, not sure what went wrong.

France regularly making ground out wide

Stupid penalties are killing us!

Another soft penalty given against Scotland, Jackson clearly favouring France now.

Too many halfway line penalties - we should just leave the bloody rucks alone when it's not on!!

Very sad that we do the difficult things well (like defend that maul) and then we kick ourselves in the nuts with the braindead stuff.

VinceWLB wrote:Another soft penalty given against Scotland, Jackson clearly favouring France now.

Am waiting for him to let our players do a block or 2 to even things out then

Oh good, Ryan Wilson

Well that was really stupid by maestri ...

France really are pish.

Odd what happened to the French 18? He just came on

This game has heroic Scottish defeat written all over it.

Game over. Well done scotlan

Hoggy that was magic! If we hadn't scored there that would surely have been a yellow to the French for cynically holding on in the ruck